In top photo, Bishop O’Connell celebrates Mass in Sacred Heart Church, Trenton, the third of four visits to parishes named Sacred Heart in the Diocese. Mike Ehrmann photos
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., continues to lead the Diocese in its commemoration of the Consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart by visiting the four parishes in the Diocese that have Sacred Heart as its namesake.
On June 14, Bishop O’Connell celebrated the third of four Masses in Trenton’s Sacred Heart Church where the community celebrated its parish feast day, which had been transferred from June 12, the actual date of this year’s Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to June 14.
Photo Gallery: Bishop celebrates Feast of the Sacred Heart in Trenton church
In his homily, Bishop O’Connell reflected on what it means for a parish community to observe a namesake’s feast.
“The Sacred Heart of Jesus, the feast of a love that never tires, never withdraws, never gives up on us,” Bishop O’Connell said. “The Sacred Heart is not just an image on our walls. It is the beating heart of God, revealed in the humanity of Jesus, burning with mercy for every person here.
As June 14 also marked the American holiday, Flag Day, the Bishop blessed a basket filled with hundreds of donated American flags that are going to be given to the clients who receive assistance from the parish monthly food pantry. In addition to receiving their bags of food, the clients are also going to receive a newly blessed American flag that they could display at their homes, according to Msgr. Dennis Apoldite, parish pastor.
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part of a Flag Day observance, the flags will be given to clients who receive assistance from
the parish food pantry.
greeting parishioners and enjoying conversation.