Readings at Mass - 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B S U N D A Y † BULLETIN

Entrance Antiphon Whether we are living in the body or exiled from it, we are 17th June 2018 • 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year B Cf. Ps 26: 7, 9 intent on pleasing him. For all the truth about us will be O Lord, hear my voice, for I have called to you; be my help. brought out in the law court of Christ, and each of us will get Do not abandon or forsake me, O God, my Saviour! what he deserves for the things he did in the body, good or

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O God, strength of those who hope in you, Gospel Acclamation 20 Huntly Street, Aberdeen AB10 1SH www.stmaryscathedralaberdeen.org graciously hear our pleas, Jn15:15 and, since without you mortal frailty can do nothing, Alleluia, alleluia! grant us always the help of your grace, I call you friends, says the Lord, that in following your commands because I have made known to you we may please you by our resolve and our deeds. everything I have learnt from my Father. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, Alleluia! who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Gospel

Mark 4:26-34 First reading “I am in your midst. Ezekiel 17:22-24 Jesus said to the crowds, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man throws seed on the land. Night and day, while he The Lord says this: sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; Trust in me.” ‘From the top of the cedar, how, he does not know. Of its own accord the land produces In February of this year, almost a year and a half from the highest branch I will take a shoot first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. and plant it myself on a very high mountain. And when the crop is ready, he loses no time: he starts to after the August 2016 earthquake in the central I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel. reap because the harvest has come.’ area of Italy, a tabernacle with 40 intact and It will sprout branches and bear fruit, He also said, ‘What can we say the kingdom of God is like? consecrated hosts was found amid the rubble, in and become a noble cedar. What parable can we find for it? It is like a mustard seed Our Lady of the Assumption church in the town of Every kind of bird will live beneath it, which at the time of its sowing in the soil is the smallest of all Arquata. every winged creature rest in the shade of its branches. the seeds on earth; yet once it is sown it grows into the big- And every tree of the field will learn that I, the Lord, am the gest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the one birds of the air can shelter in its shade.’ According to the Italian daily Avvenire, inside the The preserved hosts from the tabernacle who stunts tall trees and makes the low ones grow, Using many parables like these, he spoke the word to tabernacle “the ciborium was overturned but the lid who withers green trees and makes the withered green. them, so far as they were capable of understanding it. He was still on. And despite all the months that had Fr. Ciancotti told Avvenire that “there was no I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.’ would not speak to them except in parables, but he ex- gone by, the hosts were whole, without any bacteria or mold as happens with hosts after a few plained everything to his disciples when they were alone. Responsorial Psalm alteration.” weeks. Even though they were more than a year Psalm 91:2-3,13-16 and a half old, they seemed to have been made the It is good to give you thanks, O Lord. Communion Antiphon The of Ascoli Piceno, Giovanni D’Ercole, told day before.” It is good to give thanks to the Lord, Ps 26: 4 Avvenire what was discovered: “A fresh baked to make music to your name, O Most High, There is one thing I ask of the Lord, only this do I seek: aroma was still noticeable, which is very moving. It He said the wafers had been prepared by nuns at to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. to proclaim your love in the morning is a sign of hope for everyone. It tells us that Jesus the convent of Sant'Onofrio. “I immediately asked and your truth in the watches of the night. R. also suffered the earthquake like everyone else, but them if they used preservatives and they told me: Prayer after Communion he has come out alive from among the rubble.” ‘No, just flour and water.’" The just will flourish like the palm tree As this reception of your Holy Communion, O Lord, and grow like a Lebanon cedar. R. foreshadows the union of the faithful in you, Fr. Angelo Ciancotti of the Ascoli Piceno Cathedral Don Ciancotti was the first to be sceptical. “I’m a so may it bring about unity in your Church.

Through Christ our Lord. said that getting into the tabernacle was not simple: cousin of [doubting] St. Thomas,” he joked, “and so “The problem was opening it up, but my collection I had several others witness to it.” Planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish in the courts of our God, of tabernacle keys helped me.” still bearing fruit when they are old, Sunday 11.15am Mass In his opinion “this prodigious and inexplicable still full of sap, still green, The priest opened the tabernacle with one of the discovery” is “a miracle, but above all a message for to proclaim that the Lord is just. Entrance Hymn 125 All things bright and beautiful keys in his extensive collection, and said that inside everyone: it is a sign that reminds us of the In him, my rock, there is no wrong. R. African Offertory Ngozi (Blessing) an overturned ciborium, “was the Body of Christ motet centrality of the Eucharist.” Second reading which for more than a year and a half remained 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Choir Take and eat Communion intact, without any change in colour, shape or “Jesus is telling us” with these intact hosts that “’I We are always full of confidence when we remember that to 630 Breathe on me breath of God scent.” am in your midst. Trust in me.’” he concluded live in the body means to be exiled from the Lord, going as we Marian Antiphon 597 Salve, Regina do by faith and not by sight – we are full of confidence, I say, and actually want to be exiled from the body and make our Recessional 120 All over the world home with the Lord.

