Our Sunday faith sharing is back for the summer. We join together to pray, reflect on the Sunday readings, and discuss our faith. It is a low-key gathering and there’s no need to read in advance or join every week.
We meet each Sunday at 5 PM on the parish Zoom channel starting on July 9. All are welcome, especially first-time participants.
Category: Bulletin
Thursday Book Group: Mere Christianity
The next selection of the Brownstone Brooklyn & Beyond book group will be Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. The book is adapted from a series of radio talks that C.S. Lewis gave during World War 2. This popular introduction to Christianity covers Lewis’ argument for the existence of God and the case for the Christian faith.
The first discussion session will be on Thursday, July 13 at 7 PM via Zoom. At that session, we will discuss the beginning through Book 1. The Brownstone Brooklyn and Beyond book group meets weekly on Thursdays at 7 PM via Zoom. It is comprised of parishioners from various churches in the Brooklyn Heights/Park Slope area.
Sunday Book Discussion: The Four Winds
The next meeting of the book club will be this Sunday at 12:30 PM. We will meet in person at the rectory and on Zoom. Everyone is welcome.
We will discuss The Four Winds, an epic set in the Great Depression by the award-winning author, Kristin Hannah.
No 9 AM or 11:15 AM Mass this Sunday
There will be no 9 AM or 11:15 AM Mass at St. Charles Borromeo this Sunday given the outdoor Corpus Christi Mass (see below post ). We will still have a 7 PM Mass on Sunday evening.
Corpus Christi Outdoor Mass
This Sunday, we will have an outdoor Mass and Eucharistic Adoration for Corpus Christi. We will joining with communities around the world holding Corpus Christi public processions, a tradition that dates back seven hundred years.
Our guest homilist is Fr. Dave Dwyer. Father Dave Dwyer, CSP, is a Paulist priest and Executive Director of Busted Halo Ministries. He is the publisher of BustedHalo.com and the host of “The Busted Halo Show with Father Dave,” a call-in radio talk show airing five nights a week on SiriusXM radio on which he answers questions of faith for more than 30 million subscribers. Fr. Dwyer is superb— but don’t just take our word for it, listen to an example of his preaching here.
The Mass will start at 11:30 AM in Carroll Park in Carroll Gardens. There will be no morning Masses at St. Charles Borromeo this Sunday. We will still have a 7 PM Mass.
Holy Spirit Novena
As we prepare for Pentecost, we invite you to join in praying a Novena to the Holy Spirit. The novena begins with the same opening prayer each day, which is followed by prayer that focuses on one of the fruits or gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We started the novena on Friday, May 19 and will end it on Saturday, May 27, the day before Pentecost Sunday. We will pray it together at the start of our 5 PM parish Zoom events (rosaries on Monday and Wednesday, and Friday Vespers).
Don’t worry if you can’t join in every night. The materials are available on our parish website and in a print-friendly form in the back of the church if you want to pray one or more days on your own.
Ascension Thursday Mass Schedule
This Thursday, May 18, is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, a holy day of obligation. We will have Mass at 12:10 PM.