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Concert to raise funds for renovation of O'Hara's 'jewel'
1/26/2012 9:00:00 AM by RACHEL DOBIESZ
For the past eight years, Cardinal O’Hara High School in Tonawanda has been conducting extensive renovation projects. The latest installment is the revitalization of the school’s performing arts center. On Friday, Feb. 10, the school will hold a benefit concert to raise money for the renovations. read more...
John Michael Talbot inspires parishioners in anxious times
12/27/2011 8:45:00 AM by PATRICK J. BUECHI
GMA Dove-winning musician John Michael Talbot swept through the Diocese of Buffalo in November holding multi-day missions with song, testimony and prayer. Talbot, who released his latest CD, “Worship and Bow Down,” in June, visited parishes in Niagara Falls, Olean, Orchard Park and Albion within the first two weeks of the month. read more...
Batavia’s Brittany Mruczek offers new tradition in Christmas CD
12/13/2011 9:41:00 AM by PATRICK J. BUECHI
Singer Brittany Mruczek has heard her fans’ request for a Christmas CD and has responded with “A Christmas Song For You,” the Batavia native’s first Christmas collection. The disc will be available at her upcoming Christmas concert at Blessed Angela Parish (St. Hedwig worship site) in Dunkirk, on Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. read more...
National Christmas Mass highlight of December programming
12/9/2011 2:00:00 PM by MARK CIEMCIOCH

A Christmas Mass taped in Buffalo and set to air nationally on ABC affiliates is the highlight of Daybreak TV Production’s holiday schedule in December. Entitled “Come All Ye Faithful Christmas Midnight Mass” for the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, the program is set to air locally on WKBW-TV Channel 7 at 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 25.

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'Our Daily Bread' welcomes 'AM Buffalo' producer
11/11/2011 2:04:00 PM by PAULA DEANGELIS

March 14, 2012 will begin the 15th season of “Our Daily Bread.” It’s been 15 years of delicious foods, crazy kitchens – where stoves don’t work, and paint cans are used to heighten tables, and hilarious mishaps regularly ensue. 

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Read our special tribute to Bishop Kmiec online now
10/27/2011 1:02:00 PM by MARK CIEMCIOCH

Over the past few months, the staff of the Western New York Catholic has been working hard on a special 48-page tribute edition for Bishop Edward U. Kmiec, as he gets set to retire from his seat.  You can read the entire issue online right now.

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St. Christopher’s rings out the joys of hand bell choir
10/25/2011 9:34:00 AM by PATRICK J. BUECHI
Who would have thought that being part of a hand bell choir would not be as easy as ringing a bell? For nine years, the Celebration Bells of St. Christopher Parish in Tonawanda have used an underhanded swing to ring out traditional Christian songs and holiday favorites. read more...
3 Joes stop by 'Our Daily Bread'
9/9/2011 11:27:00 AM by PAULA DEANGELIS

I was looking at the calendar the other day and I came to realize that 2011 marks the 14th year we here at Daybreak TV Productions have been producing the cooking show, “Our Daily Bread.”

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Dion DiMucci, the singer-songwriter known for hits like “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer” is now wandering for the Lord. In his new book, “Dion the Wanderer Talks Truth,” the 72-year-old former teen idol talks about how his life has improved since he found God.

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Hummas, tabouli and kibbi - oh my!
8/12/2011 9:31:00 AM by PAULA DEANGELIS

“Our Daily Bread” host Father Paul D. Seil makes tabouli with Father Georges El-Khalia. With Sonia and Wade Badawy, he helps to prepare hummus and kibbi.

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