Fish Fry Tonight!

March 31, 2023 | St. Charles Borromeo

Join us tonight (Friday, March 31) for our second annual parish fish fry. We will start with evening prayers (Vespers) in the rectory chapel at 5 PM followed by a social gathering and fish dinner starting around 5:30 PM.

We will be serving a delicious fish dinner with outstanding side dishes. We’ll be going until 8 PM or so; so please join us even if you can’t swing by until later. You can contribute online to help defray the costs and support our social gatherings.

We hope to see you there. The rectory address is 31 Sidney Place in Brooklyn Heights.

Events

Friday Evening Prayer at 5 PM

March 31, 2023 | Mike McGowan

Please download the worship aid to participate in Friday’s evening prayer, which will begin at 5 PM.

Evening Prayer for March 31

Instructions on how to join are available here.

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Lent

March 25, 2023March 26, 2023 | St. Charles Borromeo

On Sunday, March 26, 2023, join us in person or online for the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

9 AM ET – Morning Mass
11:15 AM ET – Community Mass
7:00 PM ET – Evening Mass

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Today’s readings will be from Cycle A.

Readings/Psalm – 1028

Entrance: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days – 479

Offertory: Hosea – 484

Communion: I Am the Bread of Life – 945

Closing: Sing with All the Saints in Glory – 539

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – they are at the ends of the pews. Please return the missals to the end of the pew after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .

Support our Parish – Please contribute to our General Collection online here.
Help us support Catholic Charities Food Pantries in Brooklyn and Queens online

Bulletin

Holy Week and Easter Schedule

March 25, 2023April 9, 2023 | St. Charles Borromeo

https://youtube.com/watch?v=live_stream%3Fchannel%3DUCLe2Xe-1htO4-tI7_SetEgQ

Sunday, April 2 – Palm Sunday: 9 AM, 11:15 AM, and 7 PM Masses
Monday, April 3 – Reconciliation Monday: 8 AM Mass. Priests available for confession after the 8 AM Mass and from 4 to 8 PM
Tuesday, April 4 – 12:10 PM Mass
Wednesday, April 5 – 12:10 PM Mass
Thursday, April 6 – Holy Thursday: 7 PM Mass
Friday, April 7 – Good Friday: 3 PM Service; Stations of the Cross at 7 PM
Saturday, April 8 – Easter Vigil: 8 PM Mass
Sunday, April 9 – Easter Sunday: 9 AM, 11:15 AM Masses (no evening Mass)

Scriptual Commentary

5th Sunday of Lent – Walking in Charity

March 25, 2023 | Fr. William Smith

Resurrection of Lazarus, James Jacques Tissot,
1886-1894, Brooklyn Museum

Jesus told her,
“I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?”
She said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
(John 11:25–27)

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Romans 8: 8–11
March 26, 2023

We return to Paul’s letter to the Romans. We have read this letter twice before this Lent and examined it in some detail during the summer of 2020. Indeed, most of this reading we saw before on July 8, 2020. We will use some of the same material today but focus on our Lenten themes and practices.

Today’s reading answered a question from the previous chapter:

Miserable one that I am!
Who will deliver me from this mortal body?

(Ro 7:24)

To our modern ears this may seem as if Paul is dividing the human being into body and soul: body, physical and bad, soul, spiritual and good, this reflected the prevailing Greek ideas of Paul’s time. Paul did not believe this, nor did his readers in Rome who were born Jews and maintained a “Jewish anthropology”. As such they would have understood and appreciated the modern philosophical statement that “we do not have a body; we are our bodies.” We are not naturally immortal. Immortality means that the true and important part of us—spirit, soul—leaves the body at death. The body ultimately deteriorates into ashes, it was just a necessary shell. Jews and Christians believe that human beings are composed of “Body and Soul” and that we need both to be human. Thus, we experience the resurrection of the body. This is the new life promised in the scriptures and can only be given by God. Paul realized that this is now accomplished through Jesus. A body is in our future, but it is one totally dedicated to the work of God.
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Homilies

Homily – 4th Sunday of Lent (Fr. Smith)

March 19, 2023 | Fr. William Smith

We modern people have difficulty accepting the black-and-white statements of Jesus. We pride ourselves on seeing the exceptions, the grey parts of life. Given the world’s present clumsy polarization, this is quite ironic and perhaps we can now acknowledge that Jesus has a particularly pertinent insight. He reveals who is good, bad, or ridiculous but perhaps we could better say who will be good, bad or ridiculous.

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