Author: St. Charles Borromeo

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 6th Sunday of Easter

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Please join us to celebrate the 6th Sunday of Easter on Sunday, May 9th.

Our current Mass times are:

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.

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Homilies, Videos

5th Sunday of Easter – Homily (Fr. Smith)

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Jesus walked before he talked. By this I mean that he saw his world up close and slow before he began his preaching and teaching. His use of biblical imagery is particularly effective because he knew the physical realities of growth and rot, care and neglect, competence and incompetence from personal experience. This is particularly important for understanding today’s gospel.

Jesus lived in Nazareth but as a general contractor – a better choice for the Greek word we usually translate as carpenter – he would have worked mostly in the Greek speaking town of Sepphoris It was about a 4 mile walk and there were many fields with sheep and many vineyards with grapes and olives. When he calls himself the good shepherd, he has seen the dedication of good shepherds but understands why the scriptures use bad, self-serving, shepherds as the most potent image of corrupt leadership. He brings his experience to give this image greater effect. So too today with the vineyard.

Jesus saw vineyards grow or decline on his walk to and from work. After an evening storm he would have seen branches that were separated from the trunk of the tree looking good and healthy on the morning walk to Sepphoris but they would have been obviously decaying on the way back to Nazareth and dead the next day. They were fit only to burn.

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Funeral

Raffael (Ray) Guidone – Funeral

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Dear St. Charles Parish Family and Friends,

I regret to inform you of the death of Ray Guidone, a faithful parishioner and a member of our parish’s Finance Council. He was a professor of computer systems technology at New York City Tech for many years.

There will be a wake at the Church (19 Sidney Place) in the narthex, beginning at 10 AM on Thursday, May 6, followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 11 AM.

We extend our condolences to his family and friends.
May he rest in peace.

In Christ,
Fr. Bill 

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Easter

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Please join us to celebrate the 5th Sunday of Easter on Sunday, May 2nd.

Our current Mass times are:

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.

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Homilies, Videos

Fourth Sunday of Easter – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)

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The first reading today comes from the Acts of the Apostles. That’s that story, that lengthy story that Luke records of the experience of the early church.

And one of the things that is very much noted in that presentation is transformation.

You have, as we see in the first reading today, the transformation of Peter.

The one who was so fearful that he denied the Lord three times, rather than acknowledge that he had awareness or knowledge or relationship with him.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 4th Sunday of Easter

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Please join us to celebrate the 4th Sunday of Easter – Good Shepherd Sunday – on Sunday, April 18th.

Our current mass times are:

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.

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Homilies

Third Sunday of Easter – Homily (Fr. Smith)

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This is the third Sunday of Easter, and the Gospel is always a resurrection appearance of Jesus.  The author shows that Jesus was neither a Ghost nor a Zombie and that this is important for how we live as Christians.  We need to hear this just as much as the original audience.

This year St Luke continues the story of the disciples on the way to Emmaus. This is Easter day. Mary Magdelene and other women went to the tomb and found it empty. Two angels told them that he was raised. They told the disciples in the upper room, Peter investigated and returned dazed and confused. Two disciples left Jerusalem for a small-town named Emmaus and Jesus joined them, but they did not know that it was him.  The roads were dangerous, and the disciples assumed that this stranger wanted to join them for safety. They discussed Jesus, his death, and the mysterious disappearance of his body. Jesus explains these events from the perspective of scripture, their hearts burned within them, and they invited Jesus to eat with them. At it he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, they recognized him, and he disappeared.

Thus far his risen body is human enough that no one comments on it but different enough from the one that the disciples were used to that they did not recognize him. He was also able to appear and disappear at will. Obviously, Jesus was not simply resuscitated.

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