DeSales Service Works

11/22/2025

🌱 Nothing is Small in the Service of God!Thank you for being in solidarity with us!

Highlights of our trip to DeSales Service Works in Camden, NJ.

08/23/2025

President of U.S. Bishops Conference Calls for Special Collection for Humanitarian Relief and Pastoral Support in Gaza | Read more at: https://ow.ly/ZCax50WKsbp

08/23/2025

Special Collection THIS WEEKEND: Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Bishop Burbidge has requested that churches in the diocese hold a special collection for emergency humanitarian aid for those suffering in Gaza.

To provide aid most expeditiously for the urgent needs of the people in Gaza, please consider making a donation directly to CRS: https://www.crs.org/donate/holy-land-conflict .

You may also give through SJN’s online giving system https://onrealm.org/StJohnNeumannCa/-/form/give/gaza or by donating to the collection basket in the Bell Tower THIS WEEKEND.

Thank you for supporting the lifesaving efforts of CRS.

05/14/2025

Get Involved with Salesian Social Justice!

Click the link below if you want to:

🌱 Join our Salesian Social Justice Network
🌱 Schedule a Service Retreat in Camden/Kensington for this Summer
🌱 Dialogue with DeSales Service Works about our Hearts Speak to Hearts Social Justice Summit

https://forms.gle/6htBc6xwZH75qnG16

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04/21/2025

"Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through your mercy, rest in peace."

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced.

04/18/2025

TWELFTH STATION: JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS

"Another college campus – and thousands of students – are now scarred by the lasting trauma of gun violence."

A perfect, sun-drenched Florida spring day suddenly descended into horror when a gunman began hunting down victims near Florida State University’s student union building, marking the next chapter in America’s grim epidemic of gun violence.

04/18/2025

ELEVENTH STATION: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS

"It is unfathomable that, in 2025, South Carolina [or any other state] would execute one of its citizens in this bloody spectacle.”

The method is a vivid reminder of the brutality of state killing. That undermines the pro-capital-punishment narrative

04/18/2025

TENTH STATION: JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS

CW:TW - Descriptions of S*xualized Content, S*xual Harassment, S*xual Assault/Trauma

“P**n does not inform, or persuade, or debate,” Amia Srinivasan wrote in her 2021 book, The Right to S*x. “P**n trains.” For the past few decades, it has trained men to see women as objects—as things to silence, restrain, fetishize, or brutalize. But it has trained women, too. In 2013, the social psychologist Rachel M. Calogero found that the more women were prone to self‐objectification—the defining message of p**n and aughts mass media—the less inclined they were toward gender-based activism and the pursuit of social justice.

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

04/18/2025

NINTH STATION: JESUS FALLS FOR A THIRD TIME

″Acknowledging the truth of history means refusing to forget or erase it″

French President Emmanuel Macron says it was an injustice imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity in exchange for its independence from France.

04/18/2025

EIGHTH STATION: JESUS SEES THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM

"He never refused to help anyone - and now when I need help - it's not possible

As the war continues, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have lost their husbands in the fighting, a difficult situation in this war-weary country.Subscrib...

04/18/2025

SEVENTH STATION: JESUS FALLS A SECOND TIME

“It was about addressing a public health crisis that has forced generations of children and families to endure the health hazards of living in proximity to raw sewage, as the DOJ itself documented"

The U.S. Department of Justice is ending a settlement agreement with Alabama regarding wastewater problems in a rural Alabama county where most residents are Black