Announcements & Upcoming Events

Join us for the holy season of Lent!

You can find our full calendar of events for the season of Lent here.

Click here to read the Bishop's Regulations for Lent 2025.

We are excited to announce the dates for Forming Disciples and Faith Explorers for the summer of 2025! We cannot wait to be with the children again for a summer full of games, fun, prayer, learning about the beauty of creation and our Catholic Faith, and, most importantly, growing in love for God and one another. Registration will open around March for all programs.

Forming Disciples (Catechism/Religious Education)

Session 1 (Levels 1-8) - June 20 to July 3, from 9am to 12:15pm (weekdays)

Session 2 (Levels 1-8) - August 4 to August 8, from 9am to 3pm

Session 3 (Levels 1-8) - August 18 to August 29, from 9am to 12:15pm (weekdays)

OCIA for Teens: Summer Retreat (Year 1 & 2) - August 18 to August 29, from 6:30 to 9pm (weekdays)

Session 4 - Classes on Sundays begin September 21, from 11:45am to 1:15pm

Faith Explorers

July 7 to August 1

9am to 12pm each weekday, except days when there are field trips (these days can run to late afternoon or early evening) 

Learn with us about the devotions to the Sacred & Merciful Heart of Jesus this Lent in our sermon series on these days:

March 8-9 - Misery Loves Company: The Reason Jesus Appeared to St. Margaret Mary (English 1, English 2, Spanish)

March 15-16 - Turn that Frown Upside Down: Jesus Reveals His Open Heart to Us  (English 1, English 2, Spanish)

March 22-23 - Abiding in His Heart: Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (English 1, English 2, Spanish)

March 29-30 - Now Let Me Say It Again: Jesus Appears to St. Faustina (English 1, English 2, Spanish)

April 5-6 - Basking in the Rays of His Heart: Devotion to the Divine Mercy (English 1, English 2, Spanish)

Begins at 7pm each night with refreshments and fellowship afterwards.

March 17 – Talk (Death & Judgment) with Adoration (St. Patrick’s Day Party Afterwards)

March 18 – Talk (The Pains of Hell) with Eucharistic Healing Service

March 19 – Talk (Purgatory) with Service of Sacrament of Confession

March 20 – Concluding Mass (The Glories of Heaven)

The Ramblers is once-a-month hiking group for those 14 and older (those under 14 need a parent or guardian with them) meets at 8:30am on the following dates:

March 22 - Huber Woods to Clay Pit Creek to Hartshorne Woods

April 12 - Buttermilk Falls

May 24 - Walking Pilgrimage to the Churches

You can join us for all or part of the trip. We hike rain, snow, or shine. The only thing that will stop us is lightning or a blizzard.

If you would like to receive text reminders, call Brother Dan at 732-747-0813 ext. 108

Join us to celebrate the solemnity of Saint Joseph with a special breakfast on Sunday, March 23, from 8:30am to 12pm, in the parish center.

Menu: Waffles, Bacon, Sausage, Ham, Pancakes, Juices, Coffee, Tea, and Desserts!

Tickets are $15 per person (Kids that are 5 years and younger are free)

You can purchase tickets are the Masses on the weekends or at the office during the week

Are you tired of winter? Do you wish the groundhog hadn't seen his shadow? Then, let's celebrate summer early with an indoor picnic!

Join Scholastic Explorers, our afterschool program, for picnic fun on at 3:30pm Monday, March 31, in the parish center.

The Mother Cabrini Society invites everyone to join them for a special Lenten soup before Stations of the Cross!

Friday, April 5, from 5 to 6:45pm in the Parish Center

Soup Choices: Minestrone, Pastina with Vegetables, Lentil, Black Bean & Rice

Entrance is a free will offering. Save your seat for Soup Before Stations by calling the parish office at 732-747-0813 ext. 107 or after any of the Masses on March 29-30 & April 5-6

Pray the Stations of the Cross with us on Fridays at 11:30am (English) and at 7pm (bilingual).

On April 4, Stations of the Cross at 7pm will be followed immediately by our first Friday Holy Hour.

Need to go to Confession?

Come on April 10 for 'all-day confessions' from 7:45am to 7pm.

Do you have children between kindergarten and 12th grade? We have great nights of fun, faith, and friendship coming up in the Youth Oratory (8th-12th grade), Junior Oratory (5th-7th grade), and Children's Oratory (kindergarten to 4th grade). We meet on Sundays at 7pm in the entrance of the Church.

Click here for the calendar of nights for:

Children's Oratory

Junior Oratory

Youth Oratory

Each month the Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory spend a day in prayer, silence and spiritual reading. We invite you to join us for our "Desert Day," a monthly retreat day, usually on the first Wednesday of the month. 

The next Desert Day is April 2.

(There will be no desert day for January due to the retreat of the fathers and brothers of the Oratory) 

Here is the schedule of prayer during the day:

7:30am - Morning Mass

Immediately after morning Mass - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Morning Oratory Prayer

All morning - Adoration in the Church

12:15pm - Mass in Latin

All afternoon - Adoration in the Church

6:30pm - Solemn Vespers & Benediction

Please join us for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on Friday,  April 4 from 7pm to 7am on Saturday, March 8.

Join us for the holiest week of the year as we walk in the footsteps of our Savior.

Holy Thursday (April 17)

 Mass at 7pm, followed by Adoration until 12am

Good Friday (April 18) Service at 3pm & Solemn Stations of the Cross at 7pm

Easter Vigil (April 19)

Mass at 7:45pm (please remember there are no other Masses that day)

Easter Sunday (April 20)

6am Outdoor Sunrise Mass

7:30, 9, & 10:30am (English)

12pm (Latin)

1:30pm (Spanish)

There will be no 6pm Mass that day.

The Society of St. Cecilia at The Oratory Church of St. Anthony of Padua presents the 2024-25 season. Admission for all concerts and recitals is a free will offering.

Concert Series

December 6 at 7:30pm: George Frederic Handel's Messiah, Part One

April 4 at 7:30pm: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem & Vespers

June 29 at 3:30pm Liberty Extravaganza 2025, featuring the Oratory Choir & Liberty Singers with the St. Cecilia Society Brass Ensemble

Recital Series

August 18 at 3:30pm: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church: Music & Meditations to Awaken the Soul, An Afternoon of Music and Prayer with Melissa Thornton, Soloist

October 13 at 3:30pm: Mary Klein in Recital - Mary Klein, pianist, performing the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann

November 10 at 3:30pm: Vyacheslav Gryaznov, pianist, in recital, performing Tchaikovsky (selections from Nutcracker Suite ballet), and his own arrangements of Russian and Western Classical music

December 22 at 3:30pm: A Festival of Lessons and Carols: Scripural readings and time-honored music telling the story of Christmas

February 23 at 3:30pm: Dr. Kairy Koesova, pianist, in recital

Click here for the flyer for this season.