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The 2025 Bishop’s Annual Appeal is well underway. All of our registered households by now have received correspondence from me supporting the appeal and encouraging your participation in it. The funds generated by the appeal, as you know, support many charitable, formational, and educational ministries throughout the diocese. Many have come to rely upon it for the practical help needed to educate our seminarians, provide a variety of social services through Catholic Charities, and maintain a vibrant Catholic campus ministry presence at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Congratulations to Nadine Burgos of Immaculate Conception Parish, Somerville, for fulfilling the requirements to earn the diocesan Series I Catechist Certificate. Burgos is the first catechist in the Diocese of Metuchen to complete the requirements for this certificate, which involved participation in three in-person training sessions at the St. John Neumann Pastoral Center in Piscataway and the finishing of 11 workshops through the Franciscan at Home formation platform. As a busy 26-year-old professional working in the accounting field, Burgos dutifully dedicated approximately 40 contact hours to fulfill these requirements over a period of about two months, a testament to her desire for formation and her strong work ethic.