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Church Office: 9:30 - 1:00 pm weekdays.
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Mass times: Saturday @ 4:30PM
Sunday @ 9am and 11:00a All Masses will be live streamed when possible. CONFESSIONS!!! Where: in the sacristy of the CHAPEL When
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Live Sunday Mass at 11:00.
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Here's what you need to know about attending Mass [for more detailed information click HERE]:
Beginning in 2015, The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., Inc. (“Foundation”) began soliciting donations to its “Upon this Rock” (“UTR”) capital and endowment campaign. The UTR campaign raised funds for many purposes, including soliciting funds for making essential upgrades to classroom facilities and technology of Christ the King Seminary (“CKS”), expanding CKS’s role as a center of retreat and religious celebration, and establishing an endowment fund for CKS. Unfortunately, in early 2020, CKS’s Board of Trustees determined that CKS would close at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year. CKS’s closure will make it impossible for the Foundation to use the UTR funds raised for CKS for their original intended purposes. However, under New York law, when the original purposes for which funds are donated become impossible to achieve, those purposes can be modified in a manner consistent with original intent by the New York State courts. For many years, CKS provided education and formation for ordained and lay ecclesial ministers in the Diocese of Buffalo and beyond. Accordingly, the Foundation has asked the New York State Supreme Court for the County of Erie to approve a modification of the purposes of UTR funds raised for CKS so that those funds can be used to support the education and formation for ordained and lay ecclesial ministry in the Diocese of Buffalo, as determined in the discretion of the Foundation’s Board.
If you have donated to UTR and would like to be heard regarding this requested modification, you may send a letter to: The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., Inc., attention Executive Director, 795 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 14203 or an email to donor.info@frcdb.org. Copies of letters or email received by the Foundation will be provided to the Court. You may also make a formal filing in the legal proceeding entitled Matter of the Modification of Endowment Funds of The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo N.Y., Inc., Erie County Index No. 814747/2020. In order for your submission to be available for the Court’s consideration, please be sure to send any letter or email, or make any filing, no later than Friday, April 9, 2021. |
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More Important Updates!!
Reconciliation will be held on Saturday at 3:00PM in the Sacristy of the Chapel. It will be face-to face and you must wear a mask and maintain social distance. Weekday Masses Monday-Friday in the Chapel at 8:30am
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Cecelia and I were high school sweethearts. After high school we went our separate ways, Ceil went to Bingham General Hospital School of Nursing and I into the United States Air Force. I was home on leave and stopped at her house to see how she was doing. Her mom told me that she was away at school. I decided to pay her a visit and the relationship was rekindled. We were married in 1969. We lived in Balston Spa, NY for about a year, moved to Rome, NY for about nine years, 1979 brought us to Tonawanda. During those years our family was growing; Wayne, Mathew, Heather and Brian.
We became members of St. Francis in 1979. There are so many memories of the activities and ministries over the past forty years. Lawn Fetes, Keeping track of Bingo hours while Ceil worked the refreshments, Cutting grass at the cemetery with Tony Voell and Bob Hill, Building a pipe organ with Bob Hull, Parish Council, Trustee, and Columbarium file tender. God has blessed our family in so many ways. Being a part of the St. Francis Family is just one of them. |
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St. Francis of Assisi
73 Adam Street Tonawanda, NY 14150 Church is located at: 150 Broad Street Tonawanda, NY 14150 Click the link below to e-mail parish@stfrancistonawanda.org school@stfrancistonawanda.org faithformation@stfrancistonawanda.org |
Rectory: 716-693-1150
Rectory Fax: 716-693-2025 School: 716-692-7886 Faith Formation: 716-909-7110 Outreach: 716-693-6247 St. Clare Center* 144 Broad Street Tonawanda, NY 14150 * faith formation and outreach are here St. Francis of Assisi School 70 Adam Street Tonawanda, NY 14150 |
