At Friday’s evening prayer service, St. Charles Borromeo commemorated the Sacred Heart of Jesus and also gathered together for Juneteenth. Fritz Cherubin Jr. spoke on the history of Juneteenth and offered suggestions for deeper exploration, including:

• reflecting on what it would have been like for a slave in Texas to have heard the June 19, 1865 declaration;
• reading more about Brooklyn Heights’ role in the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad; and
• watching the documentation 13TH about modern-day mass incarcerations.

If you weren’t able to join, the prayer service was recorded and is available on our YouTube channel. Fritz’s remarks begin at this point. Following the June 5 prayer service on justice and equality, a number of parishioners reached out asking for suggestions on reading and viewing materials to explore these topics in more depth. Suggested materials, which cover the topics Fritz mentioned, are here.

Please join for evening prayer on June 5 at 5 p.m. This week, we will pray together for the victims of racial injustice and for reform in our nation. The prayers will be followed by a brief novena to St. Anthony and then by a discussion with Tevin Williams and Josephine Dongbang about racial injustice and what we can do for progress.

The service text with the prayers we will use for Friday’s evening prayer is available below:

• Evening Prayer for Justice and Equality, June 5

Instructions for how to participate in the online Zoom event are available here. You can also watch live via YouTube:

From Thursday June 4 through Friday, June 12, we’ll meet at 5 pm each evening at the usual St. Charles Zoom link to pray a Novena to St. Anthony in preparation for his feast day, June 13.  Like the Holy Spirit Novena, each day takes about 10-15 minutes, and on days when we pray the rosary or vespers at 5 pm, the novena will follow.

Download the prayers here: Saint Anthony Novena 06.03.20 Continue reading “St. Anthony’s Novena 6/4-6/12” →