News, Events, Notices and Memories
2017 Alumni Event Set for September 24
Our Annual Alumni Mass will be held at Blessed Trinity Church on Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 10:00 AM. We look forward to welcoming all Alumni, especially the 50th Anniversary Class of 1967. A reception in St Charles Hall following the Mass provides an ideal...
Annual Alumni Event Set for September 24, 2017
Our Eleventh Annual Alumni Sunday event will be held at Blessed Trinity Church on Sunday, September 24, 2017, beginning with an Alumni Memorial Mass at 10:00 a.m. We look forward to welcoming all alumni of the former parish grammar school, especially members of the...
Outdoor Marian Shrine: a work in progress
The grotto area surrounding the statue of Mary in front of the church rectory was built in 1949. Originally designed as a shrine to Our Lady of Fatima, it once included kneeling concrete statues of the children of Fatima which deteriorated and broke over the years and...
Elizabeth Clay Appointed Parish Music Director
We are pleased to announce that, effective June 25, Elizabeth Clay has been appointed as they parish music director on a permanent basis. Elizabeth has been serving in the position on an interim basis since February 2017, and this appointment recognizes not only her...
Ladies Sodality Dinner, June 14, 2017
The Ladies Sodality held their annual June dinner on Wednesday evening, June 14, in St. Charles Hall. Members and friends enjoyed a Flag Day-themed holiday picnic supper prepared by Carmen’s Catering, with all-American apple pie for dessert. The program included a...
Trinity Festival Weekend, June 9-11, 2017
Our Trinity Festival Weekend – a three-day celebration of our parish feast day – has concluded with excellent reviews and relieved committee chairs. On Friday evening, more than 100 enjoyed William Maddox, the acclaimed organist and music director at Toronto’s...
Trinity Festival Weekend, June 9-11, 2017
Please join our congregation in a celebration of faith, culture, history, and church architecture on the weekend of Trinity Sunday, June 9-11, 2017. Our three-day event includes: Organ Recital Friday, June 9, 2017 7:30 p.m. William Maddox, organist and music director...
You’re Invited to Our Sacred Sites Open House, May 20/21
On May 20 and 21, Blessed Trinity will participate in the New York Landmarks Conservancy's Seventh Annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend, inviting the public to experience our house of worship as a repository of faith, art, and history. Members of our docent...
Benefit Organ Recital Closes 2016-17 Trinity Series
Organ Recital Friday, June 9, 2017 7:30 p.m. William Maddox, organist and music director at Toronto’s Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, in recital on Friday, June 9, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Maddox will perform Romantic French works and orchestral transcriptions to...
“Canisius Clean” for Easter – April 8, 2017
“Canisius Clean” ~ Students and alumni of Canisius College – including members of the college’s Accounting Society and its Economics & Finance Club -- once again devoted their Community Day volunteer efforts to Blessed Trinity. A team of nine dusted, swept,...
Holy Week 2017 – Schedule of Services
Holy Week 2017 Blessed Trinity Church Passion Sunday/Palm Sunday - April 9 Blessing of Palms and Holy Mass 4:30 p.m. - Saturday, April 8 10:00 a.m. - Sunday, April 9 Reconciliation Service Monday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m. Weekday Masses April 11 and April 12...
Rev. Peter Drilling Opens Lenten Series, March 8, 2017
Rev. Peter Drilling, the Rector of St. Joseph Cathedral, opened our three-part Lenten Program on Wednesday evening, March 8. Father Drilling explored the concept of the Kingdom of God as developed in the first narrative account of Jesus life, St. Mark’s Gospel.
Visit Us During Sacred Sites Open House Weekend
On May 20 and 21, Blessed Trinity will participate in the New York Landmarks Conservancy's Seventh Annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend, inviting the public to experience our house of worship as a repository of faith, art, and history. Members of our docent team...
June 9 Benefit Organ Recital Closes Concert Season
Organ Recital Friday, June 9, 2017 7:30 p.m. William Maddox, organist and music director at Toronto’s Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, in recital on Friday, June 9, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Maddox will perform Romantic French works and orchestral transcriptions to...
Blessed Trinity Joins Statewide Sacred Sites Open House, May 20 & 21, 2017
New York Landmarks Conservancy's Seventh Annual Sacred Sites Open House Blessed Trinity will again participate in the New York Landmarks Conservancy's Sacred Sites Open House Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21. Save the dates, and watch this space for...
