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Bishop extends Mass dispensation

Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M., issued the following message July 30, 2020:

Ten years of ‘loving and serving the Lord Jesus and his people'

On July 30, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., will mark the 10th anniversary of his ordination to the episcopacy, less than two months after being named Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton.

Bishop O’Connell’s 2020 Baccalaureate Mass homily

This is not the high school graduation celebration you expected when you began your senior year back in September.  Who could have imagined then what you are experiencing now and how your senior year would end?

Summertime Again

It’s summertime again, although the look and feel of it is quite different this year.  Most of us have been working at home or home schooling so, despite the change of seasons, it seems just “more of the same.”  But it is different.

Embracing Father’s Day as a celebration of faith

Like “Mother’s Day” in the United States, “Father’s Day” celebrations began here in the early 20th century. Their true origins, however, are rooted in Catholic religious devotions to St. Joseph in the Middle Ages. For the most part, the national observance of “Father’s Day” is a secular holiday.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the human heart of the priest shall beat as one

Devotion to the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” can be traced back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Catholic Church.

This Is My Body, This Is My Blood

In June 2011, our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI reminded us that the feast we celebrate today in Catholic Churches throughout the United States – the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ often referred to as “Corpus Christi” – “is inseparable from the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s …

It should not have happened

All of us in our Diocese, in our nation, indeed, throughout the world looked with horror at the video depicting the May 25 death of George Floyd, an African American citizen of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Bishop on Pentecost: The wind blows where it pleases

The Sacred Scriptures remind us that “the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit dwelling with us (Romans 5: 5).”

We remember: ‘Greater love than this no one has’

Memorial Day is observed throughout the United States on the last Monday in May.      

I Am with You Always

Although the liturgical celebration of the Solemnity of the Ascension has been transferred to this coming Sunday in the Dioceses of New Jersey this year, I can’t help but reflect about its meaning today, Thursday, 40 days after Easter.  This great feast – whenever it’s placement of the Catholic Church …

Bishop reflects on Pope John Paul II: A century of witness to Christ

My fellow seminarians and I sat together shortly after noon on Monday, October 16, 1978, with our eyes fixed on the television set.  White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signifying to the world that a new Pope had been elected by the College of Cardinals assembled …

Bishop O'Connell announces approval of 'in car' Masses, distribution of Eucharist

In a new statement issued May 15, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., announced his approval of a set of directives that give permission for outdoor “in car” Masses according to good pastoral judgement of parish pastors.

Bishop O’Connell’s homily for the Mass for health care and essential workers

From the cross, the Lord Jesus gave John the beloved disciple to his Mother Mary – “Woman, there is your son” – and his Mother Mary to John – “There is Your Mother.”

Giving thanks for the unconditional love of our mothers

I can still hear her voice, so sweet and gentle.  Her face is always in my mind’s eye as I remember her bright eyes and happy smile.


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