In Loving Memory of

Sister Mary Rosaria

We are all saddened over Sr. Mary Rosaria’s passing.  We thank her for her many years of loving service at St. Veronica School and our parish.

We will have a special Mass of Remembrance on Saturday, August 28th at 8AM.

Friday September 3 at 7:30PM in the Spiritual Center

Calling all women!  Do you wonder what God’s will is in the particular decisions in your life?  Do you want some guiding principles for making decisions about things like moving, jobs, children’s’ activities and more? If yes, then come out to the September  Women’s Gathering, which will feature at teaching on “Principles for Decision Making” by Father Williams.

The gathering will also include a powerful testimony by author and cancer survivor Karen Kelly-Boyce.  Karen will share her spiritual journey through her battle with breast cancer.   For more information, contact Debbie Gaudino at deborahgaudino@gmail.com or 732-618-7843.

In celebration of the Child Jesus’ Feast Day, we will be having a Holy Hour in the church.  Deacon Jim Littlefield will lead us in benediction and intercessory and deliverance prayer.

2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month beginning Thursday September 9 at 7:30 in the Spiritual Center

Our Catholic Bible Study proclaims the Lordship of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God the Father.  These Catholic Bible Study materials are written to enable people to come to know Jesus Christ in a deeper way in the study of the Sacred Scriptures and to conform their lives to God’s word.  This year we will be studying Moses and the Torah.

To participate you will need a Catholic Bible and a Catechism of the Catholic Church, but most espeically a desire and hunger for God’s Word!  For more information regarding this study, please contact Jeannie Vandervoort at 732-363-0067.

Saturday September 11 10AM-12PM in the School Cafeteria

The Little Flowers Girls Club is a program that strives to provide young Catholic girls with an opportunity to gather and learn about their Catholic heritage, faith and traditions.  The program is designed for girls ages 2 to 14 based on learning Catholic virtues through the lives of the Saints, Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.  The Club strives to bring out the virtuous flower in each girl as she learns to become an authentic Catholic girl and woman,  The program will also focus on purity and fostering a personal relationship with Jesus and Mary.  Following the September 11th meeting, future meetings will be held on the first Saturday of each month,  if you plan to attend or would like some more information, please contact Mary at 732-886-9137 or e-mail Noelle at hawaii2770@gmail.com,

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 7:45PM in the Church

Join us for the monthly Festival of Praise on Tuesday evening.  The Festival of Praise provides an opportunity to worship the Lord through Praise and Worship, Teaching, Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction, and Individual Prayers for healing.  It is a great night for the whole family to come out and pray together!  For more information, call Debbie Gaudino at 732-618-7843 or via email to deborahgaudino@gmail.com.

All are invited to participate in a Living Rosary.  We would encourage the  special participation of the youth in our Living  Rosary, Eucharistic Adoration and procession. This year we will be celebrating Mother Mary’s birthday. This is our way of thanking her for bringing us to Her beloved Son and interceding for us.

1) Parents, we encourage you to get your  children to be part of this faith experience. We also plan to have Benediction and Adoration of the Holy Eucharist.
2) We encourage everyone to attend specially those who have been visited by a special  Pilgrim Virgin statue or a Rosary family visitation program in our Parish. To the organizers of these Rosary programs, please bring your statues for a special blessing.
3) We also invite all the praying members/”Auxiliary members” of the Legion of Mary to join us as well as members of other organizations in the Parish.
4) 7th and 8th Graders can also participate as part of their service hours.
Fellowship/refreshments to follow in the Cafeteria.  All are welcome to bring in a snack, dessert, dish or beverage.

For more info or question contact Irma Bennett at 732-363-8386 or email rangeles14@yahoo.com. 

Meetings begin on Friday September 24th, twice monthly, on the second and fourth Fridays, at 7:30PM at St. Veronica’s Spiritual Center – 670 Hulses Corner Road.  The cost is $10.00 for a participant handbook.  To register, and for more information, call John and JoAnne at 732-851-5021.

