Homily – 5th Sunday of Lent

How many of us drive cars? Show of hands, please. Who drives? And you willingly drive in Brooklyn? Interesting. Now, when we are driving, how many of us have come to complete rely on our Waze or on our GPSes to get us anywhere? Who now completely relies on somebody else guiding our journey? Me. Know how many of us this morning are always on time? Who is always on time? Who is sometimes on time. Who is never on time. Ah. See, there’s a little bit of everything. Well, what does driving the car, G.P.S. and being on time, what do they have to do with each other?

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Homily – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Deacon Kevin McCormack:

It is truly a great privilege for me to come back to Saint Charles and to be with you all. I thank Father immensely for trusting me with his congregation, and I just like traveling. I’m like the itinerant preacher sometimes.

It’s really great. I’m from Lynbrook. That’s my home parish – I’m a Rockville Center deacon canonically but everything else in my life, I’m a Brooklyn deacon, so it’s really kind of cool to be here. Now, today I get to ask you a question that I’m betting on your bingo card today was not there. No one thought maybe when I go to church, I’ll be asked, What do you think it would be like to know you’re a leper?

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