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Religious Freedom Week ∙ Rally for Life ∙ Discernment Mass, BBQ ∙ Chancery Hours
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June 16, 2023THE U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS ARE INVITING THE FAITHFUL to pray for challenges to religious liberty both within the United States and abroad during the upcoming Religious Freedom Week.
The theme for this year's annual June 22 - 29 event is "Embracing the Divine Gift of Freedom."
"Religious freedom allows the Church, and all religious communities, to live out their faith in public and to serve the good of all," the event's website stated. "Beginning June 22, the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, the USCCB invites Catholics to pray, reflect, and act to promote religious freedom."
Read more HERE.
MARKING THE SUPREME COURT’S HISTORIC DOBBS DECISION LAST YEAR, all are invited to attend a Mass for Life on June 24 – the first anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
The Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. in St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, 151 N. Warren St., Trenton.
Mass participants are then welcome to participate at the Rally for Life, organized by New Jersey Right to Life, which will follow at 11 a.m. nearby at the Statehouse, 145 W. State Street, a short walk from the Cathedral.
These annual events normally took place close to Jan. 22 – the date of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal at the federal level. This year in January, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., celebrated Mass in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold, which was followed by a “Standing Together for Life” seminar, inviting people of faith to collaborate among various Respect Life and social justice ministries to promote a culture of life.
Read more about the Rally for Life HERE.
OFFERED FOR YOUNG MEN AGES 14-40 WANTING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PRIESTHOOD, the annual “Come &See” event will begin with a Mass celebrated by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., at 5:30 p.m. in St. John the Baptist Church, 1282 Yardville-Allentown Rd., Allentown, in which all are welcome to attend and pray for an increase of vocations to the priesthood. After Mass, an outdoor barbecue will follow on the parish grounds. Those in attendance will have an opportunity to meet and talk honestly about the priesthood with priests of the Diocese and current seminarians.
For more information or to register, contact Father Parzynski at 609-406-7448 or visit GodIsCallingYou.org.
THE CHANCERY IN LAWRENCEVILLE WILL BE CLOSED, Monday, June 19, 2023, for the federal holiday, Juneteenth. Normal business hours will resume, Tuesday, June 20.
