Homilies

15th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Gribowich)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Good morning, everyone.

Great joy to be with you here at the 11:15 mass and plus there’s even a greater joy that we get to welcome Sister Lilia, who’s here from the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, who will be speaking to us in a few moments about the important missionary work that she does and give us a window into really the challenges that exist with our brothers and sisters in other places around the world, just taken by the fact that when Jesus gives authority to the disciples or really to anyone, to anyone who is a missionary disciple, it comes with a certain type of cost.

Now, this is kind of a little surprising because usually when we think of people who have authority, they have somehow earned it, meaning that they have the proper amount of education, the proper amount of skills.

They may even have a certain type of social status or financial status that gives them street creds, credibility to have authority over others.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 15th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, July 11th.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person, not streamed
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person, not streamed

    Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/

Entrance: Gather Your People – 837
Readings and Responsorial Psalm – 1135
Offertory: The Summons – 790
Communion: Precious Lord, Take My Hand – 955
Closing: City of God – 766

Today’s readings are also available to read online here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071121.cfm

Scriptual Commentary

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fulfilling Our Being

| Fr. William Smith

He Sent them out Two by Two,
James Tissot, 1886-1896, Brooklyn Museum

He summoned the Twelve
and began to send them out
two by two.
(Mark 6:7)

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Letter to the Ephesians 1:14
July 11, 2021

This summer we will be studying the 2nd reading for Sundays which is now called the “Letter of Paul to the Ephesians”. Most discussions of this letter begin by asking if it was written by St. Paul himself in the 60s or a disciple most likely in the 90s. This will not concern us here. It is a complicated question and as we will see in a few weeks, it has much to do with post reformation church politics. Another question is the original audience. This too does not directly interest us. It was most likely written to several churches, one of which was Ephesus. This will mean that it will not have the local color of some of the letters attributed to St. Paul but will free the author to more directly examine “Cosmic” themes.

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Bulletin

Mission Appeal Next Sunday

| St. Charles Borromeo

Next Sunday, July 11, we will be visited by a missionary from the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi. Their ministry focuses serving those in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, especially the homeless, street children, the orphans, children with disabilities, children living with HIV-AIDS, refugees, elderly, youth, single mothers and those affected by the pandemic, which is currently surging in Africa.

The Little Sisters ask for our prayers and financial support of their ministry for the marginalized children who have been impacted greatly by COVID-19 pandemic. If you would like to contribute, you can do so through our online giving site, https://stcharlesbklyn.weshareonline.org/ws/opportunities/LittleSistersofSaintFrancis.

Below is more information about the Little Sisters of St. Francis.

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Events

Discussion of End of the Modern World Begins this Thursday

| St. Charles Borromeo

This Thursday, July 8 at 7 PM, we will begin discussing Romano Guardini’s The End of the Modern World, one of Pope Francis’s favorite works. For this session, we will discuss through Chapter 2.

The Brownstone Brooklyn and Beyond book group meets weekly on Thursdays at 7 PM.  It is comprised of parishioners from various churches in the Brooklyn Heights/Park Slope area. The book club was the subject of a short video that was presented at the recent World Communications Day virtual conference. The video includes an interview with Fr. John and some familiar shots along Sidney Place. Please join in the discussion on our parish Zoom channel.