Events, Videos

Community Mass – 28th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

On Sunday October 9, 2022, join us in person or online for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Let All Things Now Living – 635

Readings/Psalm – 1175

Offertory: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace – 828

Communion: Life Giving Bread, Saving Cup – 926

Closing: Canticle of the Sun – 576

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

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Remembering Jesus Is Risen

| Fr. William Smith

Healing of the Ten Lepers, Jesus Mafa, 1973
from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.
Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr.
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Jesus said in reply,
“Ten were cleansed, were they not?
Where are the other nine?
Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”
Then he said to him, “Stand up and go;
your faith has saved you.”
(Luke 17:17–19)

Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Timothy 2:8–13
October 9, 2022

Last week we began examining the second letter of Paul to St Timothy
and I suggested that we read it as an epistolary novel. That is a novel
written in the form of a letter or letters. We will assume that the
author knew both Paul and Timothy as would many of those who read the
letter. The people are most likely real, and the situations would be
authentic. We will once more for convenience refer to the author as
Paul.

The instructions that Paul gave to Timothy on building the church are
less directed to its administrative structure than the attitudes and
virtues needed to lead a church. This week he will emphasize that no
matter who becomes Christian, the gospel requires a lively recognition
that Jesus was a Jew and that following him will not be easy.

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Homilies

Homily – 27th Sunday Ordinary Time (Fr. Smith)

| Fr. William Smith

The stories of Jesus revealed his world with great, if painful, clarity. His world is unlike our world. In his world fathers love prodigally, in our world love is more transactional. In his world energy and creativity are directed towards evangelization, in our world financial success is supreme. In His world, the marginalized are rewarded, in ours ignored. To accept his world is not to alter but to overturn our lives. Today’s gospel on first reading may seem to confirm our general worldview and be oddly comforting.” Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink”. Luke is, however, a devious writer and there is a typically disconcerting message in this reading.

 

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Events, Videos

Community Mass – 27th Sunday Ordinary Time

| St. Charles Borromeo

On Sunday October 2, 2022, join us in person or online for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Our current Sunday Mass times are:

The readings will be from Cycle C.

Entrance: Let All Things Now Living – 635

Readings/Psalm – 1172

Offertory: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace – 828

Communion: Life Giving Bread, Saving Cup – 926

Closing: Canticle of the Sun – 576

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 .