Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, NYC

IGNITE Tech Support for Seniors Program
2026-01-18 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Parish Lounge
This program brings high school students together with senior parishioners for one-on-one technology support. Seniors are invited to bring phones, tablets, or laptops for help with everyday tech questions.
For questions or more information, visit ignite.nyc.

Parish Women's Faith Group
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Our group is composed of women who want to deepen their experience of God’s presence in their lives. Our meetings are characterized by a willingness to share experiences and insights in an atmosphere of discovery and respect.
The Zoom link is available by emailing Adele Gallo at amdgallo@me.com.

New members are welcome.

ICE Warning Whistle Kit-Making Workshop
2026-01-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Join us as we assemble whistle kits for vulnerable parishes in the New York metro area. Father Eric Cruz, Director of Catholic Charities for Westchester, Putnam Counties, and the Bronx, and the Director of Pastoral Migratoria Immigration Ministry, will open with a brief talk on the urgent situation in the Archdiocese.
In addition to whistles, the kits will contain bilingual information regarding rights and resources. All supplies will be provided.

Ignatian Social Justice Meeting
2026-01-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Parish House, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Ignatian Social Justice is a ministry of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola made up of parishioners committed to:

raising awareness of current Catholic social teaching and
advocating for social justice on timely and underappreciated issues

The volunteer group embraces the responsibility to inform, engage, and mobilize parishioners to promote social justice in our local community as well as the global community.
For more information, contact Jean Santopatre at santopatrej@saintignatiusloyola.org.

SVdP Meeting
2026-01-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Parish House, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been an active ministry at St. Ignatius Loyola since 1865. SVdP has continued serving our neighbors in need through several wars, the Great Depression, and the September 11th attacks.
Our meetings begin with a prayer and spiritual reflection, followed by an agenda of items geared toward service toward the Poor. We also build and grow in friendship by sharing updates and happenings in our lives. Please consider joining us as we serve our neighbors in need.
SVdP meets biweekly (year-round) on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM in the Gonzaga Meeting Room at the Parish House.

Epiphany Retreat Day
2026-01-03 09:00 - 15:00 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
In anticipation of the Feast of the Epiphany on Sunday, join us for a few hours of prayerful reflection and contemplation as we consider the days between the birth of Christ and Christ’s manifestation to the whole world, which we commemorate through the visit of the Magi to the Holy Family.
Hosted by the Father William J. Bergen, S.J., Office of Ignatian Spirituality & Faith Formation
For more information, please contact Roxanne De La Torre, Pastoral Associate, at delatorrer@nycignatius.org.
To register, visit this link.

Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God & New Year's Schedule
2025-12-31 - 2026-01-02 | Parish House, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Wednesday, December 31st

One Daily Mass will be celebrated at 8:30 AM. A Mass of Anticipation for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God will be celebrated at 5:30 PM. The Parish House will be closed.

Thursday, January 1st | Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God
One Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 AM. The Parish House will be closed.

Friday, January 2nd
One Mass will be celebrated at 8:30 AM. The Parish House will be closed.

All Masses will be in the Church.

Christmas Observance | Parish House & Mass Schedule
2025-12-24 - 2025-12-26 | Parish House, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
The Parish House will close at 11:30 PM on Wednesday, December 24th and at 1 PM on Thursday, December 25th, in observance of the Christmas holiday.
On Friday, December 26th, the Parish House will be closed.
One Daily Mass will be celebrated at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, December 24th.

Christmas 2025 Mass Schedule
2025-12-24 - 2025-12-25 | Church & Livestreamed, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Wednesday, December 24th – Christmas Eve
4 PM (Doors open at 3:15 PM) – Family Mass with Omega Dance Company/Children’s Choirs/Wallace Hall Choir
6 PM (Doors open at 5:15 PM) – Parish Community Choir
8 PM Vigil Mass (Doors open at 7:15 PM) – Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola
Midnight Mass (Doors open at 10:45 PM) (also livestreamed: link) – Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola

Thursday, December 25th – Christmas Day
10 AM Mass (also livestreamed: link) – Organ/Cantor
12:00 Noon (Solemn Mass) – Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola

Annual Christmas Concert: Gloria!
2025-12-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Featuring J. S. Bach’s Cantata 191 Gloria in excelsis Deo and culminating with “O Holy Night” and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s “Messiah,” our Christmas concerts will inspire you and your family during the height of New York City’s dazzling holiday season. Includes beloved carols for everyone to sing. These concerts sell out quickly.
To purchase tickets, click here.

