Events, Videos

Community Mass – 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo


Let us worship together on Sunday, November 14, 2021 in person or online.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – in person
  • 11:15 AM EST – Community Mass – in person and livestreamed online
  • 7 PM EST – Evening Mass – in person

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

Entrance: Gather Your People – 837
Readings and Responsorial Psalm – 1189
Offertory: Eye Has Not Seen – 728
Communion: We Come to Your Feast – 938
Closing: Soon and Very Soon – 865

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

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Putting God First

| Fr. William Smith

Majestas, detail from the High Altar at St. Cyprian’s (London),
Ninian Comper, c. 1903, from Art in the Christian Tradition.
Original source: Flickr

“And then they will see
‘the Son of Man coming in the clouds’
with great power and glory,
Mark 13:26

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Book of Daniel 12:1-3
November 14, 2021

This commentary was written 3 years ago, the last time this reading was used at Sunday Mass. If you are reading it for the first time, it will give a rather wide historical view of growth of the Jews’ self-understanding. If reading it again, it may provide a chance to test how your own understanding of the importance of the Old Testament has helped you to better know and love the New.

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Homilies

Homily – 32nd Sunday Ordinary Time / St. Charles Borromeo (Fr. Smith)

| St. Charles Borromeo

In today’s Gospel we discover that Jesus had sharp hearing but to understand how we know this we must understand where he was standing.  

Jesus is in the temple area. It was a series of courtyards. The first and largest was the courtyard of the gentiles. This did not mean that only gentiles could use it but that everyone including gentiles could. The next was the court of the women which again was not just for women but for all Jews. The spaces narrowed further with a court for just Jewish men, then priests and finally the Holy of Holys which only the High Preist could enter once a year at Yom Kippur. The temple was huge and tremendously expensive to maintain. One revenue source was donations from visitors. The temple authorities were very shrewd. First, as they used coins, they made the collection boxes from metal. More and larger coins made more noise and caused more attention to be paid to the donor. They were in fact called the trumpets. Also, there were twelve of them, each one for a different purpose, from care of the gold of the temple to doweries for the daughters of poor priestly families. A person could donate to several of them, and everyone would hear their generosity.  Truly getting a bang for their buck. And most importantly they were placed in the court of the women so women could donate as well. 

This is where Jesus has placed himself. He sees the rich come forward and hears the conspicuous noise they made putting their large coins perhaps in several trumpets. They were aware of who they were and expected everyone to notice and admire. 

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – St. Charles Borromeo

| St. Charles Borromeo


Celebrate our parish’s patron saint on Sunday, November 7, 2021 in person or online.

Our current Mass times are:

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – in person
  • 11:15 AM EST – Community Mass – in person and streamed online
  • 7 PM EST – Evening Mass – in person

    Watch the video live or on replay via YouTube Live by clicking in the window above.

Entrance: All Are Welcome – 850
Readings and Psalm – 1186
Offertory: The Cry of the Poor – 47
Communion: Christ Be Our Light – 590
Mozart Ave Verum Corpus after communion for the 11:15am mass
Closing: Blest Are They – 735

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

32nd Sunday in Ordinary of Time – Putting Our Hope in the Christ’s Sacrifice

| Fr. William Smith

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Observance of the Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo
Hebrews 9:24–2
November 7, 2021

Today, we complete our study of the Letter to the Hebrews. This section is not the end of the entire letter, but it brings together many of the ideas we have discussed. We have seen that the Author is well versed in Judaism but also more than merely competent in using the Greek language. He knows that his audience was composed mostly of people born Jews and that they judged the world as Jews. They saw themselves as members of a people who had a unique relationship with God indeed, they shared a covenant with Him and each other. They would change their religious practices and commitments only if they believed that this change would bring them into a deeper relationship with the God, they called the Lord.
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