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Welcome to our faith community! In today's ever advancing digital media world, images and videos can touch the heart and support good communications. As you enter our beautiful church for Mass or join us for events on our campus, please understand that you may be...

Beginning in 2015, The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., Inc. (“Foundation”) began soliciting donations to its “Upon this Rock” (“UTR”) capital and endowment campaign.  The UTR campaign raised funds for many purposes, including soliciting...

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 We're creating a NEW TECHNOLOGY MINISTRY at St. Mary's for 2021! Have experience and love to work with cameras, video, and enjoy the technology of it all? Want to give back to your Church through your time and talents? St. Mary’s is forming a NEW PARISH TECHNOLOGY...

"It is with great joy that we receive the news of a new Bishop for the Diocese of Buffalo. As our shepherd, Bishop Michael William Fisher is charged with the task of leading our Diocese closer to Jesus. As we are aware, this is a challenging and difficult task now...

A Pastoral Letter to the Catholic Faithful of the Diocese of Buffalo Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger   Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger Pastoral Letter - Diocese of Buffalo

To All My Fellow Parishioners, I want to thank everyone for your support over the last six months. You helped make my short tenure as the Temporary Parish Administrator an easier one than I had anticipated because of your prayers and words of encouragement. But as St....

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CATHOLIC CITIZENSHIP YOUTH ESSAY CONTEST The Knights of Columbus Council here at St Mary's is sponsoring a Catholic Citizenship Essay Contest. It is open for young Catholic students in grades 8-12, and requires each entry to submit an essay of...

Dear Parish Family and Friends,   THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! for your overwhelming support and words of encouragement as we endeavored to acquire medical-grade air purifiers for our school! YOU MADE IT HAPPEN!!! Combined with our school families’...

To St. Mary’s Parishioners and Daily Mass Attendees:    Please accept my thanks for your warm welcome to me during the past few months as I celebrated morning Mass while you awaited a new Pastor.  It has been a joy to be with you all.  You were all most gracious,...

  https://youtu.be/x9ALiG7r8gk “Oh my God, teach me to be generous, to serve as you deserve to be served, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, and to spend myself without expecting any reward,...

October 10, 2020   To My Fellow Parishioners, Fr. Jack has been reminding us each weekend at Mass to pray a “Hail Mary” so God will send us a good and holy priest. As my homily this weekend expressed, that with prayer and petition, God will provide, I have...

Letter from Apostolic Adminstrator, Bishop Edward Scharfenberger- Weekend of September 19-20, 2020 to the Faithful in Buffalo Letter to the Catholic Faithful - Road to Renewal SURVEY EXTENDED TO 10/19 The Road to Renewal is seeking input from throughout our Diocese...

Last weekend, we ran a soft launch of our NEW LIVE STREAM equipment for St. Mary's! If you were watching on our YouTube Channel, you may have noticed us playing with and testing all the bells and whistles that this system has to offer. We were very excited to see the...

The USCCB offers Catholics an opportunity to prepare for voting in the upcoming presidential election.   The-Challenge-of-Forming-Consciences-for-Faithful-Citizenship-Part-1