Church of Saint Anselm | Parish Happenings

Pilgrimage of Hope for Creation

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:51:00 GMT

You are invited to attend our parish's celebration of the Season of Creation in this 10th anniversary year of Laudato Si'. Please see the attached invitation and RSVP by Sept 3 using tinyurl.com/Sept6thPilgrimage or the signup sheets at church. The events of the day include: 3:00PM Hope for Creation Prayer Walk on church grounds - a journey to encounter Christ in creation and renew our relationships with God, one another, and all of creation. An indoor option will be available for persons with limited mobility or for inclement weather. 4:30PM Most Reverend Bishop O’Connell will celebrate Mass 5:30PM Reception for Bishop O’Connell Extra hands may be needed that day. If you can assist please indicate so when registering or by emailing: creationcare@stanselm.com . We hope to see you Sept 6!

2025 Vegetable Garden

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:30:00 GMT

Our 2025 vegetable garden growing season has started! On Tuesday April 1st, our Lunch Break farm manager and some of our garden volunteers planted several types of lettuce, spinach, beet, radicchio, and leek seedlings. And, peas were sowed in the center bed under two trellises. All of the crops planted were requested by the Lunch Break chefs and pantry manager. And, if you peek out the Learning Center windows, you'll see that a brand-new 8-foot-tall deer and groundhog-proof fence and gate has been installed. The project was completed thanks to funding from Lunch Break, manpower from the Knights of Columbus Council 816, our facility manager Caesar, and a few of our garden volunteers. It was quite an ambitious project that will enable us to grow even more healthy, organic produce to feed the needy. https://stanselm.weconnect.com/photos/view/id/87828

Healing Mass

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:59:00 GMT

Please join us on Thursday,
January 23rd for a Healing Mass.
Worship music will begin at 6:30pm. Mass
will be at 7:00pm followed by healing prayers
for those interested in receiving a healing
blessing.

Collection for the Church in Latin America

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:51:00 GMT

SUPPORT THE COLLECTION FOR THE CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA

This weekend (25 and 26 January) we will take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America. For many in Latin America and
the Caribbean, a rising secular culture, difficult rural terrain, and a shortage of ministers all present obstacles to practicing the faith.
Your support for the collection provides lay leadership training, catechesis, priestly and religious formation, and other programs to share our Catholic faith with those who long to hear the Good News of Christ.

Please be generous in the special collection!

Collection for the Center

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:11:00 GMT

WINTER HATS/GLOVES/SOCKS/SCARVES COLLECTION - Weekends of January 25th & 26th and February 1st & 2nd

Winter is upon us and the temperature is falling. The clients of The Center in Asbury Park are in need of new, warm clothing items. The
Human Concerns committee here at St. Anselm is asking for your help in collecting the items most requested by The Center.

Hats
Gloves
Socks
Scarves

The items should be new or gently used.

Please place all items in the bin outside the kitchen.

Any questions, please contact: Human Concerns, mmccauley56@comcast.net

Advent Prayer

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:59:00 GMT

Dear God, our Creator,
You revealed your love to us and creation once and for all through the coming of our
Savior, Jesus Christ. By the grace of Your Creator Spirit, teach us to celebrate our faith
in the Incarnation that took place in creation.

Dear Jesus, Savior of creation, we ask that You may be born in us once again as we
seek to cultivate hope for our common home. As Your followers, teach us to care for
the dignity of all human beings and all creation, now and in the future.

In a season too often marked by overconsumption and excess, let us give thanks and
honor the goodness of all your gifts in the natural world. Help us to contemplate the
mystery of creation as we celebrate the mystery of incarnation.

We pray for today’s victims of global warming, both human and nonhuman. We pray for
more ambition in the energy transition, in this country and globally. We pray for our
governments to negotiate a global and fair phase-out of fossil fuels.

And, finally, we pray for the courage to be prophets of our time, calling upon our
leaders to bear fruits of ecological justice.
Come Emmanuel! Make us ever more hopeful people for a hopeful planet. Let us be
part of Your light of hope to the world.

Amen .

