Diaconate Ordination • Catholic Communications Campaign • Confirmation

BISHOP DAVID M. O’CONNELL, C.M., WILL ORDAIN 12 new deacons this Saturday (10 permanent deacons and 2 transitional deacons).  Please consider sharing these two articles written by The Monitor about the men who will be ordained May 20 at 10 a.m. Read more about the men who will be ordained transitional deacons HERE and permanent deacons HERE.

To view the livestream click  HERE

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THIS SUNDAY, MAY 21, IS WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY and the collection for the Catholic Communications Campaign.

Scheduled to coincide with World Communications Day, the CCC collection was established in 1979 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide essential resources for the Church’s outreach to the community through traditional and evolving media formats. It helps the Church spread the Gospel message in the U.S. and in developing countries using modern media tools to inform, inspire, and enlighten.

Read more about the collection HERE.
 

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BISHOP O’CONNELL HAS SHARED THIS MESSAGE
on the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Nobody has it as a goal in life to be weak, to be wishy-washy, to be mediocre. Most people want to be good at what they do, to be recognized, to be known for something worthwhile. 

I say nobody has a goal to be weak, but some people are weak.  Many people want to be good and known for something good but never are. Why is that? How is it that sometimes the things we want never happen?  How come some things we want to be, we never are, or worse, we become things we don’t want to be? Some might say, “Well that’s just life, that’s the way it goes.” To me, that’s a very easy answer. And it’s dead wrong.

When God made us, when God created us, he gave us each an individual soul – that power of life – that marks each one of us out uniquely. Mary, John, Bob, Elizabeth, David, Theresa – each one of us was created by God uniquely and differently. And when God created us, he planted within our very souls, gifts and graces and talents – some natural, some potential, requiring growth and development.

And God gave us an environment within which his grace could grow: parents, families, neighborhood communities, school, religious education programs, the Catholic Church. The Sacrament of Confirmation provides us with one of those environments – the Catholic Church – which is composed of people drawn from all those other environments, to experience a special grace that only comes through the Sacrament of Confirmation. Read the full message HERE.

Read more about Confirmation in the Diocese of Trenton HERE.