St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church — Attraction in Phoenix

I had a very disheartening experience here for my father funeral. People had arrived and they were all grieving and giving each other Hugs and condolences and a woman gets on the microphone and says this is a church and you need to respect god and started being disrespectful. Degrading the people who came to grieve my father and then the priest came on there did the same thing was disrespectful to us and then he forgot my dad's name. He had to ask the crowd my dad's name if that was correct. It was very traumatizing to say the least to see that this is the way that this church allows them to handle a funeral. One last thing is my two sisters were supposed to speak at the funeral and it was on the pamphlet and the priest father joeman Joy kept saying you may now go in peace. Peace be with you. Masses ended. You can all go now and my sister's still we're going to speak as their grieving for the loss of our father and they started playing music for us to all leave. I am so ashamed of how they handle the funeral of my Dad. They didn't mention he was in the military, when he the priest was saying my dad's children's names he left one out , my brother name . It basically was a rushed mass and not a funeral. In fact the priest left in a hurry as he told us all to go in peace when we were not even able to have both my sisters go up and talk. No one was helping direct us when we came in we had to move furniture to set the guestbook on and the custodian came in and was like um I'm not sure he said and he looked confused and he left . The priest father joeman Joy was cold it felt very insincere VEEY and he said only he speaks in gods house. After the service there was a reception and every single person who came up to me the first thing they mentioned was the priest how rude and what was wrong with him. My father was not given a proper funeral service from them and it hurt our family but from what I sensed it was not of the priests concern. Property is no remorse from the priest and he has a lot to learn if he plans on doing funerals but I truly hope that the diocese does a thorough check on this man to see how he is handling funerals because this should not happen to another family, no family who is mourning and grieving should have to go through that and have to be wondering what is going on. On why is this happening? Aren't we going through enough? Isn't the church supposed to be supportive? Aren't they part of God helping through God wanting to help heal and love? That's not what we got. They were rushing us out and another family was carrying in a cardboard of a passed away. Loved one and the priest father joeman Joy came back in. It was observing and the lights got dim and we had people who were handicapped. Many people who belonged to the same Vincent de Paul community for over 40 50 years all being rushed out and they were trying to get out but it was just so insincere and such a tragic way to end what we were already going through. My mother, uncle and aunt went into their office to have a meeting and from listening to the recording of the conversation they had ZERO remorse,.my family paid for this service and the church and the priest took zero initiative in knowing names or the life of my father and no one was helping direct people in there it was figure this out on your own while you paid them and are grieving. Pray for father joeman Joy he needs help if he wants to continue to be a priest and let's hope he doesn't make another horrific tragedy with a funeral service again because it was unjust . And still no apologies have been reached out to our family. We have contacted The diocese Church for Catholic and are going to be getting into detail with them. This father joeman Joy had and hs zero remorse and n arrogance about him in which God would not be and is not good with. Absolute JERKS when my mother and uncle went back there , disturbing humans. What a disgrace. Lord protect the families who have their funerals of their loved ones at the church from the disheartening disrespect of...

I attended the service for Bill Mosher at SVDP on Monday, May 8, 2023 and found the attitude and the preparedness of staff and clergy to be abhorrent. Prior to the beginning of the service those present were admonished by the choir lady for talking with one another in the "HOUSE OF GOD." Well excuse the hell out of me!!! All present were family and friends with some of those present going back more than 60 years to the founding of the church when it was located at 43rd Ave. & Indian School.

Many of those in attendance hadn't seen one another in years and were happy to be renewing contacts, catching up and offering condolences and consoling which is normal human behavior. We are all supposedly children of God and if God was looking on I'm sure he/she would have smiled upon and approved of what was taking place: human beings interacting and supporting one another...and then the "DRAGON LADY" showed up. A total lack of empathy, compassion and a lack of understanding of what this was about. What arrogance and who is she to tell us what acceptable behavior is? Who is she? The God Police, shame on her!!

Don't even get me started on the priest who didn't even know Bill's name. What that showed me was a lack of preparedness and indifference for the deceased, his family and friends. There is no excuse for this type of behavior, utterly repellent.

As a final insult they charged the family $498 to be demeaned and insulted by this clown show. This money should...

My family has been part of SVDP since the late 1950s. My grandparents attended here for decades and were part of the parish community for over 60 years. When my grandmother passed in 2011, the parish allowed the rosary to be prayed in the church before her funeral Mass.

This week my grandfather has passed, we asked for the same. The funeral coordinator told us, “we have a bigger community involvement now, so we do not do vigils anymore,” and our request was denied.

It’s hard to understand how “community involvement” can be used as a reason to take away a tradition that honors the very people who are the community. My grandfather spent most of his life connected to this parish, and yet in his final moments, the church he supported could not make space for his wishes. Growth should not mean forgetting the people who helped make that growth possible.

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