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In May of this year the St. Joseph's Parish Church building on Bow Road, Greenock will be 70 years old.
With this anniversary in mind the parish are currently looking into the archives and hope to publish a booklet containing some historical points of interest surrounding the parish.

As part of this booklet, we'd also like to hear from you, if you perhaps have any memories that you would like to share, or perhaps you or maybe your Parents or Grandparents have photos that would be of interest to us at St Joseph's as we look forward to marking 70 years on Bow Road.

If you can help, please send your memories and photos to the following email address: [email protected]

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Welcome

For over 70 years St Joseph’s has been at the heart of this local community: built up by the hands and the prayers of its people, the Parish has been a home to generations of the Catholic community and given many of its sons to priestly service.

That same spirit characterises St Joseph’s Parish to this day: welcoming, generous and good-hearted. We are blessed to be placed under the patronage of the great St Joseph, whose intercession and blessing we invoke upon all visitors to our Parish website!

In both sorrow and joy we heed the counsel ‘Ite ad Ioseph’- Go to Joseph!
New Grotto to Our Lady Unveiled

Recently a few of our parishioners have been hard at work building a grotto to "Our Lady". This was unveiled and blessed by Fr Thomas on Thursday evening. Parishioners joined him in the rosary around the grotto. This was followed by tea and coffee in the parish hall.

Special thanks to Sandy Cowan and Alex Fisher for all of their hard work and to all involved in any way! Also a BIG thanks to everyone who turned out for this very special ocassion. The service can be watched here and additional photos can be viewed at the bottom of the page.
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