Author: St. Charles Borromeo

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Community Mass – 29th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo


Please celebrate with us on Sunday, October 17, 2021 in person or online.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

Entrance: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness – 610
Responsorial Psalm & Readings – 1179
Offertory: There Is a Balm in Gilead – 640
Communion: Amazing Grace – 645
Closing: Rain Down – 582

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 .

Homilies

29th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Rich Romans placed seats at the front gates of their town houses for their clients. Clients were people dependent upon a patron for their jobs and intervening for them with higher authorities. When the patron went to the market or to court, his clients walked behind him to show his importance. There were literally his followers. The patron will in turn have been the client of someone greater and would have followed him to the Senate or another place of great importance. Mark’s gospel was written by and for Roman Christians and Mark seized on today’s story to show that Christians are not Jesus’ clients but his disciples and that disciples do not have clients but sisters and brothers. It is a hard lesson to learn, and one needed to be relearned in every generation, especially ours. 

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 29th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo


Please celebrate with us on Sunday, October 17, 2021 in person or online.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

Entrance: The Summons – 790
Responsorial Psalm & Readings – 1176
Offertory: Open My Eyes – 651
Communion: Christ, Be Our Light – 590
Closing: Blest Be the Lord – 686

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 .

Homilies

28th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

Let us do a thought experiment:

You wake up in the morning and find yourself back-to-back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist’s circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you,” To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it’s only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment and can safely be unplugged from you.”

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Community Mass – 28th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo


Please join us to celebrate the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, October 10, 2021.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

Entrance: Gather Your People – 837
Responsorial Psalm & Readings – 1173
Offertory: The Cry of the Poor – 47
Communion: Lord, When You Came – 781
Closing: Blest Are They – 735

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now 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 .

Bulletin

27th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

It is easy to read today’s gospel passage and its parallel in St. Matthew as primarily about divorce and remarriage, it is certainly relevant to this and given the context of its time, liberating, yet it may obscure its beautiful view of marriage.

Now, the obvious visual. I am a celibate priest who has never been married.

Indeed, a person who knows me very well said to me more than once, “Lucky the woman who missed you.”

You are supposed to laugh at that.

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Community Mass – 27th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo


Please join us to celebrate the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday, October 2, 2021.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EDT – Morning Mass – in person
  • 11:15 AM EDT – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EDT – Evening Mass – in person

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

Entrance: Let all things now living – 635
Responsorial Psalm & Readings – 1171
Offertory: Make me a channel of your peace – 828
Communion: How great thou art – 578
Closing: Canticle of the Sun – 576

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are now 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 .