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On Friday the Very Reverend Gabriel Zeis, T.O.R., Vicar for Education in the Diocese of Trenton, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 101 students of our parish community. While this is always a wonderful celebration and occasion, it is also a time for reflection on meaning. Read more.

We are deep into another Lenten Season and the promise and hope of Spring and the coming Easter is beginning to take hold. Such a late Easter means that we will have (hopefully) some wonderful weather by the time we get there. Read more.

Our Lenten journey can often be fraught with the struggle to keep the discipline going. It is easy to become discouraged and disappointed along the way. In the Hall of Saints we have a Lenten shrine, focused on the Pieta and the Stations of the Cross. Near the shrine is a basket with some pencils and slips of paper. You are welcome to write your journey – whatever that journey might be – and place it into the basket. This way of articulating our prayers helps to put a sense of hope and the solidarity of the saints with our journey. No matter how alone we might feel, we know that we are never truly alone as the saints walk with us on our journey to sainthood. Read more.

Happy First Sunday of Lent! Today we travel to the Co-Cathedral in Freehold to celebrate the Rite of Election for our candidates for Initiation at the Easter Vigil. Rachel DeMasi and Kim Reit will receive the Sacraments at the Easter Vigil. As they participate in the Rite of Election this weekend and the Scrutinies over the Sundays of Lent, we pray for them that they will grow in the faith and in their relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church. Read more.

I am writing after a long day of travel from Jerusalem to Petra, Jordan. We had an awesome pilgrimage experience and I am now exploring the other side of the Jordan River. Sadly, issues with his Visa prevented Fr. JM from continuing on this leg of the journey, so he got two extra days in Jerusalem — which is a wonderful thing to do — but he is disappointed that he was not able to continue on here. Read more.