St. Joseph Catholic Church — Attraction in Phoenix

This is a local parish that has recently been constructed after the initial Church burned down due to a fire. The building itself is new as I said and very nice. Not ornate but has the foundations to be a beautiful ornate Church. The previous priest who recently retired was very nice but liturgically cut from the 1970s liturgical ethos and added his native Philippino flare to the music and celebration. Was not a parish we would join even though we live within walking distance. I will say they have received a newly appointed priest that is young, conservative, and excellent preacher! I can see him doing great things to revive the community and improving the Liturgy. I will update in mo the to see how he has improved the Catholic experience at this parish. From what we have seen thus far I can't see anything but it getting better from...

St. Joseph's is the greatest! Best thing about the parish is the adoration chapel. It has adoration 24/7, and the chapel is beautiful, peaceful, a wonderful place to pray. Oh, and it's stocked with three large bookcases full of terrific Catholic reading, biographies of the saints, prayers, help for those in trouble. It even has books for teenagers.

The pastor, Father Reggie, grew up in the Philippines and the deacon is from Tonga so the parish feels very diverse. Families will love the crying room, which is stocked with toys, a children's play office with a toy phone, and even books for older children. I was surprised to see a comic book on the life of Pope John Paul, which, who knows, just might inspire a fidgety boy to read and maybe one day become a...

It is a beautiful church, just personally feel over commercialized. We used their adult day care services for my father in law (whom now has passed), but this service was extremely helpful to us. It is inexpensive compared to other similar services, and they do have multiple activities throughout the day to help the elderly (think chair excersizing, children choir/plays, games,...