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SAINT STEPHEN DIRECTORY
773-7647 MINISTERIAL STAFF
“I have come to serve and not to be served.”
PASTOR Fr. Paul M. Nogaro ext. 102
PAROCHIAL VICAR Fr. Martin Gallagher ext. 107
ASSISTING CLERGY Fr. Samuel Venne ext. 115
Deacon Frank Kedzielawa 773-3364
PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Sr. Sharon Anne Radice OSF
ext 103
YOUTH MINISTER Bill Tixier 870-2071
ORGANIST/CHOIRMASTER Aaron Tham 816-0046
FOLK GROUP Patrick Johnson 491-7049
CEMETERY SERVICES ext. 101
MAINTENANCE Mike McNamee ext. 127
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: 773-2231
DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS ED.
Angela Diebold 773-2002/773-1196
SCHOOL: 773-4347
FAX: 773-1438
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEB SITE: www.ststephensgi.org PRINCIPAL
Scott Gruenauer ext. 120
RECTORY OFFICE
BUSINESS MANAGER
Karen Sweet ext. 104 ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANTS
Sandy Beyer x. 101 Lori Lenz x. 114
Micahlena Beyer x. 100
TRUSTEES
Carl Walbert 773-2518
Richard Sander 773-3929
June 3, 2018
RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS)
“Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them.” Saturday: 3:30–4:00 or anytime by appointment. Reconciliation Room is off the daily Mass chapel.
BAPTISM “No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.” Every second Sunday of the month. Families are asked to attend the 11:00 Mass with Baptisms following. Also, Baptisms are celebrated DURING the 4:30 Mass on the third Saturday of the month. Parents must attend a baptismal preparation class offered on the first Friday of each month. Godparents must present a letter of recommendation.
MARRIAGE “What God has joined together, no human being must separate.” Weddings are celebrated on Friday evenings and on Saturdays at 10:30, 12:30 or 2:30. Arrangements must be made with a parish priest no less than six months before the wedding. Pre-marriage preparation is required.
MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND “Come to me, all you who are weary.” Call the rectory to make arrangements for the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick or to have Holy Communion brought to the home. A communal Anointing of the Sick is held on the first Saturday of the month after the 9:00 Mass.
PARISH MEMBERSHIP
“That they may be one.” New parishioners are most warmly welcomed to our parish community and are encouraged to register as soon as possible.
A Respect Life Parish Here the Gospel is preached,the lost are found, the believers are equipped, the poor are served.
The lonely are enfolded in community, and God gets the credit for it all.
2100 BASELINE ROAD
GRAND ISLAND, NEW YORK
14072-2059
MASS SCHEDULE “Do this in memory of me.” SATURDAY ..................... 9:00 a.m.; 4:30 p.m. Organ SUNDAY 7:30 a.m. Organ; 9:00 a.m. Organ & Choir; 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Ensemble MONDAY TO FRIDAY ......... 7:30 a.m. & 12:05 p.m. HOLY DAYS ....................... Please check the bulletin.
RECTORY: 773-7647 • FAX: 773-5792 EMAIL: [email protected]
WEB SITE: www.ststephenswny.com Office Hours: Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
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THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST ST. STEPHEN’S
HEART TO HEART
DEAR PARISHIONERS,
Next weekend is the annual collection for the CATHOLIC
COMMUNICATIONS CAMPAIGN. Funds from this appeal are used to promote the message of the Gospel through the various media. Obviously, in this day and age, the various social media are the way to reach people and our Diocese is fortunate to have an active Office of Communications for this purpose. I invite those on the weekly envelope system to support the special second collection next weekend.
The June issue of the WNY CATHOLIC is available. Take a copy to keep up on the news of the Church and Diocese.
This week for three days, Tuesday to Thursday, all the priests of the Diocese will attend our annual Convocation at the Seminary. I invite your prayers for your priests. Of course, our availability these days will be limited.
