Upon learning in May that Pope Benedict XVI had selected him to become the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, then-Father David M. O'Connell revealed that it only took him "about two seconds" to decide upon his episcopal motto.
And the words that the Vincentian priest chose - "ministrare non ministrari," or "to serve and not to be served" - echoed loud and clear at the Mass in which now-Bishop O'Connell was ordained to the episcopacy by Bishop John M. Smith in St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, Trenton, July 30.
