Our Timeline - 2020
January/February
- “2020 Vision & Conversation” ongoing evangelization & parish strategizing
March
- Cardinal discontinues masses & all church and parish gatherings
- NIN-NID (Neighbors in Need/Neighbors in Deed) outreach program launched
March - May
- Prayer Mask initiative with volunteers making upwards of 2000 masks
- Fresh Box food deliveries to elderly households
- Constant Zoom and other meetings for Covid 19 directives
- Livestream Mass with 10 or less attending / First Communion one at a time
- Weddings rescheduled / Funeral rituals restricted/
- With church inactive some reconstruction and projects completed
April
- Columbarium dedicated
- No Holy Week or Easter
May
- One mass resumes-Pentecost Mass 5/31
- Income and expenses completely adjusted
- Administerial and facilities staff reduced
- Church doors restored
Summer & Fall
- Limited capacity services with increased/routine sanitization
- First Communions & Confirmation
- Some Weddings and funerals resume
- Home School Faith Formation
October
- Additions of Sunday afternoon mass, Wed & Fri adoration and 12:10 mass
November
- First “Virtual Coffee and Donuts” on November 8th
- November 9th, St Joseph Church 158th Anniversary/Day of Giving
- Thanksgiving Day 10 AM Mass (in person/livestreamed)
- Sunday November 29th- Advent begins