With a spirit of adventure and a love of serving, seven members of St. Luke’s traveled to the National Acolyte Festival: McKenzie, Zachary and Emmory Pickett, Laura Aquirre, K Gustafson, Myrick Matthews and Luke Fodor. The gathering offered a joyful glimpse of the wider church and the people who bring its worship to life. “It…
The past week, September 29 through October 2nd, St. Paul’s Cathedral hosted the 18th Annual Conference of the North American Province of the Society of Catholic Priests (SCP). Seventy-seven attendees from across the United States and Canada were present, coming from as far away as Arizona and the Northwest Territories. The theme for this year’s…
The Hope Center came into being when the congregation of the former All Saints’ Church joined forces with St. Mark’s, Buffalo and moved there. The building left behind came to be used to host 12-step recovery meetings of all types, 24 hours per day, seven days per week. At that time (about twelve years ago),…
The Chapel of the Good Shepherd at Chautauqua Institution has concluded another vibrant summer season of worship, fellowship, and Anglican hospitality. Throughout the nine-week Chautauqua season, the Chapel welcomed an extraordinary group of visiting priests from across the Episcopal Church. Each chaplain spent a week at Chautauqua, leading Sunday worship and the Chapel’s weekday celebrations…
Diocesan Sleep Away Camp was held from Sunday, August 9, through Wednesday, August 12, at the Lake Chautauqua Lutheran Center. Twenty-one staff members were there to welcome, entertain, support, and care for our 40 campers this year, representing a 25% increase in attendance compared to the 2025 camp. Originally, Sleep Away Camp was designed for…
Ms. Katelyn Nicoloff is a lifetime member of St. Patrick’s in Cheektowaga. She also serves on the Bishop Search Committee and as Assistant Director of Sleep Away Camp. She writes a blog on Substack, and this was her entry for Sunday, July 26th, in which she speaks about the role of the diocese in all…
“I’d like you to be the next Archdeacon”, my new Bishop said to me when I had been a Deacon for only three years. The Bishop who had ordained me three years prior in December 2016, had retired, and I was very aware that the previous Archie had done a lot of scheduling of deacons…
This past Wednesday, I began the season of Lent with ashes by engaging in the nearly 2-decade old taking-it-to-the-streets practice of “Ashes to Go.” While most of those who drove or walked up were parishioners or Roman Catholic neighbors who could not be at an Ash Wednesday service for one reason or another, the encounters…
Back in December, the woman who cleans the Ministry Center discovered a fox curled up beside the building in the courtyard, apparently deciding that our property was just the right place for a winter nap. For days afterward, the staff at the Center—mostly Canon Cathy—became entirely, unapologetically obsessed. Naturally, the fox was given a name:…
The warming center at Christ Episcopal Church welcomed five people last night, another bitter cold day. Three of those people are unhoused without a place to stay and two others lost their electricity from the powerful winds yesterday and wanted a warm place for the night. The Clarendon fire station also opened as a warming…
With the holidays approaching, it is more important now than ever to be in tune with ourcommunity and the people surrounding us. To be a human is to have relationships with thosehumans around us, and that is ever present in a spiritual context within a diocese such as ourown.On Saturday December 6th, the new bishop…
About 15 years ago, the former All Saints Church in Amherst merged with St. Mark’s Church in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood, leaving the diocese with an unused church building. Rather than let it sit vacant, a group of Episcopalians in recovery began to dream. What if this space could become a home for healing? A place…
