{"id":12,"date":"2022-12-19T06:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:56:49","slug":"our-parish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Our Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>We are called to reach out to everyone with the Love of God<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Joseph Catholic Parish, Belmore is a welcoming, supportive community of believers inspired by the life of Jesus. We are called to make Christ present in our parish, in our local community and in our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mission is to know Christ and to make him known; to be a community committed to discovering Christ present in each person through our ministry to each other, our service to the wider community, the joyful celebration of the Eucharist and other sacraments, and our active concern for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a large parish with over 1,000 parishioners and many ministries, such as the catechist program involving parishioners providing religion classes to Catholic pupils in local public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Joseph Catholic Parish runs a successful parish based sacramental program. The parent\u2019s involvement in the preparation of each sacrament of Reconciliation, Communion and Confirmation proves to be an opportunity to walk together with their children on their spiritual journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SACRAMENTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Baptisms &amp; Weddings by appointment, contact the office for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy Communion &amp; Confirmation is held inconjunction with St Joseph\u2019s Catholic Primary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MINISTRIES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are an active parish which relies on the volunteers from within to help. Each Ministry is an invitation and an opportunity to serve and to be involved in the Parish community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in any of the ministries please contact the Parish Office or send us your details via email to:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:admin@stjosephbelmore.org.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parish Office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are called to reach out to everyone with the Love of God. St. Joseph Catholic Parish, Belmore is a welcoming, supportive community of believers inspired by the life of Jesus. We are called to make Christ present in our parish, in our local community and in our world. Our mission is to know Christ<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/?page_id=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Our Parish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephbelmore.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}