Mass was time to 'give thanks for the gift of human life'
January 24, 2025 at 3:46 p.m.
Bishop O'Connell is joined by more than a dozen priests who concelebrated the Standing Together for Life Mass. Mike Ehrmann photoHundreds of Catholics and other pro-life advocates gathered for the Mass for Life celebrated Jan. 24 by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold.
PHOTO GALLERY: Standing Together For Life Mass, Expo
The Mass was part of the Diocese of Trenton’s third annual Standing Together for Life event, which was followed by a LIFE EXPO in the Co-Cathedral’s Dentici Hall. There the attendees viewed exhibits and had the opportunity to engage with local organizations dedicated to upholding and promoting human dignity throughout all stages of life. Exhibitors included agencies that support women in crisis pregnancies; shelters that care for pregnant women; pregnancy resource centers; infertility support services, as well as support for adoption and foster care, and ministries that assist with healing following abortion.
“As Catholics, we stand together for life,” Bishop O’Connell said in his homily. “Today as we join together in the greatest gift of all prayers, the Eucharist, let us ask the Lord Jesus Christ who gave his life for all of us, born and unborn, to give us the grace to protect the innocent, most vulnerable child in the womb; to encourage their mothers and fathers to let them live; to work with renewed strength to stand together and build ‘a culture of life’ and a ‘civilization of love.’”
More to come on this story.
Attendees engage in conversation with the various exhibitors during the Expo that followed the Standing Together for Life Mass. Mike Ehrmann photo
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Bishop O'Connell is joined by more than a dozen priests who concelebrated the Standing Together for Life Mass. Mike Ehrmann photoHundreds of Catholics and other pro-life advocates gathered for the Mass for Life celebrated Jan. 24 by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold.
PHOTO GALLERY: Standing Together For Life Mass, Expo
The Mass was part of the Diocese of Trenton’s third annual Standing Together for Life event, which was followed by a LIFE EXPO in the Co-Cathedral’s Dentici Hall. There the attendees viewed exhibits and had the opportunity to engage with local organizations dedicated to upholding and promoting human dignity throughout all stages of life. Exhibitors included agencies that support women in crisis pregnancies; shelters that care for pregnant women; pregnancy resource centers; infertility support services, as well as support for adoption and foster care, and ministries that assist with healing following abortion.
“As Catholics, we stand together for life,” Bishop O’Connell said in his homily. “Today as we join together in the greatest gift of all prayers, the Eucharist, let us ask the Lord Jesus Christ who gave his life for all of us, born and unborn, to give us the grace to protect the innocent, most vulnerable child in the womb; to encourage their mothers and fathers to let them live; to work with renewed strength to stand together and build ‘a culture of life’ and a ‘civilization of love.’”
More to come on this story.
Attendees engage in conversation with the various exhibitors during the Expo that followed the Standing Together for Life Mass. Mike Ehrmann photo