St. Patrick Friary

07/06/2024

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For 12 years, Father Ronald Pecci was the pastor at my home church, Saints Rita and Patrick's. Our church community loved Father Ron deeply.

03/04/2024

Hi, everyone. Thanks for all your generosity in the past. I appreciate any amount you can donate this year. And please remember to let me know if there's anyone with cancer, or affected by cancer, whom you'd like me to pray for as I ride this year.

The Ride for Roswell is one of the nation's largest cycling events a life-changing experience for riders, volunteers and cancer patients who benefit from the funds raised. It's a charity bike ride that brings people together to celebrate survivors, pay tribute to those we've lost and share in the pa...

02/27/2023

It should be an interesting tour!

A Gothic Revival-style building has stood above the houses on Seymour Street, near the Larkin District, for more than a century, appearing both imposing and mysterious.

01/10/2023

Big news for the old friary.

For two weekends in March, Sneak Peek allows visitors to tour the Show House before the transformation by local design professionals begins.

08/23/2021

The Mass of Christian Burial for Vianney Justin – being celebrated in Butler on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m. – will be live-streamed. You can watch it through this link.

Brother Vianney J. Justin, O.F.M., L.P.N., age 78, a professed Franciscan Friar 55 years, died August 19, 2021 after a shortillness. He resided at St. Anthony Friary. A Paterson native, he was born Edward J. Justin in 1942, the son of Joseph and Claire McGoldrich Justin. He was graduated from

08/21/2021

Though the friars are no longer at St. Pat's, we wish to share this information about Br. Vianney Justin, ofm, who passed away on Thursday, Aug. 19.

Br. Vianney J. Justin, OFM, 78 years of age and a professed Franciscan friar for 55 years, died August 19 at Chilton Medical Center, in Pompton Plains, NJ.
His funeral will be in New Jersey:

Visitation: Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 9:00 a.m.

Mass of Christian Burial: 10:00 a.m.

St. Anthony Church

65 Bartholdi Avenue

Butler, NJ 07405

Cremation following Mass; burial to take place at a later date in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa, NJ.

We will have a Memorial Mass for Vianney at Ss. Columba-Brigid, 75 Hickory Street, Buffalo, NY 14204 at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4, with a reception afterwards with coffee and refreshments.

12/04/2017

Today St. Patrick Friary, 102 Seymour Street, was sold. It's fitting that today also was the day the Frohe stained glass windows from the chapel, originally in the church built in 1892, were installed in our new friars' chapel at Ss. Columba-Brigid. We're less than a mile down the road, but it still marks the end of an era that began when the friars arrived in the Hydraulics neighborhood in the 1850s.

10/11/2017

Congratulations to the staff and volunteers of the St. Patrick Food Pantry for winning this award from the Food Bank.

10/08/2017

Br. Tim;s feline friend.

10/06/2017

Getting St. Anthony ready for his trip from Buffalo to Greenville, South Carolina.

10/03/2017

If you need top notch help moving, these are the women to call!

09/24/2017