Prayer for the 2025 Conclave · Priest Personnel Changes 2025

BISHOP DAVID M. O'CONNELL, C.M., HAS SHARED THIS PRAYER AHEAD of the conclave beginning May 7.  

O God, eternal shepherd,
who govern your flock with unfailing care, send your Holy Spirit upon the Cardinals gathered in Conclave and grant in your boundless fatherly love a pastor for your One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church who will please you by his holiness and show us your watchful care.

 Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
 who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
 God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Excerpt from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010 International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

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BISHOP DAVID M. O’CONNELL, C.M., HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING CLERGY ASSIGNMENTS  effective July 1, 2025, unless otherwise noted:
 
ADMINISTRATOR/PASTOR
Rev. Mark Nillo, from parochial vicar, St. Mary Parish, Middletown, to administrator, Our Lady of Hope Parish, West Long Branch

Rev. Selvam Gerald Johnson (Rev. Selvan Asirvatham), from parochial vicar, St. Joseph Parish, Toms River, to pastor, St. Theresa Parish, Little Egg Harbor

Rev. Richard Osborn, from administrator to pastor, St. Catherine Laboure Parish, Middletown, effective immediately

PAROCHIAL VICAR
Rev. Marcin Kania, from administrator, Our Lady of Hope Parish, West Long Branch, to parochial vicar, St. Mary Parish, Middletown

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
Rev. John Large, from pastor, St. Theresa Parish, Little Egg Harbor, to sabbatical
 
NEWLY ORDAINED
Rev. Alan Bridges, to parochial vicar, St. Joseph Parish, Toms River