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St. Alban's Catholic Church continues to grow, and we're looking to do more to follow Jesus Christ's call to proclaim his Gospel in the Rochester area! Please fill out the survey questions below about which faith formation opportunities for yourself or your children you'd be seriously interested in joining at St. Alban's starting in Fall 2019.

Whitsun Week (or the Octave of Pentecost) has special prayers, and the Ember Days following Pentecost, between June 9 and 16, Trinity Sunday.

We're celebrating our parish's patron saint, St. Alban the Martyr, on June 20 with a beautiful Ordinariate Solemn Mass at 7 PM! Our parish has come a long way from starting as a Catholic fellowship to officially becoming St. Alban's Catholic Church. Come and celebrate with us!

The devotions at St. Kateri-St. Margaret Mary begin June 6 at 6 PM with the opening Mass, and continue with 40 Hours of adoration, select times for Confession, Rosary, and concludes on Saturday morning at the 10 AM Mass with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

St. Alban's parish clerk Peter Smith is holding a pub night discussion on what it means to follow Jesus in his Catholic Church, from 7 - 9 PM at The Old Toad, 277 Alexander St., Rochester, NY 14607. We'll be using Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship as a guide for the evening's talk.

St. Alban's 11:30 AM Rogation Sunday Mass on May 26 begins special days in the Catholic Church for asking God's blessing on creation and protection from natural disaster. We then have 7 PM Ascension Thursday Mass, which is a mandated holy day for observance by Catholics in the Ordinariate and the Diocese of Rochester.

National Catholic Register: Canon Andrew Petiprin wrote a book on the Church’s doctrine and realized that, like Blessed John Henry Newman, he had to embrace Christ’s call and enter the Catholic Church.

National Catholic Register: With new updated norms, Pope Francis has fully charged the Ordinariates and their parish communities to bring people into Christ’s Catholic Church through the evangelizing power of the English Patrimony.

Here is the Fellowship of St. Alban's schedule for Holy Week & Easter liturgies, including the Triduum shared with St. Kateri parish.

Father Evan and members of the St. Alban's parish are joining in a 9 a.m. Good Friday prayer service at McQuaid Jesuit High School, followed by Stations of the Cross & the Divine Mercy chaplet outside a nearby abortion center.

The Fellowship of St. Alban begins the Octave of the Lord's Resurrection on Easter Sunday with 11:30 AM Mass & Fellowship. Our following Divine Mercy Sunday Mass will conclude the Octave with our Easter Potluck and Egg Hunt.

The Fellowship of St. Alban is having 7 p.m. Tenebrae prayer service for Holy Week at St. Cecilia’s church on Wednesday, April 17, also known as "Spy Wednesday."

Bishop Steven Lopes, head of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, delivered the plenum address to the Southwest Liturgical Conference, about how the beauty & reverence of Ordinariate Catholic worship nurtures faith and discipleship in the Catholic faithful.

A Men's Prayer & Fellowship Breakfast will be hosted by St. John the Evangelist Church in Spencerport on Saturday, April 13. This is the same men's breakfast fellowship that St. Alban's & Peace of Christ parish co-hosted in January.

At parish fellowship following St. Alban's 11:30 Sunday Mass on March 31, we are celebrating Mother Church, our mothers, and particularly the expectant mothers of our parish family.

The Ember Days of Lent are March 13 (Wed.), March 15 (Fri.) and March 16 (Sat.), and a time of special prayer and fasting for Christians in the Catholic Church and the Ordinariate.

Come join the Fellowship of St. Alban at St. Cecilia Church every Friday of Lent for a 6 p.m. meatless soup supper followed by 7 p.m. Stations of the Cross.

The Ordinariate observes the ancient season of pre-Lent on its liturgical calendar, which starts to prepare us for the 40 Days of Lent.

Pope Francis has announced that Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman will be proclaimed a saint for the universal Church after a miracle to his intercession was verified.

The Fellowship of St. Alban is offering monthly First Friday Evensong, as well as special events of Solemn Choral Evensong, Tenebrae, and Advent Lessons & Carols throughout 2019.