Our bookstore and gift shop will now be open from 12:00 Noon-2:00 PM every Sunday. This will enable us to better serve parishioners and visitors, especially those attending the 12:30 PM Mass. To see the full bookstore schedule click here.
Archdiocesan Stewardship Appeal
If you are a registered parishioner, you should have already received a letter from Cardinal Dolan asking for your support of the vital ministries, programs, and services provided through the appeal each year. Having received your letter, please fill out your pledge card and send it in. There are also envelopes in the back of the church for those who are not registered. Please assist Saint Agnes in making her goal while at the same time assisting so many of those who are in need. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Contact the rectory at (212) 682-5722 with any questions.
Spiritual Bouquet For Father’s Day
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17th. Remember your father, other relatives and friends in the Novena of Masses that will begin on Monday, June 18th. Cards and envelopes are available in the rear of the church and the rectory.
Divine Mercy Chaplet
Every weekday at 3:00 PM the Divine Mercy Chaplet, as recorded from the Shrine to Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is prayed here at Saint Agnes. Join with tens of millions throughout the world in praying and singing the praises of the Lord in asking for his Divine Mercy upon us and the whole world. All are welcome to join us. Help spread the word by extending an invitation to others! If you would like your own personal copy of this CD it is available for purchase at our bookstore.
Welcome to The Church of Saint Agnes, New York City
The Church of Saint Agnes in the heart of midtown Manhattan, just half a block from Grand Central Terminal and across 43rd Street from the Chrysler Building, ministers to the needs of local residents, businessmen, and commuters alike. The Church offers numerous Masses and three hours of confession daily. Saint Agnes is also home to a number of service and devotional organizations, a renowned music program, and a bookstore stocked with religious books and merchandise.
The Parish Rectory is open Monday–Friday 9:00 AM–5:30 PM
The Church of Saint Agnes was established in 1873 to serve the laborers at the nearby Grand Central Depot. The first church, designed by Lawrence J. O’Connor, was built from 1873–1877. In 1992, the 1873 building was destroyed by devastating fire, leaving only the walls and towers standing. The present church, opened in 1998, was designed by Acheson, Thornton, Doyle, and was conceived as a smaller version of the Church of Il Gesù in Rome. The two surviving towers were reclad to harmonize with the new Italianate design. The adjoining rectory was built in 1904 by Jeremiah O’Rourke & Sons, architects of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.
On October 7th, 1980, Feast of the Holy Rosary, Saint Agnes Church received . . . “the singular honor” . . . which will forever become part of recorded history . . . East 43rd Street was proclaimed . . . “Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Place.” Then Mayor Edward L. Koch in his proclamation address said: “East 43rd had been selected, because it is the busiest pedestrian street in the world! . . . Thus befitting, the most famous churchman of our century . . . And it was at Saint Agnes Church that his sermons were carried throughout the world.”