For more, please see the Laudato Si Advent Calendar

Email Scams

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:35:00 GMT

check out this link for telltale signs of these scams

Vegetable Garden Latest Harvest

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:44:00 GMT

Our vegetable garden is producing nicely, and this past week we donated 150 pounds of fresh produce to Lunch Break. Here is a photo of the harvest from Saturday, August 31. Our yearly total is nearing 2,000 pounds. If you would like to be part of this rewarding ministry, we work in the garden on Tuesday and Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. We could use a few more hands to harvest and plant fall crops. If you are an inexperienced gardener, our farm manager and master gardeners are there to guide you.

Here are few photos of the latest harvest from our vegetable garden: 106 pounds of tomatoes, cucumbers, Swiss chard, beets, string beans, and peppers. All of our harvests are donated directly to Lunch Break in Red Bank. This growing season, we have donated 837.5 lbs of fresh organic produce to them. And, there are many more harvests to come. If you're interested in helping us grow and donate food for the needy, stop by the garden on Tuesday or Saturday mornings at 9:30 am.

Peppers

Lettuce

Tomatoes

Common Ground Screening, Lunch and Discussion

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:45:00 GMT

SUN JULY 7 12pm - Free Lunch and Screening of “Common Ground”

This 2023 award-winning documentary ( commongroundfilm.org ) explores the far-reaching positive impacts of saving the soil, featuring farmers using regenerative farming methods. Register to attend at https://tinyurl.com/7-7-24-common-ground .

Weekend Mass at St. Anselm is Streamed Live

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:28:00 GMT

We live-stream one Mass service every weekend on Facebook and YouTube. We usually live-stream either the 4:30pm Saturday Mass or the 11am Sunday Mass.

Visit our Facebook page to find live-streamed Masses and other information.

Visit our channel, Saint Anselm on YouTube , to select a Mass for viewing. While you're there, please subscribe so that you get notifications in real time.

Vegetable Garden In The News

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:05:00 GMT

Our vegetable garden is in the news! Starting this growing season, our vegetable garden will be managed by professional gardener Gabrielle Tanella, and the crops we grow will be donated to Lunch Break in Red Bank. The Two River Times article describes how local gardens contribute to help feed the needy citizens in our area; the Saint Anselm vegetable garden is mentioned near the end of the article. https://tworivertimes.com/gardeningforthecommunitysharingyourbountyforgood/

Bishop O’Connell elected chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Catholic Education

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:42:00 GMT

“I am humbled by the support of my brother bishops and I hope and pray I can be of service to the Church and its educational mission.”

So said Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., upon learning that he was elected chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education Nov. 14.

According to the USCCB website, the Committee on Catholic Education “provides guidance for the educational mission of the Church in the United States in all its institutional settings. …The scope of the committee’s work includes Catholic elementary and secondary schools, Catholic colleges and universities, and college campus ministry. The committee advocates for federal public policies in education that are consistent with Catholic values and that uphold parental rights and responsibilities regarding education.”

Bishop O’Connell brings a strong background and many years of serving in the ministry of Catholic education at various levels to his new USCCB position.

Following his May 29, 1982, ordination as a priest of the Congregation of the Mission, then-Father O’Connell’s first assignment was as faculty member and director of student activities and in Archbishop Wood High School, Warminster, Pa., where he served from 1982 to 1985.

While working toward his canon law degrees, Father O'Connell also served as registrar and assistant professor of canon law, theology and philosophy in Mary Immaculate Seminary. In 1990 he joined St. John's University, Queens, N.Y., where he served in various capacities, including professor of theology and religious studies, associate dean, then academic dean of St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and assistant to legal counsel. In 1994, he also spent one year simultaneously serving as interim academic vice president of Niagara University, Lewistown, N.Y.

In the spring of 1998, Father O'Connell was named the 14th president of The Catholic University of America in Washington., D.C., a position he held for 12 years before being named Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton by Pope Benedict XVI in June, 2010.

He was ordained to the episcopacy in July, 2010 and assumed the role of Ordinary later that year.

