Author: St. Charles Borromeo

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 3rd Sunday Ordinary Time/Sunday of the Word of God

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time – the Sunday of the Word of God – on Sunday, January 24:

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
  • 11:15 AM EST Community Mass In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.

    Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.
  • Please note that some people have experienced sporadic issues with YouTube this morning. If you have issues connecting via YouTube, you can also join via Zoom at stcharlesbklyn.org/zoom.

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here:

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Homilies, Videos

2nd Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

The call of the Apostles in the Gospels seems artificial and contrived. Despite some differences in the individual Gospels, the Apostles give up everything to answer a call from someone they have only just met. It seems very unlikely as a journalistic account, but it very accurately describes if not the moment when the call is first heard the moment when it is understood. I can relate to this myself and can also see it in the life of Martin Luther King, but here with one enormous difference.

The Apostles were the first leaders of the Church, but we see them today as disciples, followers of Jesus like the rest of us. They were not of the poorest class, Peter and Andrew seemed to be rather prosperous and some may have been better educated than the average Jew. We see in today’s Gospel that the immediate group had some connection with John the Baptizer, so they were knowledgeable and interested in religion. Being the disciple of a famous rabbi would have allowed social and most likely financial improvement. Yet there was significant risk, Jesus’ message was as strange then as now. There is a kingdom coming, but it will not be brought by war and power, but by love and nonviolence. No matter when or how a person hears this, realizing what it really means is always a revelation and always requires a firm decision. Today we read the Apostles’ “yes”.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time on Sunday, January 17:

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
  • 11:15 AM EST Community Mass In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.

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

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here:

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Parish Project for Black History Month: Learning about and Praying for Black Americans on the Road to Sainthood

| St. Charles Borromeo

Fr. Smith and the Parish Pastoral Council would like to let you know about an upcoming parish project for Black History Month, which is next month, to learn about and pray for Black Americans on the road to sainthood.

The US Catholic Bishops highlights six Black Americans, who are under consideration to be recognized as saints. For each of the four weekends in February, we will include a brief write-up in the parish email about one of these six individuals and will pray for the person at that Sunday’s Mass by using his/her prayer and including a petition for his/her sainthood candidacy in the Prayers of the Faithful.

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Events

Thursday Book Club: Fratelli Tutti

| St. Charles Borromeo

The Thursday night book club is reading Pope’s recent encyclical Fratelli Tutti, the Pope’s recent social encyclical on important contemporary issues.

This Thursday at 7 PM, we will discuss Chapter 7, “Paths of Renewed Encounter” (paragraphs 225-270) and be joined by Larry Chapp, theologian and owner/manager of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, PA. You can read one of Larry’s recent articles on Pope Francis here.

Bulletin, Homilies, Videos

Baptism of the Lord – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Mark’s gospel, as so I know many of you are aware, is the shortest of the presentations. And it begins with a very simple line. That he is telling you from the beginning, the story of Jesus Christ, the son of God. He then goes into a very brief piece of presentation about John the Baptist being out in the desert. But the highlight of that first chapter is this scene.
When Jesus comes to the River Jordan. And is baptized or submits to the baptism of John, despite John’s objections.

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