Readings at Mass - Corpus Christi—Mass of the Day - Year B Entrance Antiphon Cf. Ps 26: 1-2 Gospel Acclamation Jn14:23 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Alleluia, alleluia! The Lord is the stronghold of my life; whom should I dread? If anyone loves me he will keep my word, 7th Jun, 2015 • CORPUS CHRISTI • Year B When those who do evil draw near, they stumble and fall. and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him. First reading Genesis 3:9-15 Alleluia! The Lord God called to the man after he had eaten of the tree. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied Gospel Mark 3:20-35 ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you Jesus went home with his disciples, and such a crowd collected that were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you they could not even have a meal. When his relatives heard of this, they to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave set out to take charge of him, convinced he was out of his mind. me the fruit, and I ate it.’ Then the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, 20 Huntly Street, Aberdeen is this you have done?’ The woman replied, ‘The serpent tempted me ‘Beelzebul is in him’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts and I ate.’ devils out.’ So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, www.stmaryscathedralaberdeen.org Then the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, ‘Be accursed beyond all cattle, that kingdom cannot last. And if a household is divided against itself, all wild beasts. that household can never stand. Now if Satan has rebelled against him- You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust self and is divided, he cannot stand either – it is the end of him. But no every day of your life. one can make his way into a strong man’s house and burgle his proper- I will make you enemies of each other: ty unless he has tied up the strong man first. Only then can he burgle you and the woman, his house. your offspring and her offspring. ‘I tell you solemnly, all men’s sins will be forgiven, and all their blas- It will crush your head phemies; but let anyone blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and he will and you will strike its heel.’ never have forgiveness: he is guilty of an eternal sin.’ This was because they were saying, ‘An unclean spirit is in him.’ Psalm Psalm 129:1-8 His mother and brothers now arrived and, standing outside, sent in Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time Lord, hear my voice! the message was passed to him, ‘Your mother and brothers and sisters O let your ears be attentive are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my to the voice of my pleading. brothers?’ And looking round at those sitting in a circle about him, he R: With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption. said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’ If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive? Communion Antiphon Ps 17: 3 But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you. R The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my saving strength. My soul is waiting for the Lord. I count on his word. Christ's Body and to individual members of that Body. My soul is longing for the Lord Meditation more than watchman for daybreak. (Let the watchman count on daybreak Sunday 11.15am Mass The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ originat- The source and summit of all the Church's life is pro- and Israel on the Lord.) R ed in the diocese of Liège (1246) on the basis of revela- fessed to be the celebration of the Eucharist where the Introit He fed them with the finest of wheat, tions of Juliana of Cornillon. It was accepted with such Because with the Lord there is mercy alleluia; and with honey from the rock he Body of Christ partakes of what it is. On this Sunday we and fullness of redemption, satisfied them, alleluia, alleluia. enthusiasm throughout Europe that in 1264 it was celebrate our identity as Christ's Body and profess our Israel indeed he will redeem promulgated for the entire Latin Church. belief that the life-giving and life supporting blood from all its iniquity. R which flows among us is Christ's very life. From the beginning the feast commemorated both the Second reading 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Processional Hymn 110 Alleluia, sing to Jesus As we have the same spirit of faith that is mentioned in scripture – I body and the blood of the Lord. This original unity has On this Sunday we direct our attention to the symbol Offertory 462 Love is his word believed, and therefore I spoke – we too believe and therefore we too been restored in the post-Vatican II celebration. Human which makes all other symbols possible. The earthly speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus to life will raise us Comm. Antiphon He who eats my flesh and drinks my beings are so essentially physical that even our lan- language of bodies and blood fills the scriptures. But with Jesus in our turn, and put us by his side and you with us. You see, blood, abides in me, and I in him, says the guage of the spirit derives from our bodies. To be a all this is for your benefit, so that the more grace is multiplied among Lord. those same scriptures proclaim that the pouring forth people, the more thanksgiving there will be, to the glory of God. member of an organization requires that we be incor- of blood is unto the nourishment of God's people. That is why there is no weakening on our part, and instead, though porated into that organization. Publications of societies Flesh, blood, bread and wine are the products of de- this outer man of ours may be falling into decay, the inner man is re- Communion Hymn 509 Of the glorious body telling are said to be organs of these groups. newed day by day. Yes, the troubles which are soon over, though they structive processes which bring them to human tables weigh little, train us for the carrying of a weight of eternal glory which 480 My God, and is thy table as food to sustain a family. Christ immersed himself in is out of all proportion to them. And so we have no eyes for things that Recessional 497 Now thank we all our God Jesus and his Church have a keen grasp of this reality in those processes which brought him to the table of the are visible, but only for things that are invisible; for visible things last the celebrations we call sacraments. only for a time, and the invisible things are eternal. human family as the one food and drink which changes For we know that when the tent that we live in on earth is folded the eater into the eaten. In him we truly become what up, there is a house built by God for us, an everlasting home not made Sacraments address themselves to the Church which is we eat and drink. by human hands, in the heavens. Vienna International Religious Centre A Parish of the R.C. Diocese of Aberdeen Charitable Trust, a registered Scottish Charity, number SC 005122 St Mary’s Cathedral - Aberdeen AB10 1SH Please take me home Sunday 7th Jun, 2015 Clergy & Staff Mass Times Cathedral News Weekly Calendar Administrator: Fr. Keith Herrera Date Details Service Time Mass Intentions Corpus Christi Mon Credo Community Meeting 01224 640 160 The Most Holy Mass 8.00am As part of our Corpus Christi celebration this Sunday Deanery & Diocese Polish charismatic prayer group. Sun 7th Main Hall at 7.30pm . [email protected] Trinity Mass-Polish 9.30 am there will be a Holy Hour following the 11:15 Mass Contact: Fr Tomasz Klin SJ Assistant Priest: Fr. Tomasz Klin 07402 099 944 Solemn Mass 11.15am For the Parish at 12:30. Aberdeen Interfaith Group (Polish Chaplain) [email protected] Mass-Polish 3.00pm Exploring God in Faith Tue Magnificat Prayer Group Cathedral Books & Gift Shop Assistant Priest: Fr. Patrick Xavier Ekutt 07404 704 678 Mass 6.00pm Canon Patrick J. 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