SEASONS & CELEBRATIONS
Keeping your heart on Christ can lessen the strain of sadness, loss during holiday season
Mittened hands clutch cups of hot cocoa, Christmas carols are on every dial and the smell of gingerbread is in the air. But instead of excited happiness at every turn, you see only your difficulties and losses.
Advent activities can bring families closer together
Crafts during Advent not only encourage service and faith learning, but family bonding, too.
Bishop blesses anniversary couples with prayers for never-ending love, faith
Charles Nixon smiled as he considered what he would tell couples who are preparing for marriage. “Just love one another," the 99-year-old said.
Guadalupe torches begin faithful journey around Diocese
Maria Luna has had a special devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe ever since learning about the Blessed Mother as a little girl growing up in Mexico.That’s one reason why the parishioner of St. Ann Parish, Browns Mills, has celebrated the Diocese’s traveling Guadalupe torches with her parish for the …
At Catholic Schools Mass, Bishop reminds students how to make a difference in world
St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral was filled with some 600 children, all wearing their respective school uniforms and big smiles, as they gathered Oct. 10 to celebrate Mass with Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M.
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Penkethman family celebrates baptism of sixth child
The Penkethman family celebrated the Baptism of Jack Moran Penkethman in St Denis Church, Manasquan, on Oct. 11.
Keeping the Feast
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Parishes announce Holy Week and Easter schedules
See full listings from parishes in the Diocese of Trenton for special liturgies, celebrations and other festivities during Holy Week and Easter.
KEEPING THE FEAST: Simple pasta can enrich Lent
This dish is one of my childhood favorites and I so enjoyed introducing it to my nieces and nephews way back when. It was one of a number of recipes passed on to Mom from Dad’s mother that basically featured pasta, butter, cheese and sometimes cream, in a variety of …
Slideshow of Holy Week and Easter events around the Diocese
Holy Week, the days which recount Our Lord's Passion, Death and glorious Resurrection, were prayerfully commemorated with Masses, prayer services and special gatherings. Following is a slideshow capturing some of the celebrations taking place in parishes around the Diocese of Trenton.
New Catholics welcomed into faith during Easter
In parishes around the Diocese of Trenton, more than 700 individuals entered into full communion with the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil April 15.
Musical experience of Easter Vigil coming to Princeton
Tim Keyes Consort will present Resurrexi, the complete oratorio, a musical experience of the Readings and Psalms from the Easter Vigil, at 8 p.m. June 17 in the Richardson Auditorium, Princeton.Resurrexi represents a 25-year journey by Keyes to set the eight scriptural readings and their accompanying Psalms to music.
Bishop tapes Easter Mass set to be televised nationally
While we have not quite reached Advent, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., and scores of faithful from across the Diocese of Trenton gathered Nov. 30 in St. Catharine Church, Spring Lake, to tape an Easter Mass that’s set to be nationally televised in 2018.
Diocese tapes Easter Mass with Bishop O'Connell to be broadcast nationwide in April
Women in hats of pale pinks and yellows, men in light-colored suits and Catholic school students wearing pastel dresses or button-down shirts filled the pews of St. Catharine Church, Spring Lake, Nov. 30 three days before Advent – for Easter Mass.
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