Author: St. Charles Borromeo

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Join Us to Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet on Fridays during Lent

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You’re cordially invited to participate in a special Lenten devotion that will take place at 3pm today (Feb. 19) and each Friday during Lent on the St. Charles Borromeo Zoom channel (instructions to join are available here). 

We’ll pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, a special devotion to Christ based on the words St. Maria Faustina Kowalska heard in 1935.  Traditionally, the Chaplet is prayed at 3:00 PM, recalling the time of Christ’s death on the cross. It uses the same amount of beads as the Holy Rosary, but the main prayer for each decade’s bead (“For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world”) is much shorter.   

To pray the Chaplet takes only about 15 minutes, but it is powerful.  It is also a  meaningful way during Lent to recall Christ’s sacrifice for us and a humble way to ask for His Mercy–for ourselves and for the whole world during these very challenging times.  All the words needed for the prayer will be shown on screen so no need to come with anything but your prayerful self.  On each of these Fridays, our Evening Prayer will still take place at its regular 5 PM time. 

Homilies, Videos

6th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)

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Think Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit community.

Right. Is that how you approach scripture?

The best way to approach it is not in some intellectual form, in the sense of researching and all of the different pieces that go with it.

But he said the best way to approach scripture is to put yourself in the story.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 6th Sunday Ordinary Time

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Please join us to celebrate the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time on Sunday, February 14th:

  • 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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Homilies, Videos

5th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

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Gospel means good news. And as it was usually an edict of or command of an emperor, did not have particularly religious connotations.

Christ means anointed one in Hebrew.

Messiah, a person much desired, but also much to be feared. And again, would have many tasks that we would consider not even remotely religious.

“Son of God” is a bit ambiguous and could mean merely a good Israelite. But this ambiguity is removed in a few verses when, after Jesus’s baptism, the Father calls him his beloved son. An unprecedented statement of intimacy.

Like the first readers of St. Mark, we know how this ends. Jesus is executed, but rises again. Those who heard him live and in person did not know the conclusion. Mark will use the apostles to show us what these people thought and experienced throughout the gospel. He will always emphasize that they were mostly clueless and needed to have everything explained to them, and sometimes have the best dragged out of them. Think of Dr. Watson from Sherlock Holmes – but without the good manners.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 5th Sunday Ordinary Time

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Please join us to celebrate the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time on Sunday, February 6th:

  • 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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Events, Funeral

Nicholas Char – Memorial

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The 11:15 AM Mass on February 7 will be celebrated for Nicholas Char. He died last year while with his family in Michigan. He is the first person on the left (in the tan sweater), and until recently a member of St. Charles.  His family, on several continents, will join us on Zoom/YouTube. If any friends from Brooklyn Heights/New York are attending, please see Fr. Smith before Mass begins.