GETSVILLE, NY (WKBW) — This Friday, St. Pius in Getzville will hold a final Mass as it merges with St. Gregory the Great in Amherst.
Carolyn Weber of Wheatfield has been a parishioner of St. Pius on North French Road in Getzville for 50 years. It is where she and her family have practiced their Catholic faith.
“I’m very sentimental. I’m a very traditional person. Both of my boys had all their sacraments there, and my husband and I were married there,” Weber said. “First Holy Communion there, everything. I have so much history, and it’s heartbreaking.”
The parish will dissolve Friday under the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Road to Renewal. Bishop Michael Fisher ordered St. Pius to merge with St. Gregory the Great. The church can still be a worship site, but that decision is now up to the pastor…