Please download the worship aid to participate in Friday’s evening prayer. It will begin at 5 PM.
Instructions on how to join are available here.
Good Friday – Holy Triduum
Please join us for Good Friday, April 2nd at 3 PM EDT:
Instructions to view are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.
Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.
- Please follow the instructions of the ushers, and observe all of the posted health precautions so that we can continue to worship together safely.
- Hymnals, bulletins, and other handouts will not be available at the church. Please download on your phone or tablet, or bring your own missal.
- Support our Parish – Please contribute to our General Collection online here.
- Help us support Catholic Charities Food Pantries in Brooklyn and Queens online
Palm Sunday – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)
We’ve come together celebrating the beginning of Holy Week with the entrance of Jesus into the city of Jerusalem.
It is in many ways a triumphal entry, an entry that is very reminiscent of an earlier event captured back in the days of King David.
David had grown very old and it was the time for succession.
And one of his sons had gone down to Hebron and gathered some of the leaders together there that they might proclaim him king.
Continue reading “Palm Sunday – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)”Holy Thursday – Holy Triduum
Please join us to celebrate Holy Thursday on Thursday, April 1st at 7 PM EDT:
Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.
Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.
- Please follow the instructions of the ushers, and observe all of the posted health precautions so that we can continue to worship together safely.
- Hymnals, bulletins, and other handouts will not be available at the church. Please download on your phone or tablet, or bring your own missal.
- Support our Parish – Please contribute to our General Collection online here.
- Help us support Catholic Charities Food Pantries in Brooklyn and Queens online
Community Mass – Palm Sunday
Please join us to celebrate Palm Sunday on Sunday, March 28th.
- 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
- 11:15 AM EST – Community Mass – In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.
Those in person will assemble outside of the church before Mass – please follow the directions of the ushers.
Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.
Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.
- Please follow the instructions of the ushers, and observe all of the posted health precautions so that we can continue to worship together safely.
- Hymnals, bulletins, and other handouts will not be available at the church. Please download on your phone or tablet, or bring your own missal.
- Support our Parish – Please contribute to our General Collection online here.
- Help us support Catholic Charities Food Pantries in Brooklyn and Queens online
Palm Sunday – Beginning Our Journey
Entry into Jerusalem, Wilhelm Morgner, 1912, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany.
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Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Gospel
Passion (Palm) Sunday
Mark 14:1—15:47
March 28, 2021
The first reading for Passion (Palm) Sunday is the same every year: Isaiah 50:4-7. We reviewed it last year and, as it was during the Pandemic, my comments would not have changed. It will be interesting to look at it again next year when we should be able to see what the new normal has been.
As always, we will read the Passion and let us examine a question about it for which the answer can only be found in the Old Testament and Jewish custom: “Why did Jesus die during Passover week?”
Continue reading “Palm Sunday – Beginning Our Journey”5th Sunday of Lent – Homily (Fr. Smith)
If we understand the raising of Lazarus as a great miracle, Jesus is angry with us and that is a good thing. I admit this may take some explaining.
First, geography, history and then an observation
Bethany was a town near Jerusalem, Jesus was most likely in Galilee. He is informed of Lazarus’ illness but knowing that it would take two days to get there nonetheless waits two days to go to Bethany. It is obvious that he wanted to arrive after Lazarus had died.
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