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Saint Edmund Roman Catholic Church located in Brooklyn, NY EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: First Fridays, following the 9:00 am
Mass.

SUNDAY MASSES:
Saturday 5:00 pm
Sunday 8:30 am & 11:00 am
WEEKDAYS: 9:00 am

BAPTISM:
email [email protected]

MARRIAGES: Arrangements must be made SIX months prior to the marriage. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION:
Saturday, 4:00 pm thru 4:30 pm

SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Sick calls any day or night by
calling the Rectory. Angelus and Benediction at Noon. NOVENA: Miraculous Medal—Mond

ays—following the 9:00 am Mass. ROSARY: Daily, following the 9:00 am Mass. PRAYER GROUP: Wednesdays, following the 9:00 am Mass. REGISTRATION: We extend welcome to all new parishioners and invite them and
any others, who have not yet registered, to become members of the St. Edmund’s
Parish Family. Please contact the Rectory Office for a Registration Form.

08/29/2026

Today is THE MEMORIAL OF THE MARTYRDOM OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST.

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
be the ruler of my heart and thoughts, be the king of my home and relationships, and be the master of my work and service.
Help me to make good use of the gifts, talents, time, and resources you give me for your glory and your kingdom. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Matthew 5:10)

Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven

CLICK FOR TODAYS READINGS:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082926.cfm

REFLECTION

Who is St John the Baptist?

John is the son of Zachary and Elizabeth.

When Mary visited Elizabeth, John leapt in her mother's womb in recognition of Jesus who is in Mary’s womb.

When he came of age, he retired to the desert to prepare for his exacting and extraordinary ministry.

In the fullness of time, John came to the River Jordan and began preaching and baptizing people for repentance in preparation for the ministry of Jesus Christ.

HE MUST INCREASE BUT I MUST DECREASE." (St John the Baptist said.)

It was here at the River Jordan that John condemned the adulterous life of King Herod.

Herodias, the concubine of Herod took revenge on the Baptist and demanded his death when a good opportunity presented itself.

John's martyrdom is a cause of joy and hope for Christians.

John died about the age of 32.

Was his life in vain? Of course not.

Heaven is real for the faithful followers of Jesus Christ.
Hell is also real for those who reject Jesus completely.

If someone asks you:

How do you know that Heaven is real?

Listen to this bible passage:
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10: 28)
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, OSV, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/27/2026

Today is the feast day of ST. Monica

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
you have captured my heart and it is yours.
Take my life and all that I possess that I may have you alone as my treasure and joy. Make me strong in faith, steadfast in hope, and generous in love that I may seek to please you in all things and bring you glory. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Matthew 24:42a, 44)

Alleluia, alleluia.
Stay awake!
For you do not know when the Son of Man will come

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082726.cfm

REFLECTION

Today, the Gospel passage speaks to us of the uncertainty of the moment of the Lord's coming: "You do not know on which day your Lord will come" (Mt 24:42). If we want him to find us vigilant at the moment of his arrival, we cannot be distracted or fall asleep: we must always be prepared. Jesus gives many examples of this alertness: the one who watches for a thief, the servant who wants to please his master... Perhaps today he would speak to us of a soccer goalkeeper who doesn't know when or how the ball will come to him...

But perhaps we should first clarify what coming he is speaking of. Is it the hour of death? Is it the end of the world? Certainly, these are comings of the Lord that He has expressly left uncertain to inspire in us constant alertness. But, calculating the probabilities, perhaps no one of our generation will witness a universal cataclysm that puts an end to human life on this planet. And, as far as death is concerned, this will only be once and that's enough. Until this comes, isn't there another coming closer for which we should always be prepared?

Every day, every hour, every moment, the Lord is close to our lives. Through internal inspirations, through the people around us, through the events that unfold, the Lord knocks at our door and, as the Book of Revelation says: " Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, [then] I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me" (Rev 3:20).
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

08/25/2026

Today is Tuesday, 21 week in ordinary time

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus, fill me with your love and mercy that I may always think, speak, and treat others with fairness, loving-kindness, patience, and goodness. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Hebrews 4:12)

Alleluia, alleluia.
The word of God is living and effective,
able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082526.cfm

REFLECTION

In today’s Gospel, Jesus forcefully calls the Pharisees (and us) to change their hearts and behavior.

St. Augustine defines sin as incurvatus in se—that means “caved in around oneself.” To be in sin is to be “caved in” around the ego and its narrow concerns. When the Lord says, “Reform your life,” he means move from that old mind and make him the center of your life.

We must know and feel in our bones what is wrong in us; we must look it in the face and acknowledge it with uncompromising honesty. Without this journey into our own inner hell, we will not feel the compunction to shift our way of being and seeing. And we must awaken to what is godlike in us, what is rich and unbroken, what is united with the saving designs of God. Without this clear sense, we will fall into complacency and see metanoia as, at best, a cruel illusion
- BLESSING

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, OSV, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/24/2026

Today is Monday, 21st week in ordinary time and the feast day of the Apostle Saint Bartholomew, please pray for us 🙏

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus, your word is life for me. May I never shut the door to your heavenly kingdom through my stubborn pride or disbelief. Help me to listen to your voice attentively and to conform my life more fully to your word. Amen

DAILY VERSE (John 1:49b)

Alleluia, alleluia.
Rabbi, you are the Son of God;
you are the King of Israel

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/08012426.cfm

REFLECTION

in a conversation with Jesus in today’s Gospel, Nathaniel (usually identified with the apostle Bartholomew) makes the earliest New Testament profession of faith in Christ’s divinity: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God.” Faith is the virtue upon which Christianity rests and is the capacity to see beyond the senses to a deeper or higher reality.

There is an anticipation of faith in Plato’s parable of the cave, in which a man escapes from a cavern where he had been forced to see only flickering shadows on the wall. When he emerges from the darkness, he is blinded by the intensity of the sunlight. When his eyes adjust, he surveys a new world of depth and color.

In a similar way, Christianity holds that God’s revelation draws us beyond what we can know and introduces us to a dimension of being vibrating at a higher pitch. To be a person of faith is to know that the universe of the senses is but the tip of the iceberg, a gateway. And it is to resist the idolatry of Enlightenment rationalism, which tells us that only superstition and obscurantism lie beyond what we human beings can measure.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/23/2026

Today is Sunday, 21 Sunday in ordinary time

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
fill me with your love and mercy that I may always think, speak, and treat others with fairness, loving-kindness, patience, and goodness. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Matthew 16:18)
Alleluia, alleluia.
You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church
and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082326.cfm

REFLECTION

In today’s Gospel, Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” In response, the disciples say, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” But what all of those readings—reflective of the popular consensus—have in common is that they are wrong.

Having heard the results of this popular opinion survey, Jesus turns to his inner circle, the Twelve, and asks, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter alone speaks: “You are the Christ [the Messiah], the Son of the living God.”

He would have said Mashiach, “the anointed,” the one who would gather the tribes and cleanse the temple and defeat Israel’s enemies. But then he added that startling phrase: “Son of the living God.” Even at this relatively early stage in Jesus’s ministry, Peter intuited that Jesus was much more than a prophet or rabbi or seer, however significant. He knew that there was something qualitatively different about his master.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, OSV, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/22/2026

Today is the feast of The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
your word is life for me. May I never shut the door to your heavenly kingdom through my stubborn pride or disbelief.
Help me to listen to your voice attentively and to conform my life more fully to your word. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Matthew 23:9B, 10b)

Alleluia, alleluia.
You have but one Father in heaven;
you have but one master, the Christ

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082226.cfm

REFLECTION

In today’s Gospel, Jesus turns his sharp eye and withering critique on the many ways that religious leaders fall into corruption. What precisely is bothering Jesus? Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people, laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible, exulting in their own moral superiority.

At the core of Jesus’s program is a willingness to bear other people’s burdens, to help them carry their loads. And this applies to the moral life as well. If we lay the burden of God’s law on people, we must be willing, at the same time, to help them bear it.

Another classic problem with religious people and especially religious leaders: They use the law and morality as a means of inflating the ego. The trouble is that this drug wears off rather quickly, and then we want more of it. We need a greater title, more respect, more recognition.

