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If an abortion is impacting you, remember that God loves you, just as much as He loves your child. If you would like to experience a weekend of God's love and mercy for yourself, come to a Rachel's Vineyard Retreat, where you can find help and healing in an atmosphere of fellowship and compassion. Click the article title for more information.

Come and Experience God’s Grace and Mercy! Our Mission speaker, Fr. Dave Pivonka, T.O.R., will hold a special event for diocesan youth and young adults on Sunday, April 28, at St. Raphael's Church, beginning with Mass at 5:00 PM. Food and fellowship will follow in the Parish Center. Afterwards, there will be Eucharistic Adoration, teaching, reconciliation, and praise and worship. Please register, so we'll know how much food to provide!

Our faith teaches us, and embryologists have concluded, that life begins at fertilization (conception). Despite this scientific reality, pro-abortionists refute the medical evidence in favor of an unnatural assertion that life begins at embryo uterine implantation. Abortifacients are drugs or devices that end rather than avoid pregnancy by preventing the fertilized embryo from implanting in the mother’s uterus. Since implantation occurs several days after fertilization, abortifacients are morally equivalent to abortion and represent a concealed attack on the human embryo.

We are calling all high school teenagers, college students, young adults, and youth leaders to join us for a week of service, friendships, spiritual growth, and memories that will last a lifetime. The week of July 7 - 12, 2019, BOLD will be sending teens from multiple parishes to Hartford, CT for a week of service and fun with Catholic Heart Work Camp.

The Hamilton and St. Gregory the Great Councils of the Knights of Columbus are co-sponsoring a bus trip to Washington, D.C. for this year’s Right to Life March on Friday, January 18. The Right to Life March is a very special event and it will be a unique experience. Click the article title for more information.

National Vocation Awareness Week is an annual week-long celebration of the Catholic Church in the United States dedicated to promote vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life through prayer and education, and to renew our prayers and support for those who are considering one of these particular vocations. The Diocese of Trenton’s Office of Vocations can be reached at 609-406-7448.

A Young Adult Conference will be held on Sunday, November 11, at Georgian Court University from 10 AM to 5 PM, to discover the meaning and purpose of their sexuality, and how it applies to their unique mission in life. If you want to learn skills to create and maintain healthy relationships, check this out! Click the article title for more information.

The OLS-SA Holy Name Society is a parish organization devoted to serving the spiritual, social, and faithful needs of the men of our parish, which it has been doing for the past 80 years. We are part of a National Federation that professes several objectives, including: honoring the Holy Name of Jesus; imitating him in our thoughts, words, and actions; performing the spiritual and corporal works of mercy; and combating pornography. Our Society has also expanded into a religious, inspirational, and motivational discussion group, using Christopher News Notes as one guide to follow. For more information, including when and where we meet, click the article title.

Our parish is offering a pilgrimage trip for youth and young adults from grade 7 through college to see Emmitsburg, MD, where St. Elizabeth Ann Seton worked and the home of Mount St. Mary's University (where our own Msgr. Gervasio went to school). Click the article title for details.

On September 29, the Diocesan Department of Pastoral Care will sponsor a symposium on practical parish strategies to address the addiction epidemic in New Jersey. For information on time and location, click the article title.

A joint effort of the Diocese of Trenton and Catholic Charities provides licensed professionals for short term counseling (up to 6 sessions) to parishioners dealing with difficult issues, for example, job-stress, family concerns, and bereavement. Click the article title for more information.

Throughout this year, proclaimed by Bishop O’Connell, we offer a weekly prayer of Saint John Paul II, so often called “the Pope of the Young.” Click the article title to see the prayer.

St. Gregory the Great Parish will host a “COME ALIVE” presentation by Dr. Peter Howard, founder of Heroic Families, on July 25, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the Parish Center, 4620 Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, NJ. With more and more studies confirming how the vast majority of people in the world are dissatisfied with their lives because they lack purpose, families are more ardently seeking help to find the answers. This talk is perfect for families and individuals who want to discover God’s purpose for them and make a choice NOW to live it heroically!

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

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.

If you haven't already done so, please submit, prior to June 30, all requests for your group’s use of facilities at Our Lady of Sorrows and/or St. Anthony campus from July 2017 through June 2018. Click the article title for more information.

Join us for dinner, fellowship, praise and worship, at the Monmouth University Catholic Student Center, on February 17, 2017. Click the article title for details.

This retreat, held in Cape May Point, is designed to bring together young people of college age (17-22). So whether you are in college or working, or a senior in high school, come join us to renew your spiritual life, deepen your relationship with God, and meet new friends. Click the article title for details.

Are you looking for solace from the chaos that is life? Are you looking for the perfect love? Come home to Mass...for information, click the article title.