A Parish of the R.C. Charitable Trust, a registered Scottish Charity, number SC 005122 St Mary’s Cathedral - Aberdeen AB10 1SH Sunday 17th June, 2018 Clergy & Religious Mass Times Cathedral Weekly Calendar Date Details Service Time Mass Intentions Administrator: Fr. Keith Herrera ABERDEEN AFRICAN CATHOLIC (AACL) Mon Mother & Toddler Group Cathedral For parents with young children. All ages 01224 640 160 Mass 8.00am FAMILY FUN DAY [email protected] Polish Mass 9.30am Bookshop welcome. Main Hall from 13.30-15.30pm (to raise funds for charity). Contact: Yi-pei Chou 11th Sunday in Solemn Mass 11.15am Parish Intentions Volunteers Required Assistant Priest: Fr. Janusz Wilczynski SAC Sun 17th Ordinary Time Venue: 30th June, 1pm-6pm 0745 5479 479 (Polish Chaplain) [email protected] Polish Mass 3.00pm Mile End School Gym Hall, Midstocket Road, AB15 5LT A selection of days and times available.. 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Cathedral itself. Recommended offering for Print details and post through Clergy House each Mass is £5. Prices: Adults £15 Healing of Memories More information: Parish website or letter box. Prayer for the healing of painful memories www.scottishcatholicsafeguarding.org.uk Sunday 11:15 Mass is normally reserved for Family £40 It may not always be possible for Mass to be the Administrator’s or Bishop’s Intentions Children (Under 12)/ OAPs: £12 of the past to bring peace to the present. celebrated on your preferred date or at the Contact Deacon: [email protected] Music Director: Shelagh Noden for the Parish or Diocese. [email protected] Contact: Martin Gardner. Tel: 01569 760438 Legion of Mary Shop Manager: Barbara Mearns OFFERTORY: £2,183.62 Lower Hall from 6pm to 7.30pm 18 Gurney Street, Stonehaven. Contact: Nogie Osula [email protected] [email protected] Bulletin: [email protected] Cathedral African Choir Notices to be in by Tuesday evening For Africans and anyone else. UPLIFTING WALKS Hall Bookings: [email protected] GIFT AID Upper Hall from 6.00- 8.00pm SVdP A Walking Pilgrimage is being organised by ‘Uplifting Walks’ on Sunday 24th June. Walkers Contact: Patricia Malikebu Call between 9am & 1pm only will set out from Greyfriars Convent, Elgin at 9:30am. Two options are available: 07891 714 549 Terms & Conditions see Parish website Gift Aid allows our Income church to claim back 1) A 9-mile route runs through forestry and rolling countryside. 2) A 3-mile route starting from Polish Collection ...... …. £24.22 Thu Cenacolo Prayer Group Liturgical Ministries the basic rate tax that the car park of Torrieston Walks. Box Collections...... £126.27 Exposition & Rosary praying for healing of you have already paid. Transport back to Elgin can be arranged at a small cost. For more details and to register those with addictions Head Sacristan: Jacqueline Armstrong So you pay less tax! TOTAL...... £150.49 (registration is mandatory) visit www.rcda.scot or email [email protected] Church after Mass Contact: Liam Sharkey [email protected] We can claim back 25p for every £1 donated, Readers: Irma Allan 07714718708 Spend on Food...... £150.56 07774 931 996 boosting the value of the donation by a A CHANCE FOR YOUNG CATHOLIC MEN TO [email protected] quarter. Expenses £ 20.53 SUMMER FAYRE 2018 - SATURDAY 23rd JUNE Band Practice EXPERIENCE MONASTIC LIFE Euch. Ministers: John MacKinnon 07926 628 941 This means if you donate £10 the government TOTAL £171.03 Cake & Candy, Toy Stall, Gift Stall, Strawberries & Contemporary music for Sunday 6pm Mass gives the Church an extra £2.50. If you donate Cream, Children’s Activities AT PLUSCARDEN ABBEY Upper Hall after Mass [email protected] Contact: [email protected] £100 we get an extra £25 or £1,000 an extra Thanks to all our benefactors for their Proceeds to “Let the Children Live” The Benedictine monks of Pluscarden Abbey offer a Children’s Ruth Paterson 01224 593069 £250 at no cost to you! Venue: St Francis, Deeside Gardens special opportunity to see what monastic life is Cathedral