On October 19, 2024, we will be celebrating our annual St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Festival! Though we are a very large and diverse parish, this is one of the few times a year where all our many communities can come together to celebrate our unity as a parish! Indeed, I would personally like to invite you all [...]

I would like to offer a brief reflection on the official Prayer of the Church called “The Sacred Liturgy.” When we come to Holy Mass, the prayers that we pray – all belong to the Church, and as such form part of the Sacred Liturgy. [...]

This past week, on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, our parish patroness – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – turned 250 years old. The daughter of the surgeon Richard Bayley and his wife Catherine Charlton, Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born in New York City on August 28, 1774. [...]

This week the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII solemnly declared that « by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory » (Pope Pius XII, Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, 1 Nov 1950, no. 44). [...]