Como el Obispo de una Diócesis, frecuentemente personas me piden escribir o declararme sobre una variedad de asuntos y, a menudo, eso lo hago. Intento tener mucho cuidado con lo que escribo y predico, evitando temas políticas, manteniendo siempre en mente mi responsabilidad de usar las oportunidades que tengo para dirigirme y enseñar a los fieles sobre asuntos de la fe y los morales. Prefiero calificar lo que escribo como “reflexiones” o “mensajes”, escrituras más homiléticas en cuanto su perspectiva y contenido, diseñadas para animar a los creyentes a seguir los Evangelios de Jesucristo y aplicar las enseñanzas de la Iglesia a los asuntos o eventos relevantes contemporáneos para los católicos en nuestra Diócesis.
Due to a power outage in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, the Senior Spirituality Day, will be moved to St. Dominic Parish, Brick; This fall, speaker and author Jeff Cavins will visit St. Isaac Jogues Parish, Marlton, to offer his presentation “When You Suffer: Biblical Keys for Hope and Understanding", and Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M. paid a visit to the students enrolled in the summer religious education programs of St. Joesph Parish, Toms River July 11 and St. Benedict Parish, Holmdel July 18.
Sunday, July 21 kicked off National Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week 2019 in the Diocese of Trenton and in dioceses across the United States.
The Diocese of Trenton’s Catholic Spanish-language television show, Cristo Para Todos, will be premiering a new episode on Saturday, July 20 at 11:30 a.m. and the annual magazine supplement, LIVES OF FAITH 2019, will be included in the July 25 print edition of The Monitor.
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., has announced that Father John (Jay) V. Bowden, a retired priest of the Diocese and assistant in St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square, died July 3 in Morris Hall, Lawrenceville, after an extended illness.
Catholic Charities USA is accepting donations online to help its agencies along the U.S. border with Mexico meet basic needs and ensure that migrant children "are being treated with care and kindness" as the humanitarian crisis there grows, the agency said in an announcement.
Dominic Savio, the second of 11 children born to a peasant family in Riva, Italy, was only 15 years old when he died. But his brief life is a powerful example for young people to always be confident in who they are and to realize holiness is achieved by fulfilling the ordinary demands of life in an extraordinary way, always with faith in God.