The parish office will be closed for Independence Day on Thursday, July 3 at 12 PM Noon and for Friday, July 4.
Parish Office Summer Hours: Now through Labor Day
Monday - Thursday 9 AM - 5 PM Closed for lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM / Friday 9 AM - 12 PM
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.
We read in this weekend’s Gospel, “… the harvest is plentiful, laborers are few …” Reflecting on those words, every Catholic must recognize that in our moment of Church history, especially here in the United States, we have a crisis of vocations.
Twelve years ago when I entered the seminary, there were almost 30 men studying to serve as priests within our Diocese of Trenton. Today, we have fewer than ten. Just about a month ago we had the ordination for one priest in our Diocese, Father Alan Bridges. Something needs to change, and the starting place for that change must be our homes and our parish community. Every priest comes from a family home.
In my previous parish, we had a chalice which was dedicated to Masses for Vocations. Families requested that chalice to be in their homes for one month, and they would keep it on their dinner table, with the promise to say prayers, as a family, for an increase of vocations. Additionally, the families who prayed with the chalice agreed to host a Mass in their home, inviting two or three other families to join them as I visited, and we celebrated a Mass in their home for an increase of vocations to the priesthood.
As a parish, we are going to start this practice here at Our Lady of Good Counsel. Beginning this Tuesday evening, July 8th, we will celebrate a Mass for vocations on the Second Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. Additionally, I invite families to respond to me at FrJim@OLGCNJ.org if you would like to host the Vocation Chalice in your home for a month, and to arrange for a Mass to be celebrated in your home sometime during that Month. We will begin with these special home prayers in August, so if you are interested, email me this week! I am expecting many families to be interested, so I will develop a schedule for rotating the chalice among homes in our parish for the next year.
- 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.
ONLINE GIVING OPTIONS
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