Bishop O’Connell has directed much attention to promoting and strengthening Catholic education in the Diocese of Trenton. During his tenure, the Bishop has helped to raise money with special collections for Catholic schools and students; worked to launch the Catholic Schools Have It All marketing campaign and instituted the annual Catholic Schools Mass which brings together representatives of all schools of the Diocese to celebrate with their Bishop. He also instituted the first diocesan chapter of Catholic Athletes for Christ, an organization to promote spirituality among athletes competing in the Catholic high schools of the Diocese.

-- Courtesy of The Monitor

RCIA Classes underway for all who want to become Catholic

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:31:00 GMT

All women and men interested in becoming Catholic or those who were baptized Catholic but have not received all their sacraments are invited to attend classes in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.

Classes started Monday, October 2, 2023, at 7 p.m. at the Church of St. Anselm. All 16 RCIA classes will meet on Monday evenings, leading up to reception of the sacraments at the beautiful Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday evening, March 30, 2024.

Class dates are listed in the parish events calendar on this website.

If you're interested, or for more information, please contact our pastor, Father Brian Butch, at 732-493-4411 or frbutch@stanselm.com .

Synod Update: Read the Report and Voting, and learn what it means

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:10:00 GMT

See How We Catholics Can Save Our Earthly Home. Watch 'The Letter'

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:38:00 GMT

Make time to watch The Letter, Laudato Si' Movement's film, in which top leaders travel to Rome to speak with Pope Francis about Laudato Si' and present how the climate crisis impacts their own lives and that of their communities. For the first time, a film featuring Pope Francis and telling the story of how the climate crisis is affecting life on Earth will be available for free and accessible to everyone thanks to Youtube Originals. This film is the fruit of many years of work between Laudato Si' Movement, Off the Fence, the Oscar-winning production company for My Octopus Teacher, and the Vatican. Here's the link to watch the full movie: https://theletterfilm.org/ Or watch it below.

Diocese details what Synod revealed

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:51:00 GMT

On June 24, 2022, Bishop O’Connell submitted the Final Report for the Diocesan Phase of the Synod, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission,” to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The report notes that, from January through April, the Diocese conducted more than 800 group listening sessions involving nearly 4,500 people, with 64 parishes, 70 priests and 156 deacons having actively participated.

Please CLICK HERE to download a PDF copy of the report.

Thank you to the dozens of St. Anselm Parish Family members who opened their hearts to the Holy Spirit and shared their thoughts, hopes and dreams so honestly and thoroughly in this process.

The Center Needs Us

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:25:00 GMT

Donating food and personal items to The Center in Asbury Park is an ongoing ministry of the Church of St. Anselm. All donations are delivered to The Center on or just after the last Sunday of every month.

Here's a checklist of items The Center's clients need:

Please click the checklist above to download a printable copy for yourself.

Thank you and God bless you!

Weekend Mass at St. Anselm is Streamed Live

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:13:00 GMT

We live-stream one Mass service every weekend on Facebook and YouTube. We usually stream the 4:30pm Saturday Mass.

Visit our Facebook page to find live-streamed Masses and other information.

Visit our channel, Saint Anselm on YouTube , to select a Mass for viewing. While you're there, please subscribe so that you get notifications in real time.

Give from Your Heart to Support Our Parish

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:59:00 GMT

If your family can contribute to our parish ONLINE, we would be most grateful.

Our online giving portal is always available for those who are able to transition their physical offering into an electronic offering. Please CLICK HERE to visit our "we share online" portal.

Help Us Stay in Touch

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:58:00 GMT

Are you getting email updates from St. Anselm Parish? If not, you need to go to our Contacts Page and make yourself known.

Keep Their Memory Alive

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:56:00 GMT

We have a Remembrance Page for those we've lost to COVID or for any reason. CLICK HERE to submit the name of a loved one and we will post it to the page.

Sharing Our Faith through Baptism

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:54:00 GMT

Would you like your child to be initiated into the Catholic Faith through Baptism? Please visit our Baptism page .

Keep St. Anselm Close at Hand with Our App

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 23:53:00 GMT

You can view Mass recordings and receive important announcements, such as weather-related schedule changes, through the St. Anselm parish app for iPhone/iPad or Android. Please CLICK HERE for information on how to install and use the app.