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Cry the Gospel with your life!

The Joseph House is a non-profit charitable organization that helps the poor and homeless of southern Delaware and the Lower Shore counties of Maryland and Virginia.

Our services include financial assistance for housing, utilities, and other necessities, a food pantry, soup kitchen, day shelter for men and women experiencing homelessness, and a long-term residential program for homeless men.

The Joseph House is administered by the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary, a community of Catholic women religious based in Salisbury, Maryland, USA.

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Fellowship in the Country

October 29, 2026

About 30 Joseph House volunteers and staff came together for fellowship and delicious food on October 10. The gathering was at the home of Jen and Mike Gilchrist. They have ... Read More

Newsletter: October 2026

October 13, 2026

Dear Friends of Joseph House: Years ago, there was a poster pinned to the pantry door in our convent that said, “The truth will set you free – but first ... Read More

Newsletter: September 2026

September 8, 2026

Dear Friends of Joseph House: We never know what we’ll be called to do at the Joseph House. Our mission is open-ended; we are here to help the poor, and ... Read More

Our Founder

Sr. Mary Elizabeth Gintling is the founder of both the Joseph House and the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary. She was born in Philadelphia in 1914 and died in Salisbury in 2004.

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Our Patron Saints

The Joseph House is named in honor of St. Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth and head of the Holy Family. Our other patron saint is Charles de Foucauld, canonized in 2022.

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Bernardin

You, Sr. Mary Elizabeth Gintling, have indeed been the Light of Christ for so many people for such a long, long time.

— HIS EMINENCE, JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN

FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO

I think that there is no passage of the Gospel that has made a deeper impression on me or changed my life more than this one: “Whatever you do to one of these little ones, you do it to me.”

ST. CHARLES DE FOUCAULD