2026 South Jersey Catholic Ministries Appeal

By supporting the 2026 South Jersey Catholic Ministries Appeal, you are supporting many programs and ministries of the Diocese of Camden and Saints Peter & Paul Parish. These ministries serve the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the hungry and challenged. When you support the South Jersey Catholic Ministries Appeal, you offer comfort to those in your parish, your community, and throughout the entire Diocese.

This year’s theme, “Missionaries of Mercy,” supports the social and spiritual needs of our 62 parishes and 29 schools, with social services, hospital chaplaincy, youth & teen campus ministries, Catholic education, pastoral care initiatives, vocations, and faith formation programs. 

Together we make a stronger community with faith, compassion, and mercy.

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The Lord is risen. Alleluia!
Life has conquered death, love has conquered hate, and light has driven out darkness.

Throughout Holy Week we have meditated on the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. For six weeks we have reflected on the meaning of the Cross through our personal and communal prayer during this Lenten season.

I would like to thank all the clergy of our parish for taking the time to accompany the people of God throughout Lent. All the activities that were organized were truly wonderful and spiritually enriching for our parish community. Their reflections every Thursday evening, their guidance during the retreats, the Stations of the Cross, and the support they offered in so many ministries helped each one of us deepen our faith in the Lord and spiritually prepare for this beautiful feast of our faith.

We also thank all of you who took the opportunity to participate in these Lenten activities and in the Stations of the Cross. In a special way, we thank the priests who assisted us during the beautiful Penance Service that we  experienced in our parish. I am deeply grateful for their support in

celebrating this important sacrament. It was a wonderful way for us as a parish family to prepare ourselves to celebrate Easter, which is the central mystery of our Christian faith.

“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, he has risen.” (Luke 24:5–6) This was the question asked of the women in front of the empty tomb. It is also the fundamental question that every Christian should ask himself or herself on this great feast of the Resurrection.

On this important feast of our faith, we are invited to go to the tomb as well, to look inside with the eyes of our  imagination. Like Mary Magdalene, like Peter, and like the other disciple John, we see the burial cloths and the empty place where the Lord had been laid. We look carefully, but our imagination cannot show us the risen Jesus. The only path open to us is the path of faith.

This faith is not blind or irrational; it is grounded in the Word of God. The Father gives us His Son who, through His sacrifice on the Cross, enters into the glory of the Resurrection and makes all things new. “If Christ has not been raised,” says Saint Paul, “your faith is in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:17)

The resurrection of Jesus opens wide the door to the realities of heaven for all of us who are His brothers and  sisters. This feast not only reveals the power of God but also gives us hope to walk with Jesus with a renewed  purpose. He lives totally for the Father as the perfect expression of His love.

Like the risen Jesus who now lives totally for God, we too are called to live for Him. We rise with Him from our graves and live for God. The resurrection of the Lord is also our resurrection. We too have been lifted up,  because Jesus’ resurrection reveals the new life given to us. Let us ask the Lord on this beautiful Easter day to help us live as resurrected people. Easter is a day of joy. It is a day of liberation and hope. Together with our new brothers and sisters who received the sacraments at the Easter Vigil, and united with the risen Christ, let us seek the things that are above, as Saint Paul invites us to do. In doing so, we will be able to bring hope and joy into our world.

“The resurrection of Christ,” writes Pope Francis in The Joy of the Gospel, “produces everywhere the seeds of this new world; and even if they are pruned, they grow again, because the resurrection of the Lord has already  penetrated the hidden fabric of this history.” (The Joy of the Gospel, 278) Let us not remain on the sidelines of this path of living hope! Let us greet one another on this Easter day by proclaiming with joy:
Christ is risen! Alleluia!

I wish you all a blessed and joyful Easter. May Jesus continue to rise in your lives and in the lives of your families.



God is good / all the time.

Fr. Yvans Jazon
      Pastor