Bishop Michael W. Fisher has granted approval for the Greater East Buffalo Family of Churches to reinstate the Saturday Vigil Mass at St. John Kanty starting Aug. 3 at 5:30. The celebrant for the first Mass will be Father Robert Stolinski, with Bob Winkler filling the church with beautiful music from the circa 1892 Barckhoff […]
For the past 17 years, Broadway Fillmore Alive, a local neighborhood preservation group, has kept the Holy Thursday tradition of the seven Churches Visitation alive by organizing a self-guided pilgrimage to historic churches in the Broadway-Fillmore/Polonia, Downtown, First Ward and Kaisertown areas. The tradition of entering seven churches to pray before the Blessed Sacrament mimics […]
The East Side of Buffalo saw some celebrations this weekend as St. Adalbert Church turned 137 and its neighbor, Mother Teresa Home, observed its seventh anniversary. A joint Mass took place at St. Adalbert’s on Aug. 26. St. Adalbert’s was born out of a need for another worship space for the growing Polish population. In […]
Sister Mary Christinette, 89, a Felician Sister for 70 years, died in Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus, Cheektowaga, on Nov. 7, 2020. The former Theresa Lojewski was born on Oct. 30, 1931, in Erie, Pa. She was a member of St. Hedwig Parish in Erie and graduated from Erie East High School. She […]
