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Catholics across the United States are encouraged to pray and act in support of religious liberty at home and abroad during Serving Others in God's Love: Religious Freedom Week 2018, which begins on June 22, the Feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, and ends on June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. For more information, click the article title.

Happy Father's Day! God is calling all men to Respect Life at all stages and to help, especially, those who have no voice. Join us for our next Respect Life meeting, on Thursday, July 12, to find out how you can help to defend the helpless. Click the article title for more information.

. . . to all our parishioners who are graduating from our area schools, as well as those graduating from colleges and universities near and far!

Click the article title to find a reflection on the presence of Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity, in the Blessed Sacrament.

This event will be held on July 18 from 10 am to 3 pm (registration begins at 9:15 am) at St. Gregory the Great, Hamilton Square. The registration fee is $18/person, which covers coffee/snack, drinks, and a hot lunch by Dolce and Clemente. Click the article title for more information, and a link to register.

Legislation known as The Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (A1504) will go to the full Assembly for a vote, possibly as early as June 7. This legislation authorizes physicians to prescribe drugs that an individual would ingest to cause suicide, therefore authorizing physician-assisted suicide. Click the article title for information on unintended consequences of such legislation. We need to act!

Suicide is always a tragedy! Do not be misled by the seductive language of "dignity," "mercy," "compassion," or "aid in dying." True compassion does not put a lethal weapon—in this case a prescription of 100 capsules of Seconal—into the hands of a person to help take his or her life. Click the article title for more information.

Join us for our next Respect Life meeting, on June 7, at 7:00 PM at Our Lady of Sorrows. Click the article title for more information.

Our 1st Respect Life Meeting Was a Success! Thank you to all who participated, but we need everyone to help. Stay informed--click the article title to see what is currently happening. We need your help!

Sunday, April 29, from 9 AM to 5 PM, the Catholic Center at Monmouth University in Long Branch, is offering a one day retreat for young adults before they are engaged, to prepare for Catholic marriage through prayer, instruction, and lived experience. Click the article title for contact information.

Cohort 6 (the Lumen Christi Cohort) is delighted to announce the creation of a new ministry for young adults, ages 19 to 39. This Young Adult Ministry will serve to challenge the interested young adult community by witness and relationship with Christ through ongoing talks, workshops, fun-filled events, and opportunities designed for you by you.

All are welcome to join this vital mission! The group is committed to prayer, education, and action in defense of life. It hopes to foster in our parish a greater awareness of the dignity and sanctity of all human life at every stage.

Click the article title to find the prayer for our 2018 Multi-Parish Mission. Please offer this prayer in the days preceding the mission, to ask the Father and the Son to send the Holy Spirit to all of the parishioners in the four sponsoring parishes: Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony, St. Gregory the Great, St. John the Baptist, and St. Vincent de Paul.

The St. John Neumann Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith is sponsoring an all-day conference titled Matrimony: Rediscovering Its Truth on Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 am to 6:15 pm at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. Click the article title for details.

We will be asking all participating parishes to provide volunteers to assist at the mission each of the four nights. Please consider volunteering for one of the roles, on one of the evenings of the mission. Click the article title for more information on the volunteer roles.

Our multi-parish mission will be held on the evenings of April 9 through 12, and we need your help! Please sign up to volunteer for one evening! For a list of roles for volunteers, and contact information, click the article title.

Do you want to deepen your spiritual life? Click the article title to find a list of ways offered by the Trenton Diocesan Spiritual Center in Rancocas, NJ.

We welcome Fr. Gladimir Gérard, C.Ss.R. who will direct the annual Lenten Exercises for our Haitian Community this week (Monday-Wednesday) at 6:30 p.m. at Saint Anthony Church. The theme of the retreat is based on the Lord’s Prayer: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.”

You are invited to an hour-long program on the scriptural and liturgical events of Holy Week, led by Msgr. Vince Gartland at St. George Church, 1370 River Road, Titusville, on Sunday, March 25 at 6:00 PM. For more information, click the article title.

Centering Prayer is a method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience God's presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. The Church of St. Ann, in Lawrenceville is offering an introduction to this traditional Catholic method of prayer, on March 17, from 9 to noon. Click the article title for more information.