If you are looking to find out what the Bible says about Christmas, you don’t have to look far. The story of Christ’s birth is only mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke in what students of the Scriptures call the “infancy narratives.” As you look and compare the two accounts of the same event, you quickly realize that they differ from one another in detail.
A Day of Prayer with a focus on the plight of refugees and migrants will take place across the United States on December 12, 2016, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It will be a time to place before a merciful God the hopes, fears, and needs of all those families who have come to the U.S. seeking a better life.
A special collection to benefit the Retirement Fund for Religious will be taken up during Masses in parishes across the Diocese of Trenton on Dec. 10 and 11.
Never had our world heard better news than that spoken by the Angel Gabriel to an innocent Jewish maiden, barely a teenager, in today’s Gospel from St. Luke. Centuries of longing of the Chosen People of God came to an end as the Angel announced to Mary, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”
The following is an Action Alert from the NJ Catholic Conference: Nonpublic school transportation continues to be hampered by a number of problems which emphasize difficulties nonpublic school parents face in attempting to get safe rides to school for their children. Namely, the State has not increased the ceiling for nonpublic school transportation funding since the 2007-08 school year. There is a fact sheet below that explains the problem in greater detail.