Repertoire
*As of 9/5/25, subject to change*
“O magnum mysterium” – Giovanni Gabrieli
“Première Suite: Allegro” – Jean-Joseph Mouret
“O come all ye faithful” – arr. David Willcocks
“Children Go Where I send thee” – Spiritual, arr. Ruth Elaine Schram
“Still, Still, Still” – Austrian Carol, arr. Rupert Lang
“Do you hear what I hear” – Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, arr. Harry Simeone
“See amid the winter’s snow” – John Goss and Edward Caswell
“The first nowell”
“Cantata 191” – JS Bach
“Angels, from the realms of glory”
“Sicilienne” (from “Pelleas et Melisande”) – Gabriel Fauré
“O magnum mysterium Pt 1” – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
“Christ the appletree” – Stanford Scriven
“There is no rose” – Alison Willis
“Silent Night – arr. K. Scott Warren
“O holy Night” – Adolphe Adam, arr. K. Scott Warren
“Hallelujah” (from “Messiah”) – George Frideric Handel
“Joy to the world”

Ranger Rosary
2025-12-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Gonzaga Meeting Room, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Ranger Rosary serves deployed members of our Armed Services. We make rosaries by hand, and since August 2009, our group has made over 23,000 rosaries for servicewomen and servicemen.
Supplies and instructions are provided.

Please contact Marilyn Esposito at Esposito218@verizon.net if you are interested.

Advent Day of Reconciliation and Advent Penance Service
2025-12-15 15:00 - 20:00 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Confessions will be heard in the Church from 3 PM to 5 PM and 6:30 PM to 8 PM.
A Penance Service will be held from 6 PM to 6:30 PM.

Book Launch: Sunday Homilies of Fr. William Bergen, S.J.
2025-12-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Join us for the launch of the three-volume book series of Fr. Bergen’s Liturgical Year A, B, and C homilies.
About the book series:
Father Bergen’s Sunday Homilies is a three-volume collection of reflections on the Sunday Scripture readings for each week of the Liturgical Year―Years A, B, and C.
Drawn from more than forty years of preaching at St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore and St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City, Sunday Homilies gathers the wisdom, warmth, and pastoral insight of Fr. William Bergen, SJ. Each homily offers a clear, prayerful reflection on the Sunday readings from the Church’s Lectionary―organized by the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time―and invites readers to enter more deeply into the rhythm of the liturgical year.
Fr. Bergen’s books are now available for order. For more information, please visit www.williambergen.com.

Hark!: The Story Behind Our Most Beloved Christmas Carols
2025-12-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
PRESENTERS
Fr. Ricardo daSilva, S.J., America Media
K. Scott Warren, Director of Music at St. Ignatius Loyola

Everyone loves an encore! Back by popular demand, Fr. Ricardo da Silva, S.J., Associate Editor at
America Media and producer of the renowned podcast, Hark!, will be accompanied by K. Scott Warren, St. Ignatius Loyola Music Director, to uncover more backstories of our beloved Christmas Carols.
Christmas Carols have a centuries-old tradition. Beginning around the first century, the music was written to celebrate Christmas and the Nativity. Yet, not all Christmas Carols began as sacred music. Some have their origins in pagan songs celebrating the Winter Solstice and medieval drinking songs sung in taverns.
Come and “sing in” this joyous season with Circle of Friends, and enjoy “Cookies & Carols”, while expanding our knowledge of how this body of music dedicated to the Feast of Christmas developed. We’ll sing and celebrate Christmas and the community that has become the Circle of Friends.
Registration is required at silcircleoffriends@gmail.com.

There is no fee for this program, but a free-will offering is suggested.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception
2025-12-08 - 2025-12-09 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Masses at 8:30 AM, 12:10 PM, 5:30 PM & 7:30 PM
| A Holy Day of Obligation |

A Chanticleer Christmas
2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
A Chanticleer Christmas is a treasured holiday tradition, bringing the beauty and wonder of the season to audiences near and far. By the glow of candlelight, voices soar in harmony, weaving together centuries of music that illuminate the joy, mystery, and spirit of Christmas. From moments of hushed reverence to rousing celebration, this beloved program offers a musical embrace of the season’s most cherished sentiments.
Photo by Stephen K. Mack.

The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & Praises”, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled “Colors of Love”. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition “A Chanticleer Christmas”.

To purchase tickets, click here.

