This week, Msgr. Al LoPinto and Carol DeSantis discuss working the good earth.
Community Mass – 16th Sunday Ordinary Time – 7/19 11:15 am EDT
Please join us for our Community Mass for the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Sunday, July 19 at 11:15 AM EDT. It will be a public Mass celebrated in the church and also streamed online.
Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window here.
- Today’s readings and hymns are available to download here: July 19
As per the instructions from our Reopening Committee, 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
Weedy But Trying to be Wheaty – Beth Liou
Hello to everyone in the St. Charles community. My name is Beth Liou, and I have been a parishioner here since August 2002, when I moved to Brooklyn with my husband Eric and newborn son Frank. Eighteen years later, that son is headed off to college (assuming, of course, that conditions allow) and we will only have our younger son Paul at home for his last two years of high school. It’s a bittersweet moment and a time to reflect.
When we moved to Brooklyn, we weren’t sure how things would shake out – where would our home church be? Where would the kid(s) go to school? What would the daily fabric of our life be like, etc.? Over the intervening years, as we’ve navigated the answers to those questions, we’ve established strong roots in the neighborhood. This includes at St. Charles, where I have served as a catechist, lector and parish outreach volunteer, and where both boys were inculcated with a strong sense of faith and community. Even my husband, who is not a Catholic, has felt welcome and supported.
Continue reading “Weedy But Trying to be Wheaty – Beth Liou”Feast of Mary Magdalene on Wednesday
I would like to thank the reopening committee for their hard work in creating a safe and convenient environment for us to celebrate Mass on Wednesdays at 12:10 PM. This is a great gift to the Parish, and we thank them for it.
We really do not know what full reopening will mean. No one knows, this is uncharted territory. We need the technical and managerial skills of parishioners to make anything work and I am pleased that St. Charles Borromeo has them in abundance. Yet we also need the help of higher authorities. Continue reading “Feast of Mary Magdalene on Wednesday”
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Everlasting Hope for Our Restless Hearts
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16th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Romans 8:26–27
July 19, 2020
Last week’s reading began with
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth
(Rom. 8:18)
comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.
This is a common theme in the New Testament. We saw when reading the 1st Letter of Peter that his community suffered from the scorn of family and former friends. We will see in Matthew’s Gospel the suffering of internal divisions. Each of these authors use these experiences to relate the present situation of that particular community to Jesus’ ministry, death and resurrection. Paul does the same, but he broadens the perspective to the whole of creation and indeed God himself.
Jewish law was evidence-based. Testimony was always required. To prove that today’s sufferings are insignificant to the glory for which we are intended Paul gives us three witnesses:
Continue reading “16th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Everlasting Hope for Our Restless Hearts”Evening Prayer Tonight at 5 PM
Please download the worship aid to participate in evening prayer at 5 PM:
- Evening Prayer for July 17
Instructions on how to join are available here.
15th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)
Transcript:
We come to this 15th year [Sunday] in ordinary time. We listen to 3 very powerful scripture passages: one from Isaiah – and a very interesting one from Isaiah, because it factually passage at the end of the second book of Isaiah, just before the people are returning from exile. The reading from Romans began as great, for it speaks about the growing of all creation as it awaits the final resolution of God in regard to human history – all of history. Continue reading “15th Sunday Ordinary Time – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)”