We are looking for members to serve on our Parish Pastoral Council (PPC), the seven-person group responsible for planning and executing the pastoral activities of the parish. There are two open seats on the PPC as Alicia Washington has recently moved to Maryland to serve in a senior role in the US Attorney’s Office there and Carol DeSantis will be moving to Long Island. We have been blessed to have Alicia and Carol as involved members of our parish for many years and will miss them both.  

If you would like to nominate a parishioner for Parish Pastoral Council or you would like more information, please contact our Lay Trustees, Francis Chin ([email protected]) and Kerin Coughlin ([email protected]). You also submit a nomination by submitting the below form.

Please submit nominations by January 29.

Below is our upcoming Mass schedule for Christmas and New Year’s. We call your attention to the Masses on Sunday, December 24 and December 31. Since Christmas and New Year’s Day are on Mondays this year, we will have Vigil Masses on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve in addition to our 9 AM and 11:15 Sunday Masses.

• On Sunday, December 24, we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Advent at our customary morning Masses at 9 AM and 11:15 AM.  
• We will have a Christmas Vigil Mass on December 24 at 4 PM.
• On Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, we will have Masses at 9 AM and 11:15 AM.
• On Sunday, December 31, we will celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family at our morning Masses at 9 AM and 11:15 AM.
• Monday, January 1 is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. We will celebrate a Vigil Mass on Sunday, December 31 at 4 PM. On January 1, we will have Masses at 9 AM and 11:15 AM.
• There will be no 7 PM Masses on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, or New Year’s Day.

Custom House was packed with donated toys on Saturday, December 14. These were donated to the Catholic Charities toy drive so that parents could select gifts and make sure their children had something under the tree. For twelve years, we have partnered with Custom House to benefit Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens for Santa’s Toy Shops, which serves thousands of children each year.

November 4 is the memorial of our parish’s patron, St. Charles Borromeo. St. Charles (1539-1584) is the patron saint of learning and the arts, and of catechists. He performed many acts of charity and ministered to the sick during an outbreak of bubonic plague.

Please join us in praying a novena in honor of St. Charles over the nine days leading to his feast, Thursday, October 26 through Friday, November 3. The parish Zoom link will be open at 5 PM each day to pray the novena with fellow parishioners.

Don’t worry if you can’t make all nine days. The materials are available here if you would like to pray on one or more days on your own.