Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to St. Joseph Parish in Mendham Sept. 10. During his visit, the Bishop celebrated Mass for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Bishop Serratelli celebrated Mass and blessed the new chapel at Newton Memorial Hospital in Newton Aug. 29. In attendance were religious sisters and hospital staff. The Bishop was assisted by Father Martin Rooney, diocesan director of healthcare ministry.

When 23-year-old Sarah Cho, youth minister at St. Michael Parish here traveled to Haiti during the last week of August with a team of six people from her parish, she considered herself an expert mission trip traveler. She previously traveled to Nicaragua on a medical mission during her college years. But although she was armed with experience, she was humbled by the country and the Haitian people and said, “I am not needed. I need them. This trip was not for them. It was for me.”