Author: St. Charles Borromeo

Homilies

Pentecost – Homily (Fr. Smith)

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Today’s gospel reading may sound familiar. It was read the week after Easter. I did not want to repeat myself too much so I reread my homily for that day. This is not for the faint of heart. There was something wrong with it and it was at first hard to define exactly what that was. The interpretation of the scriptures was fine, the examples were good and phrasing acceptable. But then I remembered a quip by the famous British Catholic wit G K Chesterton. When asked by a newspaper to answer the question what is wrong with the world. He answered, “I am what is wrong with the world.’ What is wrong with that homily? I am what was wrong with that homily.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – Pentecost Sunday

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On Sunday, June 5, 2022, join us in person or online for Pentecost Sunday.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Come, Holy Ghost – 559

Readings/Psalm/Sequence – 1084

Offertory: O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God – 902

Communion: One Bread, One Body – 932

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 .

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 7th Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 29, 2022, join us in person or online for the 7th Sunday of Easter.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Baptised in Water – 903

Readings and Psalm – 1082

Offertory: At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing – 536

Communion: Come to the Water – 584

Closing: Let All Things Now Living – 635

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 .

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Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 22, 2022, join us in person or online for the 6th Sunday of Easter.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Glory and Praise to Our God – 606

Readings and Psalm – 1078

Offertory:  I Know That My Redeemer – 527

Communion: How Great Thou Art – 578

Closing: Healing River – 643

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 .

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Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Easter

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On Sunday, May 15, 2022, join us in person or online for the 5th Sunday of Easter.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth – 604

Readings and Psalm – 1075

Offertory:  Ubi Caritas – 696

Communion: Behold the Lamb – 939

Closing: Canticle of the Sun – 576

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 .

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Family Fellowship Gathering Next Sunday at 10 AM

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(photo: Paula Katinas; reprinted with permission)

Our Young Family Fellowship group will meet next Sunday around 10 AM (after the 9 AM Mass ends). Weather permitting, we will meet in the rectory backyard with snacks/drinks to share. Later in June, we will have our rescheduled talk with Susan Walsh, principal of St. Saviour Academy on Sunday June 26 at 10 AM.

For more information about our group, please check out the article in this week’s Tablet in which we were featured: “At St. Charles, a Baby Boom Brings Parents Together in Fellowship.” The full article is available on our website and is excerpted below:

[T]here’s a new family fellowship in the church that’s specifically designed to bring parents of young children together to tell their stories, share advice and discuss raising their children in the Catholic faith.
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At that first session, parents spent time discussing their choices for the best books with religious themes to read aloud to children, Father Smith said.