Here's a beautiful church with some awesome people(and awesome masses inside). Between it's…read morestained glass windows with several different designs on the outside, to the stone-wall outside exterior, the outside looks just like a representative church of most areas. Inside, however, the church is even nicer. It's air conditioned, and even in some areas, there are fans that hang above. Although this place doesn't display bible passages on a sign inside the church, the missellete does display them clearly. Can't hear the lectern-speaker very well? No problem. They even thought of that too. They have a "sound system" set up to electronically enhance the volume of the speaker, no matter who is speaking at the time. You'll also find a brilliant looking altar inside with it's altar table and vessel-holders to a few candlesticks that burn infinitely(24/7). There's even a place where you can donate a certain amount to light a (electronic) candle(due to the incidence of periodic accidental burning of other items, so thank you Msgr.) Through the years, this church has gone through several priests, from one who came from another area to later become a Monsignor to a person who wanted(but never succeeded to bringing Latin back into the mass(oh boy was this a wreck to my brother when he accidentally rang the churchbells as an altar server and was severely scolded for it emotionally,) to someone who is a people-person, I don't mind this church. The only problem I find with this place is the amount of real flowers affect my allergies (that's why I rarely try to attend a mass here). I do go in to pray for things and people, but even then, I have problems with my allergies, no matter what time of year it is. Some fake-flowers look realistic and still achieve a point, but this church doesn't seem to care that much to change their policies and switch. You'll find many more Catholics coming back to this church, if you change them, and then put out the word elsewhere that you did and stick with this decision.

As sort of a miscellaneous stop-by today on my way at Bard (before dealing with some Uber riders),…read moreI stopped in here. I figured I needed to stop in. Although I generally stop-in at my local church in Red Hook, NY nearby, I figured I'd stop in here. I found it a terrific site to take a second breather. The doors were left open and so I headed in to pray. And although I'd rather not discuss what I prayed for, I can say this: some of the words I used were "I know you work miracles, but I need a miracle right now, and asked if He could lead me into the right direction." On my way out, I was about to sign the guest log, but I didn't have a pen on me. I went searching through a few places but couldn't locate one. With what seemed like no one around to help or greet me, I felt lost. I noticed the scotch tape and various knick-knacks left behind from those needing this places services. Now, I don't generally have too much time to get down on certain weekend days for mass, so I don't know how well mass is served here, however, from the looks of the sign on the door just as you come in (on the paper reminder sign) and seeing the amount of chairs inside the place, it must not have many congregants to foster it....Don't let this churches beauty go to ruins as you let things lapse over time. I liked the way the place looked and although the mass reminder said this was a Christian church chapel, I found it oddly unique that the Holy Table area was set up as if the place was devoted to Lutheran religions. Outside of that, the place is rather well kept-up. Yes, it's got it's places where dust is starting to collect and there are what looks to be like permanent locks on some fold-down drawers of some pianos/organs, but overall, still something worthwhile to go check out. I was oddly confused. Normally when I attend a church sit-down to pray, I generally have the genuflector in front of me - but this place is different. There are just chairs and no genuflectors here. There was only one genuflector on the one side of the chapel, but it wasn't tied to any certain chair, and that was rather awkward.