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The Holy Season of Lent brings with it the serious annual penitential obligation to abstain from meat on Fridays of Lent. This year, 2023, however, Friday of the second week of Lent corresponds with Saint Patrick’s Day (March 17), which has traditionally been an occasion for special celebrations. As Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, I am granting a dispensation from the obligation to abstain from eating meat to Catholics of the Diocese of Trenton as well as to any visitors or travelers who may be physically present within the territory of this Diocese on Friday, March 17. Those Catholics taking advantage of the dispensation, however, are asked to transfer the Friday abstinence obligation to another day of their choosing in Lent or to perform a work of charity (for example, a donation to the poor) or some exercise of piety (for example, a visit to Church and prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, a rosary, or some other prayer, etc.) to fulfill the spirit of the obligation.

Our 8th grade Confirmation candidates hosted a wonderful “Senior” prom this evening for grandparents and parishioners!

The attached job description contains details regarding the Sunday Catholic Mass Accompanist position for a chapel at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, NJ. The schedule and rate are as follows: - A minimum of one regularly scheduled Sunday Mass performance per week - One regularly scheduled rehearsal per week - Occasional special event services, memorials/funerals, Christmas and Easter seasonal services, pageants and plays, and Holy Days of Obligations may be required between Monday-Friday - Any and all special event rehearsals (minimum one special event rehearsal per special service) will be approved by the Catholic Chaplain or his designate on a timely basis - The rate will be $950 per month Please feel free to share this job information, along with my contact info: Cell: (407) 602-7780 ext.1 Email: [email protected]

Thank you to the mothers and daughters who attended our parish's inaugural Wonderfully Made Mother/Daughter Tea! The afternoon was a great success and we are already planning next year's event to be held in January 2024. Mark your calendars! Tickets will be sold in the fall.

Bishop O’Connell has announced that there will be a Memorial Mass for the late pope this Thursday, Jan. 5, at noon in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral in Freehold. This will allow an opportunity for the clergy, consecrated religious and faithful in attendance to pray together as a diocesan family. For those who cannot attend the diocesan Mass, it will also be livestreamed at youtube.com/trentondiocese.

On Dec. 31, 2022, as the world learned of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., of the Diocese of Trenton released a personal reflection about the pontiff who named him a bishop in 2010 and who had visited The Catholic University of America in Washington during then-Father O’Connell’s tenure as president.

Benedict XVI, one of the world’s foremost theologians and the first pope to retire in almost 600 years, died on Dec. 31 at the age of 95.