Author: St. Charles Borromeo

Events, Videos

Community Mass – Christmas

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Please join us to celebrate the joy of Christmas, wherever you are:

  • 12/24 5 PM EST – Christmas Eve Mass During the Night – In Person at the Church and Live Streamed and available for playback.
  • 12/24 9 AM EST – Christmas Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
  • 12/25 11:15 AM EST Community Christmas Mass In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.

    Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here:

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Christmas Week Schedule

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Monday 12/22

4-8 PM Reconciliation at the Church
Confessions will be heard in the sanctuary or the sacristy.

Wednesday 12/23

12:10 PM – Weekday Mass at the Church
12:30 – 2 PM – Church open for Private Prayer

Thursday 12/24

9 AM – 3 PM – Catholic Charities Food Pantry at the Church

5 PM – Christmas Eve Mass – at the Church & Live Streamed
There will be no Mass at Midnight.

Friday 12/25

9 AM – Christmas Morning Mass at the Church

11:15 AM – Christmas Community Mass at the Church & Live Streamed

Tickets/reservations are not required for Mass.
Social distancing and face masks are required: follow usher instructions.

Events, Videos

Community Mass – 4th Sunday of Advent

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Please join us for Mass for the 4th Sunday of Advent – Sunday, December 20.

  • 9:00 AM EST Sunday Morning Mass celebrated at the Church – not streamed.
  • 11:15 AM EST Community Mass celebrated at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback. Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here:

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 3nd Sunday of Advent

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Please join us for Mass for the 3nd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) – Sunday, December 13.

  • 9:00 AM EST Sunday Morning Mass celebrated at the Church – not streamed.
  • 11:15 AM EST Community Mass celebrated at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback. Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here:

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Scriptual Commentary

3rd Sunday of Advent – Rejoicing Heartily in the Lord

| St. Charles Borromeo

Our Lady of Guadalupe on the Tilma of Saint Juan Diego
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Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Third Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 61:1–2A, 10–11
December 13, 2020

Our passage today is again from the third person to use the name Isaiah. The author chose his name very well as he combines the interests and concerns of both of his predecessors.

First Isaiah began his ministry in 742 BC, the year King Uzziah died. This is significant. Uzziah had reigned for 40 years and had greatly increased the GDP of his kingdom. But he did so by favoring and elite and creating prosperity for some by taking the properties of those not connected to the powerful. This was compounded by his successors who made alliances with Assyria requiring the Judeans to pay vast sums in protection money which the rich managed to avoid further impoverishing the peasants. It is clear why in the very first chapter of Isaiah God says to the people:  

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Homilies, Videos

2nd Sunday of Advent – Fr. Smith Homily

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When I first became interested in community organizing, I went to East New York to visit the 
Nehemiah Houses. East New York was once described as the place where civilization went to die. All I knew about the
Nehemiah Houses was that they were designed not so much for the residents of the community as with them. I did not know what to expect but I found lovely one family bungalows with meticulously kept lawns. Modest and unassuming but they radiated pride of ownership. When I returned to my rectory in Bed-Sty I looked out my window to an apartment house financed by Jackie Robinson and designed by professional architects from the finest materials a few decades before the
Nehemiah Houses. They had by then deteriorated to the point that I had to ask for a guard to bring me in and out when I went on communion calls. I could not understand the difference but, as we see today, John the Baptist could have explained it to me. 

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 2nd Sunday of Advent

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us for Mass for the 2nd Sunday of Advent – Sunday, December 6.

  • 9:00 AM EST Sunday Morning Mass celebrated at the Church – not streamed.
  • 11:15 AM EST Community Mass celebrated at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback. Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.

Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here:

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