Choir Rehearsal for the 11:15 Catechesis: [email protected] welcome donations. So, if you’re a UK tax payer please complete Time: 2.30pm to 4.30pm about, during the weekend Friday 3rd to Monday 6th Sunday Mass Stewards: Diego Mejias Morffe 07960 325 046 and sign a Gift Aid Form. £2.50, children 50p(entry with refreshments) August 2018. The invitation is for single young men, 7.00pm in Ogilve Centre, contact Shelagh CATHEDRAL SAFEGUARDING Noden: [email protected] [email protected] Completed forms can be given to the stewards Volunteer Wanted YOUTH LOURDES PILGRIMAGE Catholics who practise their faith, aged 18-35. There or handed in to the Clergy House. Altar Servers: George Brand 01224 630 159 A Safeguarding Co-ordinator is required to 6-11th October 2018 will be no charge for the weekend. Anyone Fri Altar Servers’ Practice [email protected] assist Fr. Keith with safeguarding in the interested contact Fr Benedict Hardy OSB: Church from 6.00 to 7.00pm BAND PRACTICE Cathedral Parish. This is for young Catholics aged 15-25 who wish to take Contact: Simon Flowers: Pixie Mather 07763064146 their faith to the next level. Organised by the Dominican [email protected] There will be no band practice for the next 2 Contact: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sisters of St Cecilia. Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin, IV30 8UA. weeks. Cost £300. Details from the Sisters: Youth Groups CATHEDRAL CHOIR Contact: [email protected] 01343 890257 www.pluscardenabbey.org Edge (P7-S2) & Lifeteen (S3-S6) Notices NOW AVAILABLE There are no Thursday evening practices at Hall 7.00pm to 9.00pm A Scattering of Seeds, CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BISHOP’S GOLDEN JUBILEE GOLF TROPHY Contact: St. Andrew’s Community Adoration: Monday - Saturday 6.00am-12 midnight the moment as the choir is on holiday. A little collection of short sermons by Canon Practices will resume in August. From August Aberdeen City Council will be continuing its Friday 29th June 2018 - from 12noon Confessions: Tuesdays 6.00pm Bill Anderson, has now been published, programme of Catholic Religious Education for pupils of its Sat Church Cleaning secondary schools. Classes will begin the week of Monday Kintore Golf Club AB51 Saturdays 10.30am & 6.00pm costing £7 . Available from the Cathedral CATHEDRAL MUSIC Church at 10.30am Shop or Office. August 27th. Parish Teams of 3 golfers required. Teams can be all Morning Prayer: Monday - Friday 6.30am We are now back to Ordinary time and starting Venue: Harlaw Academy. male or female or mixed. £40 to include one round of K4J (Kids for Jesus) Youth group for P2’s to P7’s. Main Hall Rosary: Saturdays 10.30am (for Priests) to introduce some new music for the Mass. We Register at: http://www.abernet.org/rcre golf and High Tea. A deposit of £10 per head (£30 per PARISH RECIPE BOOK or call Mr Charlie Love on 01224 522287. from 12.30pm to 2.00pm Housebound? John MacKinnon (See above) for visits will be using the Mass of the Resurrection, team) is required before 30th May 2018. Coeliacs: Speak to clergy before Mass Parishioner James Cleves is planning to African Choir (As above) composed by Randall DeBruyn. [Please note ANNUAL SCALAN MASS Sponsors for prizes needed. Sunday Coffees: Ann Ryans 07545 615 198 create a St Mary’s Parish Recipe Book! Upper Hall from 6.00 - 8.00pm If you have a favourite recipe you would there is no space between De and Bruyn] You The annual Mass at Scalan will take place on Sunday 1st To register, send details of your team to : [email protected] like to share please email it to James at: can listen to it on Youtube. July at 4.00pm. The homilist is the Rt. Rev. , JOYCE WEBSTER, Tel: 01224 319154, Sun Choir Rehearsal Natural Family Margaret Hammond [email protected] We will introduce it gradually over the next . email: [email protected] Leading the music for 11:15 Sunday Mass Planning (NFP) [email protected] few weeks. Scalan post code: AB37 9JS (signposted on B9008). Upper Hall 10.00am