St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Food Pantry ~ Every Wednesday in the house side of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church
from 3 pm to 6 pm. Please follow the signs for entry.
If you would like to volunteer please come on a Wednesday to help register clients, package food and deliver food to vehicles.
Eucharistic Adoration
every Friday from 7 am to Noon
We invite you to join us every third Thursday of every month at 5:30 pm for a rosary and litany outdoors at the grotto. Please bring an outdoor chair. Invite your friends and family. Our young people need to be exposed to the powerful prayer of the rosary.
All over the world those that follow Christ are being persecuted. Here at home "Christian" is becoming a non-welcome word. More than ever, we need to pray for peace in our streets and cities, for those who fight to be faithful and that all will be restored in Christ.
In case of rain, the rosary will be moved to the church.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church
In 1975, St. Mary’s Church and Sacred Heart Church were combined to form a new parish at St. Mary’s as St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Fr. Kenneth Menge was appointed Pastor on August 2, 1975 and the first Mass of the new parish was on September 14, 1975, the day that our Patron Saint was canonized a Saint by Pope Paul VI. The parish has grown into a strong and vibrant multicultural faith community celebrating it’s 40th year in 2015.
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Church, was the oldest Roman Catholic Church in Northern Chautauqua County, NY. St. Mary’s Church, in 1850, was organized mainly for the Irish and German Catholics. Starting in a wooden structure at West Second Street and Plover Street as a mission, Masses were held there until a new permanent brick structure was completed at Washington Avenue, in 1854. The Passionist’s were invited by Bishop Timon of Buffalo to take charge of St. Mary’s and built a Monastery next to the church in 1861. In 1972 they returned the parish to the Diocese of Buffalo.
Sacred Heart Church
In 1857, the German parishioners met and decided to build a church for themselves. This church was completed in 1858 and dedicated to St. George. In 1876 a new church was completed and dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The last Mass said at Sacred Heart Church was on September 7, 1975 and the building was demolished in 1981. The church bells were preserved and remain displayed today at the corner of Main and Ruggles Street. The Tower Cross is located atop a monument in St. Mary’s Cemetery as a sacred symbol of the former Sacred Heart Church.
328 Washington Ave.
Dunkirk, NY 14048
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