The feast of St. Joseph isn’t until the 19th, but the celebrations are getting started! Felicia’s St. Joseph Altar was the first one I have blessed this year, and I was very happy to join the family and friends for a magnificent feast yesterday.


The fish was wonderful, and came in many varieties!


They made literally piles of home-made pasta for the occasion.


Fish was just half of the story; there was a variety of salad and antipasto.

And, of course, there were desserts! I particularly liked these nacho-style cannoli!

And of course, Joey was there with is family, along with several other members of the GMG team. Thanks again, Joey, for inviting me to be a part of the GMG family!
- Fr. Matthew Green
About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
what a fun time yesterday was
Father Matthew thank you so much for coming to Felicia’s home to bless the St. Joseph’s altar. We loved having you with us to celebrate with our family and friends.
Thanks to everyone who cooked and set things up! It was great to be there!
Looks wonderful and a good reminder to revisit the GMG video and great images of the St. Joseph altars, preparations and celebrations in the community. It’s always so good to see some of the important heritage of Gloucester shared on the blog!
Dude not cool my phone didn’t ring on this…
Brian…You know you have an open invitation…mark your calander for next year<3