Join us for our parish fish fry on Friday, April 1. We weren’t trying to be trending, but fish fries are making a comeback according to an article in this week’s Tablet.
We will start with evening prayers (Vespers) in the rectory chapel at 5 PM followed by a social gathering starting around 5:30 PM. Fried fish will be served! We hope to dine in the rectory backyard (weather permitting). Proof of vaccination is required.
Continue reading “Parish Fish Fry”On Sunday, March 20, 2022, join us in person or online for the 3rd Sunday of Lent.
Our current Mass times are:
The readings will be from Cycle C.
Entrance: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast – 487
Readings and Psalms – 1024
Offertory: Deep Within- 486
Communion: Here I Am, Lord – 777
Closing: Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door – 470
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 .
Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash
‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree
but have found none.
So cut it down.
Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply,
‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
(Luke 13:7–9)
Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Third Sunday of Lent
1 Corinthians 10:1–6, 10–12
March 20, 2022
We read several chapters of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians in
some depth earlier this year. The section today is taken from Chapter 10 somewhat
before our previous readings but reflecting the same concerns. Readings
chosen for Lent, however, must be read not only for their original
meaning but also how they reflect Lenten themes. This year this reading
will, alas, also shed light on our present situation.
Continue reading “3rd Sunday of Lent – Connecting Worship to Charity”
Please download the worship aid to participate in Friday’s evening prayer, which will begin at 5 PM.
Instructions on how to join are available here.
Homilies on the Transfiguration often begin with the acknowledgement that the section we read at Mass begins in midsentence. The missing part, “About eight days after he said this”, may sound inconsequential but the “this” is especially important. Indeed, the events of the last few weeks have made this “this” truly relevant.
Continue reading “2nd Sunday of Lent – Homily (Fr. Smith)”On Sunday, March 13, 2022, join us in person or online for the 2nd Sunday of Lent. Daylight Savings Time goes in effect this Sunday – set your clocks forward one hour!
Our current Mass times are:
The readings will be from Cycle C.
Entrance: The Glory of These Forty Days – 481
Readings and Psalm – 1021
Offertory: Hosea – 484
Communion: Change Our Hearts – 493
Closing: Jerusalem, My Destiny – 492
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 .
Landscape with Stars, Henri-Edmond Cross,
c. 1905–1908, Met. Museum (NYC)
(About this Image)
The Lord God took Abram outside and said,
“Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can.
Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.”
Abram put his faith in the LORD,
who credited it to him as an act of righteousness.
(Gen 15:5–6)
Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Second Sunday of Lent
Philippians 3:17–4:1
March 13, 2022
St. Paul is a great religious genius. It is incorrect to say that he
invented Christianity, but he understood many of the implications of
Jesus’ teaching sooner and more strongly than others. As the Christian
Church developed, his thought eventually influenced what Christians
everywhere believed. This however took over a century and I cannot help
but ask “What did Christians who did not know the writings of Paul
believe?”
The answer is largely unknowable, but this section from the Letter to
the Philippians gives us an indication of past possibilities and a
prescription for present maladies.
Continue reading “2nd Sunday of Lent – Humbly Accepting Salvation from the Cross”
