On October 21, 2012, St Alban's was born. The "original eight" of the Fellowship of St Alban were the first to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church, and start our Ordinariate community's incredible journey.
Join us for our annual Stewardship Sunday meeting. St. Alban's parishioners and friends will discuss and reflect on our mission to spread the Gospel in the Rochester region, and our budget to carry out this mission for the upcoming 2023 year.
Former Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was received into the Catholic Church in 2021 and ordained as a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He shares with The Pillar how being Anglican, Evangelical, and Catholic all come together in the Ordinariate.
The Ember days are four seasonal times of prayer and fasting, and an ancient part of the Ordinariate's English Christian patrimony. The Ember Days in Sept. fall on the 15th, 17th, and 18th.
Celebrate the passion, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ with St. Alban's. Here is our schedule of liturgies for Holy Week and Easter in 2022.
Fr. Nathan Davis, St. Alban’s pastoral administrator, shares his personal testimony of why he came into the Catholic Church from Anglicanism through the Ordinariate, at Solemn Choral Evensong on Jan. 25, the Conversion of St. Paul.
We have video of Solemn Choral Evensong from the Jan. 25th Conversion of St Paul that we held together with Peace of Christ parish with Fr Davis's own testimony about becoming Catholic through the Ordinariate. Please share this video, especially with others thinking about the possibility of coming into the fullness of faith in Jesus Christ through the Catholic Church.
The theme of the 2022 Bishop's Appeal is "Open wide the doors to Christ," calling us to greater evangelization, welcoming new people to a life-changing encounter with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and living God.
Introducing our first-ever St. Alban’s Kids Christmas pageant! We will be performing on Saturday, January 1st. The pageant is open to kids ages 4-14. Auditions are on Sunday, Nov. 28 or can be submitted by video.
Holy Mother Church has again extended the opportunity to obtain a plenary indulgence for the holy souls in purgatory throughout the month of November by praying in cemeteries. St Alban’s continues our new tradition by praying the Office of the Dead from our Ordinariate Daily Office book every Wednesday of November at 3:30pm.
Father John Cornelius, a retired priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, and the first parish priest at St. Alban's when it was founded in 2013, passed away on September 8.
Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter is this year’s keynote speaker at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast events held in Washington, D.C. from September 13-14, the vigil and feast day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Parishioners Samantha Joy Medved and Jason Edward Abbott will be the first couple ever to celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony at St. Alban's. All are invited to attend the Aug. 28th Nuptial Mass at 4 p.m.