As a young student at St. Mary’s School in Trenton, Sister Margaret Anne Henss, PHJC, knew she wanted to live a religious life while also teaching. “In my second grade mind teachers and sisters were one and the same,” she said.

Catholic Urban Programs has provided services to communities in the Belleville diocese since 1973, and is one of the 14 ministries benefiting in part from The Catholic Service and Ministry Appeal.

The readings for Sunday, August 13, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A, are 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a; Romans 9:1-5; and Matthew 14:22-33.