Bishop O’Connell’s Ash Wednesday schedule · Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe

BISHOP DAVID M. O’CONNELL, C.M., WILL BEGIN THE HOLY SEASON OF LENT by celebrating Mass and distributing ashes at the following locations on Ash Wednesday, March 5:

12:10 p.m., the St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, 151 N. Warren St., Trenton;
4 p.m., The Catholic Center in Monmouth University, West Long Branch;
7 p.m., Catholic Campus Ministry in The College of New Jersey, Ewing.

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TAKEN UP IN THE DIOCESE OF TRENTON AND NATIONALLY ON ASH WEDNESDAY, the annual Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, which serves essential pastoral needs in more than 25 countries, will take place March 5 this year.

Themed “Restore the Church, Build the Future,” the collection by the United States Conference of Bishops helps foster restoration in countries where their people and the Church have been impoverished and prevented from worshipping during communist oppression.

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