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We're so happy you're here

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Whether you are a newcomer, a visitor, or a long-time parishioner, we warmly welcome you to join us for Mass. Feel free to attend any of our Masses and be sure to greet us when you do!

Weekends

Saturday: 4:00pm

Sunday: 8:00am & 11:00am

Weekdays

Mondays: 7:00pm

Tuesday–Friday: 8:30am

Adoration

Mondays after 7:00pm Mass

First Fridays: 9:00am–5:00pm

Reconciliation

Saturdays:3:15pm-3:45pm

Mondays after 7pm Mass

Welcome

St. John the Baptist Parish is a faith-filled Catholic Christian Community. We are part of the Beloved Disciples of Christ the Lord Family of Parishes. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, in His Church and its teachings, under the direction of our spiritual leaders.

We watch and pray as we follow His call to love, life, fellowship and holiness.

Calling All St. John’s Parishioners!

As we prepare to celebrate 175 years of St. John's Parish; we need your help!

We’re collecting photos from 1994 to present day that highlight what makes St. John’s what it is and has been.

Deadline: August 25, 2025

Email: parish.office@stjohnsalden.org

Mail or drop-off:

St. John the Baptist Church

2021 Sandridge Rd.

Alden, NY 14004

Please note: While we’re grateful for all submissions, not all photos may be used.

Please help us preserve our parish history and celebrate the moments that brought us here. Thank you!

On October 26th, the 175th Anniversary Celebration Dinner Dance will take place following the 3pm mass. Tickets are available at the Rectory for $25 each.

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We invite you to come pray the 14 Stations of the Cross, pray the Rosary, reflect, allow God’s mercy and love touch our hearts as you take a peaceful walk through our cemetery.

Enter by parking lot side (see new sign)

Note: Stations of the Cross pamphlets are available in the church vestibule (please return them when you are done). A solemn and spiritual place for forgiveness and healing and feeling the love of Our Lord!

Upcoming Events

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Our Mission

St. John the Baptist Family of Parishioners is a faith-filled Catholic Christian community, which believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, in His Church & its teachings, under the direction of our spiritual leaders. We watch & pray as we follow His call to love, life, fellowship, and holiness.

Bishop Michael W. Fisher

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New Frassati Chapel aims to bring perpetual adoration to the nation’s capital

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Father Charles Gallagher, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., with Auxiliary Bishop Juan R. Esposito-Garcia at the blessing of the Frassati Chapel on Aug. 9, 2025. / Credit: Steve and Bernadette Dalgetty Washington D.C., Aug 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). After years of planning, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., officially opened its new Frassati Chapel earlier this month. Members of the parish say they hope it will help galvanize Catholics to make perpetual adoration possible in the city. The chapel was blessed on Aug. 9 by Bishop Juan R. Esposito-Garcia, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington in the District of Columbia and Southern Maryland.Named after the soon-to-be canonized Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati — who was known to spend hours throughout the night in adoration — the Frassati Chapel will serve as a place for Catholics in the District to pray throughout the day and to attend Eucharist

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Remembering St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Monastic reformer and adviser to popes

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St. Bernard of Clairvaux. / Credit: Sistermaryhelen, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every year on Aug. 20, the Catholic Church honors St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the 12th-century monk who helped to build up the Cistercian order — some of whom are known today as the Trappists.Bernard is considered the last of the Church Fathers in the Western tradition.He was born during the year 1090 near the French town of Dijon. His father, Tescelin, and his mother, Aleth, belonged to the highest class of nobility in the region and had six other children. Bernard, their third child, received an especially good education in response to a local man’s prophecy that he was destined for great things.After his mother’s death, Bernard began to consider a life of solitude and prayer. At Citeaux, near Dijon, a group of monks had gathered in 1098 with the intention of returning to St. Benedict’s original rule of monasticism from the sixth cent

Daily Readings

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Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

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Readings for the Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church Reading 1 Judges 9:6-15 All the citizens of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and proceeded to make Abimelech king by the terebinth at the memorial pillar in Shechem. When this was reported to him, Jotham went to the top of Mount Gerizim and, standing there, cried out to them in a loud voice: "Hear me, citizens of Shechem, that God may then hear you! Once the trees went to anoint a king over themselves. So they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.' But the olive tree answered them, 'Must I give up my rich oil, whereby men and gods are honored, and go to wave over the trees?' Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'Come; you reign over us!' But the fig tree answered them, 'Must I give up my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?' Then the trees said to the vine, 'Come you, and reign over us.' But the vine answered them, 'Must I give up my wine that cheers gods

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Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Reading I Judges 6:11-24a The angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. While his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press to save it from the Midianites, the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, “The LORD is with you, O champion!” Gideon said to him, “My Lord, if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds of which our fathers told us when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ For now the LORD has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian.” The LORD turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you.” But Gideon answered him, “Please, my lord, how can I save Israel? My family is the lowliest in Manasseh, and I am the most insignificant in my father’s house.” “I shall be with you,”

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