What is Jesus’s recommendation for those caught in this dilemma? To be great is to be a servant: lowly, simple, often forgotten. Eschew marks of respect; don’t seek them. Be satisfied with doing your work, whatever it is, on behalf of God’s kingdom.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, Homily by Bishop Barron & other source

08/20/2026

Today is Thursday, 20th week in ordinary time & the feast day of Saint Bernard

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
you became a servant for my sake to set me free from the tyranny of selfish pride and self-concern.
Teach me to be humble as you are humble and to love others generously with selfless service and kindness. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Psalm 95:8)

Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082026.cfm

REFLECTION

today’s Gospel likens the kingdom of God to a king who gives a wedding feast for his son. The biblical authors couldn’t find a more apt metaphor for the coming together of divinity and humanity than a wedding banquet. God and humanity are married, and they are surrounded by joy, peace, celebration, and good food.

What was Jesus’s strategy? Open table-fellowship; outreach to all, to the righteous and the unrighteous, to the healthy and the sick, to the mainstream and the marginalized. Here comes everybody. You don’t have to be good to receive God’s grace; that’s why they call it “grace.”

But then something puzzling emerges. When the king comes to welcome his guests, he finds someone not properly dressed: “He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’” It was customary at the time (as it still is) for people to come to a wedding dressed up.

The play here is between grace and works. We can refuse the invitation altogether, or we can refuse the transformation that should follow from grace. We have to cooperate with grace, donning the wedding garment of love, forgiveness, peace, and nonviolence.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/19/2026

Today is Wednesday, 20th week in ordinary time

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may serve you joyfully and serve my neighbor willingly with a generous heart, not looking for how much I can get, but rather looking for how much I can give. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Hebrews 4:12)

Alleluia, alleluia.
The word of God is living and effective,
able to discern the reflections and thoughts of the heart.
Alleluia, alleluia.

CLICK FOR TODAYS READINGS:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082026.cfm

REFLECTION

Today’s Gospel about the laborers being hired throughout the day probably hits home to more people recently because unemployment has affected so many homes. At first glance, those hired first seem to have a legitimate complaint but they’re overlooking something else they received that day. They knew they had a job, they knew they were bringing home some money that night.

Not so with the last hired. For most of the day, they probably worried about how they were going to feed the family that night and the following day. That’s one more reason why when we’re ready to mutter “No fair!” it’s wise to take a second look, a closer look, and count our blessings.

Dear Lord, give courage and strength to all those looking for work.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, OSV, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/18/2026

Today is Tuesday, 20th week in ordinary time

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
may I always know the joy of living in your presence and grow in the hope of seeing you face to face in your everlasting kingdom. Amen

DAILY VERSE (2 Corinthians 8:9)

Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich
So that by his poverty you might become rich.
Alleluia, alleluia

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https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081826.cfm

REFLECTION

In today’s Gospel, the Lord explains why it’s hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Don’t think in terms of some specific measurement of wealth. Think in terms of a frame of mind. A rich person is convinced that joy will come from filling up the ego.

So Peter asks, “We have given up everything and followed you. What will there be for us?” And Jesus replies, “Everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.” It’s so important to note that this is not a sort of capitalist calculation: Just make a good investment and you’ll get a spectacular return. You’ll have all the houses and money you want.

Once you let go of the world in a spirit of detachment, once you remove the things of this world from your grasp and see them without distortion, you will really have them. They will appear as they are, as God intended them. They will no longer be objects for your manipulation or possession but beautiful realities in themselves.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, OSV, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

08/17/2026

Today is Monday, 20th week in ordinary time

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
you alone can satisfy the deepest longing in my heart.
No other treasure can compare with you. Keep me free from all discontentment, possessiveness, greed and selfishness, that I may have joy in knowing that you alone are my true Treasure and my Portion. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Matthew 5:3)

Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are the poor in spirit;
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven

CLICK FOR TODAYS READINGS:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081726.cfm

REFLECTION

The young man in today’s Gospel “went away sad.” He knew what he wanted to do, and what Jesus asked him to do, but . . . it was just so hard! And if he had given up everything? He likely would have been a little worried, if not downright frightened.

Living a simpler lifestyle, and accepting Jesus at his word, are scary. Even taking a step in that direction can make us nervous.

How do we overcome that fear and increase that virtue? It takes practice.

Dear Lord, give us courage to let go and go where you lead.
- BLESSING
May the Lord bless
us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

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Courtesy of various sources such as Laudate app, OSV & other sources

Address

2460 Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
11229

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm
Saturday	9:30pm - 5pm

Telephone

+17187430102

Website

http://www.stedmund-brooklyn.org/

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