Author: St. Charles Borromeo

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 3rd Sunday of Advent

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Join us to worship joyfully together in person or online for Gaudete Sunday. Mass times are 9 am, 11:15 am, and 7 PM EST on Sunday.

Watch the video live by clicking in the window above. Automated closed captioning is available.

If you like our online masses, please Like our videos so more people can find them. Subscribe to our YouTube channel stcharlesbklyn at this link to watch on your Internet enabled TV or viewing device.

Today’s readings will be from Cycle B.

Readings/Psalms: 995

Entrance: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – 395

Offertory: On Jordan’s Bank – 418

Communion: My Soul In Stillness Waits – 415

Closing: People, Look East – 409

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – they are at the ends of the pews. Please return the missals to the end of the pew 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 .


Christmas Gifts for Children
There is still time to contribute to the gift card drive. For the sixth year, we are working with HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services to provide gift cards for young people leaving foster care. This is especially important for those who have children themselves. You can give online, stcharlesbklyn.org/christmaschildren, or drop off a check in the collection box or with the rectory by Monday,
December 18. Thank you to everyone who contributed to date. Through your generosity, we have exceeded the amount raised last year.

Since 1997, HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services has been providing educational and financial support to college students placed in foster care through our American Dream Program. Over the years, ADP has evolved into a comprehensive coaching program that now serves over 204 youth between the ages of 5 and 26. It offers one-on-one trauma-informed coaching, tutoring, college success support, career exploration and development, and assistance with securing housing.   

The gift cards provided by St. Charles Borromeo for the past few years have been given to the older youth who are in college, or a post-secondary program, as a holiday gift.

Christmas Flower Memorials
This Christmas season, we will decorate the church with due joyousness and memorialize loved ones with flowers. The flowers are a sign of our joy in the birth of Christ our Savior.

To memorialize a loved one with flowers for the Church: go to stcharlesbklyn.org/christmasflowers or use the envelopes available in the back of the church.

Christmas Gift to the Parish
We will ask for your support of our annual Christmas donation that goes to support the activities of St. Charles, and St. Charles only. You can donate online at https://stcharlesbklyn.weshareonline.org/ParishChristmasGift, via the envelopes in the back of the church, or in your own envelope marked “Christmas Gift to the Parish”.

Your financial support makes a difference. Your generous sacrifice will help us to continue bringing the light of Christ to Brooklyn Heights and beyond.

Wishing everyone a most blessed Christmastide. We are grateful to celebrate Christmas together as a parish family.

Christmas Collection
for Catholic Charities
Bishop Brennan invites all to join him in this year’s Annual Catholic Charities Collection. The collection takes place at all Christmas Masses. Please return the special Catholic Charities envelope from your envelope packet with your gift or in your own blank envelope marked for “Catholic Charities”.

When you contribute to Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens, you make a difference in the lives of many, very grateful neighbors.

This collection supports programs and services provided by Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens that have literally transformed the lives of so many of our neighbors. Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens sponsors many programs and services for children and youth, adults and seniors, the mentally ill, the hungry, and the homeless. In addition, Catholic Charities is one of the largest faith-based providers of affordable housing in the country providing housing units for seniors, families, formerly homeless, and veterans.
Homilies

Homily – Pastor Installation Mass

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Decree for the faithful. Welfare of the people of God. I hereby appoint you, Very Reverend Joseph R. Gibino, Pastor of Saint Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church. Brooklyn, New York. I entrust to you the full pastoral care of the people of this parish with all the jurisdictions, obligations and rights attached to this office by the general law of the Church, as well as particular legislation of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

The appointment became effective on June 30th, 2023. My representative, most Reverend Bishop Vito, will preside at the ceremony of installation on Sunday, December 10th, 2023. In accordance to the decree of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, dated September 24th, 1984, and confirmed by the Apostolic See. This appointment is made for the period of six years. I exhort you to carry out this priestly service with zeal and dedication under the authority of the Diocese of Brooklyn, in whose Ministry of Christ you have been called to share.

Faithful to the Gospel and its spirit fulfill the duties of teaching, sanctifying and governing with the cooperation of your pastoral staff and the assistance of the lay members of the Church faithful. May God the Father grant you the grace and health to carry out this priestly service in the name of in the name and Power of Christ. Robert J. Brennan, Bishop of Brooklyn.

