SEASONS & CELEBRATIONS
With messages of sacrifice and hope, Bishop O’Connell enters door to Holy Week
Preaching on Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., reflected on the start of Holy Week by comparing it to the image of a door to a house.
Glimmers of light shine forth through the unknowns
As a bereavement counselor, Christian life coach and spiritual director in St. William the Abbot Parish, Mary Ann Collett has journeyed with people who have suffered loss.
Enhanced technology, new ideas pave way for fruitful Lent, Easter across Diocese
While 2020 brought the temporary closing of churches and an abrupt change in how the Lenten and Easter seasons would be celebrated across the Diocese – and indeed, the world – this year’s Holy Season brings in-person Masses and fresh livestream capabilities.
Catholics to connect in-person and virtually to commemorate Holy Week and Easter
This Holy Week and Easter, hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the Diocese of Trenton will take part in Masses and services either inside or outside their churches while observing pandemic precautions or at home via livestream.
Easter 2021: ‘Behold, I make all things new’
The three days before Easter Sunday are, indeed, instructive. They speak of commitment to something great, of sharing our very selves with one another, of the sacrifice that comes with love ...
Quarantine becomes a time of self-reflection
After taking my daughter’s advice to get a COVID-19 test, I was shocked to learn that I had tested positive – as did my wife one week later. I ended up self-isolating for 20 days.
Holy Week unfolds Christ’s never-ending love for all
Each year, faithful from throughout the world are invited to experience the unfolding of the Paschal Mystery of our Lord by participating in the various liturgies that commemorate his Passion, Death and Resurrection during Holy Week.
Sacrifices can turn into moments of grace
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Complete surrender during isolation, death
In December 2020, I began to wake up with what felt like the start of a head cold. I did the usual over-the-counter medicines.
Experiencing the Lenten pillars during COVID-19
A little over a year ago, the whole world began to hear about COVID-19. This new virus, little by little, was changing our way of relating, working and worshiping in ways we never imagined.
Bishop O’Connell’s livestream schedule for Holy Week
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., has announced his schedule for Holy Week. All of the Bishop’s Masses and services will be livestreamed on Youtube.com/trentondiocese.
Lent at the midpoint: Stay in your lane
Here we are at the midpoint of our Lenten journey with the finish line now in sight. How has it been going?
Dispensation for March 19
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., has issued a diocesan-wide dispensation from the Lenten obligation of abstinence from meat on Friday, March 19, 2021, in honor of the Solemn Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of Mary, during this special “Year of St. Joseph.”
Faithful encouraged to ponder Mary, human dignity during Annunciation
The Solemnity of the Annunciation “offers our Church communities a unique opportunity to celebrate not only Mary’s ‘yes,’ but recognize the moment of the Incarnation of Jesus as a tiny embryo.”
Bishop O'Connell leads virtual Way of Cross
Over the years, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., has found the Stations of the Cross to be a longstanding, personal tradition – one that has brought him great joy.
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