I would like to thank all those who extended greetings on the occasion of my birthday and ordination anniversary this past week. They are only two days apart and your thoughtfulness is most appreciated.
And congratulations to Fr. Martin who observes his first anniversary of ordination this Sunday. He’s survived a year with me – quite an accomplishment in itself!
God bless!
Fr. Paul
MASSES & CHURCH EVENTS NH - Denotes Nursing Home Mass
Monday, June 4– Weekday
7:30am ~ Gary Hajnos (St. Stephen Altar Society)
12:05pm ~ Barbara Pasieka (The Holmberg Family)
Tuesday, June 5 –Saint Boniface, Bishop & Martyr
7:30am ~ Mike & Lori Boyko (Keith & Ingrid Kinney)
12:05pm ~ Leo Prusak (Robert Hall & Family)
Wednesday, June 6 – Weekday
7:30am ~ Jim Colson ( Tony & Rose Buscaglia)
12:05pm ~ Sebastian Ungaro (Mr. & Mrs. Donald Fabian)
Thursday, June 7- Weekday
7:30am ~ LTC Terry Crowe (Family)
12:05pm ~ Beverly Reger (Michael & Janice Lewandowski)
12:30 – 5:00pm ~ Exposition
Friday, June 8 – The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
7:30am ~ Flora Nogaro (Family)
12:05pm ~ Robert Hall (Prusak Family)
Saturday, June 9 – The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed
Virgin Mary
9:00am ~ Richard Pachter ( Betty, Wife
2:30pm ~ Spinella-Kaiser Wedding
3:30 – 4:00pm – Confessions
4:30pm – (Fr. Martin) Doris Forster (Daughters)
Sunday, June 10 – Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
7:30am ~ (Fr. Paul) ~ John & Beatrice Hillock (Daughter,
Linda)
9:00am ~ (Fr. Paul) ~ Genevieve Dobmeier (Lanora
Ziobrowski)
11:00am ~ (Fr. MArtin) ~ Eric Hamm Johnson (Dinsmore
Family)
WEEKDAY MASS READINGS (complete readings: www.usccb.org/nab)
JUNE 4: 2 PT 1:2-17; PS 91; MK 12:1-12 JUNE 5: 2 PT 3:12-18; PS 90; MK 12:13-17 JUNE 6: 2 TIM 1:1-12; PS 123; MK 12:18-27 JUNE 7: 2 TIM 2:8-15; PS 25; MK 12:28-34 JUNE 8: HOS 11:1-9; IS 12:2-6; EPH 3:8-19 JN 19:31-37 JUNE 9: IS 61:9-11; 1 SAM 2:1-7; LK 2:41-51 JUNE 10: GEN 3:9-15; PS 130; 2 COR 4:13-5:1; MK 3:20-35
In your June packet in an envelope for the FATHERS’ DAY NO-VENA OF MASSES. By returning the names of your living or deceased fathers, we will publish them in the Fathers; Day Bulletin
My Daily Offering
O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in un-ion with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart: the sal-vation of souls, reparation for sin, and the reunion of all Chris-tians. I offer them for the intentions of our bishops and of all the Apostles of Prayer, and in particular for those recommend-ed by our Holy Father this month,
JUNE
Universal: Social Networks That social networks may work towards that inclusiveness
which respects others for their differences
Fathers’ Day Novena In your June packet in an envelope for the FATHERS’ DAY
NOVENA OF MASSES. By returning the names of your
living or deceased fathers, we will publish them in the
Fathers; Day Bulletin and remember the, at the Masses for
the duration of the Novena.
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GRAND ISLAND, NEW YORK JUNE 3, 2018
Please Pray for the Sick
Please Note: Call the rectory to place a sick person’s name on the prayer list. Normally, the person should know about this & give permission. Some people prefer to keep this information private. A name remains on the list 5-6weeks and then is removed unless we are notified to keep it on permanently because of a long term illness.
