St. Benedict's Blog

We invite you to join us: Thursday, December 24th    4:00 pm   (with Children's Pageant 15 minutes prior)    10:00 pm (music begin...

The Christmas season is NOT over. The Holy Family, Nave Window St. Benedict's, Amherst NY It is very tempting to let the secular...

       In one of his best-known sermons, Howard Thurman wrote: “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, w...

Christmas Masses St. Benedict's Church Main Street & Eggert Road Amherst NY PLEASE JOIN US FOR: Christmas Eve Vigil Mass (se...

Our new Outdoor Nativity Scene is now up!  It is located on Main Street between the church and the school. It looks beautiful! A speci...

This weekend many of our parishioners received their OPLATKI in the back of our church. One wafer is called OPLATEK; more than one wafer, ...

Here is a list of some of the basic words, images, facts, and practices of Advent and Christmas. *the word "Christmas" is a c...

Every year, the challenge of the third Sunday of Advent is to rejoice. Such is the exhortation of today’s entrance antiphon, which we sing ...

Merry Christmas! As you know, because of the Incarnational accent in my preaching, I often quote the Prologue of St. John's Gospel -...