The diocesan Department of Evangelization and Family Life is now accepting nominations for the St. Timothy Awards, given annually to youth who follow in the footsteps of the award’s namesake and are examples of love, faith and virtue.
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., offered his support for immigrant communities and encouraged those who attended an immigration workshop March 22 to lean on their faith and trust in the God and Church that loves them.
The last thing newcomers to the area probably expect to see as they traverse the pastoral byway of Georgia Road in Freehold Township is a co-cathedral of monumental and classic proportions gracing the landscape.
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By Jennifer Mauro | Associate Editor, TrentonMonitor.com As parishes around the Diocese celebrated Christmas Masses Dec. 24-25, St. Robert Bellarmine Parish, Freehold, was receiving some good news of its own. “As we celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus this Christmas, it gives me great joy as your Bishop to share the news that the Holy See has approved my request that St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Freehold be elevated to the dignity of a Co-Cathedral within our Diocese,” Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., announced in a letter that was read to parishioners during the Christmas Masses.
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Nearly 200 catechists from across the Diocese’s four counties gathered March 11 for their annual formation day that began with a Mass celebrated by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., and included a two-part presentation by Dr. Lauri Przybysz, executive director of the Christian Family Movement-USA.
Due to the snowstorm, the diocesan Chancery in Lawrenceville, is closed on Tuesday, March 14. The Diocese of Trenton offers prayers that all remain safe and exercise utmost caution during the storm.
The Monitor published a special supplement to commemorate the Diocesan Youth Conference, during which more than 450 teens and volunteers gathered March 4 for a day of faith and fun in St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square.
In order to more fully expand its evangelization outreach in the digital realm, the Diocese of Trenton rolled out a newly redesigned dioceseoftrenton.org earlier this week.
The Office of Vocations of the Diocese of Trenton invites boys in grades seven through 12 to spend the afternoon of April 30 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood, Pa.
About 450 teens and volunteers joined scores of parishioners for Mass celebrated by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., to cap the 2017 Diocesan Youth Conference March 4 in St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square.
There are very few days in the Church year for penitential abstinence from meat as a sacrifice. It is serious enough an obligation as to be listed as one of the “Precepts of the Church.”
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M.’s, hour-long, monthly radio program, “The Shepherd’s Voice” will air on WFJS 1260 AM, WFJS 89.3 FM, WGYM 1580 AM and WSMJ 91.9 FM beginning at 3 p.m. March 3. The program will be repeated at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4; 10 a.m. Sunday, March 5; and 8 a.m. Monday, March 6. It also will be available to listeners at domesticchurchmedia.org.