St Anastasias Catholic Church

This church is filled with hypocrites that say they «Love the Lord» but judge and condemn everyone around them. Jesus says to love everyone and and to speak his name in glory. Not to use the power of the word of God to judge our neighbors and scream our hatred and ideas at those we disagree with. If you’d like to be welcomed to a church with members that push their «sidewalk counseling (unhelpful, maybe we should try to help the kids that are already born) or what your «Christian duty» is, then be sure TO COME HERE! No thanks, I’ll keep looking for the right church who wants to help and give back, not judge and worship celebs.

I would definitely NOT recommend St. Anastasia church as a parish to go to, mainly due to a woman by the name of Susan Senia who holds a bible study leader position in the community and abuses her power on someone when she doesn’t get her way by alienating them from the community.
She removed me from the bible study email list without even asking my permission to do so, despite several times telling her to reinstate me back on. She ignored my requests. I was very sick at the time with a severe case of lupus, which she knew. My doctors mandated that I could not even leave the house, so my interaction with people was very limited. Any slight email update from her bible study was the one to keep me connected to the community at St. Anastasia’s. That was my way of holding on to interaction with people in the outside world.
As a result of this woman removing me from the email list without my consent, I could no longer follow along in the classes and she cut off all of the communication about what was happening in the community and the interaction I had once with fellows.
What this woman did was very wrong and completely unchristian. It is hypocrites in the church like her, with a lot of influence on communities, that are the exact reasons for why people leave the Church or are driven further away from the Church and God.
The Archdiocese needs to create a law that will prevent people like this unchristian woman from alienating more people from the communities in the church just because she doesn’t like them and doesn’t get her way with them. A person should not ever be removed from an email list, unless they specifically make that request.
The Archdiocese needs to make a new law that any churches under them with bible studies must not remove a name from an email list, unless the person specifically states that she wants to be removed.
At the very least, don’t support St. Anastasia Catholic Church in any way. I was 5 minutes late for confession time, 15 minutes before Mass would be given, and I was turned away. Another red flag.
I will never forget how unkind and unchristian this woman was to me, and how she also defamed my name and gossiped about me to the community, including the pastor, all because she didn’t get what she wanted.
So again, I would not support this Church, as the people in it are very poor representations of who God truly is.
Whatever you do, don’t go to St. Anastasia’s in Westchester. Furthermore, please let me know if there is anything we can do as a community to get the Archdiocese to Make and enforce rules that will make bible study leaders like this woman held more accountable for their unacceptable, unchristian behaviors.

Great faith community!
St. A’s is a welcoming Church. Msgr. Vadakin is a great homilist, I learn something new each time he preaches.

this is such a wonderful church! all of the priests are truly great priests and it is LOVELY! the music is wonderful, too. at the 9:00 am and 10:30 am masses there is a WONDERFUL guitar player who is very, VERY talented and he always wears a plaid shirt so you can’t miss him! he rocks out a lot and truly has lot’s of enthusiasm!!! i truly love this church :)

Love this church… Me and my wife were just married their by father Gonzales and he is great and funny, he also baptised my daughter as well. I recommond this church to everyone. Everybody is really nice and they really care about you. I was never a person that went to church until i met my wife and now that we go to this church i like going. I wish they had a church like this when i was younger i might have went more often.

First off I think it is wrong that I am only giving this church 3 stars… with that said I have called this church my church for the past 15 years. I have been fortunate to visit other churches and make comparisons. I absolutely love listening to Msgr. Cox and Vadkin the most. They are very friendly and make the homily personable. Church service is offered many times on Sunday and throughout the week. They are able to do that because service only lasts an hour.
During the holidays get here early to find parking and a seat in a pew.
Plus you can always catch a celeb in here around the holidays… Coolio (Rapper), Rick Fox (Lakers), Vanessa Williams (Actress/​Singer) and Kathy Bates have all been here.