Guadalupe Torch procession • Clergy Appointment

AFTER TRAVERSING THE DIOCESE’S FOUR COUNTIES SINCE OCT. 29 in multiple parish and school communities, inspiring prayers to the Blessed Mother, the Antorchas Guadalupanas – Torches of Guadalupe – will complete their seventh annual pilgrimage in Lakewood Dec. 3 during a procession throughout the town.

Symbolizing devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe and encouraging prayers for the faithfully departed in November, the torches will be processed together by the various participating groups beginning at 8:30 a.m. at St. Mary of the Lake Church, 43 Madison Avenue. The route will be approximately three-and-a-half miles, and the procession will include musicians, floats, dancers in costume and walking pilgrims, ending at the Holy Family Chapel, 1139 East County Line Road. There Mass will be celebrated at noon, which will also be livestreamed on diocesan media sites.

A free shuttle bus will be available to help shuttle people from Holy Family Church to St. Mary of the Lake Church following Mass. St. Mary’s will also host a food sale afterwards in the church parking lot.

For more information on the Procession visit: HERE
 

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BISHOP DAVID M. O’CONNELL, C.M., HAS ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWING CLERGY APPOINTMENT:

Rev. Jean Felicien, JCL, vice-chancellor for canonical services, Tribunal judge and parochial vicar, St. James Parish, Pennington, St. Alphonsus Parish, Hopewell, and St. George Parish, Titusville, has been appointed full-time Secretary to the Bishop and Master of Ceremonies, effective Jan. 2, 2023.  He will then reside with the Bishop and continue his pastoral work part-time in both the Tribunal and parishes. 

Rev. Carlo Calisin, parochial vicar, St. Paul Parish, Princeton, will continue to assist the Bishop as a Master of Ceremonies.