A parish community just outside of Baltimore held a conference to show how they rebuilt their parish. Some of their ideas will be coming to the Buffalo Diocese. Father Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran of the Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland, found that their parish wasn’t working as well as it […]
Three Catholic Sisters in the Foothills, also known as Family of Parishes #25, are in the process of doing an evangelization outreach entitled Make Every Person Count. This is a phone outreach to build community, answer questions, update registration, and reconnect with inactive Catholics. On Saturday, June 14, Sister Louise Alff, OSF, did the training […]
The diocesan Office of Renewal will host the 2025 Renewal Conference, “Renewing in a Time of Challenge” on Friday, May 16, at St. Stanislaus Parish. The conference is an opportunity for Catholic leaders – both laity and clergy – from across the Diocese of Buffalo to come together in prayer and purpose, renewing the mission […]
The diocesan Office of Renewal will host the 2025 Renewal Conference, “Renewing in a Time of Challenge” on Friday, May 16, at St. Stanislaus Parish. The event will take place from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. at St. Stan’s Adamski Center, located at 389 Peckham St., in Buffalo. Joshua Danis, head of Parish and Diocesan Partnerships […]
Starting this week, motorists traveling along certain Buffalo-area roadways may see a billboard message, inviting them to a program known as Alpha. It’s an initiative the Diocese of Buffalo is hosting beginning this month, free to participants, in order to evangelize and encourage self-exploration of one’s Christian faith. Fourteen parish families throughout the diocese will […]
Jesus Christ reveals himself in Revelation to be “the Alpha and the Omega.” They are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, respectively, and Alpha in the context of Christ and God signifies the beginning. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Sound Hub · August 5, 2024 – Diocese seeks people to lead Alpha program […]
Seven pastors and moderators, and one rector, took part in the Road to Renewal second cohort training at Canisius College on July 19. Guest speaker Dr. Scott Isaksen, along with Diocesan Human Resources director Tracy Saari, vicar for Renewal and Development Father Bryan Zielenieski, and Deacon Greg Moran, director for organizational development and strategic planning, […]
The Buffalo Diocese of today bears a certain resemblance to the story of the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. After exile, people returned to the temple to see it in ruins. The older folks were saddened by the state of things. The younger ones were excited that the temple still stood. “Kind of like […]
Since our first round of Renewal Gathering for Parish Lay Leaders in December 2021, we’ve been moving along the Road to Renewal, attending to the pastoral guideposts of mission, evangelization and lay formation. We are sharing this update as a means of demonstrating progress due to the dedication of many. Included in these areas is […]
Take time during this Lent to join in a Lenten morning of prayer and reflection offered by the Renewal Office of the Diocese of Buffalo. Sister Louise Alff, OSF, a native of Buffalo and consultant on evangelization, will lead the service on Saturday, March 19, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph University Parish on 3269 Main […]
