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2019 Blue Mass Committee
The Most Rev. David M. O’Connell, C.M.
Bishop of TrentonChairman
Lt. Howard Allaire (Ret.)
Trenton Police Department -
A Police Man's Prayer
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The Most Reverend
David M. O'Connell, C.M.
The Bishop of Trenton
Announces
The 20th Diocesan Blue Mass
Celebration of Law Enforcement
at the
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption
Warren & Perry Street, Trenton
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
10:30 a.m.
Luncheon Ticket: $20/person
Luncheon is free for immediate family members -
These reservations must be made by Tuesday, April 23rd.
To order luncheon tickets, mail checks made payable to:
Diocese of Trenton - Blue Mass
mail to:
Diocese of Treton - Blue Mass
Attn: Anna Pedreiro
701 Lawrenceville Road
P.O. Box 5174
Trenton, NJ 08638-0147 -
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Faithful of all generations gather with Bishop in support of law enforcement community
A new generation has emerged since the pipes and drums of the first Diocesan Celebration of Law Enforcement – widely known as the Blue Mass – first echoed through Trenton’s St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral 19 years ago. [...continue reading on TrentonMonitor.com]
A new generThough no one in Hopewell Township Police Department outranks Chief Lance D. Maloney, the lifelong Catholic knows he nonetheless must be midful of direction from above.
"I am comfortable that God is with me in whatever situation," he said of his thoughts during emergency situations. "I am comfortable that I will act morally and things will work out." [...continue reading on TrentonMonitor.com]
Faith gives local police officer strenght in life-and-death situations
For more than a decade, Patrick Brady was a man families prayed they would never see standing at the front door.
Brady, a lieutenant in the New Jersey State Police, spent more than 10 years in teh Fatal Accident Investigation Unit and was often tasked with infroming families when their loved one had died in an auto accident. He still remembers his first notification, the family of a young man who had skidded off the Garden State Parkway and hit a tree. [...continue reading on TrentonMonitor.com]
