St Louis RC Church

Yesterday evening there was a meeting in the diocese to finalize the closures and update priests and parishes about what this means for their parish family. Here are the updates for our parish family, Family 22

Projected number of active priests for this family ( #22) by 2030 = (2); [with (1) being rector of the Cathedral].

St. Anthony, Buffalo; to become an oratory of St. Louis, Buffalo

St. Michael Parish, Buffalo; will merge with St. Louis, Buffalo; and the entire property of St. Michael to be sold.

Blessed Sacrament Parish, Buffalo; will be placed on a one-year watch list to observe viability.

St. Louis Parish, Buffalo; will be placed on a one-year watch list to observe viability.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Buffalo; will move to family # 31; will merge with Our Lady of Charity Parish and remain as a worship site.



Parishes remaining open in the Family ( #22):

Blessed Sacrament, Buffalo

St. Louis, Buffalo

Secondary Worship Sites: None


Oratory: St. Anthony of Padua, Buffalo


Parish Merging / Closed: St. Michael, Buffalo

Good Afternoon everyone! We are celebrating our 195th anniversary this year as a parish and thought we would do a little something special for the occasion with a dinner! Tickets have been on sale and will be at all masses though next weekend on Sept 15th. You can purchase before and after mass as well as by contacting the rectory this week. Tickets have been selling fast but we still have room for more! Details in our flyer and we hope to see you there.

Good Mornjng Everyone!

St Louis will be hosting at the end of this week a Steeplchase food truck event at our historic church! We will have stone Hearth Pizza, Chilly Billy ice cream and Cheesy Chick!

This Friday, 5:30-9 in our church parking lot we will have lots of fun games and antique cars!!! Hope to see you there!!

Thank you Father Ray and Father Jaczek for the program you gave for the three nights of St Anne’s Triduum. It was a trio of nights that emphasized our need for reflection and prayer, and we hope to make it a yearly event, hope to see you there next year!

We at St Louis have been working diligently over the past couple months to get the side altar of St Anne’s church fully restored in its new home at here at St. Louis. It is truly a sight to behold and a great piece of history to add to our church. This week for the feast of St Anne we are rededicating the altar during a three night event. Starting last night we had a wonderful talk by Fr Ben Fiore. Tonight at 7 pm we will hear from Fr Jaczek Mazur, one of the priests in charge of our parish family.

We will be celebrating one final night tomorrow evening at 7 pm at St Louis with a mass for St Anne we hope you can join us if you’re able. If you’re not we have some pictures of the new prayer cards that will be available at the altar whenever you are able to come by and say hello! They will be available during all masses.

New things happening at St Louis! We have been graciously gifted by the diocese the side altar triptych from St Anne’s church and have been hard at work with installing it in the transept of our own St Louis. Currently under construction but visit us soon to see the finished product!

This past weekend our very own Fr Ray Corbin had the pleasure of being able to baptize these two cuties after Mass! Aren’t they adorable!

Please join us for any of our weekend masses and check out our website for dates of upcoming events!

Good morning all! St Louis will be hosting a fundraiser for restoration through Ten Thousand Villages on Elmwood Ave tomorrow evening. Starting at 6 pm stop by and mentjon St Louis for 15% off your purchase with part of the proceeds going to St Louis restoration.

Good afternoon everyone, for anyone that missed it our lessons and carols has been rescheduled for tomorrow evening at 5 pm hope to see you all there

Our Christmas masses this year are going on as planned. Christmas eve we have two masses, one at 4 pm and our formerly midnight mass will be at 9 pm. Christmas day mass will be at 10am and our new years mass will be at 12pm New Years Day.

Good Evening everyone. We regret to inform you all that this weeks lessons and carols service for tomorrow the 19th has been postponed due to covid. We are hoping to hold it in early January so please stay tuned as we will have notices in the bulletin and here about the official date that will be returning. Thank you all for understanding and we hope to see you all at the newly rescheduled date!