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Bishop O’Connell has appointed a new vocations team for our diocese, with Father Jason Parzynski serving as the diocesan director. Father Dan Swift, assisted by Father Christopher Colavito and Father Jorge Bedoya, will coordinate vocation activities on the River Side of the diocese – Mercer and Burlington counties. On the Ocean Side of the Diocese, Monmouth and Ocean Counties, I am coordinating and assisted by Father JM and Father Christopher Dayton. Both Father JM and I are happy to serve together in this ministry to and for our diocese. Read more.

Our Summer Academy was honored and blessed this week with a visit from Bishop O’Connell on Thursday. The Bishop celebrated the 9am Mass and then got to meet some of the students, teachers, and volunteers who were here this week. It is a very positive sign that the Bishop is taking an interest in these programs. Of course, he brought with him Mrs. Denise Contino, Diocesan Director of Catechesis and former Director of Faith Formation here. The students had, I believe, a good week. We are looking forward to the final week of the Academy coming up. Read more.

Holmdel parish's Summer Academy welcomes visit from Bishop O'Connell

Happy Solemnity of Saint Benedict! As we have transferred the feast to Sunday, we are able to honor our patron with the dignity that are his due. He rescued monasticism, and through his followers, the faith in Europe, through a programmatic system of reform and renewal. The church was then, is now, and always is, in need of reform and renewal. Please accept the challenge to be an agent of such reform and renewal in your own homes, neighborhoods, our parish, and in the church in the world. Please visit the Narthex, and accept the challenge for your own renewal as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Read more.

This week we begin the Summer Religious Education Academy. This has been an important development in the faith formation of the students in our parish. Most of the religious education students in our parish will complete the majority of their required hours of instruction during one of the next three, week-long sessions. The program includes several required family day events through the course of the year, so that we can maintain contact with these students and their families for purposes of enrichment and on-going formation. Read more.