THE MISSION OF ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH is to give honor and glory to God and to sanctify and edify the souls of the faithful by preserving, protecting, fostering and defending the Traditional Latin Mass and sacraments, as contained in the Typical Vatican Edition of the Missale Romanum of 1962 and contemporaneous liturgical books. We seek to promote the universal and unrestricted access to and restoration of, this rite of Mass and sacraments.
The Sacrifice of the Mass is truly the Sacrifice of Calvary made present among us, a sacrifice at which we should dare to be present, only in a spirit of the utmost reverence and the most abject humility, conscious of our unworthiness in the presence of the all-holy God. A prayer in the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom evokes the profound truth that: "It is really Thou who dost offer and art offered, Thou who dost receive the offering and art given back to us, Christ our God."
Inspired by these same sentiments, we seek to unite ourselves with the entire Church Militant, Suffering and Triumphant in offering sacrifice to God in our ancient and venerable rite. We seek to reach out and regain for Holy Mother Church those lost or disaffected souls who have left Holy Mother Church, mindful as we are of the changes occurring throughout the Latin Church since the Second Vatican Council. We proclaim Catholic Truth and use our traditional forms of worship, which have proved to be powerful, to attract new adherents to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith and provide for the spiritual welfare of the Catholic faithful in accordance with the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei with at all times, complete adherence and fidelity to all magisterial teachings pronounced by Pope John Paul II, his predecessors and successors.
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