Events, Videos

Holy Thursday – Holy Triduum

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate Holy Thursday on Thursday, April 1st at 7 PM EDT:

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

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

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – Palm Sunday

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate Palm Sunday on Sunday, March 28th.

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
  • 11:15 AM EST – Community Mass – In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.
    Those in person will assemble outside of the church before Mass – please follow the directions of the ushers.

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

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

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Scriptual Commentary

Palm Sunday – Beginning Our Journey

| Fr. William Smith

Entry into Jerusalem, Wilhelm Morgner, 1912, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany.
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Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Gospel
Passion (Palm) Sunday
Mark 14:1—15:47
March 28, 2021

The first reading for Passion (Palm) Sunday is the same every year: Isaiah 50:4-7. We reviewed it last year and, as it was during the Pandemic, my comments would not have changed. It will be interesting to look at it again next year when we should be able to see what the new normal has been.

As always, we will read the Passion and let us examine a question about it for which the answer can only be found in the Old Testament and Jewish custom: “Why did Jesus die during Passover week?”

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Homilies

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

| St. Charles Borromeo

If we understand the raising of Lazarus as a great miracle, Jesus is angry with us and that is a good thing. I admit this may take some explaining.

First, geography, history and then an observation

Bethany was a town near Jerusalem, Jesus was most likely in Galilee. He is informed of Lazarus’ illness but knowing that it would take two days to get there nonetheless waits two days to go to Bethany. It is obvious that he wanted to arrive after Lazarus had died.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Lent

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 5th Sunday of Lent on Sunday, March 21st.

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
    For Myrthro Jadotte, remembered by Carol DeSantis.
  • 11:15 AM EST – Community Mass – In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.
    For the victims of anti-Asian violence, especially those murdered in the Georgia attacks: Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou Feng; and for the speedy recovery of Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz.

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

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below. There are different readings for the two masses. The regular Cycle B readings on page 4 are for the 9 AM Mass. The Third Scrutiny of the Catechumens will occur at the 11:15 AM Mass, so Cycle A readings begin on page 8.

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Scriptual Commentary

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Transforming Our Hearts

| Fr. William Smith

Jesus Wept, James Tissot, 1886-1896, Brooklyn Museum.

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Jeremiah 31:31-34
March 21, 2021

This week we once more have a choice of readings. Jeremiah will be read at the 9 AM Mass and Ezekiel at the 11:15 AM Mass. We will examine Jeremiah today and call attention to the commentary on Ezekiel from last year.

Jeremiah was a most fascinating and complex person. We can find his background in the commentary for Oct. 28, 2018. He was cursed to live in interesting times and in an interesting place. The kingdom of Judah with Jerusalem as its capital found herself between two great empires. Egypt was always at the south and the north passed between several powers in Judah’s 400-year history. Judah was able to maintain at least formal independence by playing one power off against the other. This required that the kings of Judah be nimble and lucky. As a young man, Jeremiah saw a political and religious renaissance but he lived to see the end of the Kingdom. This was death in slow motion from a fatal misjudgment of who really had power in 611 to the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586.

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