We are hosting a Flea Market on August 9th from 9am until 4:30pm at Blessed Virgin Mary Parish Hall at 250 Old Maxwell Road in Latham. Come out and enjoy sellers and vendors from across the region. We will serve refreshments and there will be raffles as well. If you a vendor or seller, please see our Vendor’s Page here. We look forward to seeing you on August 9th.
We are hosting a Flea Market on August 9th at Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Latham. We are seeking vendors/sellers for the Flea Market. Please fill out the form below if you want to sell in the market. Also feel free to tell any other Vendors you feel may want to participate.
To reserve your space at the Market
Please complete this application form below and acknowledge the Important Vendor Information below. Please send payment to Holy Name of Jesus by 7/19/25 to:
Holy Name of Jesus PNCC Flea Market Committee
1040 Pearl St
Schenectady, NY 12303
If you have any questions, we would be happy to assist. Call/text Gayle Clas 518-588-0908 after 1 pm; or Paul Zawistowski at 518-461-2314, or E-mail us here.
Application deadline is July 19, 2025.
DATE & HOURS:
The market will be held Saturday August 9, 2025 from 9 AM until 4:30 PM at the Blessed Virgin Mary church hall/grounds, 250 Old Maxwell Rd, Latham, NY 12110
SET-UP/ BREAKDOWN:
Vendors are expected to set up between the hours of 7 PM and 9 PM on Friday evening before the event or between 8 AM and 9 AM, on Saturday morning. Break down can start no sooner than 4:30 PM on Saturday and must be completed by 6 PM. Sellers are responsible for their selling spaces. Before leaving, be sure your area is clean and trash-free. Vendors are required to remove all items brought to the church grounds.
RESTRICTIONS:
Vendors may not bring or sell alcohol, drugs (including cannabis), firearms, or ammunition. No smoking is allowed on church grounds. Vendors may not sell items in conflict with the faith of the Church.
SPACE ALLOCATION:
The flea market committee will assign vendor spaces. Placement, flow and competition will be taken into consideration to provide the best experience for attendees. If you have special space needs, please include your request with your application and the committee will make every effort to accommodate you. Each vendor will be offered an 8’ table, or equivalent space, and 2 chairs. Vendors may bring their own tables and chairs, if desired. Vendors may bring canopies or small tents for their area if they want to sell items outside the hall.
STAFF:
Each vendor is responsible for the conduct of his employees and/or representatives and activities must not detract from the image or welfare of the market. Vendor spaces must be manned at all times. **Holy Name of Jesus is not responsible for merchandise or display materials. **
FEES:
8′ table or equivalent Space: $25, Additional 8’ Table if needed is $5. There will be no refund of registration fees if notice is not provided 14 days in advance.
TAXES AND GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS.
Vendors are solely responsible for New York State sales tax obligations. Please visit the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance sales tax website at: http://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/st/stidx.htm or call the New York State Sales Tax Information Center at 518-485-2889 for more information. Flea Markets are often subject to “spot audits” and failure to comply with sales tax laws may subject you to severe penalties.
AGREEMENT:
By agreeing with this “Important Vendor Information” presented here, I agree to abide by these terms and conditions. I accept full responsibility for my products, displays, and needs. I agree that Holy Name of Jesus employees and representatives are in no way responsible for any claims for damages resulting from my participation in this event and are in no way responsible for my products or my actions.
Come join us for the 19th Annual Basket Social to be held Sunday, April 30th at the South Schenectady Fire House, 6 Old Mariaville Rd, Schenectady, NY 12306 starting at Noon.This year’s Basket Social will feature:
Join us for this wonderful event.
The blessing of Polish Easter food baskets, the Święconka, is a beloved tradition that takes place on Holy Saturday when families bring a sampling of Easter foods to be blessed in church. This year you can order a pre-prepared blessed basket for pickup or delivery.
Our Easter food baskets will be blessed by Fr. Jim and have over twenty (20) imported and locally made items to eat and enjoy on Easter morning! Baskets are $50 each and include:
You may pick up your pre-ordered basket on Saturday, April 8, 2023 between 11am to 3pm at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1040 Pearl St, Schenectady
In the alternative, you can have your basket delivered to your home using contactless delivery. There is a $10 delivery fee for addresses in Albany, Schenectady, and Troy.
Important:
Come join us for the 18th Basket Social to be held Sunday, April 24th at the South Schenectady Fire House, 6 Old Mariaville Rd, Schenectady, NY 12306 starting at Noon.
