Spreading the Good News!

This weekend St. Charles Borromeo Parish is celebrating our patronal feast day, transferred to Sunday from November 4.  This is permitted d ...
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November begins with the Solemnity of All Saints on November 1, which we celebrate this weekend because it falls on Sunday.  This is follow ...
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In today’s First Reading God commanded the newly-freed Israelites: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens y ...
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Today is World Mission Sunday.  It is called that because it is celebrated throughout the world, and because the mission of the Church is t ...
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The image common to today’s First Reading, Responsorial Psalm and Gospel is the banquet God has prepared for his people.  It is the banqu ...
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Some verses from today’s Responsorial Psalm contain the plea, “Give us new life, and we will call upon your name…if your face shine up ...
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Again this week our scripture readings invite us to reflect on God’s mercy.  God is in the business of saving souls, not condemning them. ...
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Today’s gospel parable reflects the fact that people respond to God’s grace at different times in their lives.  Rather than be jealous ...
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This refrain from today’s Responsorial Psalm presents to us the paradigm through which we should understand the meaning of Jesus’ teachi ...
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Today’s readings speak about conversion, through what is usually called “fraternal correction.” What this means is that we do share re ...
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