THE CHRISM MASS, THE ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF SACRAMENTAL UNITY AND PRIESTLY COMMITMENT that unfolds across the universal Church each Holy Week, will take place locally April 3, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold.
THE CHRISM MASS, THE ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF SACRAMENTAL UNITY AND PRIESTLY COMMITMENT that unfolds across the universal Church each Holy Week, will take place locally April 3, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold.
On the afternoon of March 29, Pope Francis was taken to Gemelli Hospital in Rome. Reports followed that Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will remain in the hospital for several days.
On the afternoon of March 29, Pope Francis was taken to Gemelli Hospital in Rome. Reports followed that Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will remain in the hospital for several days.
BISHOP DAVID M, O’CONNELL, C.M., HAS SHARED the following message as the Church prepares for Holy Week. Read the complete message HERE. During our preparations for the Synod of Bishops 2023-2024, the Catholic Church and its leaders have focused upon the idea of a “journey” through life. Holy Week is part of that journey and is, in fact, a journey of its own, following the Lord Jesus Christ. As the Holy Season of Lent draws to a close and Holy Week begins, it is time for all Catholics to prepare deeply for the Church’s annual commemoration of the Lord Jesus’ Passion, Death and Resurrection and to “journey” with him.
During our preparations for the Synod of Bishops 2023-2024, the Catholic Church and its leaders have focused upon the idea of a “journey” through life. Holy Week is part of that journey and is, in fact, a journey of its own, following the Lord Jesus Christ.
Saturday will be the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, and our thoughts turn to 25 March last year, when, in union with all the bishops of the world, the Church and humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, were consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Let us not tire of entrusting the cause of peace to the Queen of Peace. I would therefore like to invite every believer and community, especially prayer groups, to renew every 25 March the Act of Consecration to Our Lady, so that she, who is Mother, may preserve us all in unity and peace
Our Holy Father Pope Francis has made our brother priest in the Diocese, Kevin Kimtis, a “Chaplain to his Holiness” with the title “Monsignor.” Msgr. Kimtis was ordained in 2011 and is currently serving as Secretary to the Apostolic Nuncio to India in New Delhi. He will be visiting home at the end of this month. Congratulations, Msgr. Kimtis!
Here we are at the midpoint of our Lenten journey. How has it been going? Living our Catholic faith takes practice all the time. But when we trip or fall, true believers pick themselves up, dust themselves off and carry on where they left off.
“Being Church means being God’s people, in accordance with the great plan of his fatherly love. This means that we are to be God’s leaven in the midst of humanity. It means proclaiming and bringing God’s salvation into our world, which often goes astray and needs to be encouraged, given hope and strengthened on the way. The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium, 114).” – Pope Francis
A catechist formation day is planned March 18 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, 61 Georgia Road, Freehold. The event is co-sponsored by the diocesan Department of Catechesis and Loyola Press.
In observance of St. Patrick’s Day 2023, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., announced the following dispensation from the Friday obligation to abstain from eating meat and to fulfill the spirit of the obligation through other works, actions:
The Lenten Season invites us to take a step back and focus on ways we can spend our time intentionally. For a lot of us with bustling families, it’s not always easy to find time to sit down around the dining room table and enjoy a meal together; it’s more like packed meals or a drive-thru dinner in the car between pick-ups.