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Month: April 2020

World Day of Prayer for Vocations–Sunday, May 3rd

Today, Sunday, May 3rd, is World Day of Prayer for Vocations. On this day, the Church throughout the world in a special way encourages prayer for vocations.  It also asks us to do the following:

· Make a special effort to ask the Lord for more vocations to the priesthood, and religious life.

· Pray for the priests who have ministered to you throughout your life, both living and dead.

· Keep our parish priests in your prayers throughout the week. (Read more…)

May 3, 2020

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April 26, 2020

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Live Streamed Recitation of the Holy Rosary

An Invitation by Bishop Checchio Live Streamed Recitation of the Holy Rosary
Followed by Live Streamed Mass The Cathedral of St. Francis, Metuchen
Friday, May 1st Beginning With Recitation of the Holy Rosary at 3:30pm,

Mass at 4:00pm

My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I write to you with great hope and confidence that God is close to us in these very difficult days. We must never doubt that our daily concerns are His concerns too. And no one knows our needs better than Jesus’ own
mother, Mary. 

Indeed Mary, who is the Mother of the Church and of each one of us, has a deeply intimate concern for us. In her motherly care, we will invoke her to look with tender mercy and compassion on the struggles, sickness, suffering and death that many have experienced in these past weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Read more…)

Feast Day of St. Catherine of Siena-Wednesday, April 29, 2020

For perfected souls every place is to them an oratory, every moment a time for prayer.  Their conversation has ascended from earth to heaven–that is to say they have cut themselves off from every form of earthly affection and sensual self-love and have risen alone into the very height of Heaven.”” St. Catherine of Siena

On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Catherine of Siena.

Born in 1347, Saint Catherine was the youngest of 25 children.  Her father was a wool dyer in the small town of Siena, in Tuscany, Italy.  At an early age, she became fully aware of her gifts. (Read more…)

Divine Mercy Sunday

Today we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday.  Pope Francis has urged us to embrace this day and truly reflect a spirit of mercy, repentance and reconciliation in our lives.  On this day, one week after Easter, we are reminded why Jesus rose from the dead: and one of the reasons was to shower the world with divine mercy.

This is what the Church has to say in part about this great feast: “During the Church’s millennium celebration in 2000, Pope John Paul II declared that the Second Sunday of Easter be known as “Divine Mercy Sunday”.  (Read more…)