Bishop Sweeney made a pastoral visit to St. Thomas More Church in Convent Station where he celebrated the vigil Mass for the Second Sunday of Lent Feb. 27.

Everything changed for James Caulfield and his wife, Coleen, once their four kids were born. Like all parents, these parishioners of St. Peter the Apostle in Parsippany experienced a lack of sleep and peace and quiet in their home. He also remembers enjoying the important “everyday moments” of fatherhood together with his now-grown children. All in all, Caulfield said, “I wouldn’t have had it any other way,” in a short video on Feb. 26 for a men’s Lenten recollection, “With a Father’s Heart: an Evening of Reflection on St. Joseph,” held by St. Paul Inside the Walls: the Diocesan Center for Evangelization in Madison.

St. Peter the Apostle Church in Parsippany recently received much-needed major upgrades for better energy-efficiency, making it brighter inside and out with new LED lights and warmer this winter with two new boilers. The church is expected to be cooler this summer because of two new air-conditioning units.