Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Most Recent Comments

• November 2023 by Dottie Heininger
  Member of this parish for 61 years, and have many beautiful memories of services over all those years, as well as the wonderful priests who have served at this parish.
• September 2023 by TheDarkLink7
  Great place for Masses. Always great Priests there. God bless.
• January 2023 by Bob Weakland
  So Warm and Welcoming.The Priest are the Greatest.
• December 2022 by Jonathan Shank
  Very nice funeral mass.
• December 2022 by Donna Pieniazek
  I doubt that anyone else is going to give this church, "Our Lady of the Sacred Heart" a review from 60 years ago like me! I went to this church and to the school right next to it, which was also called, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart grammar school in the sixties. I was there when the old church was there and this church was built. My sister was married in this church in 1967. I had my communion, my confirmation and my eight grade graduation from the school all in this church. My parents funerals were also held here. I am 65 now, but I still remember so much from the days and years at this church and school. The first carpet was a rich red. The altar was white and black marble. I'm not sure but I think the large colored glass blue round window you see was always blue. I can't tell if there are the same colored glass windows on both sides of the church, but there used to be colored glass windows of the story of God carrying the cross, each window continued with the story. It was beautiful! The grades they had at the time was second to eight. When I was in fourth grade, which I believe was, 1968. My classroom windows were facing the church. Pretty close to it. One blustery winter day, the wind was blowing and it seemed like the snow was sweeping next to the door or possibly out of the door of the church? Well, it wasn't snow we saw, it was smoke! Yes, our beautiful church was on fire! We couldn't see the flames, but we sure could see gray smoke billowing out of the back side church door, which was the closest door to the altar. We had a smart Alec kid in our class as most classes do and you never knew if he was kidding around or serious. His name was Ray Batt. He said, "Hey, look! there is smoke coming out of the church!" Of course, we didn't believe him because, like I said, he was always kidding around. As my teacher who was, Mrs. Long, took a second look and realized that Ray was right! She quickly flew out of the room and ran down the hall, breaking the heel of her shoe. She ran all the way to the office to inform the principal that the church was on fire! Within minutes, a voice came over the loud speaker that said we were to get in an orderly line at the door of our classrooms and that we would be going down to the auditorium. We heard the firetrucks, screaming and the next thing we knew, a few of the eighth graders were throwing our coats on the gymnasium floor! They were organized as they too were a bit paniked. They had arranged for the buses to come and pick us up just like they did at the end of the day. It was said that the fire started from a short in the wiring near the altar. I remember, we weren't able to go to the church for awhile until they fixed everything. The altar was badly burned as well as the carpet all around the altar. I can't remember how long it was when we were allowed back into the church, but I do remember that during the summer, they had all the doors of the church opened, which there were 4 in the front, where you walk into the church from the back furtherest away from the altar and 2 in the back which was on either side of the altar. They had hoge fans going to get the smell of smoke out. It had smelled terribly of smoke. It took a long time for that smell to go away. They had to replace, the rug, some of the others and the whole marble altar. They put in a royal blue rug where the red one used to be, which was throughout the whole church. They put in a new marble altar, because it was a bit different than the old one. I'm glad to see that it is still there. I haven't lived in New York since 1981, so I haven't seen the church in many years. I do remember that I had some nuns as teachers at the time. Lunch was thiry cents, chocolate milk was three cents and white was two cents. Great memories! I hope at least one person reads this so they can know a little something about the history of the church. We had an amazing priest who's name was, Father John Doyle. Everyone loved him! He was just so kind and the kind of p
• December 2022 by Marcia Lussier
  I seriously do not know how you rate a church. And I'm not going to be generous about it because I'm a former catholic. I find the mass exceedingly tedious. I find it very strange that whenever they read from the bible, they never tell you where they're reading from, they just give you a generic, "a reading according to Matthew." I mean, for all anybody knows, they could be tweaking it. I studied the Bible with a different religious group, and everybody knew their Bible very well, and anytime anything was read, you were informed where it was and read along. My kids recently had to have a funeral for their father, and when they found out how much it cost to pay this church to do the service, they just let it go, since he was not a churchgoer anyway. Why would you charge your parishioners money to do that? Isn't it enough that the person was Catholic at least?His parents paid for all their children to go to that school. The standing kneeling sitting thing.... ? The music/singer was too loud and intrusive. I was married in this church, my ex-husband's entire family went to this church and went to school here from kindergarten to 8th grade, and yet when my father-in-law and mother-in-law's funeral service was conducted, nobody seemed to really know who they were.I actually taught religious instruction here many years ago, a First Communion class. I was unimpressed. It seemed to me that they were more concerned about their pomp and ceremony than they were about these children. I accidentally led my children out of the last pew, and the rest of the classes followed, and apparently that was a gigantic faux pas because I left before the fanfare priest procession down the aisle. I was in the basement of the place afterward with my class, and the priest came flying down the stairs, his robes flapping, and flew right into my face confronting me. To make it even nicer, I was pregnant. So I guess I kind of wrecked his show. Upstaged him I guess. So yeah, that was pretty much the end of my interest in the Catholic church.
• December 2021 by Mike Anticola
  Excellent sermon today
• December 2021 by A B
  Beautiful church.
• December 2021 by Jamelia Thomas
  God is good
• December 2021 by Penny Gorman
  I love our church!! So intimate and warm!!
• December 2021 by Betty Jean
  Beautiful Church. But was Sad to be There
• December 2021 by Leo Rudny
  Quick Mass , nice service , plenty of parking
• December 2021 by Kathy Ackerly
  Poor service . Not enough Drs and nurses keep saying there busy as the stand around And talking . Call for a bed pan 1/2 hour and the second time the never empty it so I poured it down the drain so I could use .it. . Next time Buffalo general! And I kept asking how was husband was and they keep giving me a story . Not happy with this place .
• December 2020 by Rebecca Silagyi
  I would recommend OLSH!
• December 2020 by Martin E. Bartnik
  Very good community feeling inside church. It's like everyone are friends if not like family.