Our parish family of Notre Dame has chosen LINDA AND JIM BARATTE as recipients of the 2019 Vivere Christus award. There are countless and important ways the Barattes have given of their time and considerable spiritual gifts to parish ministries, to our faith community of Notre Dame, and even beyond our walls. They exemplify all that Bishop Serratelli intended when he instituted this prestigious award.

What a blessing it is to greet this beautiful feast day with a message from the children at St. Francis School for the Blind in Uganda wishing our parish a happy feast day! Thanks Fr. Jhon for sending us this beautiful message!

As you are aware, after 12 years of faithful and fruitful service as Music Director in our parish, we bid an official farewell to Jim Keefe this past weekend of June 29 & 30. ..

"...I am issuing a Pastoral Letter to help our faithful understand and better appreciate the great mystery of the Eucharist."

Please be aware that this morning several parishioners have been receiving text messages from a sender claiming to be Fr. Paddy (one of the originating numbers below).  This is a SCAM!  Please do not reply and do not call that number!

It is with a great sense of sadness that we announce the upcoming departure of our wonderful Music Minister, Jim Keefe, from the Notre Dame family...

On Wednesday night, over 100 women and men, including team and guests, gathered in our Parish Hall for the first night of our 12-week Alpha journey

Please be sure to double check email messages coming from our parish staff-- source email ("From:" is bogus! Read more...

Congratulations to Lorelei & Mike Kelly, our 2018 Recipients of the Vivere Christus Est Award!! The award will be presented at a special service, this coming Sunday, September 9 at 3:30 PM at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson. All are welcome to attend!

"... amidst this time of crisis we need to remember that the Church is not just an institution of fallen men in need of God’s grace, but also a servant." Fr. Jhon

25 missionaries from our Guatemala Outreach ministry recently spent a week building four homes in the village of El Chipoton near Antigua, Guatemala. Below are testimonials from a few of this year’s participants.

The Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report issued on August 14, 2018 was profoundly upsetting to every person of good will. The abuses described in the report are criminal and morally reprehensible. They show a heartbreaking departure from our fundamental belief in the dignity and value of every child....

Pope Francis has responded to new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse. In an impassioned letter addressed to the whole People of God, he calls on the Church to be close to victims in solidarity, and to join in acts of prayer and fasting in penance for such "atrocities".

In response to the devastating news about widespread abuse by trusted clergy in Pennsylvania, Father Paddy was compelled to address this grave matter at all masses this past weekend. Please take a few moments to liisten to what Fr. Paddy shared with the congregation.

Last weekend we participated in another Vision Homily/Nametag Weekend. Father Paddy related the powerful witness of the hemorrhaging woman in the gospel to our own reaching out to “touch the garment of Jesus” in our search for a closer personal relationship with him.

The reality we faced is that the classroom model of catechizing children, a model used by the Church for decades, no longer is working because the culture has changed so significantly.  As a society we face a crisis of the breakdown of the family unit, an increase in alcohol and drug use, as well as a crisis in terms of anxiety, depression, mental health issues and suicide....

Our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), led by Fr. Paddy, just returned from a transformative four days at DR18, the Divine Renovation conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

From Monday through Thursday next week, our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), which includes Frs. Paddy & Jhon, Jean, Cristina and Ivette, will be attending the Divine Renovation Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia (home of "Divine Renovation" author, Fr. James Mallon).

This past Friday evening and all day on Saturday we experienced our first Alpha “Weekend Away” at a beautiful retreat center in Florham Park – a peaceful, secluded haven surrounded by woods. ..