Author: St. Charles Borromeo

Homilies

Homily – Good Shepherd Sunday (Fr. Gribowich)

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Good morning again.

Can you hear me okay with this microphone like this? Okay, great. It’s great to be here., back at Saint Charles. I was in town this weekend for a wedding out in Pennsylvania.

And when I go to Pennsylvania, I usually stop at a farm.

It’s known as a Catholic worker farm, and it’s something that I’m personally involved in.

And the whole mission behind a Catholic Worker farm is in principle to try to cultivate a return to the land so that we know where our food and where our nourishment comes from and to have that interaction with the city.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – Good Shepherd Sunday

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Join us in person or online for the 4th Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday

Mass times are:

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

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Today’s readings will be from Cycle A.

Readings/Psalms: 1070

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 .

Scriptual Commentary

Good Shepherd Sunday – We Are His Body

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The Good Shepherd,
Stained Glass Window at St. Charles Borromeo

I am the good shepherd, says the Lord;
I know my sheep, and mine know me.
(John 10:14)

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on Church Fathers and the Eucharist
Fourth Sunday of Easter
St. Justin the Martyr
April 30, 2023

This week we will look at St. Justin Martyr (100 to c.165 AD). He was a philosopher and the first Christian writer to engage educated pagans with their own thoughts and language. He had some interesting insights but most of them were better expressed by St. Augustine several centuries later and we will examine them in several weeks. He provides, however, in his “First Apology” a good description of the Eucharist in 2nd century Rome. There are more extensive quotations than usual this week, they mostly speak for themselves and reveal that what was present from the beginning still gives life to us now. All quotations are form the First Apology.

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Events

Corpus Christi Outdoor Mass

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Together with our neighboring parish, we will have an outdoor Mass and Eucharistic Adoration on Corpus Christi Sunday, June 11. The Mass will start at 11:30 AM in Carroll Park in Carroll Gardens. There will be no morning Masses at St. Charles Borromeo that Sunday. We will still have a 7 PM Mass.

Volunteers Needed – The Mass and Eucharistic Adoration is a collaborative event and all the churches will be pitching in. Please sign up below to help before, during, or after the event.

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Community Mass – 3rd Sunday of Easter

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Join us in person or online for the 3rd Sunday of Easter.

Mass times for Easter are:

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

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Today’s readings will be from Cycle A.

Readings/Psalms: 1067

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 .

Homilies

Homily – Divine Mercy Sunday (Fr. Smith)

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“The Man who Shot Liberty Valence” is one of the great American Films. It was produced in the early 1960s and chronicles both the evolving American West and the developing American newspaper industry.  It contains a most memorable line “When a legend becomes fact, print the legend” This combined with the adage “Nature abhors a vacuum” is the foundation of many of our Christian stories. St Thomas the Apostle is a case in point. (Link to the scene in the movie can be found here liberty valance print the legend – Bing video)

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – Easter

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He has Risen! Join us in person or online for Easter Sunday.

Mass times for Easter are:

  • 8 PM ET Saturday – Easter Vigil Mass – please assemble outside the church for the lighting of the Paschal Candle
  • 9 AM ET Sunday – Morning Mass
  • 11:15 AM ET Sunday – Community Mass
    There will be no 7 PM Mass on Easter Sunday.

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Today’s readings will be from Cycle A.

Easter Vigil Readings: 1047
Easter Day Readings: 1065

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 .

  • Annual Easter Gift to the Parish – Easter is the greatest celebration in the Catholic church as we commemorate Christ’s resurrection from the dead. This collection is an extra holiday offering which our parish depends upon to cover our expenses over the year.
  • Easter Flowers for the Church – This Easter season, we will decorate the church to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection and memorialize loved ones with flowers.