Ordained as transitional deacons during the last year, the five men – all in their late ’20s and early ’30s — represent a range of ethnicities and places of origin. Having successfully completed their formation in divinity and systematic theology, the deacons will stand before their family members, friends and representatives of the many parish communities in which they have served as seminarians, and pledge obedience to Bishop Smith and dedication to their vocation as the newest priests of the diocese.

The ordination candidates follow.

Ricardo Benitez, 32, is a native of Colombia and one of three children of mother Bianca Lemos and stepfather Gustavo Garcia. Raised in a devout Catholic family, he was active in his home parish in Bogota but considered careers in medicine or anthropology before deciding to enter the seminary. Rev. Mr. (title given to third year seminarians upon ordination as transitional deacons) Benitez left to continue theology studies on his own in 2000 while teaching high school then college, but his interest in the priesthood was rekindled by a Colombian priest.

Encouraged to relocate to the United States in October 2006, Rev. Mr. Benitez entered Immaculate Conception Seminary, South Orange, a year later. His assignments in the Trenton Diocese include St. Anselm Parish, Wayside; St. Mary Parish, Middletown, and The Center in Asbury Park, where he ministered to and lived with people with HIV/AIDS. He was ordained a transitional deacon May 16, 2009 by Bishop John M. Smith in St. Pio Parish, Lavallette. He will serve his first priestly assignment as parochial vicar of Jesus, the Good Shepherd Parish, Riverside.

In a recent interview with The Monitor, the candidate stated, “The priesthood is a call from God … to serve him in a specific way [and minister] grace and the healing power of Christ.”

Rev. Mr. Michael J. Hall, 32, is a New Jersey native hailing from Westampton, Lawrenceville and Hamilton. The son of Dean Hall and Elizabeth Wilk, he attended public schools – graduating from Steinert High School, Hamilton Square — but was long involved with youth ministry in his home parish of St. Gregory the Great, Hamilton Square.

Rev. Mr. Hall studied biology at the University of North Carolina, then culinary arts at the Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, Philadelphia. Upon his return to New Jersey and reconnection with St. Gregory Parish, Rev. Mr. Hall was asked to consider the priesthood during a youth ministry certification class. The graduate of St. Mary Seminary and University in Baltimore has served summers in Sacred Heart Parish, Trenton; St. Veronica Parish, Howell, and St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Lavallette. He was ordained a transitional deacon May 16, 2009 by Bishop John M. Smith in St. Pio Parish, Lavallette. He will serve his first priestly assignment as parochial vicar of St. Barnabas Parish, Bayville.

Rev. Mr. Hall’s circuitous route to the priesthood prompted the reflection, “This is one of those great things in life that starts off small and kept building to the point where I realized that this is where I’m called to be.”

Marcin Kania, 28, was born in Sosnowiec, an industrial hub in southern Poland, one of four children of Arkadiusz and Kyrstyna Kania. A summer youth group program kindled his interest in the priesthood; the goal stayed with him as his family migrated to the United States in his eighth grade year.

Settling in the large Polish community of St. Mary of the Lake Parish/Holy Family Mission, Lakewood, Rev. Mr. Kania completed high school studies in Manchester High School. A year at Ocean County College and various construction jobs preceded his entrance to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pa., where he earned master’s degrees in divinity and systematic theology. Summer assignments included St. Mary of the Lake Parish, Lakewood; a course of study in Spanish in Mexico; Divine Mercy Parish, Trenton, and St. Aloysius Parish, Jackson. He was ordained a transitional deacon May 16, 2009 by Bishop John M. Smith in St. Pio Parish, Lavallette. He will serve his first priestly assignment as parochial vicar of St. Leo the Great Parish, Lincroft.

Reflecting on his journey across the Atlantic to pursue the priesthood, Rev. Mr. Kania explained, “We need everybody in the boat steering for the Church. We need everyone’s skills and talents as we set out to evangelize and bring others to Christ.”

