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Our Parish Liturgy . Sacred Heart This Week (11 B) Next Week (12 B) Parish Priest Rev Fr Daryl George JCL DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 3 DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 4 Sacred Heart Presbytery Parish Newsletter 25 Between Streets FIRST Job 38:1, 8-11 for the Roman Catholic ENTRANCE Lord, hear my voice when I call COBHAM READING Here your proud waves shall break. ANTIPHON to you. You are my help; do not community Surrey cast me off, do not desert me, PSALM O give thanks to the Lord, for his KT11 1AA of Cobham, Oxshott, my Saviour God. RESPONSE love endures for ever. (01932) 862518 & Stoke D’Abernon PENITENTIAL 18.00 Said SECOND 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 part of the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust, a Registered Charity No. 252878 ACT 10.00 Said [email protected] EADING R Now the new creation is here. sacredheartcobham.org.uk Volume 02 Issue 29 13th June 2021 : 11th Sunday Year B GLORIA 18.00 Said GOSPEL Mark 4:35-41 10.00 Musicians READING Who can this be? Even the wind and THIS WEEK: the sea obey him. ??? . FIRST Ezekiel 17:22-24 BIBLE READING PLAN READING I make low trees grow. Music and text of Antiphons from Psallite, © 2005 Su Isa. 13-17 Collegeville Composers Group. Published by Liturgical Mo PSALM It is good to give you thanks, O Press, MN56321. Isa. 18-22 ESPONSE Used with Permission. One Licence No.0199 R Lord. Tu Isa. 23-27 We 2 Kgs. 18:1-8; 2 Chr. 29-31 SECOND 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 READING Whether we are living in the body or Th Hosea 1-7 exiled from it, we are intent on pleasing MARRIAGE MATTERS Fr the Lord. Hosea 8-14 In his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis offers a profound insight into the joy of Sa Hosea 28-30 GOSPEL Alleluia, alleluia! Christian marriage and reminds us of its place at the ACCLAMATION I call you friends, says the Lord, Financial News . very heart of the Church’s life. Christian marriage, he because I have made know to observes, ‘is a sign of how much Christ loved his Weekend of 06/06/21 you everything I have learnt Church in the covenant sealed on the cross, yet it Jesus’ parables are not nice the possibilities of the flowers or from my Father. also makes that love present in the communion of 1st £ 1,128:26 entertaining stories. As Jesus proclaims vegetables to come, must be dissuaded Alleluia! the spouses. By becoming one flesh, they embody 2nd None in the first words he speaks according from regular and disastrous digging the espousal of our human nature by the Son of to Mark, his mission is to announce down into the earth to see how the GOSPEL Mark 4:26-34 God.’ 2nd Collection . the Good News of the kingdom, the growth is proceeding! The farmer must READING It is the smallest of all the seeds; yet it As we know, the Holy Scriptures feed and nourish reigning and transforming presence of wait confidently on God’s good time grows into the biggest shrub of them This Weekend 13/06/21 God in his person and words, and call and providence, and eventually the time all. our faith and help us to grow in our relationship with God and one another. It is for this reason that None the people to faith and repentance. of growth and the time of harvesting Like all the parables. The two parables will intersect. Once we have received PRESENTATION these scriptural reflections are offered. They should Next Weekend 20/06/21 18.00 Musicians of green and growing things we hear the seed of God’s word in the soil of our OF THE GIFTS 10.00 N/A help enable married couples to focus on the richness Day For Life of God’s Word that we hear proclaimed each Sunday today are words of Jesus that tease us hearts, we must be ready for the Gift Aid Members are not able into contemplating our own lives and dispossession, the gradual unfolding of SANCTUS 18.00 Said of the Year and to experience the deep joy of God’s love expressed in the great Sacrament of Marriage. to make this tax efficient our response to the kingdom. the seed’s potential that will push into 10.00 Musicians In the first parable, Jesus compares our consciousness and transform our Thankyou for your continuing the growth of the kingdom to the seed lives, making us a plentiful harvest and CALLED BY GOD IN A generosity to your Parish. MEMORIAL that is planted by the farmer who then enabling us to become nourishment for 18.00 Said UNIQUE SACRAMENT ACCLAMATION 10.00 Musicians Bite Size . retires from the scene into the