FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | JULY 12, 2020 St. Kateri Tekakwitha | Feast Day - July 14 CATHEDRAL OF SAINT PAUL NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL 239 Selby Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102 651.228.1766 | www.cathedralsaintpaul.org Rev. John L. Ubel, Rector Priests In Residence: Rev. Mark Pavlak & Rev. Joseph Bambenek Deacons Phil Stewart, Ron Schmitz & Nao Kao Yang ARCHDIOCESE OF SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS Most Rev. Bernard A. Hebda, Archbishop Most Rev. Andrew H. Cozzens, Auxiliary Bishop LITURGY GUIDE FOR THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PRELUDE Dr. Christopher Ganza, organ but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it. INTROIT Dum clamarem Gregorian Missal, Mode III Dum clamárem ad Dóminum, exaudívit vocem meam, ab his qui appropín- RESPONSORIAL PSALM Cantor or Lector alone quant mihi: et humiliávit eos, qui est ante sǽcula, et manet in ætérnum: iacta Psalm 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 Jeff Ostrowski cogitátum in Dómino, et ipse te enútriet. Ps. Exáudi Deus oratiónem meam, et The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest. ne despéxeris deprecatiónem meam: inténde mihi, et exáudi me. You have visited the land and watered it; When I cried out to the Lord, he heeded my call against my assailants; he who greatly have you enriched it. is before the beginning of the world and who endures forever has humbled God’s watercourses are filled; them. Cast your cares upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. ℣. Hear my pray- you have prepared the grain. er, O God, and despise not my supplication; be attentive to me and hear me. Ps. 55:17, 18, 19, 20, 23 & 2 Thus have you prepared the land: drenching its furrows, GREETING Roman Missal breaking up its clods, Softening it with showers, Celebrant: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, blessing its yield. and of the Holy Spirit. ℟. Amen. You have crowned the year with your bounty, Celebrant: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of and your paths overflow with a rich harvest; The untilled meadows overflow with it, God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with and rejoicing clothes the hills. you all. (or similar greeting) ℟. And with your spirit. The fields are garmented with flocks PENITENTIAL ACT Confiteor and the valleys blanketed with grain. They shout and sing for joy. confess to almighty God I The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest. and to you, my brothers and sisters that I have greatly sinned, SECOND READING Romans 8:18-23 in my thoughts and in my words, rothers and sisters: in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, BI consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing And striking the breast, say: compared with the glory to be revealed for us. through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; For creation awaits with eager expectation therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, the revelation of the children of God; all the Angels and Saints, for creation was made subject to futility, and you, my brothers and sisters, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, to pray for me to the Lord our God. in hope that creation itself GLORIA Sung by Cantor Roman Missal/Missa Simplex, Richard Proulx would be set free from slavery to corruption lory to God in the highest, and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God. G and on earth peace to people of good will. We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now; and not only that, but we ourselves, We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we give you thanks for your great glory, we also groan within ourselves Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Mode I Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; GOSPEL Matthew 13:1-23 you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; n that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got Ointo a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, the shore. And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, THE LITURGY OF THE WORD and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of Readings may be found at: roots. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and http://usccb.org/bible/readings/071220.cfm choked it. But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hun- dred or sixty or thirtyfold. Whoever has ears ought to hear.” FIRST READING Isaiah 55:10-11 The disciples approached him and said, “Why do you speak to hus says the LORD: them in parables?” He said to them in reply, TJust as from the heavens “Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven the rain and snow come down has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To and do not return there anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from till they have watered the earth, anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is making it fertile and fruitful, why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they look but do not see and giving seed to the one who sows hear but do not listen or understand.’ Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in and bread to the one who eats, them, which says: so shall my word be ‘You shall indeed hear but not understand, that goes forth from my mouth; you shall indeed look but never see. my word shall not return to me void, Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, SANCTUS Roman Missal/Missa Simplex, Richard Proulx they have closed their eyes, oly, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. lest they see with their eyes H Heaven and earth are full of your glory. and hear with their ears Hosanna in the highest. and understand with their hearts and be converted, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. and I heal them.’ Hosanna in the highest. “But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION Roman Missal righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and e proclaim your Death, O Lord, to hear what you hear but did not hear it. W and profess your Resurrection until you come again “Hear then the parable of the sower. The seed sown on the path is AGNUS DEI Roman Missal the one who hears the word of the kingdom without under- Assembly: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, standing it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown have mercy on us. in his heart. The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, the word and receives it at once with joy. But he has no root and have mercy on us. lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, because of the word, he immediately falls away. The seed sown grant us peace. among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit. ECCE AGNUS DEI But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and Celebrant: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the sixty or thirtyfold.” supper of the Lamb. HOMILY ℟. Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter PROFESSION OF FAITH Nicene Creed under my roof, but only say the word, and my soul believe in one God, the Father almighty, shall be healed. I maker of heaven and earth, An Act of Spiritual Communion For those who cannot be present of all things visible and invisible. y Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, M Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to the Only Begotten Son of God, receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive born of the Father before all ages. You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.