2016-17 Trinity Series Concludes on June 9 with Benefit Performance by Canadian Organist William Maddox
Organ Recital Friday, June 9, 2017 7:30 p.m. William Maddox, organist and music director at Toronto’s Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, in recital on Friday, June 9, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Maddox will perform Romantic French works and orchestral transcriptions to...
In Memoriam, 2017
Jo-An Kathleen Maurer Fultz, '50 January 7, 2017 Harold C. Steinwachs, '39 February 28, 1925 - February 25, 2017 Joan F. Joseph Walleshauser, '51 April 26, 2017 Elizabeth Sommers Coia, ’56 July 27, 2017 Donald C. Nuwer, M.D., ’38 July 27, 2017 Agnes T. Manion, '42...
January 17, 2017 – National Day for Racial Healing
Almost 250 people attended the Interfaith Community Prayer Service sponsored by religious leaders of the Greater Buffalo Racial Equity Roundtable and held at Blessed Trinity on Tuesday, January 17. Designated as the National Day for Racial Healing, events were...
2016-17 Trinity Series Continues on February 12, 2017
The Buffalo Brass Choir "A Requiem in Our Time" Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. Blessed Trinity’s 2016-17 concert season continues at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 12, 2017, when the church’s ensemble-in-residence, the Buffalo Brass Choir, presents A Requiem in...
Christmas 2016-17 Schedule of Services
Feast of the Birth of Our Lord ~ Christmas Eve Saturday, December 24, 2016 9:30 p.m. ~ Choral Program, Blessed Trinity Choir 10:00 p.m. ~ Christmas Eve Mass with Choir, Brass and Organ Christmas Day Sunday, December 25 10:00 a.m. ~ Christmas Mass Holy...
Opening for Position of Music Director
Director of Music at Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic Church Position available January 1, 2017 Blessed Trinity Parish, a diverse and welcoming faith community at home in a Landmark edifice in Buffalo, NY, seeks a motivated musician familiar with the Roman Catholic...
Blessed Trinity Featured in Neighborhood Mural
Our Landmark church building is featured on a mural created earlier this year by Danial Galas on a neighborhood building located at 72 Jewett Avenue at Halbert Street. Thanks to local historian and preservationist, Chuck LaChiusa, who has included some marvelous...
2016-17 Trinity Concert Series continues on December 4
The Freudig Singers of WNY present A Frozen Christmas Pie Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 3 PM Our Next Trinity Series Concert is Sunday, December 4, at 3 PM, when the Freudig Singers of WNY will be bringing us A Frozen Christmas Pie. Under the direction of Roland E....
2016 Alumni Sunday
Our tenth annual Alumni Sunday is "in the books," and we hope everyone who attended enjoyed the day. We know that Nik Brodfuehrer and Denise Moll Lanz, '71, did! As winners of the split club raffle, they each received $750 in prize money. A matching amount of $1,500...
2016-17 Trinity Series Opener is October 2, 2016
More JAZZ, More SWING, More BLUES ... CHARLES REEDY and the TOUCH'E BAND Sunday, Cctober 2, 2016 at 3 PM Mr. Reedy was a crowd-pleaser when he closed the 2013-14 concert season at Blessed Trinity, and the marvelous musicians and singers of Touch'e will have you...
Lew-Port Teachers Tour Blessed Trinity on August 18, 2016
Blessed Trinity's Architecture became part of the "summer school" curriculum for twenty-five teachers from the Lewiston-Porter School District who participated in an architectural tour of our church on Thursday, August 18. Accompanied by local preservationist Tom...
National Night Out and CCCB’s Summer in the City, 2016
Who Doesn’t Like a Picnic! ~ On Tuesday, August 2nd, we proved that we all do. But even something as “relaxed” as a picnic requires a lot of planning and hard work, and Blessed Trinity was up to the task. And so we send heartfelt thanks to everyone who played a part...
Alumni Sunday, September 18, 2016
Alumni Sunday 2016 Our Annual Alumni Sunday event will be held at Blessed Trinity Church on Sunday, September 18, 2016, beginning with Mass at 10:00 a.m. We look forward to welcoming all alumni, especially those celebrating significant anniversaries. A reception in St...
Visitors from Our Mother of Good Counsel, July 19, 2016
Parishioners of Our Mother of Good Counsel Church in Blasdell, New York had a chance to learn more about out our handmade bricks, medieval iconography displayed in the church's terra cotta facade, and some of the 2,000 symbols summarizing Christian beliefs when they...