This year’s Basket Social will feature
Join us for this wonderful event.
Holy Week and the celebration of the Solemnity of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ are the true central point of our life as Christians and of our liturgical year. In this time, we are called in a special way to walk with Jesus from His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, to the Last Supper, through His passion, death, and entombment, to His glorious resurrection. Come, join in as a member of God’s Kingdom.
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Our celebration of the Christmas, the coming of God among us, His incarnate Being in our midst, is so important it must be celebrated for more than a few days. This season marks God’s chosen moment in which the story of salvation takes a major step forward. So, we must celebrate and set to ongoing work. The story of salvation is a continuous saga. It began with creation, God called us into being so we might belong to Him. The world rejected that call and turned away from God by sin. God would not give up! Salvation is not a once and done offer, and God would not rest until we were His as we hear in our Eucharistic Prayer based on the Canon of St. Basil the Great: “You did not abandon us to the power of death… You came to our help… Again and again You called us into covenant with You… You taught us to hope for salvation… In the fullness of time You sent Your only Son to be our Savior.â€Â
Jesus’ incarnation is the moment we were drawn permanently close to God in our humble humanity. God took what was broken and deformed and made it holy and beautiful by His unity in human flesh. Flesh that was cursed and apart from God now became one with God. St. Paul is saying something really amazing in Colossians 2:9. He summarizes in ten words the whole mystery of faith – that Jesus is God among us in our flesh. That changes everything. It makes us all capable of being washed free of the worldly choice of sin and one with God, heirs to heaven. All flesh was hallowed in Jesus, each person’s dignity certain. All flesh is given the opportunity to be one with Him if we choose so in faith. Furthermore, Jesus, before His crucifixion, provided for the permanent presence in His flesh and blood which is for His faithful to this very day: Take, eat and drink. This is My body. This is My blood. The totality of Christ is ours for the taking. In it are closer to His divinity and strengthened for our work.
We are in the story of salvation and we have work to do in our evangelism until His return. So, open the door, invite, He awaits.
Welcome to our January 2022 Newsletter and Happy New Year. In the Newsletter we explore the year ahead as we focus on Being a Eucharistic People. We have our upcoming annual meeting and election of parish officers (time to get involved). We give thanks for so many blessings brought about through your charity and our common work. It is time to prep for the SouperBowl of Caring (the soup pot is out). We reflect on the past year – our Centenary – and we celebrate. Check out the Newsletter for all that and more – including Music Scholarship Sunday and the Return of the BASKET SOCIAL – hurray!!!
This and so much more within our January 2021 Newsletter.
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood
The words above are taken from the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 20, verse 28. St. Paul is meeting with the elders – the Bishop and leadership of the Church in Ephesus. Paul speaks of how he was plotted against, how he held to the truth, and how he preached repentance. Paul focused on the example he set. He is telling the leadership to follow that example – to live it. In other letters, Paul spoke of how he worked for his own bread, how he battled temptations, and how he went willingly into the unknown for Jesus.
Many Roman Catholic faithful have been shocked and disturbed by recent and past revelations of evil doing, abuse, and how those acts have been covered over/covered up for decades. You may be among them, asking: ‘What happened to the example laid down by Paul and the other Apostles?’
All Christian faithful are supposed to live, first are foremost, the life of Jesus. We are all called to walk in the footsteps of the Blessed Virgin and all the saints. Paul did that! We ask again: ‘Shouldn’t the leadership of the worldwide Roman Church be on the same page?’
We feel for you and are sad for your experience. It is heartbreaking to have one’s trust broken repeatedly, to see one’s role models and leaders fall so hard by their own fault.
You may feel conflicted because we are all taught to forgive, to reconcile, but we know there are lines we cannot cross. We know that calls to prayer and fasting among the faithful laity are not enough. Real change is needed now. Meetings months from now isn’t soon enough. Committees and focus groups cannot be left to debate issues without real resolution. Vows of sorrow and pleas for forgiveness do not really change anything unless it is followed by action and significant change. You do not want to just sit in a pew for weeks, months, and years awaiting change. No reasonable person would.
Brothers and sisters,
We offer you an invitation. If you are looking to get away, to take a break for awhile, we can help. We offer you that break, a time away for peace, quiet, and prayer. We offer you solid Catholic worship and a chance to take a step away for healing.
We are not asking you to join our parish, or to leave the Roman Church. Come, pray and worship in surroundings that are comfortable and safe. Then, when you are ready, go back to start anew.
