St Ignatius of Antioch - Dayton, OH

08/16/2026

*Get Ready for the 33rd Annual Greater Dayton Lebanese Festival! 🇱🇧*

The fun is almost here! Join us for a weekend filled with family-friendly entertainment, exciting rides, delicious Lebanese food, music, and plenty of fun for all ages.

Bring your family and friends, enjoy the Lebanese spirit, and make wonderful memories with us!

Check out this year’s program below and plan your visit!

We can’t wait to welcome you!

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Our Program for the 33rd Annual Greater Dayton Lebanese Festival has been finalized. Come enjoy our family friendly entertainment, Rides, and delicious food. Hope to see there.

01/05/2026

📢 Parish Announcement

My beloved brothers and sisters,
As you know, the Holy Spirit continually renews the Church, bringing new gifts for the growth of the People of God.

In this spirit, I share with you that I have been appointed pastor at the same time of Our Lady of the Rosary Maronite Catholic Church and Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Roman Catholic Church, in Sacramento, California.

With this transition, you will receive a new priest, Father Marwan Bou Nader, who will begin his pastoral ministry among you on February 1. Please welcome him warmly and help him to continue the mission of God in our parish.

We will gather to give thanks and say farewell on Sunday, January 18.
Let us keep one another in prayer. 🙏

01/05/2026

01/01/2026

Happy New Year, our dear friends
! May God bless you and your loved ones abundantly.
Fr. Jean Paul

12/14/2025

Dear parishioners,

Greetings and peace.
Due to the weather, the Bishop has canceled his visit to Dayton this coming Sunday. We will hold only one Mass at 11 am to celebrate the feast of our Patron. No lunch will be served after Mass! Please stay warm tonight.
Wishing you a blessed day.
May God bless you all!
Fr. Jean Paul

12/04/2025

12/01/2025

"The Holy Spirit shaped and formed him( St. Sharbel) so he could teach prayer to those whose lives lacked God, teach silence to those surrounded by noise, teach humility to those who seek attention, and teach poverty of spirit to those who chase wealth. These attitudes move against the current, and this is why we are drawn to them, the same way a traveler in the desert is drawn to clean, fresh water.”

11/29/2025

In a moment filled with spiritual symbolism, leaders of Christian churches stand side by side, reflecting the hope for unity and communion in love.
We pray to God, through the intercession of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, martyr of unity and fellowship, that the Church may become one — a living sign of communion and love among all believers, bearing witness to the one Christ, one Shepherd, and one faith.

“Where the bishop is, there is the community,
just as where Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”
Saint Ignatius of Antioch – Letter to the Smyrnaeans