News - December 2023 RSS Feed

Together we shared kindness and love with our neighbors at St. John's Outreach Center, St. James Food Pantry, Veterans Miracle Network and our homebound here in our parish family. We prayed together, celebrated Mass, Adoration, and we had FUN! Special thanks to all our Tuesday Drive Elves, our Clynkers, our Pueblo to People Committee, Creation Care Team, Friday Bible Study Group, our young church and volunteers who lead our Christmas Agape Latte Mingle, Middle School Faith & Fun Night, Santa's Workshop and all who decorated our Church for Christmas plus everything in between! "God Bless us everyone!" Merry Christmas! Click here to see a photo album.

HO! HO! HO! Special thanks to our young church for sharing some Christmas spirit with our Elementary Faith Formation Students at our Santa's Workshop. Together we enjoyed the movie The Star, decorated Christmas cookies, made angels and more! Wishing you all the grace, and love of that first Christmas night today and every day! Merry Christmas! Click here for our photo album

You may have noticed a difference in the quality of our livestream recently. We have upgraded our equipment. If you would like to be a part of this ministry please contact Rose Ann Garry to set up a time to be trained! Thank you to our current livestream ministers who bring our liturgies to our homebound every week.

We thank our Pueblo to People Committee, Fr. Tom Hayes, Fr. Matt, Fr. Rick, and all those who joined us to honor our Mother Mary at Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebration. Thank you for a beautiful evening of prayer, solidarity with our Sister Parish in Mexico, and fellowship. Muchas Gracias! See our photo album here

St. Thomas faith community will once again be participating in the Bethlehem Senior Services luncheon. We are looking for volunteers to prepare meals for 35 people for the program. Generally, this includes a main dish, vegetable or salad and dessert. We are on the schedule for Monday February 26, 2024. We will do 2 lunches a year give or take. The luncheon is from 12-1pm and then 1-1:30pm there is entertainment or a presentation. Please contact Julie Bablin here if you can help or call the parish office.

Have you ever wanted to make a spiritual pilgrimage to Italy? Imagine visiting St. Peter’s Basilica or walking the cobblestone streets of Assisi, eating fresh pasta under a Tuscan sun or maybe sitting in a gondola and watching Venice slide by. Fr. Matt Duclos and parishioner Mary DeTurris Poust invite you to join them on the journey of a lifetime Sept. 30 to Oct. 11, 2024, when they take a pilgrim group to Rome, Orvieto, Assisi, Siena, Florence, Padua, and Venice for 12 amazing days. Mary will serve as tour leader and Fr. Matt as priest chaplain on this pilgrimage operated by Select International Tours & Cruises. If you’d like to learn more, grab a brochure from the Gathering Hall or visit the Select website: https://selectinternationaltours.com/mary-deturris-poust/

A very special Christmas with the Chosen: Holy Night will happen in theaters December 12-17. Musical Guests include: Andrea Bocelli, Matt Maher, Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake, Zach Williams. Join St. Matthew's parishioners on December 17 at 12:40pm at Crossgates Mall! Let [email protected] know if you will be joining the group at the theater. You may purchase your tickets online or at the theater. For those unable to attend the theater date above, St. Matthew's will be showing "Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers" on December 9 at 1pm.  We will only be viewing a short portion of the worship music just prior to the beginning of the movie The Messengers. We will have dessert, beverages and of course discussions after the viewing! Please let the above email know if you will be attending this event.

Recently there have been scam emails with Fr. Matthew Duclos' name attached to them. Fr. Duclos' email is [email protected]. If you receive an email from any other address, consider it spam and delete. Thank you

Fr. Leskovar has moved and would love to hear from you. Visitors are welcome! To reach him: Fr. Richard Leskovar, Teresian House, Room 119, 200 Washington Ave., Ext. Albany NY 12203. Phone number: 518-456-4209