Note that Roman Catholics are allowed to receive the sacraments in our parish under the provisions of Canon 844.2 of the Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law. Canon 844.2 states that the sacraments are lawfully received from a priest in the National Catholic Church: “Whenever necessity requires, or, a genuine spiritual advantage requires it, and provided the danger of error or indifferentism is avoided, Christ’s faithful for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a [Roman] Catholic minister, may lawfully receive the sacraments of penance, the Eucharist, and anointing of the sick from non-[Roman] Catholic ministers in whose churches these sacraments are valid.”
I am looking for a Catholic parish home.
I have serious questions and concerns.
I am a single parent.
I am divorced.
I have addictions.
I am not a typical catholic.
Can I attend Holy Mass in this parish?
YES YOU CAN!
Can I receive Holy Communion in this parish?
YES YOU CAN!
Can I be Catholic without being Roman Catholic?
YES YOU CAN!
Can our priests and bishops marry?
YES THEY CAN!
Can I receive valid sacraments?
YES YOU CAN!
Can I remarry in this parish?
YES YOU CAN!
Can I or my children be baptized in this parish?
YES YOU AND THEY CAN!
Can I be confirmed in this parish?
YES YOU CAN!
Can I ask questions and will I receive direct and honest answers?
YES YOU CAN!
Can I join you for Sunday Mass?
YES YOU CAN and YOU SHOULD!
Holy Name of Jesus professes the faith of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
We hold worship every Sunday at 9:30am and 11:30am.
When people think Catholic they may picture an old church, a city across the sea, rules and regulations, and formal worship… The Catholic Church is over 2,000 years old and is far more than that. It is faith that is universal and everlasting. It is faith expressed in many ways.
Many Churches refer to themselves as Catholic including the Orthodox, Oriental, Roman, and our National Catholic Church. Like all of these, the National Catholic Church is a Catholic Church. You will find that it helps you grow in your relationship with God, your community, and the wider world. We worship regularly and place special emphasis on proclaiming and teaching God’s Word as found in the Holy Bible. We are democratic in our organization. Every member has a voice and a vote in how the parish and the wider Church is run. We are fully accountable to our members.
We are here to be a home for you and yours.
Welcome!
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
We can get caught up in the two ends of the spectrum that are part of every faithful Christian’s life. We either experience great joy, the uplifting graces of the Holy Spirit poured out on us, or we end up on the road to martyrdom. Is that all there is to the Christian life? Really, the struggle in a Christian’s life is that we live much of it in the middle. In considering our lives, lived in the middle, we may ask: How do I sacrifice what I want for what God wants? How do I proclaim God’s truth when the world, even my family, will hate me? How can I face day-to-day life with faithfulness? Those questions plague us – but thanks be to God, He offers us a way forward by example. Of course, Jesus stands first and foremost as one who came from the middle boldly. He proclaimed truth, to those, like us, who were in the middle, who faced daily challenges of faithfulness. He offered real truth that took them from the middle to the heights of heaven. He gave them strength for their ordinary lives because the promise was oh so much more. Yes, the popular folks rejected Him, but the Father welcomed Him. This is our hope. This month we look to the example of Mary. Talk about lives in the middle. Plain, ordinary folks like us – struggling day to day with ridicule, mockery, and exile. Mary, referred to by her community as worse than a prostitute. Joseph, seen as not man enough. Jesus – an illegitimate child. They faced the worst kind of ridicule and rejection, yet lived lives in the middle, working day-to-day, faithful to God at the deepest of levels. Their struggles, much like ours. They answer the essential question: How do I get by faithfully? As we live in the middle, let us look to their example, courage, and to God’s unfailing help. Let us count our ordinary struggles and our lives in the middle as a joy in Jesus.
So much going on. The first ever Gospel Concert at HNJ on May 19th at 2pm. Come out and experience 18 performers – song, dance, poetry, stories, and more… A lunch will be served as well. Bring mom and pray for her. Honor all the special women in our lives – wives, daughters, moms, grandmothers, godmothers, aunts, partners… We will have a special breakfast in their honor. We celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension on the actual day – Thursday, May 10th – no switching things around here. Check out our Men’s Spiritual Retreat, sign up for summer youth events, we honor those served and gave their lives for our country on Memorial Day. Oh, and Why Not Communion in the Hand – check out our article and more…
You may view and download a copy of our May 2018 Newsletter right here.