St. John the Baptist Catholic Church NY 10001

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Bryan W

We were visiting from out of town and attended the 9:30 Sunday Mass. The Church is beautiful and the congregation was welcoming. We also loved the Marian Shrine and the St. Padre Pio Shrine with 3 first class relics. The Mass was pretty traditional and the vocalist had a beautiful voice while leading the hymns and psalm. We were also bit disappointed in the Priest though. He processed in with a mask on but took it off when he was up at the altar and kept it off when he came back down to deliver his politically motivated sermon up close, walking back and forth in the aisle. He put it back on during Communion and actually refused to place it on our tongues and would only put it in our hands. So unreverent. If we were local, we'd probably go to one of the other more reverent clergy in one of the nearby Catholic Churches. A shame really, because otherwise we could be very happy here.

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Elisa Anguiano

Amazing church. Quickly became our church away from home. We came to New York for treatment for our 2 year old son who was diagnosed with cancer at the time. Our home hospital wasn’t confident in surgery as it was involving important vessels. I truly believe Padre Pío brought us here. We found a book of Padre Pio devotionals that appeared in our room the day we found out about a NY hospital that specializes in his type of cancer. It’s 1.8 miles from this church. We promised if we got through our insurance hurdles and were able to get to NY for treatment we would go visit & give our thanks. When i first visited i was over come with extreme emotion and couldn’t stop crying. We went before every major procedure, treatment or surgery over the last 4 months that we’ve been here. Since listening to Padre Pios signs, our son no longer has evidence of disease and i know Padre Pio interceded for his healing and God Healed him. I will always be grateful for our testimony and promised i would share it with anyone that would hear it. When i told the people of the church they were so supportive and happy for us. This church will always have a special place in my heart as it was our church during some of the hardest days of our lives.

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Frederick Bradbury V

Beautiful stained glass and artwork in this church.