St. Joseph Marello Catholic Church

7200 Auburn-Folsom Road

Normal Hours:
8:30-2:00pm M-F
First Sunday of the Month:
9:30-10:30am
SUMMER HOURS:
8:30-12:30 M-F

Are you new to St. Joseph Marello Catholic Church? Welcome!
Please download a Parish Registration Form by CLICKING HERE (or pick one up at the Welcome Table in the vestibule of the church).

Are you interested in becoming Catholic? Please visit our Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults page.

Mt. St. Joseph Seminary and The Family of St. Joseph are having their 2019 FALL PANCAKE BREAKFAST on Nov 3rd at the St. Joseph Marello Youth Retreat Center at 6530 Wells in Loomis. Come join us from 8am to Noon for all-you-can eat blueberry or plain pancakes, eggs, ham or sausage or chorizo & salsa, coffee and juice. Adult breakfasts are $8.00 and Children’s (6 - 12 yrs.) are $5.00. After breakfast, you might buy tickets for our Money Raffle (need not be present to win), shop at the Religious Articles Booth, purchase delicious Baked Goods, and enjoy perusing the White Elephant Tables. If you are interested in participating in this event, we need helpers to set up, work the day of, and clean up on Sunday afternoon. HOMEMADE baked goods are also needed for a successful bake sale. For more information about the breakfast, call Linda Adams (916) 632-9908. For information about the baked goods, call Betty Scheuerman (916) 624-7173. The Family of St. Joseph thanks you for your continuing support.

We are looking forward to the Walk for Life in San Francisco on Saturday, January 25^th. We have set up a bus for 50 to go there that day.  Awareness for Respect for Life has never been more important as we become aware of what is going on around the country concerning abortion.  Our show of solidarity in the Catholic position is extremely important.  We want to take a busload of people down there to show our support.  The bus is expensive, so we must charge $25 per person.  We encourage families to consider going.  The walk is about 2 miles from the Civic Center to the Ferry Building.  Please consider going on this Walk with us.  Dave Whitman has tickets for anyone to sign up.  Please contact him at dawhit62@comcast.net. For more information, please see https://www.walkforlifewc.com

Please click here for the readings and here for a brief reflection on them to help you prepare for Mass this weekend. The music ministry calendar is here. 

Our Journey Home – Dennis and Valerie Studebaker

I, Dennis, spent the first 11 years of my life in the San Francisco Church of the Brethren (an Anabaptist denomination). During the first fiveyears my dad was the pastor of the church. Things changed when my mother suddenly left the family to pursue a career in Hollywood. My dad remarried when I was 11. We moved to Burlingame where we attended a Presbyterian Church. There I was baptized and confirmed. Shortly after my baptism my step-mother (who had no love for the church), insisted that we stop attending church.

Valerie was raised in a non-religious family. She did have a neighbor who was a devout Catholic. Val went to a Midnight Mass with her family one year, which deeply impressed her. Later she joined the Episcopal Church at the encouragement of a friend and her family. She was baptized and confirmed and attended church there for 3 years. But her family eventually dissuaded her from continuing to go to church.

After highschool we each got swept up in the 1960’s craziness in the Bay Area and got heavily involved in Hinduism during our 20s. After we met and married we pursued Buddhist meditation and intermittent church attendance during our 30s and 40s.

Hinduism and Buddhism are alien to most Christians, but there were benefits from those experiences. In the Hindu days, Val and I were both introduced to devout liturgical worship, and I had the opportunity to experience a number of pilgrimages to sacred sites in India.

From Buddhism, we deepened our practice of meditation. Learning to meditate during those years deepens our prayer life today.

In my late40s I sustained a brain injury. I lost my job and our house. We were also struggling with spiritual oppression. We decided it was time to earnestly re-commit ourselves to Christ and His church. Val went through RCIA at St. Eugene’s in Santa Rosa and I joined a local Methodist Church. We sought help from a kindly nun at St. Eugene’s who put us in touch with a Jesuit priest named Fr. Bernie Bush. Fr. Bernie was a great help for us. He set us on the right path and we started to get free from the oppression. I eventually overcame the brain injury, our faith deepened daily, and our circumstances gradually improved.

After a year in the Methodist Church, I switched to St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Kenwood to spend 10 wonderful years enjoying liturgy and fellowship with that great congregation. During that period all three of our adult children followed Val’s lead and became Catholic. I then joined the Catholic Church in 2015. We moved to Folsom six months later and eventually found our church home at St. Joseph Marello.

We love our parish. We have been welcomed here with open arms. We love the Mass, the music, the priests, and the parishioners.

Currently, I have a music apostolate where I lead sing-alongs at a nursing home and an assisted living facility, and I lead the singing in a study program at church called Alpha. Val attends daily Mass faithfully and helps clean the church once a week. She also helps tend the rose garden.

We’re so glad and so blessed to be home now. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

The myParish app allows us to better communicate with you throughout the week and keep you updated with relevant parish news or updates. The app is very well designed and very intuitive. It is a great resource for parishioners by providing daily Mass readings, Catholic news and prayers, convenient prayer and Confession reminders, our bulletins, parish calendar and more. We hope our app is a tool for fostering stronger parish life at St. Joseph Marello and better engaging the New Evangelization. To download, go to https://myparishapp.com/download/If you have questions or need assistance, email Anne at marelloparish@gmail.com.
 

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