is located at 1409 Pennsylvania Avenue in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
There are two adjacent church parking lots located across the street
at the corner of 15th Street and Virginia Avenue.
(The Pastoral Center is next door, just across Pine Alley.)
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1501 Virginia Avenue
Monaca, PA 15061
The Pastoral Center office hours are:
Fax: 724.775.6886
For more information on renting Monsignor Farri Hall, the gynasium or duck pin lanes as well as office/classroom/meeting space in our Pastoral Center, visit the Pastoral Center page.
For a listing of office staff at the St. John the Baptist Church location (Pastoral Center Office), visit the Parish Directory page.
St. John the Baptist Pastoral Center
1501 Virginia Avenue
Monaca, PA 15061
Phone - 724.775.3940 ext. 4
For info on our parish's Faith Formation Programs, visit the Formation page.
St. John the Baptist Pastoral Center
1501 Virginia Avenue, Monaca, PA 15061
St. Vincent de Paul Help Line - Call 724.252.4631 Please leave a voicemail message that includes your name, location, phone/contact number, and the brief details of your needs/circumstance.
SJB SVdP Donations - Go to our parish Donate Online page and from the drop menu select 'S. Vinc. de Paul Society-SJB' to make a donation via e-check or credit card. Make a paper check donation payable to: St. Vincent de Paul Society-SJB and mail it to the Pastoral Center Office or place it in the offering basket. (Please do not mail cash.)
Dave Deiter will be in the Pastoral Center Office on Wednesday afternoons from 12Noon to 3:00PM; and then, on Thursday mornings from 9:00AM to 12Noon.
If you know of a family member or a neighbor who is in a local nursing home or hospital and would like a church visit, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, receive Holy Communion or the Anointing of the Sick, please call the Pastoral Center Office at 724.775.3940 ext. 3 to let a clergy/staff member know. Due to the HIPPA Laws, churches are almost never notified by the healthcare facility.
PLEASE NOTE: The quickest and most efficient way to ensure that your hospitalized loved ones are anointed in the case of an emergency is to ask the nurse to page the CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN ON CALL. There is a priest on duty 24/7 for Heritage Valley Beaver. (Our priests cover Thursdays and Fridays.) Calls to the Pastoral Center Office or notes left in the church sacristy may not be responded to in a timely fashion due to unavailability or oversight. Calls to the Catholic chaplain answering service receive IMMEDIATE RESPONSE. Also, please ensure your family member is listed in the hospital records as Catholic. If the person is not, there is no way of knowing the patient's religious affiliation, and the person is not seen when any one of our parish priests visits the hospital, or when any priest is visiting. Thank you in advance for seeing to the sacramental needs of the hospitalized.
Our parish provides Holy Communion to parishioners who are homebound or unable to attend Mass. For more information or to schedule a visit, please call St. John the Baptist Pastoral Center Office at 724.775.3940 ext. 3 or CLICK HERE to download a request form that you can complete and mail to the address provided or place/have it placed it in the collection basket.
Need a place to hold a bridal or baby shower, birthday or graduation party, baptismal or funeral luncheon, a reception or reunion? The parish social center, Monsignor Farri Hall, is available to rent.
For current rental rates (plus additional refundable deposit amount) and further details, please contact the Pastoral Center at 724.775.3940 ext. 3.
The large votives, found in the multi-candle stands located in various places throughout St. John the Baptist Church, are replenished daily. (Container candles are no longer stocked in the sacristy.) Wooden tapers for lighting these tall votive candles can be found at each stand. The requested donation per candle is $3.00 (to cover parish cost). Please place your candle offering in the secure box found near the candle stand.
For those interested in having an engraved brick placed in acknowledgement or remembrance of a loved one on our church grounds, Memorial Brick Request Forms are available at all entrances of the church as well as via download by clicking here. The price per brick is $25.
Due to an influx of requests, no additional chapel/shrine candles will be scheduled at this time.
Anyone wanting to schedule a chapel/shrine candle (Blessed Sacrament Sanctuary Lamp | Marian Shrine Lantern) in the Church of St. John the Bapatist, Monaca, please CLICK HERE for information regarding the scheduling process and to print a 'MQSP Candle Request Form'.
For glimpses into the Church of St. John the Baptist faith community's history — occasions, recent and past; moments, enriching and notable — take a look at the pages titled SJB History and Notes & Insights as well as the Recollections page.
The Latin phrases of “Praeibis Ante Dominum” and “Parare Vias Ejus” in the banner displayed at the bottom of the St. John the Baptist section homepage of our parish website (as well as below) are the words of the archangel Gabriel spoken to Zechariah as found in Luke 1:76. They announce Zechariah's soon-to-be born son, who shall be known as John the Baptist. These inscriptions translated into English mean:
"...For you will go on before the Lord…to prepare His ways,..."
As those who attend the church that bears the name of St. John the Baptist as its patron, we are called to carry on his mission.