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Collection to Support Catholic Charities Food Assistance

| St. Charles Borromeo
One of Catholic Charities’ services is providing nutritious meals to seniors. Because of the state of emergency in New York City, the Catholic Charities Centers are unable to have guests enter to receive meals. Take away baskets of healthy food are being provided instead. Catholic Charities has also expanded its outreach efforts to meet the growing need caused by the coronavirus outbreak. As a result, Catholic Charities is facing substantially increased demands on its resources.

We support Catholic Charities in its ministry. If you are able to contribute financially, we encourage you to donate online at https://stcharlesbklyn.weshareonline.org/CatholicCharitiesFoodCollection.

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Sunday 3/15 Masses – Live Stream

| St. Charles Borromeo

Sunday 3/15 9 am, 11:15 am, 7 pm masses are still being held today. [Zoom meeting details removed from website for security reasons]

Eucharist Adoration will continue Monday-Friday 9 am – noon in the Church.

Beginning Monday 3/16 there will be no weekday or Sunday public Masses until further notice. Arrangements for online worship will be posted here and on our email list.

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3rd Sunday of Lent – The Wisdom of Knowing We Are Loved

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Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Rembrandt and student, c. 1655 (Met. Museum of Art, New York)

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Exodus 17:3–7
March 15, 2020

The passage that we read today was quoted in the Gospel for Sunday in the first week of Lent. St Matthew, following the rabbis of his day, saw the irony of the passage. The Israelites thought that they were testing God, but He was testing them.

What exactly happened in the book of Exodus is unclear. A mass migration of hundreds of thousands of people is most unlikely. The theory that there was no migration at all, but a revolution of tribes within Canaan, was popular for a decade or so but is now losing its appeal. Some scholars believe that there was an Exodus from Egypt by a Semitic group which we could most likely identify with the tribe of Levi. This clan by both military prowess and a more attractive theology was able to attract other tribes to join them and eventually settled in Canaan. This would fit the reality of today’s situation: Continue reading “3rd Sunday of Lent – The Wisdom of Knowing We Are Loved” →