Events, Videos

Community Mass – 5th Sunday of Lent

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 5th Sunday of Lent on Sunday, March 21st.

  • 9 AM EST – Morning Mass – In Person at the Church, not live streamed.
    For Myrthro Jadotte, remembered by Carol DeSantis.
  • 11:15 AM EST – Community Mass – In Person at the Church and also streamed online and available for playback.
    For the victims of anti-Asian violence, especially those murdered in the Georgia attacks: Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou Feng; and for the speedy recovery of Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz.

    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. There are different readings for the two masses. The regular Cycle B readings on page 4 are for the 9 AM Mass. The Third Scrutiny of the Catechumens will occur at the 11:15 AM Mass, so Cycle A readings begin on page 8.

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Scriptual Commentary

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Transforming Our Hearts

| Fr. William Smith

Jesus Wept, James Tissot, 1886-1896, Brooklyn Museum.

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Jeremiah 31:31-34
March 21, 2021

This week we once more have a choice of readings. Jeremiah will be read at the 9 AM Mass and Ezekiel at the 11:15 AM Mass. We will examine Jeremiah today and call attention to the commentary on Ezekiel from last year.

Jeremiah was a most fascinating and complex person. We can find his background in the commentary for Oct. 28, 2018. He was cursed to live in interesting times and in an interesting place. The kingdom of Judah with Jerusalem as its capital found herself between two great empires. Egypt was always at the south and the north passed between several powers in Judah’s 400-year history. Judah was able to maintain at least formal independence by playing one power off against the other. This required that the kings of Judah be nimble and lucky. As a young man, Jeremiah saw a political and religious renaissance but he lived to see the end of the Kingdom. This was death in slow motion from a fatal misjudgment of who really had power in 611 to the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586.

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Scriptual Commentary

4th Sunday of Lent – Making Us Who God Wants Us to Be

| Mike McGowan

Nicodemus and Jesus on a Rooftop, Henry O. Tanner, 1899, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the First Reading
Fourth Sunday of Lent
2 Chronicles 36:14–16, 19–23
March 14, 2021

This week, we have the option of choosing the readings from Cycle A, Sam 16, which will be read at the 11:15 AM Mass or 2d Chronicles 36 from cycle B, which will be read at the 9AM Mass. 1 Sam 16 was discussed last year (my commentary on it last year is available online).

The books of Chronicles are often considered an afterthought. They cover the same materials as the books of Samuel or Kings and are most characterized by seemingly endless genealogies. If quoted at all it is usually for information about David or Solomon not found anywhere else. Yet we ignore Chronicles at our peril. It would be like ignoring the gospel of Mark because there is more to found in Matthew or Luke. Chronicles was written to address the situation of its time and place.

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 4th Sunday of Lent

| St. Charles Borromeo

Please join us to celebrate the 4th Sunday of Lent on Sunday, March 14th.

  • 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.

    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. There are different readings for the two masses. The regular Cycle B readings on page 4 are for the 9 AM Mass. The Scrutiny of the Catechumens will occur at the 11:15 AM Mass, so Cycle A readings begin on page 8.

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