A combined 62 young people of Assumption Parish in Morristown received the sacrament of confirmation, administered by Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney on April 6 during Masses at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the church. Bishop Sweeney celebrated the Mass. Msgr. John Hart, Assumption’s pastor, and Father Lukasz Wnuk, parochial vicar, concelebrated the liturgies.

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney presided at the annual Acies of the Legion of Mary on April 7 in Sacred Heart Church in Clifton. The Legion of Mary is a worldwide organization in which members join in prayer and apostolic work in union with the Blessed Mother under the guidance of a priest.

On April 6, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated the monthly Mass and Rosary Procession for Life at St. Margaret of Scotland Parish in Morris­town.

This year, Grace Mattera, 10, a youth choir member at Holy Spirit Parish in Pequannock, took a musical leap of faith. This singer spent several weeks learning liturgical music from the Church’s rich historical repertoire to sing at a choral festival and Mass in New York City on March 2.

Paulist Father Ellwood “Bud” Kieser made a name in Holly­wood in the 1960s and 1970s — unusual for a Catholic priest. He produced the long-running TV show Insight, a religiously-themed weekly anthology series that attracted prominent writers, directors, and actors.

Our Lady of Fatima/St. Nicholas Parish in Passaic rejoiced that “Christ is truly risen” on March 31, Easter Sunday, during a Mass with Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney.

The Easter season is an opportunity to renew our baptismal promises and recommit ourselves to Christ. For episode 49 of Beyond The Beacon, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney reflects on the significance of Holy Week. Learn what it’s like to experience Holy Week from the perspective of a bishop.

St. Gerard Majella School students in Paterson performed the Live Stations of The Cross on Friday, March 22, and again on Good Friday, March 29, in the parish church.

More than 1,000 faithful of St. Margaret of Scotland Parish in Morristown helped carry out the living Stations of the Cross through the streets of Morristown on March 29, Good Friday

In a demonstration of unity, parishioners from various nationalities at St. Margaret of Scotland in Morristown were invited to have their feet washed during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, March 28, in the church.

Those seeking full initiation into the Catholic Church, known as the elect, received the sacraments of initiation — baptism, confirmation, and Holy Eucharist — at the Easter Vigil Mass on the evening of Holy Saturday, March 30, in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson.

At the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, more than 100 parishioners once again brought Jesus' final hours to life with their presentation of Via Crucis, or the Way of the Cross, on March 29, Good Friday. The annual tradition in the city included a procession through the streets of Paterson, which concluded inside the cathedral.

The community of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson welcomed Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney, who presided over the celebration of the Lord’s Passion for Good Friday on March 29.

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday evening, March 28, in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson. The Mass commemorates the institution of the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders by Jesus Christ.

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney was the homilist and main celebrant of the diocese’s annual Mass of Chrism on March 26 in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson.

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney on March 27 once again celebrated a Mass during Holy Week in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown.

he Paterson Diocese held interim phase listening sessions on March 18 in the St. John Paul II Pastoral Center in Clifton, and March 23 in St. Paul Inside the Walls in Madison.

What does “I am 1 in 4” mean? There’s a population of women who know exactly what this means firsthand. It means they lost a child through miscarriage. On Episode 48 of Beyond The Beacon, Jennifer Nelson joins Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney and Cecile Pagliarulo to discuss the Sisterhood of the Traveling Relics of St. Gianna, a prayer card ministry bonded by St. Gianna Beretta Molla.

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated Mass for Palm Sunday at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson on March 24. He blessed the palm branches of the faithful before processing into St. John’s for the Mass.

The Shrine of St. Joseph in the Stirling neighborhood of Long Hill Township marked the opening of this centennial year on March 19, the solemnity of St. Joseph, its patron, with more than 500 people in attendance.