Good morning, everyone.
It’s a great joy to be with you here at Saint Charles as we welcome into our community.
I’m sorry I got to get this right. I’m sorry. Olivia Ray and Margot Michel.
Yeah. I should know who I am welcoming into the community, but I guess I have a little bit of a pass because I haven’t been around for a while.
Continue reading “Homily – 13th Sunday Ordinary Time (Fr. Gribowich)”We return this week to Sunday Mass in “Ordinary Time”. The decoration of the church and the priest’s vestments will be in green, and the first reading of the Mass will be connected to the Gospel. This week we might think however that the reading from Kings on Elijah and Elisha contradict the Gospel but that is far from the case, indeed the possible contrast reminds us of a great truth.
We take up our readings from St Luke today from where we left off before Lent. The disciples have acknowledged that he is, at very least, the Messiah and Jesus has told them that he must suffer and die in Jerusalem. They have reluctantly given at least intellectual assent to this and now Jesus is going to Jerusalem for his death and resurrection. Luke calls this “his time for being taken up”.
Continue reading “Homily – 13th Sunday Ordinary Time (Fr. Smith)”On Sunday, June 26, 2022, join us in person or online for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. We will be celebrating the baptisms of Margoux and Olivia at the 11:15 AM Community Mass.
Our current Sunday Mass times are:
The readings will be from Cycle C.
Entrance: Gather Your People – 837
Readings/Psalm – 1130
Offertory: The Summons – 790
Communion: Lord, When You Came – 781
Closing: City of God – 766
The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are 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/ .
Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .
| Sunday, June 26 | |
| 9 AM Mass | Remembered By |
| Robert DeGregorio ✟ | James Maleady |
| 11:15 AM Mass | Requested By |
| Thanksgiving for many blessing received | Angel & Minsie Ampil |
| In memory of my father Percíval Williams ✟ | Lela Madoo |
| 11:15 AM Baptisms | |
| Margoux Michele Ryan | |
| Olivia Rae Kenny | |
| Tuesday, June 28 | |
| 12:10 PM Mass | Remembered By |
| Dorothy Joan Torregrossa ✟ | James Maleady |
| Thursday, June 30 | |
| 12:10 PM Mass | Remembered By |
| Estrella, Emilia, & Felipe Valdez ✟ | Gloria Valdez |
The Masses celebrated at St. Charles Borromeo may be offered for your intentions–for any person or persons, living or deceased. To have a Mass offered for someone, please call or email the rectory.
“Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.”
(Luke 9:58)
Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Galatians 5:1, 13–18
June 26, 2022
This Wednesday, we celebrate the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. As we read today from the letter of Paul to the Galatians, we should take to heart Peter’s comment about Paul’s writings: “There are some things in them that are hard to understand.” We need however also remember that Paul was the first intellect of genius to explore the consequences of Jesus’s death and resurrection for himself and for his congregations. These were a mixture of Jews and Gentiles who lived in many places with many cultures. He can, as we have seen repeatedly, become somewhat convoluted so it is refreshing when he is moved by emotion and speaks more clearly. We may lose some precision, but we see more of the forest for the trees. That occurred when we read a sad, indeed depressed, Paul in 2 Corinthians and we will see it today with a very angry Paul in Galatians.
The sections that we will read this and next week, however, are quite gentle and encouraging but we must look at what came before.
Galatia is not a city but an area in Asia Minor (near Ankura in modern Turkey) Paul had lived there and was treated quite well. He taught the people and thought they were well prepared when he left. He discovered however afterwards that other missionaries, perhaps claiming to have been sent by the apostles in Jerusalem, had come to Galatia and told the people that Paul’s teaching was incomplete because he did not require circumcision and other signs of being fully Jewish. Paul feels betrayed and hurt for himself but more concerned for the salvation of his flock and in this letter blasts his opponents personally and demolishes their arguments intellectually.
Continue reading “13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Leading Us into the World”
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Monsignor was supposed to celebrate this mass today, but this would be his fourth mass for the weekend.
And I got back early, so I volunteered to celebrate, but I did not prepare a homily.
And as and as you know, there is nothing more dangerous than an old man without a script.
You weren’t supposed to laugh at that, but I in a sense do have one.
I was up in Cooperstown this morning. a couple who attends mass at the seven – they used, they sit right over there when they’re here.
Continue reading “Homily – Corpus Christi (Fr. Smith)”