Roberto Carlos Padilla, 30, is one of four children born to Manuel de Jesus Padilla Cera and Teresa de Jesus Lopez de Padilla and a native of Sabanalarga, Colombia. After earning a degree in philosophy, he graduated from the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, a centuries-old traditional Colombian university directed by the Society of Jesus, in 2004.

At the invitation of Trenton Diocese priest Father Javier Diaz, Rev. Mr. Padilla answered his life-long call to religious life, moved to the United States and entered Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University, South Orange, where he will graduate with master’s degrees in divinity and systematic theology. Rev. Mr. Padilla has served summers in St. Catharine Parish, Holmdel, and St. James Parish, Red Bank. He was ordained a transitional deacon May 16, 2009 by Bishop John M. Smith in St. Pio Parish, Lavallette. He will serve his first priestly assignment as parochial vicar of Our Lady of the Angels Parish, Trenton.

Most excited about celebrating the Eucharist, Padilla told The Monitor, “I want to give that love of the bread and wine to the people.”

Matthew L. Riedlinger, 27, is a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and one of three children born to Lynn and Julie Riedlinger. A product of Catholic schooling by the Sisters of Mercy, Riedlinger attended The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. to study philosophy. There, he made the acquaintance of National Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception rector Msgr. Walter Rossi, who recommended his move to the Trenton Diocese.

Rev. Mr. Riedlinger completed his seminarian studies and will receive a master of divinity degree from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pa. Summer assignments included Sacred Heart Parish, Trenton; St. Catharine and St. Margaret, Spring Lake, and St. Barnabas, Bayville. He was ordained a transitional deacon in his home parish in Upper Sandusky by Bishop Smith. He will serve his first priestly assignment as parochial vicar of St. Aloysius Parish, Jackson.

“For me, the priesthood is about helping people to come to know Jesus Christ and to love him,” Rev. Mr. Riedlinger recently told The Monitor. “That’s why I’m becoming a priest – to spread the Gospel message.”

The appointment was announced today, June 4, in Washington, D.C., by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. As Coadjutor Bishop, Bishop-elect O’Connell will automatically become head of the four county Diocese of Trenton when Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Bishop John M. Smith as required by canon law at a date yet to be determined.

Bishop-elect O’Connell will be ordained to episcopacy on August 6, 2010 in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Trenton. Bishop Smith will introduce Bishop-elect O’Connell at a press conference on June 4, 2010 in the Diocesan Pastoral Center in Lawrenceville.

What is a Coadjutor?

A bishop appointed to a Catholic diocese or archdiocese to assist the diocesan bishop. Unlike an auxiliary bishop, he has the right of succession, meaning that he automatically becomes the new bishop when the diocesan bishop retires or dies. By canon law, he is also vicar general of the diocese. In recent years, a growing number of U.S. bishops in larger dioceses or archdioceses have requested and received a coadjutor in their final year or two before their retirement, in order to familiarize their successor with the workings of the (arch)diocese before he has to take over the reins. This minimizes the learning curve of a new bishop and eliminates completely the possibility of the diocese being vacant following the current bishop’s retirement.

Brief Biography of Very Reverend David M. O’Connell, C.M., J.C.D.
Very Reverend Father David M. O’Connell, C.M. is currently the 14th President of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States. He is completing his twelfth and final year in that position. The recipient of multiple honorary degrees, he has an earned doctorate in canon law and degrees in moral theology and philosophy. Prior to coming to CUA, Father O’Connell was Academic Dean and Associate Vice President at St. John’s University in New York and interim Academic Vice President at Niagara University, his undergraduate alma mater. He has also taught theology and canon law in Mary Immaculate Seminary in Pennsylvania. He has served as an Ecclesiastical Judge in several dioceses. An internationally recognized expert and media commentator, he has published and spoken extensively on Catholic education. A native of Philadelphia, Father O’Connell was ordained a Vincentian priest in 1982. He serves as consultor for the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education. In April 2008, Father O’Connell hosted Pope Benedict XVI at CUA where he addressed Catholic educators from all over the United States. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton on June 4, 2010.