We are a community of believers in Jesus Christ. A Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, NY; comprising the communities of beautiful, southwestern Columbia County. 

Our mission is to carry on the three-fold ministry of Jesus Christ - preaching the Good News, building up a community of believers, and serving others as He did, especially those most in need. All are welcome to join us in this mission.
 
     Those who are new to our parish are cordially invited to make their presence known by introducing themselves to Father after Mass and by contacting the Rectory office during the week to register so that we can be of better service to you.   

Please join us for worship

With the start of the new liturgical year (back in the season of Advent) English speaking Roman Catholics around the world began using the Revised Roman Missal. Read all about the revised translation of the Roman Missal here.    

"The Kingdom of God is at hand"

 "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying: ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe in the gospel.'" "To carry out the will of the Father Christ inaugurated the kingdom of heaven on earth." Now the Father's will is "to raise up men to share in his own divine life." He does this by gathering men around his Son Jesus Christ. This gathering is the Church, "on earth the seed and beginning of that kingdom."

Christ stands at the heart of this gathering of men into the "family of God." By his word, through signs that manifest the reign of God, and by sending out his disciples, Jesus calls all people to come together around him. But above all in the great Paschal mystery—his death on the cross and his Resurrection—he would accomplish the coming of his kingdom. "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." Into this union with Christ all men are called.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 541- 542

 Souper Bowl of Caring Feb. 4th & 5th

 
  VIDEO RETREAT LINKS:

YEAR TWO: THE HEART OF CHRIST

YEAR ONE: GOD IS LOVE

CAMP VERITAS 2012

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan

Join Us in Albany @ the Capital for Public Policy Day
March 13, 2012 

NYS Catholic Conference 2012 Legislative Agenda

New York's Catholic Church - How We Serve

On the Celebration of the Eucharist

“The oblation, by which, in this very memorial, the Church, in particular that gathered here and now, offers the unblemished sacrificial Victim in the Holy Spirit to the Father. The Church’s intention, indeed, is that the faithful not only offer this unblemished sacrificial Victim but also learn to offer their very selves, and so day by day to be brought, through the mediation of Christ, into unity with God and with each other, so that God may at last be all in all."       ¾ General Instruction of the Roman Missal ( #79-f )

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
to be Canonized!

Read more here.




 

The vocation of lay people

"By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God's will. . . . It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be effected and grow according to Christ and may be to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer."
The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life. This initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church:
Lay believers are in the front line of Church life; for them the Church is the animating principle of human society. Therefore, they in particular ought to have an ever-clearer consciousness not only of belonging to the Church, but of being the Church, that is to say, the community of the faithful on earth under the leadership of the Pope, the common Head, and of the bishops in communion with him. They are the Church.
 
Since, like all the faithful, lay Christians are entrusted by God with the apostolate by virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation, they have the right and duty, individually or grouped in associations, to work so that the divine message of salvation may be known and accepted by all men throughout the earth. This duty is the more pressing when it is only through them that men can hear the Gospel and know Christ. Their activity in ecclesial communities is so necessary that, for the most part, the apostolate of the pastors cannot be fully effective without it.
 
The participation of lay people in Christ's priestly office

"Hence the laity, dedicated as they are to Christ and anointed by the Holy Spirit, are marvellously called and prepared so that even richer fruits of the Spirit may be produced in them. For all their works, prayers, and apostolic undertakings, family and married life, daily work, relaxation of mind and body, if they are accomplished in the Spirit—indeed even the hardships of life if patiently born—all these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. In the celebration of the Eucharist these may most fittingly be offered to the Father along with the body of the Lord. And so, worshipping everywhere by their holy actions, the laity consecrate the world itself to God, everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 898 - 901