Neighborhood Outreach Program

  We have a large parish and sometimes it’s hard to connect at that level.  The idea behind the Neighborhood Outreach Project (NOP) is to get to know each other, work together, and serve others together. We need to mingle/mix the many peoples who make up our parish community. What neighborhood do you belong to? To […]

Homeless Outreach Ministry

  Our Homeless Outreach ministry has been delivering corporal works of mercy to our neighbors on the streets. We deliver 80 grocery bags filled with shelf-stable and prepackaged food three days a week to homeless persons living mostly in the Irvington District of Fremont.  Volunteers from our Parish shop, pack, and help deliver the grocery […]

Parish Outreach

Parish Outreach   St. Vincent de Paul510-661-9572 Sr. John Marie’s Pantry510-490-4171            

Refugee Resettlement Update

We helped Fraidan and his family move in the week after Thanksgiving 2023. Today, 17 year old Nooran is attending high school and 19 year old Amina is working on registering at Ohlone college.  Fraidan has his driver’s license and hopes to get a car, but currently they get around on bikes provided by Good […]

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St. Joseph School Saint Joseph Catholic Church Through prayer and service, the St. Joseph family will strive to bring the community together to love, heal, and support one another as the people we are called to be in Christ. Welcome Mass Schedule Giving St. Joseph School Mission San Jose Church Renovation As the faithful here […]

How to Volunteer

  “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17).  “Show, by your life, that it is worth giving your time and talents in order to attain high ideals, it is worth recognizing the dignity of each human person, and it is worth taking risks for Christ and his Gospel.” Pope Francis (7/28/13). Good stewards live with joy […]

Stewardship

  Stewardship at St Joseph St Joseph Parish is working to become a stewardship parish. We are forming a parish Stewardship Council that includes the responsibilities of the parish finance committee but is much broader in scope.  Together with the Pastoral Leadership Team, the members of our parish Stewardship Council are discerning what it means […]

Synod

SYNOD-SYNOPSIS FOR REPORT On March 19, 2022 our parish community participated in the Synod which was opened by the Holy Father Pope Francis on October 10, 2021. The Synod is a process rooted in the history of the Catholic Church and can be interpreted as “walking together” or as “the path along which the people […]

ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL

ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL – Patti Calton, Principal As of June 22, 2022, enrollment has declined a bit. Many families have decided to move out of the area and in some cases out of the state. The enrollment continues to be fluid throughout the summer months with prospective families touring and applying. Pre-entry assessments are done […]

Our History

  At the Ohlone Indian village of Oroysom, Padre Fermin Francisco de Lasuen founded this fourteenth of twenty-one Franciscan missions June 11, 1797. Taught by Padre Narciso Duran, the Ohlone orchestra and choir became famous. By 1830 almost 2,000 Indians were living at the mission. The 1868 earthquake destroyed the adobe church and most other mission […]