If you’ve driven through the lands that are Rush, NY in Monroe County you have seen plenty of wide open pastures and farmlands dotted with occasional homes, farms, parks and a few housing developments. The town of Rush is small (though it is home to the meeting place of my parents so I’m grateful for […]
This year is particularly special, because on October 21, two women from Upstate New York will be given Saint status by the Catholic Church. In addition to Blessed Marianne Cope from Syracuse, New York, the Pope will also be making Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint. The very spot where Kateri was first baptized as a […]
In 1779, German settlers came to the Finger Lakes area bringing with them the expertise of grape growing and winemaking. The land of course had already been occupied by the Senecas, but in true American settler form, they sat down anyway and made it their own. They formed a small town known as “Watkinstown” named […]
On May 13th, 1917 in the small town of Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children witnessed the Blessed Virgin Mary as an apparition; they then saw her again on June 13th and July 13th in the same place. The children were given specific instruction from her to do penance and Acts of Reparations. During the course of those […]
At 815 Park Ave in Rochester the Immanuel Baptist Church sits, a towering Tudor Revival style church with historic properties that earned it a spot on the national registry in 2002. When you first step in the church, you see signs of many different groups that use the space like AA meetings and self-help groups, […]