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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.
This weekend we celebrate one of those unusual feasts, The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. What makes it unusual is that when it falls on a Sunday, as it does this year, it is more important and takes precedence over the Sunday in Ordinary Time. This won’t happen again until 2031, six years from now.
When we reflect on these readings we see a common theme for both Peter and Paul: their love for Jesus. The Gospel relates Peter’s confession of love to Jesus after His Resurrection, when three times Jesus challenges Peter: “Do you love me?”
Paul, too, expresses a deep longing for Jesus throughout his Epistles and Letters. Today we hear that in his Second Letter to Timothy, where Paul wrote:, “I was rescued from the lion’s mouth,” and states that The Lord will award him a crown of righteousness for his longing, his perseverance in faith. Elsewhere, in his Letter to the Ephesians, Paul wrote: “… to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
In short, to be faithful witnesses to the Sacred Scriptures, we must be witnesses to loving God. How do we show that? When we love our enemies, strangers, our neighbors, and ourselves as Jesus has loved us.
Just as with any person in our lives whom we claim to love, we cannot do that simply with words; it must be witnessed in actions. And authentic love does not waver; we must express it daily in those actions.
The old adage, “actions speak louder than words” is very true when it comes to celebrating and living our Christian faith. We need to ask ourselves, “when did I fail to love the stranger, the enemy or my neighbor this week,” and then we need to strive with actions to reflect love that is patient, kind, enduring and not jealous to all those we meet in the week ahead.
Jesus asks you and me, every day: Do we love Him? We answer with our lives, not simply with words.
- Father Jim
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. Click this link to visit the SVdP website: www.SVDPmoorestown.org
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.
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