Do you have an hour a week to help our seniors? If you could spare an hour a week, or even an hour a month, to visit one of our homebound seniors or drive someone to a medical appointment, please consider becoming a Caring Hearts volunteer! Click here for more information.

Notre Dame High School will hold an open house on October 24, from 7 to 9 PM. Click here for more information.

Our Respect Life representatives will be selling raffle tickets benefiting the New Jersey Right to Life after all Masses at Our Lady of Sorrows on October 26, and after all Masses at St. Anthony on November 2. Raffle tickets are $10 each.

There will be no classes this Friday, October 25. Our teachers will be participating in a "Spirituality Day."

2 Cemetery plots, Greenwood Cemetery: $1,000.00 each or B/O. If interested, call Andrea 540-840-2905.

We regret to inform you that the elevator at St. Anthony Church is temporarily out of order. We have ordered the necessary part, but we don't know how long it will take to come in. We encourage you to go to Our Lady of Sorrows Church in the meantime, as the elevator there IS working, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Mass times at Our Lady of Sorrows Church are at 5:00 PM on Saturday, and 8:00 and 11:00 AM on Sunday. Confessions at Our Lady of Sorrows are after the 9:00 AM Saturday Mass.

There will be a meeting of the Prayer Shawl Group on Monday, October 21, at 1:00 PM in the Church Meeting Room. Please come and meet the new leadership!

Our bishop, David M. O'Connell, gave a strong and excellent homily on our duty to protect life.

The stewardship report of October 5-6 will be uploaded next week.

The first Bingo night of the academic year will be held on October 18. Click here for details.

The next meeting of the Holy Name Society will be held on October 18, at 12 Noon in the Church Library at Our Lady of Sorrows.

Click here to see this week's sanctuary lamp intentions.

During the next two weekends, our Ushers will be taking “attendance” at all Masses as part of our annual “October Count.” These figures will be sent to the diocesan Office of Pastoral Planning. We trust that the counting will not be too much of a distraction to your prayer.

In centuries past, the cross of terminal illness was seen as an opportunity to be compassionate to the sick and for "offering up" of suffering for the good of others by the sick. There is a process of "letting go" and entrustment to God by everyone that needs to happen, a process that must not be short-circuited by euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. Click here for more information on end-of -life care.

Click here for a link to a page indicating some figures on the status of the Diocese of Trenton.

The parish office will be closed on Monday, October 14, in commemoration of Columbus Day. The office will reopen on Tuesday, October 15 at the usual time.

Philip Carlini, our Director of Maintenance for the past twenty two years has decided to retire. Our parish owes “Phil” a great debt of gratitude for his conscientious labors.May the Lord bless him with good health and show him many evidences of his love as he begins a new chapter on life’s journey! Click here for more information.

This pilgrimage to Emmitsburg, MD. will include a visit to the Mount St. Mary Seminary, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, and the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. Click here for details. Registrations must be received by October 15.

Given the scientific fact that a human life begins at conception, the only moral norm needed to understand the Church's opposition to abortion is the principle that each and every human life has inherent dignity, and thus must be treated with the respect due to a human person. Click here for more information and a link to follow for even more details.