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The Pre K 4 classroom is looking for a part time Teacher’s Aide, with hours from 7:30 AM – 12:00 PM Monday to Friday. Click here for more information,

The Knight to Remember (KTR) Gala is our school’s largest fundraiser of the year. It will be held at the Trenton Country Club on Friday, May 9th. Click here to find the names of this year's honorees, updated 50/50 prize amounts, and other information.

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!

Join us for the blessing and dedication of the newly renovated church hall at Our Lady of Sorrows Church following the 11:00 am Mass when it will also be formally named “Holy Family Hall.” Click here for more information.

Next Sunday (March 30), our Confirmation candidates will join us at the 11:00 am Mass. It will be an occasion to congratulate and pray for them as approach their Confirmation on Saturday, April 5. The candidates in their 1st year of preparation will host a brunch for them after the Mass!

Over time, funds have been set aside for the refurbishment of the church hall at Our Lady of Sorrows. The work is underway. Thanks for your understanding and patience during the renovation. A date for the blessing will be announced.

Ask Congress to pass the Educational Choice for Children Act. This federal school choice bill has been introduced on Capitol Hill with genuine prospects for success. Please ask your representatives to vote in favor of the bill. Click here for more information.

Among the seven sacraments, the Anointing of the Sick is especially intended to strengthen those who are ill. While the Sacrament serves to comfort the dying, it is not only for those at the point of death. It is also intended to help the chronically ill and the elderly who are in a weakened condition. Children who are seriously ill or facing major surgery can be anointed. The sacrament can be administered more than once even during the same illness if a person’s condition becomes more serious. Don't wait until your loved one is on the point of death. Give them the gift of this strengthening sacrament!

PLEASE NOTE: The Palm Cross sale is now in full swing. The form will be in the bulletin beginning on March 9.

Catechists are always needed! If you are interested in making a difference to a child or teen, click here for more information.

Join us for a cash Bingo on Friday, February 21, at Our Lady of Sorrows School. For more information, click here.

During January, 28 parishioners provided 176 hours of service to 29 persons. Caring Hearts volunteers provide a variety of non-medical services to our homebound elderly and disabled neighbors. Click here for more information on the services provided and how to sign up.

Feeding the hungry never ceases to be important. Food pantries always need staples such as peanut butter, jelly, cereal, soup, pasta, pasta sauce, and canned vegetables, but any nonperishables you can donate to Mt Carmel Guild or St Raphael’s Food Pantry are greatly appreciated. Just place them in the receptacles at the doors of our churches.

Our Tuition Assistance Fund is a wonderful way to ensure that our students receive an excellent spiritual and academic information that lasts a lifetime! Click here to find out how you can help in the formation of the next generation.

Our intensive summer program (an alternative to year-round weekly classes) is back by popular demand. This year we are happy to announce that the program will include those students from Grades 1 & 2 and 7 & 8 preparing for the sacraments. Click here for more information.

Inauguration Day falls on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., advocate for social justice, assassinated in 1968 at the age of thirty nine. His preaching and peaceful activism helped our nation turn away from racism and violence. As we honor his witness, let us pray that within our nation and throughout the world, every division may be removed, and that justice, equality and peace may flourish.

The first sign of hope should be the desire for peace in our world, which once more finds itself immersed in the tragedy of war…Is it too much to dream that arms can fall silent and cease to rain down destruction and death? May diplomacy be tireless in its commitment to seek…lasting peace.