• The SACRAMENT of BAPTISM 
  is celebrated at designated times throughout the year.
  Parents desiring to present children for Baptism prepare by attending the Baptismal Preparation
  Program which many parents-to-be begin during a couple’s pregnancy.

• The SACRAMENT of RECONCILIATION
  Reconciliation is offered weekly for individual confession on:
  Saturday at 1:00pm or by appointment.
  We also offer Communal Services with Individual Confession during Advent and Lent.  You may also request a personal appointment at any time.

• The SACRAMENT of MATRIMONY
  Normally, arrangements are to be made one year in advance.
  Couples preparing for a Sacramental Marriage are prepared by a priest in a Marriage Preparation Program in accordance with diocesan requirements.

Please contact Father Juan Jose Esteban for further information: 973-239-7960 ext. 102
 

• The SACRAMENT of the ANOINTING of the SICK
  The Sacrament of Anointing is the proper sacrament for those Christians whose health is seriously impaired by sickness both physical and mental or who are burden by old age. This sacrament is celebrated communally twice each year in our Church.

• SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION: FIRST PENANCE, FIRST HOLY COMMUNION, and CONFIRMATION
  Children who will celebrate these Sacraments are expected to participate in religious education/faith formation in grades 1-8, either as students of Saint Catherine’s School or as students in the parish Faith Formation Program. In Addition to grades 1-8, completion of the Confirmation Track which takes places in 9th grade.

• RCIA: RITE of CHRISTIAN INITIATION of ADULTS
  RCIA is the formational process for adults who seek sacraments in the Catholics Church either because they have never been Baptized, because they seek communion within the Catholic Church, or because they did not celebrate the sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation, and Eucharist in childhood.