Our Lenten Sunday faith sharing groups are meeting online.
Please note that the Sunday morning group will now meet at 9 AM. The evening one will still meet at 6 PM. All are welcome even if you are joining for the first time. You can connect via our public Zoom meeting ID (819 741 616). Full instructions, including a way to join by phone, are here.
Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Ezekiel 37:12-14
March 29, 2020
We return this week to the Prophet Ezekiel. Our selection is from the 37th chapter, which contains the prophecy of the dry bones. Previously we looked at Ezekiel’s call as a prophet and a reference to chapter 37. Today, we will examine the conclusion or rather interpretation of the “dry bones” prophecy. I think you may find it eerily pertinent to our current situation.
Continue reading “Fifth Sunday of Lent – How Will We Be a Light?”
We invite you to join us tomorrow at 12 p.m. Eastern as we respond to the pope’s call to pray the Our Father together:
Pope Francis has called on the leaders of all the Christian churches, communities and confessions worldwide, as well Christians everywhere, to join together in praying the Our Father on March 25 to implore God to rid the world of the coronavirus pandemic that is wreaking havoc everywhere.
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“In these days of trial, as humanity trembles at the threat of the [coronavirus] pandemic, I would propose that all Christians join their voices together to heaven,” Francis told a virtual audience following on Vatican News Media.
– Pope Francis calls on Christians worldwide to combat coronavirus pandemic with midday prayer on March 25, America Magazine
Since tomorrow is the Feast of the Annunciation, we will also pray a decade of the rosary together as we mediate on the first Joyful Mystery, the Annunciation.
You can connect via Zoom. [Zoom dial-in info removed from website for security reasons]
About 50 families joined together this past Sunday for the live-streaming of Mass from the St. Charles rectory chapel and the recording has received more than 30 views since it was posted. With so much change recently, it was wonderful to see familiar names and hear familiar voices even if only through the computer speakers.
Our plan is to continue streaming a Mass on Sunday at 11:15 AM.
You can connect via our public Zoom meeting ID (819 741 616). Full instructions, including a way to dial in by phone, are available here.
Stay tuned for a new feature we are trying out. To provide us with more connection to the parish during the week, we will be posting a one-on-one conversation between the prior Sunday’s homilist and a parishioner. The inaugural episode will feature a discussion between Eduardo Crespo and Fr. John Gribowich. It will also include a preview of next Sunday’s music from Sergio Sandi, our music director.
We expect that the recording will be available on our website and our parish YouTube channel by Friday. You may want to consider subscribing to our YouTube channel, which will provide notifications when new content is available. To do so, visit https://www.youtube.com/user/
The last session in our Lenten discussion series with Grace Church will be on Thursday and will focus on A Temple of the Holy Ghost. Please note that the details were listed incorrectly in weekly email.
The session will begin at 6:30 PM. This session is hosted by Grace Church, so it has a different Meeting ID and dial-in, which are listed below. The below details will only work for this session and will not allow you to connect to other St. Charles online events.
[Zoom meeting details removed from website for security reasons]
Good morning, once again. I know this is so unusual for many of us to have to be experiencing that this way, so thank you for being patient with us and we’re learning as we go here, as well.
And of course I haven’t seen you in a long time – and I still don’t see you now – so I can kind of empathize with the blind man that we hear in our gospel today. So to be back in Brooklyn, to be able to be part of the St. Charles community is always a very great blessing for me ,and to not actually have you in the same physical spaces, of course a very trying thing for me, and I’m sure it is for you, too.
So we are together, united through what may take place here at this Mass through the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ comes to us in three ways: of course, we experience the Body of Christ by meditating upon the body that was nailed to the cross and rose from the dead. Continue reading “4th Sunday Lent – Fr. Gribowich Homily”
