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Community Mass – Pentecost

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate Pentecost on Sunday, May 23rd.

Our current Mass times are:

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.

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Homilies, Videos

7th Sunday of Easter – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

There is nothing more important in life than who we love, yet it has been well said that we cannot explain why we love someone. If a husband were to say that he loved his wife because she was beautiful, she might indignantly answer “What happens if I lost my beauty?” “Would you still love me?” If she however told her husband that she loved him because he was a good provider he could well respond, “Would you still love me if I lost my job?” Why we love is a mystery because there is simply too much meaning to express in questions and answers. It is the stuff of poetry and drama not philosophy and science and the best even the most subline literature can accomplish is the hinting at the fullness. 

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Community Mass – 7th Sunday of Easter

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 7th Sunday of Easter on Sunday, May 16th.

Our current Mass times are:

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.

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Community Mass – Ascension Thursday

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord on Thursday, May 13th.

The Mass for today will be held at:;

View today’s readings on the USCCB website.

Homilies, Videos

6th Sunday of Easter – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)

| St. Charles Borromeo

As we mentioned at the beginning of today’s liturgy, it is the sixth Sunday of Easter.

And so for six, seven weeks we have been singing alleluia, yes.

And I wonder sometimes since we do these things almost out of practice or what you might say habit.

Whether we ever really stop to think.

Why are we using this one word so frequently?

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Community Mass – 6th Sunday of Easter

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 6th Sunday of Easter on Sunday, May 9th.

Our current Mass times are:

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.

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5th Sunday of Easter – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Jesus walked before he talked. By this I mean that he saw his world up close and slow before he began his preaching and teaching. His use of biblical imagery is particularly effective because he knew the physical realities of growth and rot, care and neglect, competence and incompetence from personal experience. This is particularly important for understanding today’s gospel.

Jesus lived in Nazareth but as a general contractor – a better choice for the Greek word we usually translate as carpenter – he would have worked mostly in the Greek speaking town of Sepphoris It was about a 4 mile walk and there were many fields with sheep and many vineyards with grapes and olives. When he calls himself the good shepherd, he has seen the dedication of good shepherds but understands why the scriptures use bad, self-serving, shepherds as the most potent image of corrupt leadership. He brings his experience to give this image greater effect. So too today with the vineyard.

Jesus saw vineyards grow or decline on his walk to and from work. After an evening storm he would have seen branches that were separated from the trunk of the tree looking good and healthy on the morning walk to Sepphoris but they would have been obviously decaying on the way back to Nazareth and dead the next day. They were fit only to burn.

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