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Zoom details will be provided in the invitations to the liturgies and presentations that are emailed on the Thursday before the event.
We invite everyone not only to join our liturgies but to actively participate! Please let us know if you would like to be a reader or present the Eucharistic prayer.
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Your Donations Enable Our Free Programs
All of our presentations are free so everyone can join. However, as a non-profit, VOTFNJ is entirely supported by membership and donations. If you can afford to do so, please make a tax-deductible contribution to VOTFNJ to help with the cost of honorariums. Click on the button below to donate online, or mail a check to:
Robert Pipchick, VOTFNJ Treasurer
3508 Park Place
Springfield NJ, 07081
Thank you for your generosity!
| | Join Sophia Inclusive Community, the "sister" community of VOTFNJ, via Zoom for liturgies. Contact Mike Corso for more information. | | | |
Call to Action's Alternative Liturgies Directory provides a space to share information about spiritual communities that meet outside a traditional parish setting. These gatherings include online prayer services, Intentional Eucharistic Communities, churches presided over by women priests, Call To Action chapter liturgies, and more.
| | Journeying together as family through sadness and joy... | | |
We hold Mike Corso and his family in our hearts as we remember his mom, Marie Corso,
who entered Eternal Life on March 14.
We pray for Theresa Padovano, who is recovering from fractured ribs and a punctured lung.
We pray for Tish Dickinson, who is recovering from knee surgery
We continue to pray for the physical and emotional health of Mike and Teri Corso's son, Michael.
We continue to hold Mary Gannon's daughter, Emilie Jane Gannon, in our hearts.
We continue to pray that Louise Mancinelli's health improves.
We pray for the families and volunteers of RAMP, members of the Sophia Inclusive Community, Pathways to Prosperity, and the Christian Community in Convent Station, and their families.
We rejoice that the health of Pope Francis has improved.
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A Memorial Mass will be celebrated for Fr. Terrence Moran in Holy Family Chapel
Convent Road, Convent Station, NJ, at 5:30 PM on April 22nd, Earth Day, significant of Fr. Terry's love and care for Earth.
Please RSVP to Sister Elena Colicelli, SC, for both attendance at the Mass and the reception.
| | Carole Rogers recommends viewing "Revelations" by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as "a moving Lenten meditation." | | April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Access national resources here and NJ State resources here. | | Please email if you have news or thoughts to share or need prayers and community support. | | | | Our VOTFNJ membership and renewal drive is taking place now. Please check your mailboxes and renew your membership or join for the first time. Thank you for being a part of our VOTFNJ family! | | |
VOTFNJ's Mission Statement:
Voice of the Faithful New Jersey is a welcoming Eucharistic community mindful of its Christian Catholic tradition. Attentive to the Spirit, we seek to be the change we wish to see in the Church. We share responsibility toward spiritual growth, prophetic witness, and the promotion of justice and equality in the Church and society.
VOTFNJ's Goals:
To support and advocate for survivors of clergy sexual abuse
To support and advocate for priests of integrity
To support and advocate for those striving to proclaim an expanded image of God compatible with science and theology in the 21st Century
To provide educational and spiritual opportunities for our community and others.
If you are not yet a VOTFNJ member, you can join by filling out this form and mailing it in.
VOTFNJ is FAMILY! If you need anything at all: groceries, a ride somewhere, or simply someone to talk to, please don't hesitate to reach out. We are here for each other!
| | Confronting Systemic Racism | | |
VOTFNJ RESOURCE
The VOTFNJ Coordinating Team has compiled a resource list on the subject of systemic racism, offering theological readings as well as historical and political perspectives. Download it here.
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VOTFNJ is a founding member and supporter of Refugee Assistance Morris Partners. RAMP is proud of its work sponsoring refugee families from the Middle East since its founding in 2016 thanks to the ongoing support of its deeply dedicated volunteers, faith-based organizations, and generous donors. RAMP partners with the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
RAMP helps people bridge to a new life for a better future. RAMP assists vetted and documented refugee families and individuals who fled their homes under threat of war or violence. Since its founding in 2016, RAMP has supported 22 adults and 21 children from Syria, Afghanistan, and El Salvador. Thirteen are now U.S. citizens and two are serving in the military.
RAMP earned status as an independent New Jersey 501 (c)(3) non-profit in 2022.
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Robert Hoatson's Statement to the media:
The current fair and just decisions by the New Jersey Supreme Court to release information about clergy sexual abuse and to hold a hearing about furthering justice for victim/survivors are music to the ears of any and all in the State of New Jersey who have been sexually abused by personnel of the Roman Catholic Church. These monumental actions by the Supreme Court of New Jersey are testimony to the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of victim/survivors
who have been calling for these actions for a long time. Road to Recovery, Inc. congratulates those from the State of New Jersey whose hands were tied by court orders and rulings who promised that justice and healing for innocent victim/survivors would become a reality. And, those of us who have cooperated with investigations and rulings have experienced another positive
step on the road to recovery. Let's hope that the NJ Supreme Court acts in victim/survivors' best interests in the coming months.
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VOTFNJ has developed an Action Packet of useful steps you can take to confront the abuse crisis in our Church.
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Draw Us Forth
Draw us forth, God of all creation.
Draw us forward and away from limited certainty
into the immense world of your love.
Give us the capacity to even for a moment
taste the richness of the feast you give us.
Give us the peace to live with uncertainty,
with questions,
with doubts.
Help us to experience the resurrection anew
with open wonder and an increasing ability
to see you in the people of Easter.
- Author Unknown
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New Life, Stronger Than Before
“The tomb was empty,” the Scriptures say, metaphorically perhaps but pointedly, nevertheless. People came to know Jesus’ presence again, not the same as before the crucifixion, true, but real, nevertheless. Transformed. Somehow or other Jesus had defeated death, had snatched new life from its cavernous throat. The implications were overwhelming. Death, even once transcended, could never be permanent again. In fact, life itself could never be the same again. Jesus risen from the dead made life the stuff of eternity. Jesus transformed leads us to look beyond the obvious, to allow for the presence of God in alien places, in unanticipated ways...
| | The "Easter Sonata" is a piano sonata in A major composed by Fanny Mendelssohn in 1828. It went unpublished and was lost for nearly 150 years, and when it was rediscovered in 1970, it was initially attributed to Felix Mendelssohn. Thanks to musicological work by Angela Mace Christian, it was determined in 2010 that the work was in fact, composed by Fanny. | |
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