As state-mandated COVID-19 restrictions are being eased, Masses at parishes across the Diocese are coming fully back to life. Many of the traditional rituals of Mass are returning, such as choirs and congregations singing hymns, which had been prohibited earlier, and shaking hands at the Sign of Peace, which was replaced with a socially distant wave of the hand, Father Jared Brogan, director of the diocesan Office of Worship, said.

Nearly 80 alumni and staff of the former St. John Cathedral High School in Paterson came together for a memorial Mass to honor and remember deceased alumni on Oct. 3 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Mother Church of the Diocese, in Paterson.

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney joined with the Peruvian community from across the Diocese at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson to celebrate the feast of Señor de los Milagros (Lord of Miracles) Oct. 10.