Welcome to our parish!!!             

We hope you will find in our community the warm embrace of Our Lord,
experiencing the faith, hope and love only He may offer, and is our joy to
share!

This website was designed to help you to become part of our parish.
These pages are intended to give you a vision of how we praise God,
become more and more conformed to His Image, and how we should
place ourselves in service of the needs of the Christian community.

We do this by offering your gifts of
time, talent and treasure, so we may
all love God and neighbor more effectively, always in and through Our
Lord Christ Jesus.

Consider if you are willing to live the
Principle of Three Hours! This
principle offers a practical guide for giving back to God
at least three
hours every wee
k --- giving an hour a week in worship with your fellow
sisters and brothers in the faith (coming to Mass weekly);
giving an hour a
week doing acts of charity
(such as being a Eucharistic minister or lector;
helping out to share our faith with our children and adults; participating in
fund-raising events; joining a group of interest, or advocacy, important to
you; or any other effort which furthers the presence of Christ in the world,
(averaged over the year)); and lastly,
give an hour of your paid labor by
making a financial commitment to support your parish and Churc
h (by
giving at least the rate of pay your family receives for an hour of work
during that week to your parish).
These “hours” are meant to inspire
you to make a commitment IN the faith, living as a disciple of the
Lord!
By giving your “first-fruits” to God and God’s Church, in time and
resource, offered as a living commitment among all of the other
commitments of our life, this is the only way our parish may be more
effective in meeting the needs of the entire community.

Let it be our prayer, and constant calling, that we may be worthy of the
faith, hope and love, Christ brings into our world and in Whose Name we
live....
Daily MASS Readings
9961 Elk Grove Florin Road, Elk Grove, CA 95624-2560
Phone: (916) 685-3681 - Fax: (916) 685-7254
St. Joseph Parish
St. Joseph Catholic Church, Elk Grove
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Rancho Murieta
St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church
Fr. Terry Fulton, Pastor
Parish Center Ph#  (916) 647-4538   
Email: pastor@smgcc.info  
Sunday Mass -8 & 10am, 12noon
Sheldon High School
(in the multi-purpose building)
8333 Kingsbridge Drive Sacramento
saintmariagoretti.net

click here for map

St. Joseph Church
Sat. Vigil – 4:30pm,
7:30am, 9am, 10:45am,
1:00pm (Spanish)

St. Vincent de Paul Church
Sat. Vigil, 5pm,  9am
Announcements
Spiritual Growth
Fr. Rodolfo Llamas
offers Spiritual
Formation sessions on
Friday evenings at 7pm.  
Starting in  February,
the sessions in English
are held on the first and
third Fridays of each
month. The sessions
coincide with Spanish
sessions held on the
second and fourth
Fridays of the  month.
Bring your bible and
something for you to
take notes.