St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart (The Josephites)

Bishop John Ricard, SSJ

The Josephite missionaries were founded over 150 years ago, just after the Civil War, as an English foreign missionary society of priests and brothers. They were initially sent to Africa and to the American South. They were sent then, as they are now, to bring the Gospel to the more than five million newly emancipated enslaved in the South and to Africa. Today they labor in the South, and to the Inner Cities of the USA, as well as in Africa, in and among some of the most challenging and at times dangerous areas in the world. These missionaries have always depended on the good will and support of the Catholic Faithful throughout the United States. The Josephite Missionary today pray each day for those who share with them this vision to bring Christ, as we seek your aid and assistance of their vocation to the poor and needy.