My dear friends, because I am aware of your pastoral needs and I am confident of his qualifications for the office of Pastor. I now commend Father Gibino to you as your your new pastor.

And well, this is a very special morning, isn’t it? What a great gift to be here. My name is Deacon Kevin McCormick and the superintendent of schools for the Brooklyn Diocese. And a good friend to Father Joseph, who’s been a friend and a mentor since I took this job. There’s much to celebrate here today. We celebrate a great man who’s now your pastor.

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Events, Videos

Pastor Installation Mass – 2nd Sunday of Advent

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Fr. Joseph Gibino will be formally installed as our pastor at the 11:15 AM mass by Auxiliary Bishop Witold Mroziewski.

Watch the video live by clicking in the window above. Automated closed captioning is available.

If you like our online masses, please Like our videos so more people can find them. Subscribe to our YouTube channel stcharlesbklyn at this link to watch on your Internet enabled TV or viewing device.

Today’s readings will be from Cycle B.

Readings/Psalms: 995

Entrance: Rain Down – 582

Offertory: Like a Shepherd – 402

Communion: Christ, Be Our Light! – 590

Post-Communion Meditation: Immanuel, by Michael Card

Closing: O Come, Divine Messiah! – 401

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – they are at the ends of the pews. Please return the missals to the end of the pew 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 .

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 1st Sunday of Advent

| St. Charles Borromeo

Join us to worship together in person or online as we enter Advent. Mass times are 9 am, 11:15 am, and 7 PM EST on Sunday.

Watch the video live by clicking in the window above. Automated closed captioning is available.

If you like our online masses, please Like our videos so more people can find them. Subscribe to our YouTube channel stcharlesbklyn at this link to watch on your Internet enabled TV or viewing device.

Today’s readings will be from Cycle B.

Readings/Psalms: 992

Entrance: The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns – 414

Offertory: Creator of the Stars of Night – 420

Communion: Maranatha, Lord Messiah – 397

Closing: Sing Out, Earth and Skies! – 577

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – they are at the ends of the pews. Please return the missals to the end of the pew 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 .

Events

Fr. Gibino’s Pastor Installation

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Fr. Joe will be installed as our pastor next Sunday, December 10 at the 11:15 AM Mass. We look forward to gathering together afterwards for a hot lunch at Mary McDowell Friends School (23 Sidney Place) to celebrate Father Joe. We hope you can join us.

Volunteers Needed. We are looking for a few individuals who can help prepare the school hall. If you have time on the morning of December 10 to assist, please contact Carol DeSantis, [email protected].

Events

December 2 Events

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Prayers for World Peace Sunday
Join us after the 9 AM Family Mass this Sunday for Prayers for World Peace Sunday. All attendees, including young people and their caregivers, are invited to remain in the Church and join in group prayer of one decade of the Rosary, followed by two prayers for peace. Our world has become so violent in recent months and years, and prayers and the intercession of Our Lady, Queen of Peace, are desperately needed. 

We, at St. Charles Borromeo, dedicate the first Sunday of each month as “Prayers for World Peace Sunday.”

Wreath Sale on December 3
Our annual wreath sale will take place this Sunday, December 3. Christmas wreathes will be available for purchase before and after the 9 and 11:15 AM Masses.

Christmas Gifts for Children
Our parish has several opportunities to give gifts to children this upcoming Christmas season:

Toy Drive: In what has been a strong twelve-year tradition, we are partnering with the Custom House, to support the Catholic Charities toy drive. The toys and baby items collected will be brought together in a “toy store” for parents to choose which toys they think best for their children. Please place your toys in the rear of the Church by Friday, December 15. Donations will be on display at Custom House on Saturday, December 16 during the afternoon before being picked up by Catholic Charities for distribution during the week.

Gift Cards: For the sixth year, we are working with HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services to provide gift cards for young people leaving foster care. This is especially important for those who have children themselves. You can give online, stcharlesbklyn.org/christmaschildren, or drop off a check in the collection box or with the rectory.

Since 1997, HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services has been providing educational and financial support to college students placed in foster care through our American Dream Program. Over the years, ADP has evolved into a comprehensive coaching program that now serves over 204 youth between the ages of 5 and 26. It offers one-on-one trauma-informed coaching, tutoring, college success support, career exploration and development, and assistance with securing housing.   

The gift cards provided by St. Charles Borromeo for the past few years have been given to the older youth who are in college, or a post-secondary program, as a holiday gift.