rhythm others. Because the growth of the seed of his everyday life. Day and night he is God’s secret, it can often happen in wakes and sleeps, while the seed, once what, to our limited human perspective, GREAT AMEN 18.00 Said sown, has its own potential for growth are the most unlikely places: in the 10.00 Said independent of the farmer. The lives of the poor, the despised, the mystery of growth belongs to the seed persecuted. This was surely a great OUR FATHER 18.00 Said Every action and the soil, to the gradual consolation to Mark’s community, for 10.00 Said ‘dispossession’ of the hard little seed to this was the reality of their lives. It of our lives the nourishing earth, and its should give the same hope and AGNUS DEI 18.00 Said consequent unhurried and gradual confidence to Christians today in our 10.00 Musicians touches on growth: first the stalk, then the ear, personal, communal, or national then the full grain. The only activity situations. What seems humanly some chord required of the farmer is vigilant insignificant, and even a failure, is COMMUNION One thing I seek: to dwell in the patience. In the dispossession that is transformed by God’s power, just as the ANTIPHON house of the Lord all the days of that will his incarnation, even Jesus had to seed of Jesus’ life fell into the ground of my life. accept some unknowing, some death to be transformed by his Today’s readings highlight that John the Baptist was vibrate in surrender of events into his Father’s resurrection. someone special in God’s eyes. The great challenge THANKSGIVING 18.00 N/A hands (Mark 13:32). This is the great encouragement for for us as married couples, is to hear Isaiah’s words eternity. 10.00 N/A Perhaps we have had the experience disciples as we live between the “You are my servant in whom I shall be glorified” and apply them to ourselves. Never forget, God Edwin Hubbel Chapin with children who have planted their planting and harvesting into the RECESSION 18.00 Musicians has chosen and graced the two of us to live this seeds in the garden and, excited about kingdom of God. 10.00 Musicians unique Sacrament of Marriage! Before Mass - Talk to God During Mass - Listen to God After Mass - Talk to your friends P A G E 2 Parish Office . Church Mouse (cub reporter). P A G E 7 The musings of one of God’s smallest creatures on events in and around the Normal Office Hours : Monday to Friday 09.30 - 12.30. Parish over the past seven days . Parish Secretary : Sarah Cox (01932) 860244 Once more a busy week around The Presbytery . [email protected] Our celebration of Corpus Christi last weekend included a period of Extended Newsletter Editorial : Items for possible inclusion in the Parish Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by a celebration of Evening Prayer and Newsletter (if there is room) need to be received (in writing please) at Benediction. The Blessed Sacrament was left exposed on the altar from after Mass until 15.00; the Parish Office by midday on Wednesday. during this time parishioners were present in the church in private prayer before the blessed Gift Aid Organiser : Dan Meehan (01372) 456416 sacrament. The Church encourages all parishes to have a time during the year when there is a [email protected] longer than normal period of Exposition. There is, of course, Exposition of the Blessed Safeguarding Rep. : Mark Hillas 07898 785449 Sacrament (normally) on a weekly basis here in the Parish from after Mass on Tuesdays until 11.00, which parishioners are encouraged to make use of on a regular basis. [email protected] Having celebrated Mass (with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament following) on Tuesday morning Fr D was meeting with a young couple who will shortly be getting married in a non- General Parish Information . Catholic church. Such a marriage requires special permission from the Bishop for it to be recognised by the Church since (normally) Catholics (through Baptism or Reception Into the Parishioner Registration : Every household within the Parish is Church) must marry in a Catholic church for the marriage to be recognised by the Church as requested to complete a ‘Parishioner Registration/Census’ form so that our valid. Fr D was delighted to be able to help the couple in making their application to the Bishop. Parish records may be kept up to date. These forms can be obtained from the Parish Office and should be completed fully before being returned to the Before Mass on Wednesday morning Fr D was opening up the garage to give access to the Parish Office.