August 30, 2026

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Missionary Cooperative Collection this Weekend 

Sunday Readings:  Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time | USCCB

Saturday, August 29, 2026 

4:00 pm       Sunday Vigil Mass (Fr. Michael with Fr. Stephen Grozio, C.M. preaching)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Seaside Heights

4:30 pm       Sunday Vigil Mass (Fr. Mitchell with Fr. Stephen Grozio, C.M. preaching)
Saint Catharine of Siena Church, Seaside Park

Sunday, August 30, 2026

8:00 am       Sunday Morning Mass (Fr. Mitchell with Fr. Stephen Grozio, C.M. preaching)
Saint Catharine of Siena Church, Seaside Park

9:30 am      Sunday Morning Mass (Fr. Stephen Grozio, C.M.)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Seaside Heights

11:00 am        Sunday Morning Mass (Fr. Mitchell with Fr. Stephen Grozio, C.M. preaching)
Saint Catharine of Siena Church, Seaside Park

7:00 pm Misa en Español (Fr. Michael)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Seaside Heights

Missionary Cooperative Collection

In 1625 in Paris, France, Saint Vincent DePaul founded the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). Today’s second collection will help support the mission work of the Vincentians in Madagascar. The construction of a new seminary in Madagascar responds to the urgent need of the Church to form future priests in a country marked by great poverty but rich in vocations. It is an investment in people who will serve the poor, carry the Gospel where hope is lacking, and build the local Church from within. The new seminary is meant to be a home for vocations and a sign of faith, solidarity, and hope for Madagascar and for the entire Church.

Every year, hundreds of young men in Madagascar and other African countries feel called to dedicate their lives to God and to the service of the poor. The desire is great, the number of vocations is many, yet our seminaries reach painful limits of capacity. There is a lack of classrooms, housing, and even basic conditions for proper formation.

For this reason, we humbly turn to you with a plea for help: so that we do not have to say, “there is no room,” to those whom God is calling, but can open the doors to them and provide the Church with shepherds for the future.