The School of Saint Joseph is a Catholic men's brotherhood formed to grow in knowing, loving, and serving our LORD. We are sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and grandfathers — men who have heard the call to become who we were meant to be, and who refuse to walk that road alone.

We gather monthly for formation — food, fellowship, a talk, Lectio Divina, and prayer. We serve our parish, our priests, and our community. We hold each other accountable, encourage one another in the faith, and remind each other that our identity is in CHRIST JESUS.

To provide a time and place for men to come together and share a love of CHRIST and each other — so that through the power of the HOLY SPIRIT and the WORD of GOD, we may be healed of our brokenness by the GREAT PHYSICIAN, and become the sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and grandfathers we were created to be.

Each monthly formation follows the same battle-tested structure:

SSJ began at St. Mary of the Assumption in Santa Maria, CA and has grown into a dual-parish chapter with brothers from St. Louis de Montfort in Orcutt and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalupe — three parishes, one brotherhood.

Saint Joseph — husband of Mary, foster father of JESUS, head of the Holy Family, and Patron of a Happy Death. As Fr. Sebastian Walshe has shown, Joseph the Patriarch of the Old Testament prefigures our patron in seven remarkable ways: both dreamed GOD's will, both fled to Egypt, both refused their master's spouse, both became father to kings. The type becomes the reality. The shadow gives way to the man.

We ask Saint Joseph to be with us — as the man who gave his last breath in the arms of JESUS and Mary, he knows what it is to be a man of GOD to the very end.

The men who shaped how we think about GOD, faith, and what it means to be a man. Each has more to give you than a formation night can hold. Start here. Go further.