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Welcome to our Parish!

We hope you enjoy your visit and encourage you to check this web page often for updates! We also would like to share with you some of our Parishioner's reflections, event news and more. If you have any comment or suggestion please let us know.

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A prayer request:

During the coming weeks of summer, all six Catholic parishes in Rochester are invited to unite in prayer for the Church. We will be providing the same section of special prayers and activities in all six parish bulletins. May we all grow in our faith and our awareness of the gift of our Catholic Faith and Church in our home, parish, city, diocese, state, country and world!

Week 4 : Prayer for the Diocesan Church

Follow this link and learn our diocesis' history.

Suggestion for prayer:
Pray the Rosary, following the Glorious Mysteries, introduced by this reflection:
From the Homily of Pope John Paul II at the Jubilee of Bishops
Sunday 8 October 2000

"Lo, we have left everything and followed you" (Mk 10: 28). Peter's statement expresses the radicalness of the choice requested of the apostle. A radicalness which becomes clear in the light of Jesus' demanding conversation with the rich young man. The Teacher indicated the observance of the commandments to him as a condition for eternal life. To his desire for greater perfection, he answered with a loving look and an unconditional proposal: "Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor; and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Mk 10: 21). The sadness of refusal fell on these words of Christ like a sudden darkening of the sky. It was then that Jesus spoke one of his severest sayings: "How hard it will be for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" (Mk 10: 24). A saying which he himself mitigated in the face of the Apostles' dismay: "all things are possible with God" (Mk 10: 27).

Peter's statement became an expression of the grace by which God transforms man and makes him capable of a total gift. "We have left everything and followed you" (Mk 10: 28). This is how we become apostles. And this is how we also experience the fulfillment of Christ's promise about the "hundredfold": the apostle who has left everything to follow Christ already lives a fulfilled and joyful life on this earth, despite the inevitable trials.
Queen of Apostles, pray with us and for us, so that the Holy Spirit will descend in abundance upon the Church, and that she will shine throughout the world ever more united, holy, catholic and apostolic.

Amen.