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Presented by the diocesan Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, the St. Timothy Award recognizes youth in grades 9-12 who have demonstrated outstanding acts of charity, ministry and additional outreach to their parishes and wider communities. The teens are nominated by parish youth ministers, pastors and catechetical leaders.

AS THE VERY POPULAR PASSAGE FROM ECCLESIASTES tells us in the Old Testament, “There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.” That message was recently echoed by Terry Ginther, the Diocese’s outgoing chancellor and executive director of Pastoral Life and Mission, at the end of her retirement celebration on June 25. It is a prevailing truth in all things, but it seems to be particularly poignant at this time of year with so many things in flux.

BISHOP DAVID M. O'CONNELL, C.M., EXTENDS HIS CONGRATULATIONS to our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV as he receives the 38th Annual Liberty Medal on July 3, 2026, from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The award recognizes the Holy Father’s lifelong work promoting religious liberty and freedom of conscience and expression around the world, ideals enshrined by America’s founders in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

THE CHANCERY IN LAWRENCEVILLE will be closed Friday, July 3, for Independence Day. Regular office hours will resume, Monday, July 6.