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    • Welcome from
      Rev. Dennis F. Fronckowiak


      As pastor of our parish, I warmly welcome you to St. Timothy Roman Catholic Church, where together, we seek to build up God's Kingdom as members of His Church.

      With over 1,700 registered families, we are a vibrant faith community made up of the faithful from Tonawanda, New York, and the surrounding areas.

      The mission of Saint Timothy Parish is to be a welcoming community that encounters Jesus Christ through prayer, the Sacraments, and service to others.  As the Catholic Church invites us to "open the doors" and ask Jesus into our hearts, also know that the doors of Saint Timothy Parish are always open to you.


      We have numerous opportunities for growing in your faith and getting involved in various ministries and outreach.  We invite you to worship with us and become a part of our family.

      You are always welcome here.
  • Our Patron Saint

    • St. Timothy, Missionary & Martyr

      The son of a Jewish mother and a Greek Gentile father, Saint Timothy came from Lystra in present-day Turkey.  His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are known to have joined the Church, and Timothy himself is described as a student of Sacred Scripture from his youth.

      After St. Paul's visit to Timothy's home region of Lycaonia, around the year 51, the young Timothy joined the apostle St. Paul and accompanied him in his travels.  After religious strife forced Paul to leave the city of Berea, Timothy remained to help the local church.  Paul later sent him to Thessalonica to help the Church during a period of persecution.

      The two met up again in Corinth, and Timothy eventually journeyed to Macedonia on Paul's behalf.  Problems in the Corinthian Church brought Timothy back for a time, after which he joined Paul and accompanied the apostle in subsequent travels.

      Like Paul, Timothy endured a period of imprisonment in the course of his missionary work.  His release is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews.

      Around the year 64, Timothy became the first bishop of the Church of Ephesus.  During that same year, he received the first of two surviving letters from St. Paul.  The second, written the next year, urges Timothy to visit St. Paul in Rome, where Paul was imprisoned before his martyrdom.

      Ancient sources state that St. Timothy followed his mentor in dying as a martyr for the faith.  In the year 93, during his leadership of the Church in Ephesus, he took a stand against the worship of idols and was consequently killed by a mob. The pagan festival he was protesting was held January 22, and this date was preserved as St. Timothy's memorial in the Christian East.  The General Roman Calendar venerates Saint Timothy together with Saint Titus on their feast day of January 26, the day after the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul.

    • Pray for Us

      Lord, you blessed Saint Timothy with apostolic virtues.  Through his intercession, may we be filled with the desire and will to live good and religious lives here on earth, and thus be worthy of our heavenly home with you.  Amen.

      St. Timothy, pray for us.

    • St. Timothy's relics moved to Rome for Week of Christian Unity

      The relics of St. Timothy were in Rome for veneration during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25, 2020.

      The relics of St. Paul’s “beloved disciple” remained in a side altar of the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls.  Pope Francis visited the basilica to pray vespers on the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

      On Jan. 26, 2020, Timothy’s relics were moved to St. Peter’s Basilica for the papal Mass celebrating the first "Sunday of the Word of God", instituted by Pope Francis as a day to promote knowledge and love of Scripture.

      St. Timothy has come to be considered a symbol of unity, particularly among Orthodox Christians and Catholics.  In 2011, Russian Orthodox and Catholic bishops met in Termoli, Italy, to pray and venerate Timothy’s relics together.

      “The fact that Timothy is a reference for the brothers of the Eastern churches opens us to a specific and special vocation to ecumenism as a desire to meet each person and to communicate to that person the love and closeness of God,” Bishop Gianfranco De Luca of Termoli-Larino, Italy, said when the relics were moved from Termoli to Rome.

      St. Timothy’s relics were discovered in Termoli in 1945 during restoration work on the crypt of the cathedral.

      Covered by a marble tombstone, the restorers found an inscription in the marble tile stating: “In the year of the Lord 1239.  Here rest in peace the body of the blessed Timothy disciple of the blessed Apostle.”

      The Church celebrates the feast of Saints Timothy and Titus on Jan. 26 each year.

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A Roman Catholic Parish
in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York.

Our Mission:  Love God.  Love Others.
We invite you to be part of our parish family.

 

St. Timothy R.C. Church
565 East Park Drive, Tonawanda, NY 14150
phone:  716-875-9430  fax:  716-931-5237

 
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