Friday, December 24: 5 PM Christmas Mass During the Night

Saturday, December 25: 9 AM and 11:15 AM Christmas Day Mass (no evening Mass)

Sunday, December 26: 9 AM, 11:15 AM, 7 PM Sunday Mass in the Octave of Christmas (Holy Family)

Reservations are not required to attend our Christmas masses. All diocese-wide COVID-19 precautions (face masking of nose and mouth, hand sanitizing, social distancing, receiving the Host in the hand) remain in effect regardless of your vaccination status. Please follow the direction of the ushers.

Saturday, December 18: Caroling: 6:30 PM rehearsal at the Church, 7 PM in the neighborhood. Due to the inclement weather, and also to Covid concerns, the Caroling Outing scheduled for 7:00 PM this evening is being scaled back to a Christmas Carol singalong in church, with prayer.

Sunday, December 19: Fourth Sunday of Advent. Masses at 9 AM, 11:15 AM, and 7 PM.

Monday, December 20: Reconciliation Monday – priests available to take confession before and after the 12:10 PM Mass and from 4 PM – 8 PM.

Wednesday, December 22: Mass at 12:10 PM

Friday, December 24: 5 PM Christmas Mass During the Night

Saturday, December 25: 9 AM and 11:15 AM Christmas Day Mass (no evening Mass)

Sunday, December 26: 9 AM, 11:15 AM, 7 PM Sunday Mass in the Octave of Christmas

Reservations are not required to attend our Christmas masses. All diocese-wide COVID-19 precautions (face masking of nose and mouth, hand sanitizing, social distancing, receiving the Host in the hand) remain in effect regardless of your vaccination status. Please follow the direction of the ushers.

On Sunday, December 5, we will have Christmas wreaths for sale before and after the 9 AM and 11:15 AM Masses.

The cost is:

• $20 for a small wreath,
• $25 for a medium wreath, and
• $35 for a large wreath.

The parish annual financial report is available on the parish website.

As Francis Chin summarized recently at Mass, our parish has been able to maintain its financial health during the pandemic and during extensive repairs and renovations of the church and rectory.

While the parish financial situation is positive, our current collections do not cover our weekly operating expenses. This means we must use rental monies to cover our costs, which is not a sign of a vibrant parish community. The rental monies the parish earns from leasing the school and rectory are earmarked to maintain and renovate the church building and the parish house which we would not otherwise have the funds to do. The renovation work is still very much in progress. That is why we need to bring in sufficient parishioner contributions to cover the costs of running the church, the parish house, and our spiritual and other programs. And these costs (heat, AC, cleaning, salaries, benefits) do increase each year.

Consider pledging to increase your financial support of the parish if you can by completing the stewardship form available online, www.cfbq.org/psr, or in the pews. You can also contribute online through our parish e-giving site, https://stcharlesbklyn.weshareonline.org/