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Please notify the parish office when your organization or ministry changes leadership. It is important for us to know the correct person to contact regarding 2021-2022 facility scheduling. Click the article title for more information.

Our parish congratulates Nelson Abreu, a candidate for the permanent diaconate, upon being called by our bishop to the ministry of lector, a further step on the journey to ordination. Click the article title for more information.

Fr. Gowen, Fr. Alabré, and I, along with our parish staff, sincerely thank all those who remembered us in this holy season. Your cards, spiritual bouquets, homemade treats, and gifts were most thoughtful. May the Lord bless you abundantly for your kindnesses.

Please keep in your prayers the priests of our diocese as we gather together with Bishop O'Connell for our annual convocation, which takes place this week. Click the article title for more information, including how this affects Mass Schedules!

Monsignor Gervasio, Fr. Alabre, and Fr. Gowen will be attending the annual DoT Convocation of Priests from September 14 – 16. For information on how this will impact parish Masses, click the article title.

Click the article title to read the farewell letter from Fr. Jean.

We have had the blessing of Fr. Pierre Joseph’s ministry for the past three years. We are grateful for his witness of prayerfulness and gentleness. His singing brightened our days! Click the article title for his updated contact information.

Farewell, Fr. Jean! We'll miss you, but you won't be far away! Click the article title for contact information.

Our parish rejoices that Saturday next, May 15, one of our own—Salvatore Petro—will be ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacon at the hands of His Excellency, Bishop David O’Connell, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Trenton! Click the article title to find out more about when our newly ordained deacon will assist and preach at Mass.

Please notify the parish office when your organization or ministry changes leadership. It is important for us to know the correct person to contact regarding 2021- 2022 facility scheduling. Please call or email Denise (587-4372; dmikics@olssa.org) with the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the head of your group and that person’s alternate. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

We offer our heartfelt congratulations and prayerful best wishes to Stephen Sansevere, who was ordained a priest at the hands of His Excellency, Bishop David O’Connell on Saturday, June 27, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold. A Jersey City native, Father Sansevere comes to the Priesthood at age 67. Click the article title for more information.

Our prayerful good wishes accompany our good neighbor to the east, Fr. Michael McClane who will assume his new duties as Pastor of St. Paul’s Parish, Princeton, effective July 1. We welcome to Hamilton and as a member of our Cohort, Fr. Michael Hall, who will succeed Fr. McClane as Pastor. For more information, on both the outgoing and incoming pastors, click the article title.

Fr. Joseph, Fr. Jean, and I, along with our parish staff, sincerely thank all those who remembered us in this holy season. Your cards, spiritual bouquets, homemade treats, and gifts were most thoughtful. May the Lord bless you abundantly for your kindnesses.

...to His Excellency The Most Rev. David M. O’Connell, who celebrates today (December 1) his 9th anniversary as Bishop of Trenton!

Let us prayerfully and gratefully remember Msgr. Michael P. McCorristin for his witness and priestly ministry at Saint Anthony Parish. Let us commend him to the love and mercy of the Lord who called Msgr. McCorristin to himself on December 5, 1990...29 years ago.

If you get an email supposedly from Msgr. Gervasio, that asks you to buy gift cards for him and send him the PIN numbers of the cards, ignore it...or report it to the police. This is a scam. Msgr. Gervasio would NEVER ask you to do this! Click the article title for more information on how to protect yourself from this type of scam.

Twelve workshops will be offered monthly on Fridays from November through April at the Chancery office in Lawrenceville. This program is appropriate for all who want to improve their skills in various parish ministries, such as the Visitation of the Sick, Jail & Prison Volunteer, Bereavement Ministers, Recovery Group Leaders, Separated and Divorced Group Leaders and many more. Click the article title for more information.

If you get an email supposedly from Msgr. Gervasio (or any other OLS-SA staff member), that asks you to do him a favor, buy gift cards for him and send him the PIN numbers of the cards, ignore it...or report it to the police. This is a scam. Msgr. Gervasio would never ask you to do this!

In order to allow for parish participation in both Loaves and Fishes (on June 29) and Kelli Pierfy's Memorial Mass, the Memorial Mass has been scheduled for July 13. Click the article title for more information.

It is which great sadness that we learned of the death of Kelli Pierfy, the beloved daughter of Deacon Jeffery and Jean Pierfy. Kelli was called by the Lord on the Feast of the Visitation of Our Lady, May 31. May the Lord sustain and comfort the Pierfy family and welcome Kelli into the joys of heaven. For information on where to send condolences, click the article title.