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118 North Market Street

Telephone: 570-645-2664

St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church

A Faith Community of the Diocese of Allentown

Serving the Families of the Panther Valley since 1850

Seventh Sunday’s of the
Paschal Season
and
Ascension Thursday

May 2012

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Church Address:

462 West Ludlow Street

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Feast of Pentecost

The Bishop's motto derives from a phrase from the final section of the encyclical Redemptoris Missio written by Pope John Paul II in 1990, entitled "The True Missionary is the Saint." His Holiness wrote: "The call to mission derives, of its nature, from the call to holiness. A missionary is really such only if he commits himself to the way of holiness: "Holiness must be called a fundamental presupposition and an irreplaceable condition for everyone in fulfilling the mission of salvation in the Church.' The universal call to holiness is closely linked to the universal call to mission. Every member of the faithful is called to holiness and to mission. This was the earnest desire of the Council, which hoped to be able 'to enlighten all people with the brightness of Christ, which gleams over the face of the Church, by preaching the Gospel to every creature.' The Church's missionary spirituality is a journey towards holiness."

Motto: Holiness and Mission