FTo see our 2019-2020 State of the Parish report please click here, to see the 2019-2020 Financial Report please click here.
Pastoral Council
Members: Ed Neuhauser (chair), Eileen Rankin (Vice-Chair), Monica Carey, Nancy Brown (Lay Trustee), Andrea Perkins, Margie LaFrance (Secretary), Linda Benson, Kathy Bishop.
Minutes: For October 8, 2020 Minutes please click here
For December 3, 2020 Minutes please click here
For January 7, 2021 Minutes please click here
For April 20, 2021 Minutes please click here
For September 13, 2021 Minutes please click here
For November 15, 2021 Minutes please click here
For February 22, 2022 Minutes please click here
For May 9, 2022 Minutes please click here
For September 12, 2022 minutes please click here
For November 28, 2022 minutes please click here
Schedule of Meetings: All meetings are held in McNamara Hall from 6:30-8:30 pm. November 28, 2022; January 30, 2023; April 17, 2023; and June 5, 2023.
Finance Council
Members: Chuck Rankin (Chair) Linda Bonavia (Lay Trustee) Pam Senter (Cemetery Chair), Gabriel Petrella (Secretary), Marie Pollack, Keith Randolph.
Minutes: September 15, 2020
November 17, 2020
February 23, 2020
Schedule of Meetings: (if for any reason meetings cannot be held in person, schedule will remain the same and meeting will be held via Zoom.)
History
Saint Anthony Parish in Groton, NY can trace its roots to the 1870's and the immigrant Catholic families in the McLean and Groton areas. In 1924, a local newspaper thus described the birth of Saint Anthony Church in the following way:
The Golden Anniversary of Saint Anthony Church was celebrated last Friday, 13 June 1924, on the Feast Day of Saint Anthony of Padua. A Golden Jubilee indicates a celebration of fifty years in some departments of life; in this case, it describes the history of this little Church in the Village of Groton. Its beginning was small, as at that time very few Catholics were in this vicinity. What few there were came from foreign shores with limited means, but brought with them their faith and wanted a place to worship God and spread the Faith that was in them. |
Early records indicate that the first Catholic settlers of the Groton area attended Mass at Saint Patrick Church in McLean, New York. Father James Touhy of Ithaca sometimes offered Mass in private homes (e.g. Matthew Walpole and John Carey) from 1860 until 1870. His successor, Father Gilbert (1870-1872) purchased an acre of land on South Main Street in the Village of Groton and this remained the site of the Church and rectory up until 1975. Under the direction of Father P. F. Lynch of Ithaca the construction of the stone church began in 1873 and was completed in 1874. Much of the labor was donated by the parishioners.
Saint Anthony Parish became independent of Immaculate Conception Parish in Ithaca with the appointment of Father Charles Horan as its first resident pastor on August 1, 1875. Later in 1876, Father Patrick M. McManus, who was pastor of the combined Missions of Saint Anthony in Groton and Saint Patrick in McLean, had a rectory and barn built and purchased the cemetery for the Groton Parish.
Saint Patrick Church in McClean, was later incorporated into Holy Cross Church in the Town of Dryden in 1962.
As for St. Anthony Church, a new complex (church, hall, and rectory) was constructed and dedicated on Sunday, 26 October 1975 just outside the village on Route 38. This is our present structure.
Pastoral Leadership of Saint Anthony: