Saint Joseph Parish traces its history to the late 1880s when local farm families donned their Sunday best to worship once a month in the old Meany house which still stands near Brookfield’s “Four Corners.”
We were, however, a mission of Saint Francis Xavier Parish in New Milford, CT, until 1941.
With $8500 borrowed from the Archdiocese of Hartford, our first pastor, Father Patrick Quinlan purchased a furnished rectory on Long Meadow Hill Road, and land for the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes which fronted on Whisconier Road (Route 25) behind the rectory.
The second pastor, Father Victor Piaskowski, succeeded Father Quinlan in 1945, and began dreaming of a school. The present facility opened with five grades in 1958, and added a grade each year until all eight grades were functioning. A chapel built under the school gymnasium became the first “church” on the current parish grounds.
In the mid-1980s, a fund raising drive was launched to build a stand-alone church building.
The present Saint Joseph Church was dedicated in April 1992.