I’ve been chomping at the bit to dig into St. Joseph’s history and I was not surprised to find a fat file chock-full of stories about the Lynn church. With its spire towering over Union Street, St. Joseph’s endures as a vibrant place of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants.
St. Joseph’s former deacon, now-Rev. (St. Agnes in Reading) Victor Vitug recounted earlier this month how he undertook a spiritual journey lasting decades that took him halfway around the globe to St. Joseph’s, where fellow worshippers became his new family.