Daily Rosary
We welcome all to join us after each 9:00 AM Daily Mass to pray the rosary. We especially need prayer during these troubling times!
Pray the Miraculous Medal Novena with us following the 9:00 AM Mass in the Main Church from Friday, November 29th through Sunday, December 8th (Excluding Sunday, December 1st).
We will continue this devotion every Monday throughout the year following Morning Mass. Please join us in praying this powerful Novena. You may find the Novena prayer as well as further information about the Miraculous Medal by visiting the Miraculous Medal Shrine website: click here for the website.
“Blessed are they who mourn” … “Blessed are they who are persecuted” … “blessed are they who are hated, who are persecuted, hungry or weeping.”
Wait! The Beatitudes don’t make sense! I don’t want to be persecuted or hungry or poor; no one looks forward to such desperate times in our lives.
Unless we realize that we are using the wrong yardstick for measuring success. What we are actually receiving in Jesus’ teaching today gives us a new measurement of success, simply contained in the word Hope. The Responsorial Psalm is perhaps a key to unlocking the depth of Jesus’ preaching, when is exclaims with joy, “Blessed are they who hope in the Lord!”
The Jerusalem Bible, another authentic Catholic translation of the scriptures presents this Psalm in very clear but challenging terms: “Blessed the one who has places all trust in the Lord, and has not gone over to the proud who follow false gods.”
So now the real challenge we must consider this week is this: am I the one – or one of the many – who places all trust in the Lord? I hope so, I like to think that describes me, but I also know that sometimes that is not true. We all have moments of human despair; we all have times when we feel the glory of success and think – even briefly – that it was I who accomplished that goal, that milestone, that special project.
But what if we intentionally chose a different, path, one where we take joy in being dependent upon God’s goodness. When Pope Francis declared 2025 as a Jubilee Year, he dedicated the year to the theme that we are all “Pilgrims of Hope,” and asked in his prayer that God “… reawaken in us the blessed Hope for the coming of Your Kingdom.”
Beginning this weekend, and continuing throughout the Jubilee year, we will recite the Jubilee Prayer composed by Pope Francis each weekend at our Masses. May that prayer serve as a constant reminder that we call upon God Most High to fill us with the grace to become, every day and at every moment, true Pilgrims of Hope. As we pray each week for ourselves and those around us, may God’s “… grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.”
May we truly, each day, be the blessed who hope and trust in the Lord!
- Father Jim
Please click here to visit the website for the 2025 Jubilee Pilgrimage.
To learn more about the 2025 Annual Catholic Appeal and to donate online, please click here.
Hospice Care Information
Faith at Home
These links provides you with the latest one-page resource for families, Faith At Home; it connects to the theme of the upcoming Sunday Liturgy. This resource is updated each week and can be found on the diocesan webpage at www.dioceseoftrenton.org/faith-at-home and en Español at www.dioceseoftrenton.org/fe-en-casa.
May God continue to bless us and keep us close to Him.
Please support the Society of St. Vincent de Paul so that together we can help local families in need. Those needing help should call the SVDP helpline at 856-291-7313.
Local food pantries include:
St. Matthew's Church, 318 Chester Ave.
First Baptist Church, 19 West Main St., Moorestown
Bethel AME, 512 N. Church St., Moorestown
Prince of Peace 61 E Rte 70, Marlton, NJ 08053
SVDP also has Thinking of You cards available. A gift can be given to the poor in the name of someone special at your
request. You will be remembered in the prayers and works of the Moorestown Vincentians. We are so very grateful for your
generous ongoing donations.
Our Promise to Protect
The Diocese of Trenton is committed to the initiatives outlined in the U.S. Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in regard to the reporting and investigation of sexual abuse allegations involving minors. The Diocese has in place a Victim’s Assistance Coordinator, who is available to obtain support for your needs and help you make a formal complaint of abuse.
If you have been sexually abused as a minor by a member of the clergy or anyone representing the Catholic Church, or if you know someone who was, you can report that abuse through the diocesan Abuse Hotline: 1-888-296-2965 or via email at abuseline@dioceseoftrenton.org.
The Diocese encourages anyone with an allegation to also report that abuse to their local law enforcement agency. The Diocese reports all allegations received to the appropriate county prosecutor’s office.
ONLINE GIVING OPTIONS
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