Christmas Caroling at Vista on 5th
2025-12-07 13:30 - 15:00 | NY
Vista Assisted Living Center at 1261 Fifth Avenue
Our Ministry of Care to the Sick and Homebound brings Communion each week to the residents of the Vista Assisted Living Center, and we’ll celebrate Christmas with them on Saturday, December 7th, at 1:30 PM.
We invite parishioners to join us in singing Christmas carols and spreading joy to the residents. Your presence and voice will make a difference!
All are welcome. Come help bring the light of Christ to our neighbors!

Tree Lighting, Ornament Making & Holiday Card Writing
2025-12-07 12:00 - 14:00 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Cards for The Scarlett Fund Children’s Cancer Research
Milk and Candy Canes provided.
Family Ministry is asking for donations of nut-free store-bought or homemade cookies to share.
We’re also collecting holiday cookie recipes to share with the Family community. Email parentcommittee.familyministry@gmail.com to learn more.

Snow Ball Dance
2025-12-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Join us for what promises to be a very merry evening. Eat, drink, and dance to live music with your friends and fellow adult (21+) parishioners.
Tickets are $75 per person/$65 for seniors (age 60+). Premium Tables for 10 guests (which includes a VIP package) are available for $1,000.
Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

All Hearts Together: A Mass for the LGBTQ+ Community
2025-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Presider: Fr. Mark Hallinan, S.J.
Join us for a special Mass in observance of World AIDS Day.
Let’s come together in faith and solidarity, lifting up the LGBTQ+ community and all affected by HIV/AIDS.
If you would like prayers for a loved one who died because of AIDS, please email names to silallheartsmass@gmail.com. All names received by November 26th will be printed in the Mass program.
Reception to follow in Wallace Hall.

Thanksgiving Mass & Parish House Schedule
2025-11-27 - 2025-11-28 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
The Parish House will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 27th and 28th, in observance of Thanksgiving.
One Mass will be celebrated on Thanksgiving Day at 9 AM; the Daily Mass will be celebrated on Friday at 8:30 AM.
Both Masses will be in the Church.

Christmas Angels Gift Project
2025-11-23 - 2025-12-14 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Benefiting Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harlem, the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the East Village, and the migrants accompanied by the Ignatian Social Justice Ministry
Please be an Angel and fulfill the Christmas Wishes of our neighbors in need!
Angel Cards listing recipients’ Christmas wishes will be on the trees in the Narthex and Wallace Hall.
There will be volunteers to help parishioners with their Angel registration at all the Masses. It’s very important to register your Angel card(s) with one of the volunteers so we can keep track of the hundreds of gifts.
Please bring your wrapped Angel gift(s) to the Parish House by Sunday, December 14th.
We ask each person or family to limit their number of Angel Cards to four.

Annual Toy Drive
2025-11-23 - 2025-12-21 | Parish House, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Benefiting the children of St. Mary of the Assumption-Our Lady of Mt. Carmel-St. Benedict Parish on Staten Island
Please bring new, unwrapped toys or games for children between the ages of 3–12 to the Parish House.
IREP students: May bring unwrapped gifts into class for collection
Toys must be new. No used toys, please.
Sponsored by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Interparish Religious Education

Interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Service
2025-11-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Please join us as we welcome outside faith communities in the area for an evening of togetherness in music, prayer, and reflection. All are invited to give thanks for God’s many blessings and to pray for peace in our world, our nation, our communities, and in our hearts.
A reception with drinks and light bites will follow.

Visions of Gratitude: An Exploration of Thanksgiving Celebrations through the Lens of Visual Art
2025-11-18 13:00 - 14:30 | Wallace Hall, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
Tuesday, November 18th
1 PM
Wallace Hall (enter through the Parish House at 980 Park Avenue)
SPEAKER
Helen Lee, Art Educator & Lecturer

Join Circle of Friends for an inspiring exploration of Thanksgiving celebrations through the lens of visual art. Visions of Gratitude invites participants on a cross-cultural journey, examining how artists from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and time periods have expressed themes of gratitude, harvest, community, and giving thanks.
Our November program will feature artworks spanning traditional, contemporary, and indigenous representations of thanksgiving; insights into cultural traditions surrounding gratitude and harvest celebrations from around the world; a discussion on how historical and modern artists have interpreted the spirit of Thanksgiving in their works, and a special focus on how the American Thanksgiving has been represented in various artistic styles and narratives.
Come celebrate the season by seeing Thanksgiving in a whole new light—through the eyes and hands of artists who have captured its meaning in powerful and beautiful ways.
Registration is required at silcircleoffriends@gmail.com.

There is no fee for this program, but a free-will offering is suggested.
