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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

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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.

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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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Colombia to host 2025 International Congress on Religious Tourism

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The main altar of one of the colonial-era churches in Popoyán, Colombia, one of the stops on the itinerary of the 2025 International Congress on Religious Tourism. / Credit: DiegoMera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Lima Newsroom, Mar 26, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Colombia will host the International Congress on Religious Tourism May 5–19 with the theme “Tourism and Development: Evangelization and Peace in the National Territory.” The traveling event will tour 10 cities beginning in Bogotá May 5–6 and culminating in Santa Marta May 18–19.The congress is organized by the Colombian Bishops’ Conference, the World Religious Tourism Network, and the Minuto de Dios organization.The congress is also part of the celebration of the 2025 Jubilee, which is focused on hope. The organizers note on their website that the congress “will be an opportunity to reflect on faith, forgiveness, and hope in a global context of transformat

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Young Christian in Pakistan brutally attacked for refusing to convert to Islam

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A Christian boy holds a crucifix during a protest in Karachi on Aug. 22, 2023, to condemn the attack on churches in Pakistan. More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalized in an hourslong riot in Jaranwala in Punjab province on Aug. 16 after unverified reports that a Koran had been desecrated. / Credit: RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 26, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Amid the persecution of Christians in Pakistan, a 22-year-old man was “brutally attacked” on March 22 by his supervisor after refusing to convert to Islam.The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported the attack, pointing to it as yet another example of “the persistent religious intolerance present in much of Pakistani society.”Of the 208 million inhabitants of the South Asian country, 96.47% are Muslim and 1.9% Christian. The remainder are Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and members of other local religions.Attacks against Christians in

Daily Readings

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Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

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USCCB

Reading 1 Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 Moses spoke to the people and said: "Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy. Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, 'This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.' For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him? Or what great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today? "However, take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have

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Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

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Reading 1 Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10 The LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying: Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God; let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky! But Ahaz answered, “I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!” Then Isaiah said: Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary people, must you also weary my God? Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel, which means “God is with us!” Responsorial Psalm Psalm 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11 R. (8a and 9a) Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. Sacrifice or oblation you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.” R. Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. “In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, To do your will, O my God, is my delig

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2021 Sandridge Rd.
Alden, NY 14004

716-937-6959

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