Craig Cwik, Kathleen Spedoske, Sharon Whitcomb, Catherine Chapman, Victor M. Shores, Lisa Jacinta, Gianna Morinello, Christopher Winkelman, Tom Vickers, Jane Sadowski, Charles Spencer, Arlene Slachciak, Evangeline Baumler, BettyAnn Wilkie, Scot Miller, Nina Tortorice, Angela Diebold
And the deceased…Patricia Dickerson, David Wuest, Robert Carter
ALTAR SERVER SCHEDULE
*The Sanctuary Lamp burns this week in memory of Richard Pachter,
from his wife, Betty
Mark: The First Gospel An in-depth look at Mark from beginning to end
by Patrick Rush Most of the coming year (cycle B) will be taken up with the reading of the Gospel of Mark. We present this two part
overview to help us better understand what we will be hearing in the months ahead. Although Mark’s Gospel is positioned second in the canon of the Christian Scriptures, it was the first existing canonical
Gospel to be written in full and it provides the primary structure for both Matthew’s Gospel and Luke’s Gospel. The tradition that Matthew’s Gospel is the “first” Gospel, is grounded on a now-lost earlier collection of Jesus’ teachings that was written in Aramaic and attributed to Matthew. It is primarily that collection of Jesus’ teachings along with Mark’s account of Jesus’ ministry which together formed the content of Matthew’s Gospel. Scholars generally date the composition of the extant Gospel of Matthew to the early 80s C.E., whereas they generally date the composition of Mark’s Gospel to shortly before or after 70 C.E. Tradition has held that Mark’s Gospel was written to a community living in Rome, but contemporary scholarship considers a rural community in the province of Syria a likely audience. Mark’s audience was probably experiencing persecution and Mark offers Jesus as their model and hope in their time of suffering since, in this Gospel more than in any other, he is so rejected and persecuted.
Prologue: 1:1-13 Matthew and Luke begin their Gospels with stories of Jesus’ birth with angels singing and shepherds visiting. Mark has no reference to the birth or infancy of Jesus. Instead, Mark begins with a brief prologue (1:1-13) which introduces an adult Jesus who is “the Son of God,” (1:1), something we are told at the outset but the disciples barely seem to grasp even at the conclusion. It is Mark’s goal to have us come to see the power of God in Jesus of Nazareth who often seems lacking in power, especially as he hangs from the cross. That is the Christology of Mark that should be kept in mind as we prepare and proclaim the Sunday Scriptures of this church year. Jesus is drawn to the message of John the Baptist (1:4- 11) who accused his hearers of their sinfulness. John predicted that one more powerful than he was to come who would initiate the outpouring of God’s Spirit, and thus signal the nearness of the end times (1:4-11). Then Jesus is baptized by John and tempted in the wilderness (1:12-13).
Part One: Jesus’ ministry in Galilee (1:14—8:30) Mark suggests that John the Baptist is arrested very soon after Jesus’ baptism. In Mark, this becomes the trigger for Jesus to begin his own public ministry, which he did in Galilee where he called his disciples (1:16-20). Whereas the Baptist proclaimed the nearness of the end times, Jesus from the start proclaimed the nearness of the kingdom of God (1:14-15) and exorcised an unclean spirit from a possessed man (1:21-28), cured Simon’s mother-inlaw (1:29-31) and healed many others who were sick or possessed. (1:32-34). The silencing of John the Baptist coinciding with the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry signals that Jesus himself will encounter much opposition during his ministry. That starts almost immediately as the scribes and Pharisees heatedly object to his forgiving sins (2:5-8), his dining with sinners (2:15-17), and his failure to require his disciples to fast (2:18-21), and to observe the Sabbath (2:21-28). Although Mark’s Jesus certainly does proclaim some teachings and parables (4:1-34), he is not a great teacher of the Law (as in Matthew) so much as he is a man of sorrows and sufferings who is ultimately victorious and through whose life and death God’s glory shines. His Galilean ministry, as described by Mark, may be summarized as consisting primarily in healing the sick, blind and lame who flock to him in great numbers, and, at the same time, being harassed by the Jewish leaders who increasingly fear and oppose him, and, eventually, successfully plot against him. Throughout all this, Jesus’ disciples, too, are blind and resistive to his proclamation of and his witness to the nearness of the kingdom of God. They eventually betray, deny and abandon him. And of all the Gospels, only Mark tells us that even Jesus’ own family turned against his ministry because they thought he was out of his mind (3:20-21).
