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St. Alban's Catholic Church is offering a 4-week community discussion on Bishop Robert Barron’s "Letter to a Suffering Church," at 7PM Wednesdays from Sept. 11 - Oct. 2. We will have three study sessions in the Newcomb Center, and then conclude with a Holy Mass of Reparation on the Feast Day of the Holy Guardian Angels on Wed., Oct. 2nd at 7 PM.

Bishop Steven Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter told the Register that Catholics need more than catechesis: they need experiences of Jesus’s real presence in the Mass and through fellowship with the members of Christ’s body.

St. Alban's Catholic Church is registering children for religious instruction in the Catholic faith and life in Christ for Sundays during the school year. Registration ends August 31, so act now!

St. Alban's Catholic Church is invited to join the Legion of Mary Picnic on Sunday August 18 at Camp Eastman from 1:00 - 5:00 PM.

We are collecting school supplies for refugee children after the Sunday Masses until August 18, and then will deliver them to Mary's Place, a non-profit refugee center in Rochester. Come and help us!

Just in time for the 10th anniversary of Benedict XVI founding the Ordinariates, the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society has just announced its next conference on the Anglican tradition in the Catholic Church will take place Nov. 15th & 16th in Toronto, Canada.

Join Bishop Lopes, clergy and lay faithful of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter on a pilgrimage in honor of the 10th Anniversary of Anglicanorum Coetibus, which created the Ordinariates for the Anglican patrimony in the Catholic Church. The May 2-14, 2020 pilgrimage will cover London, Oxford, Cambridge, Walsingham, Norwich and Rome.

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.