Columns by Bishop Sweeney
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The latest from the Bishop
BEACON PHOTO | RICH GIGLILORD OF MIRACLES Bishop Sweeney joined with the Peruvian community from across the Diocese at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson to celebrate the feast of Señor de los Milagros (Lord of Miracles) Oct. 10. -
Bishop Sweeney’s Columns – 2021
10/14/21 For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission
10/07/21 Respect Life Month
09/30/21 ‘Let Your Light Shine’
09/23/21 September is National Recovery Month
09/16/21 A New Office of Hispanic Ministry
09/09/21 9/11/2001 – 9/11/2021: ‘We Will Never Forget’
09/02/21 ‘Back to school’
08/19/21 Discerning and Responding to God’s Call: In the beginning and to the end
08/05/21 John, Chapter 6: The Bread of Life Discourse
07/22/21 World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
07/15/21 Reasons for Hope – Our 7 New Deacons
07/01/21 After a year: gratitude, looking forward, and a change in plans
06/24/21 The USCCB Meeting and our Diocesan Feast Day
06/17/21 Father’s Day in the Year of St. Joseph
06/10/21 Graduation season and our Catholic schools
06/03/21 Corpus Christi: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
05/27/21 The Holy Trinity: Love, Relationships, and Obligations
05/20/21 The Feast of Pentecost
05/13/21 From the Ascension to Pentecost
05/06/21 A ‘Spiritual Bouquet’
04/29/21 St. Joseph the Worker
04/22/21 Blessed Carlo Acutis
04/15/21 A ‘Great Comeback’? – By an ‘Easter People’
04/01/21 The Paschal Triduum
03/25/21 And the Word became Flesh…
03/18/21 John 3:16 and the Equality Act
03/11/21 The Feasts of St. Patrick & St. Joseph
03/04/21 The Transfiguration and some ‘highlights’
02/25/21 ‘Pitchers and catchers’ and some lessons to be learned
02/18/21 Welcome Home to Healing
02/11/21 ‘Now is the acceptable time…’
02/04/21 World Day for Consecrated Life
01/28/21 Catholic Schools Week
01/21/21 ‘One Nation under God’
01/14/21 Living the Year of St. Joseph
01/07/21 A Sad Anniversary