Closing the Year For Priests

We were priveledged to host the Diocese of Metuchen in a prayerful and powerful closing to the Year for Priests. The Diocesan Festival and Chamber Choirs led us in prayer in the company of over one hundred priests and seminarians from the Diocese, along with Bishop Bootkoski and Bishop Emeritus Hughes. In this photo, he is thanking the host for the evening, our own Rev. Msgr. Edward M. O'Neill and the homilist for the evening, Rev. Sean A. Broderick, C.S.Sp. from Mary Mother of God Parish in Hillsborough. Father Sean offered his reflections on parish priests, from his very unique perspective of not having been a parish priest for forty of his forty-five ordained years! Bishop Bootkoski then offered his perspective of being a priest in parish life and charged his brother priests to relish their role and SMILE!
I hope the heat of Sunday didn't keep you away on Monday evening, the air conditioning was working just fine by then. Thanks for following along!