St. Joseph the Worker Parish

Daily Mass Times

Wednesday 6:00 PM St. John the Evangelist, Clyde
Thursday 8:30 AM St. John Evangelist, Clyde

Friday 8:30 AM St. Michael's, Lyons

*Note: During the Winter Season, if Lyons school is closed or delayed, then the Mass at St. Michael's will be cancelled. If Clyde-Savannah school is closed or delayed, then Mass at St. John's will be cancelled.

First Friday

Immediately following the 8:30 AM First Friday Mass at St. Michael's Church, Lyons, there will be Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament followed by Benediction

Weekend Mass Times

Saturday 4:00 PM St. Michael's, Lyons
Sunday 8:30 AM St. Patrick's, Savannah
Sunday 10:30 AM St. John the Evangelist, Clyde

Confession Times

Wednesday's 5:20 PM until 5:50 PM St. John the Evangelist, Clyde, in the church library.
Saturday's 3:15 PM until 3:45 PM St. Michael's, Lyons, in the chapel.

"Even if you do not confess, God is not ignorant of the deed, since he knew it before it was committed. Why then do you not speak of it? Does the transgression become heavier by the confession? No, it becomes lighter and less troublesome. And this is why he wants you to confess: not that you should be punished, but that you should be forgiven; not that he may learn your sin---how could that be, since he has seen it?--but that you may learn what favor he bestows. He wishes you to learn the greatness of his grace, so that you may praise him perfectly, that you may be slower to sin, that you may be quicker to virtue. And if you do not confess the greatness of the need, you will not understand the enormous magnitude of his grace."-St. John Chrysostom, p. 255. An excerpt from A Year with Church Fathers.

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

— C. S. Lewis, p. 205, an excerpt from Mere Christianity