Change our Hearts: Our Lenten Prayer

Monday, March 9, 2020, 7:00 PM

Location: St. Rose, Belmar

Theme of the Cohort Mission: Change Our Hearts: Our Lenten Prayer

“Be careful what you allow to dwell in your heart.” What good advice. What dwells in our hearts? Peace, joy, love, compassion, or resentment, anger, shame, feelings of unworthiness? Lent is a season for a change of heart.

Our Cohort Mission focuses on the goal of a changed heart that loves more on Easter Sunday than on Ash Wednesday. Through prayer and celebration of the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist, we will reflect on God’s gift of unconditional love and how we might receive it and allow it to shape our hearts and guide our lives. This is our Lenten Prayer: Change our Hearts.

Schedule and Sites for Mission Services:

Monday, March 9: St. Rose of Lima, Belmar – 7 PM

Evening Prayer Service: "Change Our Hearts "

Tuesday, March 10: St. Margaret’s Church, Spring Lake – 7 PM

Celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation: “Be Careful What You Allow to Dwell in Your Heart.”

Penance service with homily, followed by opportunity for individual confessions.

Wednesday, March 11: Holy Innocents Parish, Neptune – 7 PM

Celebration of the Eucharist: “Living from a Heart of Love."

About Fr. Kevin
Fr. Kevin O’Neil, C.Ss.R. is a Redemptorist priest, ordained in 1981. For 22 years he taught moral theology at The Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC and is co-author with Fr. Peter Black of The Essential Moral Handbook and Life, Death, and Catholic Medical Choices . Since 2013 he has been a member of the retreat staff at San Alfonso Retreat House in Long Branch, NJ. He has preached retreats and parish missions throughout the United States and internationally.