Religion Notes / News of area faith groups
Installation
Temple Beth Tzedek, 621 Getzville Road, Getzville, will install Rabbi Perry Netter as the new permanent rabbi during a ceremony at 7:30 p. m. Sunday. The keynote address will be given by Rabbi Steven C. Wernick, executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, a national umbrella group of Conservative synagogues to which Temple Beth Tzedek belongs.
Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo will deliver the benediction. The program also will include singing by children from the Gesher School, the joint afternoon Hebrew school run by Temple Beth Tzedek and Temple Sinai, as well as music from a klezmer band and other performers.
Satellite lectures
Temple Beth Zion’s Broder Campus, 700 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, will host a series of lectures broadcast live by satellite from New York City.
Members of the local audience will be able to submit questions to the speakers via e-mail.
The lectures are 8 p. m. on Oct. 26, Michael B. Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi; 8 p. m. on Nov. 4, Mitch Albom; and 8:15 p. m. on Nov. 16, Hasia Diner, Deborah Lipstadt and James E. Young.
For more information, call 836-6565.
‘Faith and reason’
The Rev. Mitch Pacwa, founder and director of Ignatius Productions, will lecture on “Faith and Reason” at 7:30 p. m. next Saturday in Canisius College’s Montante Cultural Center at Main Street and Eastwood Place.
Judge to speak
Buffalo City Court Judge E. Jeannette Ogden will be guest speaker and honoree at an evening of prayer and praise at 7 p. m. Friday in Agape African Methodist Episcopal Church, 224 Northland Ave.
Reformation service
“Lutheran Heritage: A Family Tradition” will be the theme of the annual Reformation Celebration service at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 67 Litchfield Ave., Depew at 4 p. m. Oct. 25.
The Rev. Roger Ruff, who was Lutheran campus pastor in Western New York from 1985 to 1996, will be guest speaker. A reception will follow the service.
Community forum
St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church, 555 Northampton St., will be the site of a community forum at 7 p. m. Thursday to discuss revitalization of the Western New York economy, improving public transportation and securing funding for green jobs and green housing. The forum is sponsored by Voice-Buffalo, the Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope and People United in Sustainable Housing.
Remembrance
The Rev. Justin Figas, founder of the Rosary Hour radio program, will be remembered at a Mass at 5:30 p. m. next Saturday in Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 199 Clark St.
Figas opened the doors of Corpus Christi to the entire nation with his weekly radio message of spiritual guidance, encouragement and hope. His broadcast, begun in 1931, continues as the longest continually running religious radio program in the world.
Figas also was founder of St. Francis High School in Athol Springs.
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