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Lenten Scripture Groups

| St. Charles Borromeo

This Lenten season, St. Charles invites you to Live Lent. Join a small group for an opportunity to share your faith with some of your fellow parishioners. These weekly small discussion groups take a deeper look at each Sunday’s gospel and provide inspiration for conversation about how our faith applies to our everyday lives. Sign-up sheets are available in the pews and at the back of the church. Please fill one out with your contact information and your day & time meeting preferences. Either drop it in the offertory basket or put it in one of the baskets at the back of the church on your way out.

Groups start the first week of Lent (Feb. 15) and run for six weeks (through March 28). Instead of giving up chocolate, join us this Lent to connect with your parish neighbors, deepen your spirituality and learn more about your faith. If you’d like more information, please contact the rectory.

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Lenten Eucharistic Adoration

| St. Charles Borromeo

Lent begins on Wednesday, February 14th and we will once again have Eucharistic Adoration every weekday morning from 9:00 AM until noon.

To do this, we need at least one person present at all times in the church. So we are looking for volunteers to fill an hourly time slot, once a week. (Monday -Friday, 9-12)
Perhaps if you are in the neighborhood during the weekdays this Lent, you can help us out? If you cannot commit to a weekly hour, but can do several hours over the season, that is very helpful to us and we would love to hear from you.

Please email Maureen Pond at [email protected] to volunteer. There are also sign-up sheets in the back of the church. Thank you!

Messages from the Pastor

In Memoriam: Julianna P. O’Brien

| St. Charles Borromeo

Julianna P. O’Brien

September 25, 1950 – January 14, 2018

Dear St. Charles Parish Family and Friends,

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Julianna O’Brien.

A Viewing will take place on Wednesday, January 17, 5 – 8 PM, at the Scotto Funeral Home, 106 1st Place, Brooklyn.

There will be a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Charles Borromeo Church on Thursday, January 18 at 10:30 AM.  The church will open at 9:30 AM for any that would like to pay their respects.

Julianna was a long-time member of St. Charles Borromeo.  She was born in Silvermines, County Tipperary, Ireland.  She lived and worked in Toronto, Canada before moving to NYC in 1986.

Julianna was a faithful and devoted parishioner of St. Charles where she served as a Eucharistic Minister, on the Pastoral Council, on the Monday Counting Team, taught in the Religious Education program, co-chaired the Activities Committee, and chaired the Parish Security Committee.

In lieu of flowers, Julianna’s family asks that donations be made to St. Charles Borromeo Church.

Messages from the Pastor

Know Each Other Better

| St. Charles Borromeo

Last week I mentioned that I would be asking the members of the parish to know each other better. I have found no better way to do this than relational (one-on-one) meetings and have had almost 70 of them with members of the Parish. Through them I feel that I have been able to know you not just know about you far more than merely chatting after Mass or at parish Meetings. I think this is a very common experience and I have asked some people with whom I have met these past few months to have relational meetings with other Parishioners.

These are not interviews, nor are we asking for money nor, at least immediately, for participation in any parish function or ministry. They are a somewhat structured means of contacting each other person to person. Those of you who have had one with me have heard my story and I have heard yours. It is constantly amazing to me how this can reveal so many areas of common interest and concern that would have been otherwise closed. This is most surprising with people who have “seen” each other for years but never really knew one another.

Nothing is for everyone. There will be people who will read this and look forward an individual meeting with great enthusiasm. There will be others who would prefer a root canal. No one should feel in anyway forced. To those who are intrigued but unconvinced I would ask that if a fellow parishioner requests a meeting I ask you to consider it very seriously. It can be at a coffee shop, at home or in the rectory. When the greeting space is created in the rear of the church there will be an area set aside for them as well.

Many programs and projects will, no doubt, come from these meetings and that is good and to be encouraged and praised but the most important thing will be a sense of our community. It is a basic experience and belief of Catholic Christians that belonging comes before believing. By belonging we affirm our belief that it is the risen Lord that creates and sustains us against all things for all time.