Saturday, June 9
4:30pm – Prohaska, B&C Pyc Sunday, June 10
7:30am – Sander & Tabone 9:00am – Terlecky & Wild 11:00am – D&J&P Wynne
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THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST ST. STEPHEN’S
HOLY NAME NEWS MEETING – The last monthly meeting of the 2017-18 fiscal year is on Sunday, June 10 in the Community Room after the 9:00 a.m. Mass.
MEMBERSHIP – Use the same paragraph that last appeared in
May 6, 2018 bulletin and saved for publication in both the June 3
and June 10 bulletins.
SCHOOL NEWS 4th grade took the NYS Science Performance
on Thursday, May 24th. It measures what students have learned from K-4th grades and it tests their abilities to use science equipment and form a hypothesis based on what they find. The 6th grade science class took a trip to the Penn-Dixie
Paleontological site in Hamburg on the 23rd to explore the type of life that lived in our area 380 million years ago. The students were able to dig into the shale and found many different examples of trilobites, brachiopods, and coronoid stems as well as some rarer cephalopods and nautiloids. Mr. Jeff, our guide, was very impressed by our student's knowledge of fossils and how they're made and was especially complimentary on their behavior and conduct while at the park. On Tuesday, May 22nd the beekeepers met and installed
bees in our first hive to get our apiary up and running. The bees, a donation from a friend, were purchased from Masterson's Garden Center in East Aurora and consisted of five frames of brood, honey and pollen. While we were installing the bees, the students found and identified the Queen and watched as the foragers returned to the hive loaded with nectar and pollen. We'll let them get accustomed to their new home and inspect them shortly to see how they're settling in. Watch the bulletin for future updates, and if anyone would like more information on our bees, please contact Mr. Kenline at the school.
The St. Stephen's Girls Running Club kindly asks for your support in raising money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which funds breast cancer research. To help Team Fly Like An Eagle reach our goal, please consider donating by visiting the Susan G. Komen website at: https://komenupstatenewyork.org/, click on DONATE, and search by team: Fly Like An Eagle. Click on our team name, Fly Like An Eagle, team captain: Kelly Snyder. Choose any amount to donate - every little bit helps. We truly appreciate your support! The girls, along with family members and friends at St. Stephen's, will be participating in the Susan G. Komen 5K on June 9th at RiverWorks in Buffalo.
PAPAL BLESSING People often inquire about obtaining a PAPAL BLESS-
ING for special occasions such as weddings, anniver-
saries, etc. Those who desire a Papal Blessing must apply
through the parish and receive the pastor’s approval. We
then forward the application to the Chancery and then it
goes to Rome. An offering of $50.00 is usually given to
process the application. You should allow twelve weeks
to receive the document back. We will be happy to assist any parishioner who desires a blessing. Please call the
rectory office.
Altar Society News On Wednesday, June 6th, we will have our annual “Get Together.” This year we will have it catered in the Hospitality Room.
The cost is only $10.00 and reservations are a must. The Telephone Committee will be calling you. If you have not been called by Friday, June 1st, please call Shirley Beck with your reservation at 773-5372.
Hope to see you there before we break for the summer. Please join us and bring a friend. God Bless You & Mary Love You.
