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The Easter appeal is one of the two most important collections of the year. Your generosity in this collection helps Our Lady of Sorrows - St. Anthony parish to meet many expenses—not only the care of buildings and grounds, but our obligations to our employees and our dioceses. Please be as generous as your means allow.

Join Us for the Solemn Easter Vigil on Saturday, April 8, at 7:30 PM, at St. Anthony Church! His Excellency, the Most Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M., will be the celebrant and homilist! Note that this is the ONLY Mass on the Saturday before Easter!

We invite interested parishioners to participate in the Washing of the Feet ceremony during the Holy Thursday liturgy. The Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper takes place at 7:00 p.m. on April 6 at St. Anthony Church. Click here for details.

Click here to see some of the upcoming programs offered at the San Alfonso Retreat House, Long Branch; the Marianist Family Retreat Center, Cape May Point; and the Francis House of Prayer, Allentown.

On Friday, March 24th, at 7:00 PM in Our Lady of Sorrows Church, the Marriage Ministry Team is offering the Stations of the Cross for Married Couples. Please join us

Click here to see a list of upcoming programs offered at the San Alfonso Retreat House, the Marianist Family Retreat Center, the CYO, and the Francis House of Prayer.

Bishop O'Connell has granted a dispensation from the obligation to abstain from meat on Friday, March 17th, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. However, those who take advantage of the dispensation are asked to transfer the Friday abstinence obligation to another day, or to perform a work of charity or some other exercise of piety to fulfill the spirit of the obligation.

This year's Lenten Work of Love is to assist the refugees of the war in the Ukraine, who are now in Poland. Please be generous, and put your donations in the containers at the doors of the church. Click here for more information.

Click here to see some of the upcoming programs offered at the Francis House of Prayer, Allentown, NJ.

Lent: Lord, Let Me Walk This Road With You, is presented by Fr. Stanley "Stas" Lukaszewski, on Saturday, March 11, at St. Gregory the Great Church. All are welcome!

Lent is a penitential season, and thus requires a certain amount of fasting and abstinence. All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and days of fasting and abstinence. Click here for a link to more information.

Click here to see the upcoming programs offered at the Francis House of Prayer in Allentown.

This year, the penitential season of Lent begins on February 22. Please bring in all old palms to be burned and used for ashes on Ash Wednesday. There are containers at all the church exit doors on the weekends to hold the palms. Please bring all palms in before February 19.

Bishop O'Connell has sent a letter on the penitential season of Lent, including a full explanation of fasting and abstinence--when it is required, and who is required to fast and abstain from meat. For a link to the letter, click here.

Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence! Fasting=one full meal a day. Abstinence=not eating meat. Click the article title for more information and a link to a full explanation.

We invite parishioners to participate in the Washing of the Feet ceremony during the Holy Thursday liturgy. Click the article title for details.

Click the article title to see a condensed list of the opportunities available this week for your Lenten journey.

The parish of St. Raphael-Holy Angels invites you to join us for our Lenten Presentation on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at 7:00 PM in the Parish Center. Click the article title for more information.

Click the article title to find the Lenten opportunities offered this week in addition to the regular weekly schedule.