Our Lady of Good Counsel Church (Moorestown, New Jersey)

Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church is a church of the Catholic Diocese of Trenton in the Mid-Gothic Romanesque Revival style and is located at 42 West Main Street in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, United States.

While the title "Our Lady of Good Counsel" is generally applied to a painting showing Mary comforting the child Jesus the parish has adopted its name from another event—the wedding feast at Cana at which Mary gave the waiters the "good counsel" recorded in John 2:5 that they should "do whatever he [Jesus] tells you."

The parish grew out of a mission on the farm of a Catholic family which had settled in Fellowship, New Jersey in 1832; they established a mission chapel named “The Chapel of Our Lady and St. Patrick” at which Mass would sometimes be celebrated by priests traveling from the parish of Immaculate Conception in Camden, about ten miles to the southwest.

The current church, built of Stockton stone, was erected after the original structure was damaged in a wind storm in the early 1890s and was completed sixteen months after the cornerstone was laid on July 14, 1895.

[6] The Saturday Vigil and Sunday Masses can be viewed live on the parish website, which also contains an archive of selected past services.

Outside of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Moorestown, New Jersey
Photo of the Crypt Chapel at Good Counsel Church