Author: St. Charles Borromeo

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Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 22, 2022, join us in person or online for the 6th Sunday of Easter.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Glory and Praise to Our God – 606

Readings and Psalm – 1078

Offertory:  I Know That My Redeemer – 527

Communion: How Great Thou Art – 578

Closing: Healing River – 643

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .

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Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 15, 2022, join us in person or online for the 5th Sunday of Easter.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth – 604

Readings and Psalm – 1075

Offertory:  Ubi Caritas – 696

Communion: Behold the Lamb – 939

Closing: Canticle of the Sun – 576

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .

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Family Fellowship Gathering Next Sunday at 10 AM

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(photo: Paula Katinas; reprinted with permission)

Our Young Family Fellowship group will meet next Sunday around 10 AM (after the 9 AM Mass ends). Weather permitting, we will meet in the rectory backyard with snacks/drinks to share. Later in June, we will have our rescheduled talk with Susan Walsh, principal of St. Saviour Academy on Sunday June 26 at 10 AM.

For more information about our group, please check out the article in this week’s Tablet in which we were featured: “At St. Charles, a Baby Boom Brings Parents Together in Fellowship.” The full article is available on our website and is excerpted below:

[T]here’s a new family fellowship in the church that’s specifically designed to bring parents of young children together to tell their stories, share advice and discuss raising their children in the Catholic faith.
[…]
At that first session, parents spent time discussing their choices for the best books with religious themes to read aloud to children, Father Smith said.

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Community Mass – 3rd Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 8, 2022, join us in person or online for the 4rd Sunday of Easter, Good Shephard Sunday.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You – 614

Readings and Psalm – 1072

Offertory:  The King of Love My Shepherd Is – 712

Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat – 940

Closing: How Can I Keep from Singing? – 685

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .

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Community Mass – 3rd Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 1, 2022, join us in person or online for the 3rd Sunday of Easter. The Family Faith Program will have the traditional May Crowning to honor Mary. the Queen of Heaven at the 9 AM Mass.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Morning Has Broken – 855
Readings and Psalm: 1069
Offertory:  Behold the Lamb – 939
May Crowning: Ave Maria
Communion: Lord, When You Came – 781
Closing: Sing with All the Saints in Glory – 539

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .

Homilies

2nd Sunday of Easter – Homily (Fr. Smith)

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On June 15th, 2015, Dylann Roof a white supremist entered Emmaual Baptist church in Charleston, SC and cold bloodily killed nine African American members attending Bible study. At a bond hearing the daughter of one of the victims said to him “I will never talk with her ever again. I will never be able to hold her again. But I forgive you,” This reflected the general feeling of the congregation was controversial. Some people felt that it was too easy. The immediate response of forgiveness may in fact have been psychologically dangerous allowing deeper ressentiments to go “underground” that would emerge later and disturb their peace. It also could seem as if this were a crime without consequence reflecting the deep-seated racism of our nation and culture. 

There is some truth in this especially if we believe that peace is keeping things in their proper place. This is the peace the world can give, and it is the best we can give ourselves. Yet Jesus has told us that there is a peace the world cannot give. This peace is not keeping things in their proper place but by disturbing the peace by creating a new way of being human.  

Today’s Gospel reveals this peace which Jesus had previously told his disciples he alone can give. (John 14:27). Perfect peace for the Jews was Shalom. Harmony between God and humanity, humans ourselves and humanity and nature. They did not expect this until the Messiah brought the Kingdom and began the rule of God. They expected armies of angels to herald this event but although they thought Jesus at very least the Messiah “he showed them his hands and his side” not angelic choirs This was proof that it was the same Jesus who died not his ghost and that his sacrifice of himself was accepted by God. He brought a new covenant and new relationship binding God and all humanity. Their reaction was joy, the emotion that recognizes the presence of God. They were disciples – one who follows – but were to be apostles – one who is sent. This they cannot do unaided, so he breathes on them as he breathed on the water at creation and forms his people, his church, his very presence in the world. There are many gifts and power which come with this, but John strategically emphasizes forgiveness of sins.  

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Community Mass – 2nd Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, April 24, 2022, join us in person or online for the 2nd Sunday of Easter.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Sing to the Mountains – 519
Readings: 1066
Responsorial Psalm: 81 (Psalm 118: Let Us Rejoice)
Offertory: I Know That My Redeemer Lives – 527
Communion: O Sons and Daughters – 532
Closing: Jesus Christ is Risen Today – 540

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .