On Saturday, November 8, 2025, the Erie Serrans met at Our Lady of Peace church and participated in their annual retreat led by the Reverend Scott Jabo.  It was the most well-attended annual retreat to date.  Father Jabo’s wonderful topics included the call to holiness, biblical foundations, church teaching, holiness in daily prayer, common obstacles and misconceptions, paths to holiness, Saints as models, hearing God's call, and discernment.  Father Jabo listed eight (8) dis

A wonderful Mass was said by the Reverend Scott Jabo for the lives and souls of departed Erie Serran Club Members.

Pictured are Father Scott Jabo (Vocations Director of the Diocese of Erie and Chaplain to the Serra Club of Erie) initiating and bringing Bill Lenart and Barbara Turner into the Serra Club of Erie during the November 3, 2025, general luncheon at the Erie Club.  The Serra Club is a global Catholic lay organization committed to promoting and nurturing vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   Knights of Columbus Erie Councils Hosted “Breakfast with Seminarians” Event   Erie, Pennsylvania – November 02, 2025 – A Breakfast with Seminarians event was held Sunday, November 2nd at St. Mark Seminary. An annual event organized and hosted by St. Julia’s Parish K of C council and supported by the Erie area councils of the Knights of Columbus, the breakfast is an opportunity for Catholics to meet the seminarians at St. Mark’s and talk, get to know

By Melanie Sisinni Communications Office Diocese of Erie06/03/2025 The Serra Club of Erie honored four extraordinary individuals at its annual Installation Mass and dinner on Tuesday, May 27. The night was filled with prayer, gratitude and heartfelt recognition of service to the Catholic Church. The celebration began with Mass at Gannon University’s Mary Seat of Wisdom Chapel, followed by a buffet dinner and awards ceremony in Gannon’s Yehl Ballroom. The official program bega

Pictured are Father Scott Jabo (Vocations Director of the Diocese of Erie and Chaplain to the Serra Club of Erie) initiating and bringing Dominick Sisinni (Senior Attorney at National Fuel Gas Company and graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School) into the Serra Club of Erie during the October 6, 2025, general luncheon at the Erie Club.  The Serra Club is a global Catholic lay organization committed to promoting and nurturing vocations to the priesthood and religiou

Each year, Serra members join the seminary community throughout the semester for Evening Prayer and dinner. On Wednesday, October 1,...

Erie, Pennsylvania – January 11, 2024 – The Serra Club of Erie hosted its annual reception for the seminarians at St. Mark Seminary on...

Four committed Catholic laypersons recently joined the Serra Club of Erie. They are Bernadette Carroll and David F. Stadler, both parishioners at St. George Parish, Stephen Dvoranchik of St. Francis Xavier Parish, and Peter Piotrowski of Our Lady of Peace Parish. Three of the new Serrans were sworn in by club chaplain, Rev. Scott Jabo, at the club's monthly general meeting in February. "The best way to get more vocations to the priesthood and religious life," said Tom Guelche