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CCC collection this weekend ∙ Diocesan announcement on Holy Year 2025 ∙ New issue of the Monitor
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May 10, 2024WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY, CELEBRATED THIS YEAR ON MAY 12, will be an opportunity for parishioners in the Diocese and around the world to support the efforts of Catholic media, as these outlets continue develop new and better ways of spreading the Good News and keeping the faithful informed.
Through the Catholic Communications Campaign, a collection will be taken up in all parishes during Masses the weekend of May 11-12. Donations will help fund grants for communications projects that use media to spread the Gospel message and advance the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general mission goals.
Fifty percent of the funds will remain in the Diocese, where they will be used to subsidize media outreach across digital, social and print formats.
Learn more HERE.
ON MAY 9, WHEN THE VATICAN CELEBRATED THE SOLEMN FEAST OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD, our Holy Father, Pope Frances, issued his Bull of Indiction to announce the 2025 Holy Year. Entitled "Spes Non Confundit (‘Hope Does Not Disappoint,’ Romans 5:5),” the document considers and celebrates the foundational spiritual dimensions of “hope” in all human experience. The theme of this Holy Year is “Pilgrims of Hope.”
Holy Years, traditionally celebrated in the Church every 25 years since 1300, are opportunities for Catholics throughout the world to make pilgrimages to Rome and other holy places, accompanied by special prayers, indulgences, reconciliation and remission of sins. The Diocese of Trenton will celebrate the Holy Year with spiritual events and activities in the Diocese throughout the coming year. More will be announced about those activities in the coming months.
THE UNIQUE JOY OF THE SEASON JUMPS RIGHT OFF the cover page of The Monitor Magazine’s latest issue. The faces of our two second graders from St. Raphael School in Hamilton, wearing their First Communion best, tell us how special the Blessed Mother is to them as they participate in their school’s May Crowning ceremony, a tradition that is playing out in parishes and schools across the Diocese.
Featured content for this Month of Mary offers readers an opportunity to reflect on the special place that she holds in our faith and how she has expressed her messages of love and peace over the years.
We also find ourselves in Ordination Season and the May issue introduces the men who will be ordained priests and those who will be ordained deacons by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., in the coming weeks.
There is much more to look for in this month’s issue of your diocesan magazine.
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