St. Raphael Religious Education and Youth Group

03/13/2026

New this year: The Ultimate Holy Week Retreat

Starting on Palm Sunday, join Fr. Jonathan Meyer (and Catholics across America!) on an epic journey through the brand new Stations of the Eucharist. You have a place in the greatest love story of all time. Are you ready to discover it?

When’s the last time you had a life-changing Holy Week experience? Join the Holy Week Retreat and discover just how life-changing this one week can be.

02/04/2026

Join us for BEST LENT EVER and together, we’ll learn about how God intervenes miraculously in human history through the lens of 33 mind-blowing events. Even if you think you know these stories, we’re going to reveal them in ways you’ve never considered before…

This Lent, join Matthew Kelly on a journey to discover how God miraculously intervenes in human history—and your life. Are you ready to see miracles all around you?

11/12/2025

Mass 🙏🙏🙏
A few things you should know:

10/02/2025

Mental Health Workshop:
Support for Parents
Happy Feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux!

With two saintly parents (Ss. Louis & Zélie) and four siblings who answered the call to religious life, it is clear that St. Thérèse saint grew up in a loving family that adored Jesus and took their Catholic faith seriously. What an inspiration to us, raising families of our own, to know that holiness in family life is possible when we cooperate with God's grace. We know that this young Doctor of the Church is spending her time in heaven doing good on earth, and she reminds us that our primary vocation is always to love.

St. Thérèse, Little Flower, pray for us!

The Catholic Parenting Initiative would like to invite you attend our upcoming event, Mental Health Workshop: Support for Parents, taking place on Saturday, October 11th at Our Lady of Peace in Clarence. We will be hosting a dinner and panel with local Catholic therapists from 5:30-7:30 pm (following the 4:30 pm Mass). M. Mookie C. Manalili, LICSW will be joined by Russ Blackstone, LMHC, Dan Lawson, LMHC, and Anna Ottaviano, LMSW.

You spoke, we listened. Many of the parents who took our survey over the past year noted that mental health struggles were one of the primary obstacles to passing on the Faith to their children. In response to this great need, we wanted to provide you all with the opportunity to talk with experts. to ask your questions, and to learn how to better support your children (and your own mental health needs). This session will be the first of many opportunities for parents and caregivers to come together and learn how to better accompany their children and one another in the vocation of parenting.

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at the bottom of this email.
We hope to see you there!

In the arms of Our Lady,
Riley Emer
Director, Catholic Parenting Initiative

Click here to RSVP:
https://www.cpiwny.org/events-1/mental-health-workshop-support-for-parents

08/02/2025

Please share the following information as needed:

Faith Formation Registration is now open for the 2025-26 school year.

To register go to the family website at:
www.niagarafrontiercatholic.org

use the ‘School & Faith Formation’ tab
select ‘Faith Formation Forms’
then select ‘Faith Formation Family On-line Registration form’

For questions please contact either:

St. Peter - family/online home-based program
Diane Wysocki - DRE
716-754-2812
[email protected]

or

Immaculate Conception - traditional classroom based
Erica Brenner - DRE
716-754-4118
[email protected]

You may of course also contact Maria Gleason with any questions or concerns at 716-282-2944 or [email protected] and I will be happy to help.

Welcome to The Niagara Frontier Catholic Community, comprised of St. Peter's Parish in Lewiston & Youngstown, NY along with Immaculate Conception Parish in Ransomville, NY

07/29/2025

Hi Everyone,
Here’s the latest update on our former St. Raphael Parish:

The church has been sold and is now owned by a Baptist church. Fr. Luke is still working on moving the remaining statues to various locations. War Memorial to join another at Holy Trinity. Pieta to join the stations at St. Bernard’s. St. Teresa will hopefully be coming to live in the gardens at my house. Respect Life and St. Raphael to be stored for now at St. Peter’s.

The rectory has also been sold and the sale will be closing very soon.

The school has not yet been sold. There are a couple interested parties, but no firm deal yet. The biggest obstacle has been that it is zoned for a school; not residential or commercial.

Finally, I am now a member of the new Pastoral Council for our family of parishes (St. Peter’s/Immaculate Conception). If you have any concerns going forward reach out to me and I will try to address them.

In faith,
Maria Gleason

Send a message to learn more

04/21/2025

FYI:
If you happened to drive past St. Raphael’s this weekend you might have noticed this.
It was NOT vandalism!
Although it was poor timing to start this weekend, rest assured that this is a planned project. The Stations and the Pieta are both being moved to the cemetery at St. Bernard’s Parish in Youngstown. The other statues and monuments will also be relocated to other appropriate locations in the near future.
I will try to keep everyone updated with posts here. Feel free to share and ask questions anytime.
🙏💕🙏

04/18/2025

Wishing everyone a Blessed Holy Week and a very happy Easter!
Hope to see you in church!!!
🙏⛪️🙏

03/22/2025

FYI:
Just in case you haven’t seen the signs. There will be a great variety of items from the rectory, church and school available for very reasonable prices. Come and pick up a memento or two. 🙏🙏🙏

02/21/2025

Reminder that our Religious Education, Faith Formation program will continue through April. We will also continue at our regular time from 10:45 until 11:45.
Please share this with everyone you can. Thanks! 🙏 🙏🙏