Parish Players’ youth production for this upcoming season will be Mary Poppins. The show will take place in February 2019. The directors/leaders of the workshop along with dates are below, yet the dates are subject to change at any point!! The workshop will run from 10:00-2:00 each day. The pro-gram will be free of charge. However, we do expect that each family contribute to help out with lunch on one of the ten days of the workshop to feed the kids and crew. This would be a group effort as multiple families commit to help with lunch on each day. On the final day of the camp, we have a final “show” for the parents. Sign up is limited to the first fifty kids, age 5-16. If your
child is interested in being a part of the workshop, then please email MaryLis at [email protected]. Please send their name, age, grade they will be entering in the fall, phone
number, emergency phone number, and any
health issues we should be aware about. Directed by MaryElisabeth Rustowicz and David Conboy Assisted by Mackenzie Barone and Maggie Rustowicz Music by Taylor Kozlowski
Summer Workshop Dates:
Monday, June 25
Tuesday, June 26
Monday, July 9th
Wednesday, July 11th
Monday, July 16th
Wednesday, July 18th
Monday, August 6th
Wednesday, August 8th
Monday, August 13th
Wednesday, August 15th (last day/show)
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GRAND ISLAND, NEW YORK JUNE 3, 2018
Respect Life News The committee meets every third Wednesday at 7PM in the Library.
Questions? Contact Mark/Kathy - 773-5726
Activities for your consideration: • June 11th (Mon) @ 7PM- Children’s Memorial Prayer
Service at St. Christopher Church, 2660 Niagara Falls Blvd., Tonawanda. Anyone who has lost a child, regardless of how old the child was or how long ago the loss, is invited to attend “I Light a Candle for You.” This special service includes prayers and readings, poems, music, and a candle-lighting remembrance. For more information, contact the parish office at 716-692-2660 or Deacon Tom Healey at 716-812-7609.
• June 28 &29 (sat &sun) Christ the King Seminary is offering a lifetime of experience of community, learning and prayer for high school students for more information go to goo.gl/zcY8xg
Catholic Social Teachings - Rights and Responsibilities
Being Nice Isn’t Good Enough! It's a nice sentiment. It's inclusive and non-judgmental. Catholics can be nice people too. We drive to work to nice offices — I walk to work from a nice rectory — and we return to our households with a
nice "live and let live attitude." The other day I found myself pondering a WWII photograph. It's a famous picture, maybe you've seen it. A German soldier is about to execute a Jewish prisoner and the body of the prisoner will soon tumble into a mass grave. About a dozen soldiers are looking on. The facial expression of the executioner is not particularly cruel, but it is matter-of-fact. The face of the prisoner, a split second before the soldier would pull the trigger, is angry and defiant.
Catholics make up only 25 percent of the U.S. population. And most of us live as if religion is a very private thing. We didn't pull the trigger. We're not executioners. We're nice people. And we belong to the flock of Jesus. But if Jesus the Good Shepherd defines his flock, one would think that 25 percent of our culture would be recognizably Catholic. So, what went wrong? Maybe too many of us are huddling in the barracks of our workplaces, our families. Pretending that if we have our families in order — a continuing holy imperative — we need not busy ourselves with the plight of our neighbors. Families, like religion, we may insist, are very private things.
The Catholic faith is not a spectator sport. The Good Shepherd directs and defines us because we are the valuable sheep of his flock. We are his witnesses. Our job is to be nice and faithful sheep, but when there is a conflict, to cluster around the Shepherd, to be truly faithful in the face of adversity.
At the moment we still have the freedom in this country to punch back — even beyond a pious bumper sticker or two — and to reclaim our membership in Christ's flock. With Jesus as the Good Shepherd, "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul." (Mt 10:28). For more information go to the web site: goo.gl/BzzQyq
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Reflection section Any interest in submitting a pithy “Respect Life” reflection contact Dave 773-4908
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Eleanor would like you to reflect on the following quote: “Optimism is useless without action”
Religious Education News
Office hours are, Monday – Friday, 9:30 to 3:00
We are located in the Youth Center Building,
which is behind the school, across from the playground.
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ELEMENTARY THROUGH
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
ALL SCHOOL CLASSES ARE
COMPLETED
FOR THE 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR.
SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER
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CONGRATULATIONS
The students in our religious education program, Pre-K
through eleventh grade, contributed $785.19 to
Catholic Charities this past year. Pre-K/K filled the
piggybank with $62.00, awesome. Thanks to all of you.
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PLEASE NOTE:
REGISTRATION FORMS FOR 2018-2019
WILL BE ARRIVING SOON
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ONGOING PROJECTS
(please continue to support) • Collecting School Supplies for The Ladies of
Charities project • Pull Tab collection to support Ronald McDonald
House. • Adopt Our Seminarians Project
For more information, to volunteer, or to answer questions
please call the Religious Ed office at 773-2002 option 3.
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THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST ST. STEPHEN’S
KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY
INTERNATIONAL • Men’s Retreat
June 7‒10 We are a Christian Ministry that conducts a highly
structured program that allows participants to witness Christ’s love through the servitude of Christian Kairos volunteers such as ourselves. Questions or to make a donation make a check
payable to KPMI and indicate your support of the Men’s or Women’s facility. Send to: Rick & Linda Gonzalez, 2074 Harvey Rd, Grand Island, NY 14072. Thanks & God Bless you!
MAGNIFICAT BREAKFAST
JUNE 16, 2018 For a morning of praise, testimony, and prayer!
Marangely Gonzalez, well-known speaker for Charismatic Renewal, will be our guest speaker. Registration at the Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Avenue, opens at 9:15am and the program begins at 9:45am. For pre-paid breakfast reservation, send a check for $15.00 no later than June 6, 2018 ($20.00 after due date) to “Magnificat-Buffalo c/o Ellie Worley, 190 Ridgewood Drive, Amherst NY 14226. Additional information: call Ellie at 716.632.0646.
SUMMER CAMP Sign up now for a week of Summer Camp at Camp
Turner. Boys and girls ages 7-16 are invited to join us for a week this summer. Campers enjoy campfires, hiking, fishing, low ropes course, horseback riding, archery, arts and crafts, nature study, sand volleyball, woodworking, basketball, gaga ball, 9 square, soccer, dodgeball, court hockey, creek walking, yoga, dance, outdoor living skills, beach trips, and much more. Daily prayer times and weekly Mass in God’s creation included. We honor cabin-mate requests. Visit www.CampTurner.com for session dates and themes, parent handbook, and registration options.
SPIRITUAL RENEWAL Do you desire to know Jesus more intimately, come
to a deeper experience of God’s love for you, deepen your prayer life of to pray more personally? Then you may be interested in a thirty week retreat experience known as The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Daily prayer with the Scripture and weekly individual meetings with a trained prayer guide are the main dynamic of the retreat. The retreat begins in Sept. 2018. INFORMATION SESSION: RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Mon, June 11 @ 7:00pm 3100 Elmwood near Sheridan Kenmore (next to 7 Eleven) For more information, brochures or reservations call Sister Marie Schober, SSMN 716.873.6476.
MAN-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD Neatly written or typed nominations and justifications,
containing 100 to 200 words, should be submitted through the
weekly collection or the Rectory office. The basic criteria is
dedication to family, church, and community. Nominations will
close Friday, June 8 at 3 p.m. The award is scheduled for
presentation on Sunday, June 17.
A VOCATION VIEW The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ
Jesus has given us His Body to eat and His Blood to drink so as to nourish us on our journey as his disciples. God has called some to share this very gift of himself in a profound way. If
you think God is calling you, call Fr. Andrew Lauricella at 716-847-5535. You can also check out the “Priest of the Month”
stories on our website! – www.buffalovocations.org
We’re Back!
St. Stephen’s
Annual We will be having our Rummage Sale the week of June 25. Drop off dates and sale dates will be announced in the coming weeks. We look forward to your donations and help.
See you soon!! God Bless You for all you do for St. Stephens. Any questions? Call Jo Klock 773-2539
OUT OF PARISH ACTIVITIES
