Author: St. Charles Borromeo

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Community Mass – 18th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, August 1st.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person, not streamed
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person, not streamed

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now 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/ .

Entrance: Glory and Praise to Our God – 606
Readings and Responsorial Psalm – 1144
Offertory: Lord, When You Came – 781
Communion: I Am the Bread of Life – 945
Closing: Rain Down – 582

Today’s readings are also available to read online here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071821.cfm

Homilies

17th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

The section from Mark’s Gospel last week brought us up to the multiplication of the loaves and the fish. This week we continue this story, but we switch to St. John’s gospel. St. Mark is the shortest gospel and in order to have readings until the end of the year we need to supplement them with St. John for this month. This is the easiest place to do this. The multiplication of the loaves and the fish is the one miracle which can be found in all 4 gospels. That itself is very important. None of the gospel writers could conceive of the church without the Eucharist. We need to ask ourselves this month: can we? 

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Community Mass – 17th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, July 25th.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person, not streamed
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person, not streamed

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now 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/ .

Entrance: As We Gather at Your Table – 839
Readings and Responsorial Psalm – 1141
Offertory: How Great Thou Art – 578
Communion: Behold the Lamb – 939
Closing: Though the Mountains May Fall – 689

Today’s readings are also available to read online here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071821.cfm

Homilies

16th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Many of us hear the scriptures only at Mass and thus in relatively short sections. The Sunday gospel readings are designed to be heard over a 3-year cycle it is often difficult to see how one weeks reading relates to the former or next passage or indeed the entire Gospel. This is particularly true with Mark, and we will need to locate where today’s reading falls in his gospel to see how to bring it to life in today’s world. 

Last week Jesus sent his disciples on mission. Most of us would have found his timing inauspicious. For several chapters that we read for several weeks Jesus moved from one triumph to another. He cured the sick, cast out demons even raised the dead. He seemed unstoppable but then he went home to Nazareth, and he could do almost nothing. He was rejected by his own people. It was then that he sent out his followers. We will see today that he calls them apostles, Greek for one who is sent. They performed many miracles and preached the good news of repentance and forgiveness. They too seemed unstoppable. 

 Today Jesus stops them. He greets them on their return but before we look at that should remember that the lectionary, the book of the scriptures which we use in church, skips over the story of the death of John the Baptist.  

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Community Mass – 16th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, July 18th.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person, not streamed
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person, not streamed

    Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now 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/ .

Entrance: Gather Us In – 848
Readings and Responsorial Psalm – 1138
Offertory: The Cry of the Poor – 47
Communion: Shepherd Me, O God – 35
Closing: We Are Called – 807

Today’s readings are also available to read online here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071821.cfm

Homilies

15th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Gribowich)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Good morning, everyone.

Great joy to be with you here at the 11:15 mass and plus there’s even a greater joy that we get to welcome Sister Lilia, who’s here from the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, who will be speaking to us in a few moments about the important missionary work that she does and give us a window into really the challenges that exist with our brothers and sisters in other places around the world, just taken by the fact that when Jesus gives authority to the disciples or really to anyone, to anyone who is a missionary disciple, it comes with a certain type of cost.

Now, this is kind of a little surprising because usually when we think of people who have authority, they have somehow earned it, meaning that they have the proper amount of education, the proper amount of skills.

They may even have a certain type of social status or financial status that gives them street creds, credibility to have authority over others.

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Community Mass – 15th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, July 11th.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person, not streamed
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person, not streamed

    Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now 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/

Entrance: Gather Your People – 837
Readings and Responsorial Psalm – 1135
Offertory: The Summons – 790
Communion: Precious Lord, Take My Hand – 955
Closing: City of God – 766

Today’s readings are also available to read online here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071121.cfm