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Mass Intentions for the Week of March 20

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Sunday, March 20
9 AM Mass Remembered By
Theresa & Loreto Schiano ✟ Daughters Giustina & Gemma
11:15 AM Mass Remembered By
Warner Lombardi ✟, Saturnino Duque ✟,
& Robert Barry ✟		 Angel & Minsie Ampil
Saturday, March 26
12 PM Baptism
Emma Diaz

The Masses celebrated at St. Charles Borromeo may be offered for your intentions–for any person or persons, living or deceased. To have a Mass offered for someone, please call or email the rectory.

Homilies

3rd Sunday of Lent – Homily (Fr. Smith)

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Today’s Gospel is a preemptive strike by Jesus. There were many who believed that bad things happened only to sinful people and Jesus’ death by crucifixion was the worst thing in that world. This was not only among Romans, the book of Deuteronomy states that the gravely sinful were to be executed and placed on a tree for all to curse and revile. Jesus knew that some would interpret his crucifixion as payment for the sin of blasphemy and so he addressed this beforehand. Bad things, indeed, very bad things could happen to good people. Yet he takes this opportunity to remind us of something even more basic and one which we have seen rather recently. 

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Events

Parish Fish Fry

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Join us for our parish fish fry on Friday, April 1. We weren’t trying to be trending, but fish fries are making a comeback according to an article in this week’s Tablet.

We will start with evening prayers (Vespers) in the rectory chapel at 5 PM followed by a social gathering starting around 5:30 PM. Fried fish will be served! We hope to dine in the rectory backyard (weather permitting). Proof of vaccination is required.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 3rd Sunday of Lent

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On Sunday, March 20, 2022, join us in person or online for the 3rd Sunday of Lent.

Our current Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast – 487

Readings and Psalms – 1024

Offertory: Deep Within- 486

Communion: Here I Am, Lord – 777

Closing: Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door – 470

The Gather 3rd Edition Hymnal/Missals are available for use in the church – pick one up as you enter and return it after Mass. Instructions on how to use the hymnal missal are available here: https://www.stcharlesbklyn.org/hymnal-missal/ .

Today’s readings are also available to read online at the USCCB website https://bible.usccb.org .

Scriptual Commentary

3rd Sunday of Lent – Connecting Worship to Charity

| Fr. William Smith

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‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree
but have found none.
So cut it down.
Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply,
‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
(Luke 13:7–9)

 

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Third Sunday of Lent
1 Corinthians 10:1–6, 10–12
March 20, 2022

We read several chapters of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians in
some depth earlier this year. The section today is taken from Chapter 10 somewhat
before our previous readings but reflecting the same concerns. Readings
chosen for Lent, however, must be read not only for their original
meaning but also how they reflect Lenten themes. This year this reading
will, alas, also shed light on our present situation.

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