St. Joseph Mission Center in Sugar Land, Texas serves as the hub of Basilian mission activities.

 Missionaries “come home” from time to time throughout the year for rest and relaxation or medical and dental appointments and during the summer months to go on preaching tours throughout the United States and Canada to raise money for the work in their mission areas.

 St. Joseph’s is the center for all the mission fund-raising efforts.  Lay people assist with many of the daily business functions of the center. From here, donation appeals are made and the newsletter and other mission publications are sent out. Donations of rosaries and other religious articles are stored here until they are taken by the missionaries to their apostolic areas.

 Rev. John L. Boscoe, Mission Procurator, affectionately known as Padre Juan for his years of service in Mexico, in addition to keeping a busy schedule preaching for the missions, also tends to the needs of those Basilians who are ill and on extended recovery and to the guests of the Basilian Fathers Missions.

 The Capilla, or chapel, is the heart of the mission center. It is the place from which many prayers for the missions and their benefactors arise and Mass is celebrated on weekdays here.

St. Joseph’s Center is surrounded by a beautiful garden area where, because of the mild climate, flowers bloom for most of the year. Visitors may pause to pray or follow the way of  the cross. 

 Every year, the Pastoral Year Seminarians from nearby St. Mary’s Seminary are treated to an old fashioned barbeque by the Knights of Columbus.

St. Joseph Center in Sugar Land, Texas hosted a planning meeting of the Superiors of our Latin American Mission areas on November 8, 2011.  Pictured are Fathers Alberto Ferrara (left front), Superior in Mexico, Pedro Mora (left rear), Superior in Medéllín, Colombia, Paul English (center rear), Fourth Councilor, René Espejel (right rear), Frank Amico (right center), Superior in Colombia and Rector of Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Ascunción in Cali, Colombia, and John Boscoe (right front), Procurator of St. Joseph Center in Sugar Land, Texas.

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