St. Joseph's Clergy

Fr. Mark Wagner, Pastor

St. Joseph's Church officially welcomed Fr. Mark as our new pastor on August 1st.  Fr. Mark was previously assigned as pastor of Sacred Heart in Turlock, CA.  He was there for 10 years and has been ordained as a priest for 24 years.


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Fr. Leo

Fr. saker

Fr. Ernesto Madrigal

 

Deacon Ernest Ciccarelli

Mr. Ernie Ciccarelli was ordained to the permanent diaconate Saturday, September 10, at our Cathedral in Stockton. Long before he enrolled in the five-year diaconate program, Ernie practiced Catholic stewardship. He has a prayerful heart, a servant’s heart, and I first met him long before I came to this parish.  We were working side-by-side in the Modesto Serra Club to promote priestly vocations while I was vocations director for the Diocese. Ernie is a behind-the-scenes guy, quietly going about his service, smiling and listening to the Holy Spirit. He has served in many areas of our parish, such as the RCIA team, the Serra Club and Respect Life.  His greatest love, though, is the Holy Mass, which he serves with reverence and joy most days of the week, and twice or three times on Sunday. Ernie is, above all, faithful — I can count on him. And isn’t that what a steward should be? St. Paul says that, above all, “it is required of a steward that he be found faithful” (1 Cor 4:2). Let us pray that our deacons and priests and bishops be faithful, above all, to their Master, Jesus Christ. (Biography by Fr. Joseph Illo)

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Deacon Ken Ochinero

 

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