The Monitor

MAGAZINE AND DIGITAL NEWS SITE 
OF THE DIOCESE OF TRENTON,
serving the Catholic community in
Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean Counties.

It seems that prayer, as a concept, has become a fixture in our everyday communication.  People are regularly promising to pray for someone or something. But it isn’t too often that we actually talk about our practice of prayer publicly. 

And so we have chosen the topic of PRAYER as our In Focus package for this first issue of The Monitor Magazine.  We are pleased to present to our readers the insight and inspiration so generously shared by people from all over the Diocese of Trenton about their prayer lives, starting with our own Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M.   It is our hope to offer something for everyone – those looking to deepen already active prayer lives as well as those who may need help making prayer a regular part of their day or week.

There is much more in this inaugural issue of the magazine.  Be sure to look for the special report on World Missions, and our annual HIGH SCHOOL SHOWCASE.  Another regular section, El Anzuelo, provides coverage of our Spanish-speaking community. We also encourage everyone to go to the website, TrentonMonitor.com, where you will find diocesan and other Church-based news, reported in real time.

We will continue to refine this magazine and look for new features to bring you with each and every one of our 14 issues this coming year.  We encourage you to share your feedback, either by email at Monitor-News@DioceseofTrenton, or on our social media sites.

Now is the time to order home delivery of the new magazine, along with access to the e-edition and unlimited access of the newly redesigned www.TrentonMonitor.com, you can subscribe online here or by contacting our Business Desk at (609) 403-7131; Monitor-Subscriptions@dioceseoftrenton.org.

A message from Rayanne Bennett, Associate Publisher of The Monitor

In the 65 years that the Diocese of Trenton has published The Monitor newspaper, there have been many variations and adaptations to accommodate the prevailing needs of the day.  Later decades have seen such changes as moving from all black and white to color, and from weekly to bi-weekly in order to continue our mission of keeping our community informed of local, national and international Catholic-based news. 

In the interest of engaging and inspiring our readers, we have undertaken numerous redesigns, produced special publications and continued to pursue high-quality content and images that have captured some breathtaking and historic moments in the life of this Church.

In recent years we have taken pride that The Monitor is “everywhere you are” – in print, online and on mobile.  We have worked to develop a news resource that tells the stories of our parishes, our people and our faith.  That will continue to be the mission of this next chapter. [...click here to read more]

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• Some personal reflections on prayer from Bishop O’Connell