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IMPORTANT UPDATE

Parish leaders and I are striving to be good stewards of the facilities God has entrusted to us. We are seeking guidance from our diocese and from our bishop, and most importantly, from God in prayer. When I discovered that bat waste can make people sick, and that the church also has black mold, we hired an air testing professional, and a bat control professional. The air quality professional has informed us that the air is safe to breath; however, they have given protocols for proper cleaning of the carpet as well as other recommendations. At this time bats have not been eradicated yet. While I personally would like to return to the use of our St. Mary Church, I have prayerfully decided that it would not be prudent to return before: #1. the cleanup guidelines have been discussed by our Pastoral and Finance Councils at a joint meeting, and #2. the health threat related to bats is taken care of. Our councils will meet next month. Thank you for your prayers for wisdom! We will continue to offer all services at our Mt. St. Joseph Church in St. Louis until further notice. This is for a number of reasons: first of all, and most importantly, Mt. St. Joseph is a church that has been consecrated for Sacred Worship. We are blessed to have two churches for such a time as this. We used our gym last weekend because of the short notice. A much less important reason is that it takes a great deal of volunteer time and energy to set up and tear down the gym for Masses, and the gym will not be available for use every weekend because of coming parishioner events and the beginning of the school year. (Tentative plans for when school starts: Friday School Masses, open to parishioners, will be offered in the gym, because of the amount of time and coordination it requires to transport all students to Mt. St. Joseph)

Fr. Nate Harburg, Pastor

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Parish Vision:

 Mount Saint Joseph is located in St. Louis, MI.  Mount Saint Joseph has a beautiful social hall which is used for a number of Nativity of the Lord Parish events.  It also has a large amount of land making it a great place for many different types of activities.  It also hosts a large garden tended by dedicated volunteers to grow food which is given to the poor (and occasionally a few deer).