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Strategic Plan - June 2025

The Strategic Planning Team was created to help prepare POC to address these future opportunities and challenges. Over the past few months the Strategic Planning Team has worked to review and reflect on the feedback parishioners shared regarding our parish life. The feedback was organized into six focus areas or goals (depicted in the image below):

spiritual fulfillment, more lay/volunteer participation, increasing the number of parishioners, supporting Catholic education at St Ambrose Academy, encouraging parishioners and others to pursue a vocational calling, and connecting with and supporting our surrounding community
Download the Full Strategic Plan

While this may sound a lot of work to take on, it is important to remember a few things when thinking about these areas of focus. The first is that our parish already has people and programs working within these focus areas so our preparations have already begun (and in some cases are already well established). The second is that we are living in a time where needs and directions can change quickly. Thus, being proactive is critical. The next step is to align volunteers to make existing and new programs successful.


Parish Strategic Planning Team

Sr Beth LeValley, [email protected] 

Amanda Brylinski, [email protected] 

Vernon Connors, [email protected] 

Dan Dwyer, [email protected] 

Tom Flaherty, [email protected] 

Karen Francati, [email protected] 

Steven Michalkow, [email protected] 

Anthony Nozzi, [email protected] 


Click here to download the Pentecost Letter to the Parish regarding the Strategic Plan.

Loving Christ, Loving Others

We are a welcoming Catholic community called by God to live out the message of Christ  in love and service to all people. Our parish mission is: 

The Peace of Christ calls us to create Christian Community where God is found; in the beauty and joy of our worship, in the breadth of our outreach, and in our love for one another.

"And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God." Colossians 3:15-16

Mass Times

Saturday (Mass of Anticipation)
4:30 PM, St. James Church
Sunday
8:00 AM, St. James Church
9:00 AM, St. John the Evangelist Church
9:45 AM, St. Ambrose Church
11:00 AM, St. John the Evangelist Church
5:00 PM, St. Ambrose Church
Monday
7:45 AM, St. James Church  
Tuesday
9:15 AM, St. Ambrose Church
Wednesday
7:45 AM, St. James Church
12:10 PM, St. John the Evangelist Church
Thursday
7:00 AM, St. John the Evangelist Church
9:15 AM, St. Ambrose Church
Friday
12:15 PM, St. Ambrose Church

Holy Day Mass Schedule:

6:30 AM , St. James Church

12:10 PM, St. Ambrose Church

7:00 PM, St. John the Evangelist Church

Confession Schedule:
Saturday
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM, St. James Church
Sunday
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM, St. John the Evangelist Church
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, St. Ambrose Church
By Appointment
Contact the Parish Office (585) 288-5000.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:
  • First Fridays- St. Ambrose Church 11 AM - 12 PM

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Join us for Perpetual Adoration at the former St. James' Convent Chapel (123 Whittington Road, Irondequiot, NY 14609)!



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