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Click here to see the sanctuary lamp and floral intentions for the week of April 27.

First Thursday, at St. Anthony Church, a Diocesan Pilgrimage Church: Confessions, Evening Prayer, and Adoration with Benediction.

This Sunday (April 27) is Divine Mercy Sunday.

Click here to see the sanctuary lamp intentions for Easter week.

Our Tuition Assistance Fund is a wonderful way to ensure that our students receive an excellent spiritual and academic formation that last a lifetime! Please consider contributing to this worthy cause. Click here for more information.

The Parish Office will be closed from Thursday, April 17th through Monday April 21st in observance of the Sacred Triduum and Easter. The office will re-open on Tuesday, April 22, at 9:00 AM.

...is an important gift—Your generosity in this collection helps our parish meet its many expenses—not only the care of buildings and grounds but our obligations to our employees and our diocese.

Click here to see the sanctuary lamp intentions for the week of April 13.

Click here to see the stewardship report of April 13.

On Monday April 14, there will be a Lenten Pilgrimage to St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral in Freehold.

During March, 32 parishioners provided 165 hours of service to 32 individuals. Caring Hearts volunteers provide a variety of non-medical services to our homebound elderly and disabled neighbors. Click here for more information on signing up for this ministry.

The Prayer Shawl group will hold its monthly meeting in the Church Meeting Room at 1:00 PM on Monday, April 14. Please join us if you'd like to make prayer shawls, dialysis blankets, or baby blankets; if you have any of the above you'd like to donate; or even if you'd like to learn how to crochet. And if you have (or know someone who has) extra yarn you (or they) want to get rid of, you can leave it with us!

We are looking for 1 or 2 volunteers to assist with pick up from OLS and deliver to St. Raphael’s Food Pantry 1 to 2 times per month. If interested please call the Parish Office at 609-587-4372

Volunteers are needed to help decorate Our Lady of Sorrows Church on Good Friday immediately after The Seven Last Words Service (approximately 7:30 pm). This is a great opportunity for our students to receive service hours. Help us adorn the Lord’s House for the celebration of His Resurrection!

In addition to the to the usual 7:00 and 9:00 am weekday Masses, we invite you to take part in these opportunities to observe the Lenten Season this week--click here for the list.

Click here to see the sanctuary lamp intentions for the week of April 6.

Click here to see the stewardship report of April 6.

As part of their preparation for First Communion our children are reflecting on the important of sharing and generosity as they consider the Gospel event of the boy who offered his two fish and five loaves to Jesus for the feeding of the crowd…a foreshadowing of the Eucharist. Our First Communicants will be sharing loaves of bread with you next weekend. Click here for more information.

Congratulations to those young parishioners who were confirmed this weekend. We thank their parents, sponsors, and catechists, who prepared them for the gift of the Holy Spirit, and His Excellency David M. O’Connell, C.M, Bishop of Trenton, who conferred the sacrament.