Upcoming Events

Please join us in praying a patriotic rosary for our country

Monday, Nov 4, 2024, 7 pm
St. Mary Mother of God Church
19 Cherry Tree Farm Road
Middletown, NJ 07748

24-hr election prayer vigil after the
Rosary until 8pm election day.
Sign up here.

Join thousands of Catholics in prayer starting tomorrow!  

Celebrate Respect Life Month!

Join a nationwide novena starting tomorrow for the protection of human life from conception to natural death.

Each day of the novena features a different prayer intention, as well as a short reflection, suggested actions, and more.

Join THOUSANDS of Catholics in prayer Tuesday, October 22 - Wednesday, October 30.

Click here to join!

Save the Date for New Jersey's Mass for Life

Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption 
151 North Warren Street 
Trenton, New Jersey 08608

Thursday September 26, 2024 
9:30 a.m.

Hosted by the Archdiocese of Newark, the Dioceses of Trenton, Camden, Metuchen, Paterson, the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, and the New Jersey Catholic Conference

More information to follow

Honoring John Williamson

Founder and Host of Pro-Life America Radio

Lucien’s Manor 
81 W. White Horse Pike
Berlin, New Jersey

6PM to 9PM

This event benefits the moms and babies living in our Riverside, NJ home

FREE event but you must register to attend

Click Here to Register

The St. Mary’s Respect Life Ministry would like to invite you to a Holy Hour for life on the Second Tuesday of each month at 7pm in Mary Mother of God church. There will be Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and we will be reciting pro-life stations of the cross and pro life prayers so needed in today’s world.

You can download a program here.

Religious freedom allows the Church, and all religious communities, to live out their faith in public and to serve the good of all.  Beginning June 22, the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, the USCCB invites Catholics to pray, reflect, and act to promote religious freedom.

To find out more, and for suggested prayers and activities, click here.

A Message from Bishop Rhoades

Please Click Here to Take Action immediately to Oppose this legislation.  Call and email your State Senator and two Assembly members to Vote No on this legislation.  

Governor Murphy and Abortion groups have been pushing to pass this bill before summer.   Please pass this alert on to friends and family and urge them to contact their State Senator and two Assembly members immediately to Vote No on S3452/A4061.

Bill S3452/A4601 was introduced on June 17, 2024.   The sponsors of S3452 are Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-29) and Senate President Nicholas Scutari (D-22).  

The sponsor of A4601 is Asw. Shanique Speight (D-29).  

As we have experienced with all pro-abortion legislation that the Democratic leadership has pushed, NJ Citizens will once again be deprived of their right to be informed and adequately express their views on this legislation.   That is because the sponsors know it is unpopular and want to pass it post-haste.  They intend to schedule it for a hearing and pass it within the next two weeks. 

You can read their Press Release HERE

Pro-Abortion Groups are calling this legislation the Reproductive Equity Act.

The bill will do the following:

• Provide "Free" abortions on demand up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are healthy.   These abortions will be mandated in all health insurance plans with no co-pays ,no deductibles, no co-insurance.  This will increase premiums in all health insurance plans and make taxpayers complicit in the performance of, and funding for, all abortions that take place  in our state.  The legislation includes a very narrow religious employer exclusion which only applies to churches or religious orders organized as non-profits.  These entities may request an exclusion to cover abortion if the coverage conflicts with their bona fide religious beliefs and practices, but will be allowed if the abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the covered person.   It is important to note, however, that this exclusion will not apply to other non-profit religious employers or privately held for-profit businesses whose owners have religious objections to covering abortion in their health insurance plans.  
• Mandate in law the new, unsafe rules adopted by the NJ Board of Medical Examiners that advanced practice nurses, certified nurse midwives and certified midwives can perform abortions in the first trimester as well as provide medication abortion.  It will also mandate in law that physician assistants can provide medication abortion and counseling.
• Mandate in law that a physician or other health care providers (includes nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, midwives, advanced practice nurse, physician assistants) acting within their scope of practice shall be authorized to provide and assist in abortion services in this state.  This specifically invalidates NJ's 1974 Conscience Clause law for health care providers.
•   Prevent insurers from taking any adverse or disciplinary action against providers in NJ (which now include nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, advance practice nurses and physician assistants)  for performing or assisting with an abortion or gender-affirming health care services on a patient who travels from another state if that state has laws contrary to New Jersey's.
• Clarifies that abortions for medicaid patients will be provided for any reason.

The St. Mary’s Respect Life Ministry would like to invite you to a Holy Hour for life on the Second Tuesday of each month at 7pm in Mary Mother of God church. There will be Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and we will be reciting pro-life stations of the cross and pro life prayers so needed in today’s world.

You can download a program here.

On May 31st, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast commemorates the Blessed Mother’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth and the encounter of Jesus and St. John the Baptist while in the wombs of their mothers. Join us in praying "A Novena for Life" from May 22-30.