In the spirit of the Church’s call to give alms during the season of Lent, last week, our young parishioner, Vikram Rodriguez, along with his pals, Ninuola and Julien (and his Vikram’s grandmother, Jenna) volunteered their skills and efforts to post QR codes throughout the pews, to aid us faithful in tithing to the parish.

Simply use your smart phone’s camera to view the code and go straight to the St. Charles Borromeo giving site.

We are looking for members to serve on our Parish Pastoral Council (PPC), the group responsible for planning and executing the pastoral activities of the parish. There are two open seats on the PPC as Mike McGowan will be completing his second and final three-year term and Alexandra Gupta will be completing her term.

If you would like to nominate a parishioner for Parish Pastoral Council or you would like more information, please contact our Lay Trustees, Nic Bourtin and Kerry Hoefling Jessani. You also submit a nomination via the below form.

Please submit nominations by Monday, May 5.

St. Charles Borromeo will be the final stop on the pilgrimage during Holy Week on Wednesday, April 16. The full schedule is above.

At Easter, the Brooklyn Diocese will take its annual collection for our retired priests. The collection will support the retired priests and provide health and other welfare benefits for our senior and disabled priests.

Help support this collection via our online giving site, or by placing your envelope in the collection box.

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in the Holy Land, where they are now less than 2% of the population. Your support is essential to help the Church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools, and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines of Christianity, including in Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, to name only a few.

The war in Gaza has also affected Christians in the Holy Land. Most of them depend on pilgrimages for work. The war made their situation even more dramatic. In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection is necessary to meet the basic needs of the People of God still living in this Land and to maintain a Christian presence where the Church was born. When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land.

You can give online or in the collection taken up in church on Good Friday.

For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit myfranciscan.org or custodia.org.

Our parish has two Easter giving opportunities, which you can support the Easter giving through the following links to our online giving platform or by placing your envelopes in the collection box at the rear of the church:

• Annual Easter Gift to the Parish – Easter is the greatest celebration in the Catholic church as we commemorate Christ’s resurrection from the dead. This collection is an extra holiday offering which our parish depends upon to cover our expenses over the year.
• Easter Flowers for the Church – This Easter season, we will decorate the church to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection and memorialize loved ones with flowers.

We are grateful for your continued support of our parish. As we look forward to celebrate Christ’s resurrection together as a parish community, may you and yours have a joyful and blessed Eastertide.