THE OLD CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF SAINT LOUIS, KING OF FRANCE FIRST CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER Founded in 1770 present Church dedicated in 1834 Eleventh Sunday in ordinary time June 13, 2021 Archbishop of St. Louis Sunday Masses Confessions 5:30 PM (Sunday Vigil) Daily, 11:30 AM—12:00 PM The Most Reverend 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, Saturdays, 4:30 PM—5:15 PM Mitchell T. Rozanski and 5:00 PM Marriage Rector Daily Masses Please arrange at least six months in Father Nicholas Smith Monday through Friday advance of the desired date. Director, Office of Sacred Worship 7:00 AM and 12:10 PM To reserve a date, or for more Faculty, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary SATURDAY– 7:00 AM information, please contact Tracy Marklein at 314.231.3250. Live Stream Mass In Residence 7:00 AM Weekdays Father Charles Samson Devotions Assistant Professor, Kenrick-Glennon 10:30 AM Sunday Perpetual Help Devotions: Seminary Access the live streams at: Tuesdays, 12:00 PM oldcathedralstl.org Readings for the week of June 13, 2021 MASS INTENTIONS Sunday, June 13 Sunday: Ez 17:22-24/Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 [cf. 2a]/2 Cor 5:6-10/ 8:00 AM Parish Family Mk 4:26-34 10:30 AM Ronald Abling Monday: 2 Cor 6:1-10/Ps 98:1, 2b, 3ab, 3cd-4 [2a]/Mt 5:38-42 (Live Streamed) Tuesday: 2 Cor 8:1-9/Ps 146:2, 5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a [1b]/Mt 5:43-48 12:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Wednesday: 2 Cor 9:6-11/Ps 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 9 [1b]/Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 5:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Thursday: 2 Cor 11:1-11/Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8 [7a]/Mt 6:7-15 Friday: 2 Cor 11:18, 21-30/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 [cf. 18b]/Mt 6:19-23 Monday, June 14 Saturday: 2 Cor 12:1-10/Ps 34:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 [9a]/Mt 6:24-34 7:00 AM Julius Ortiguera Next Sunday: Jb 38:1, 8-11/ Ps 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31 [1b]/2 Cor 12:10 PM Celebrant’s Intentions 5:14-17/Mk 4:35-41 Tuesday, June 15 7:00 AM Robert Geisz Observances for the week of June 13, 2021 12:10 PM Christopher Cox Sunday: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wednesday, June 16 Monday: Weekday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Jacquelyn C. Blaha Tuesday: Weekday in Ordinary Time 12:10 PM Michael Amantea Wednesday: Weekday in Ordinary Time Thursday: Weekday in Ordinary Time Thursday, June 17 Friday: Weekday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Marie Hong Tran Saturday: St. Romuald, Abbot; BVM 12:10 PM Louis Fagas Next Sunday: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Father’s Day Friday, June 18 7:00 AM Niki, Nicholaus, Apostolos 12:10 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Saturday, June 19 7:00 AM Sieglinde Alvarado Weekly Giving 5:30 PM Pauline Maurer The Old Cathedral has long been recognized as one of the most historic and Sunday, June 20 beautiful churches of its time. 8:00 AM Louis Bonacorsi Our parish is proud of its more than 240 year 10:30 AM Jean Rozanski history as a self-supporting Roman (Live Streamed) Catholic Parish. Your presence, prayer, and generous kindness 12:00 PM Parish Family continue to make it so. 5:00 PM Celebrant’s Intentions Your weekly envelope donations can still be made by mail or in person by check at the Old Cathedral rectory or you can set up online donations at : www.oldcathedralstl.org/give The Old Cathedral SCAN TO MAKE 209 Walnut Street THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT. YOUR GIFT. St. Louis, Missouri 63102 Phone: 314.231.3250 Sunday, 06/07/21 Email: [email protected] THANK YOU FOR Online Donations $520.00 Website: Sunday Collection $4205.00 HELPING US www.oldcathedralstl.org Total $4725.00 CONTINUE OUR STORY ... From Our Rector Dear Old Cathedral Parishioners and Visitors: The Alaska State Fair is held annually in late August, in Palmer, about 42 miles northeast of Anchorage. This is not your typical agricultural show. Here, farmers from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley routinely display vegetables of gargantuan sizes – a 138-pound cabbage, 65-pound cantaloupe, and 35-pound broccoli. You might even get to see a 1,780-pound pumpkin! While the growing season is so much shorter there than in the rest of the United States, the 19 hours of daylight in late spring and early summer yield amazing results. So we can imagine what they could do with a mustard seed! In today’s Gospel, Jesus describes the kingdom of God using the parables of a wheat field and a mustard seed. We are told that when the wheat field has matured, it is immediately harvested. From the mustard seed comes a giant bush big enough for birds to live in its shade. Our faith in Jesus sprouts from the tiniest seeds of faith planted upon our hearts. How large it grows depends on us. We are given the gift of faith, but it is always our choice whether or not to accept and act on the gift we have been given. Will we water? Will we weed? The kingdom of God is here for our habitation and our building. Things get in our way, however, impeding us from doing our best at watering and weeding. The list is endless as to what can pull us away from our number one priority – to cultivate God’s kingdom that rests on our hearts. It’s not that these other pursuits are not valuable or important, but let us strive to not allow them to obstruct our relationship with God. The people who show their crops at the Alaska State Fair accept and act upon that which they have been given. They take advantage of every moment of their short growing season in order to produce “fruit” [and vegetables] worthy of admiration and praise. They work with what God has given them, and cultivate their harvest, and their proverbial mustard seeds, carefully. Life is always going to be full of choices. Let us strive to make choices that lead us closer to God and one another, and not farther away. When harvest time comes and the sickle swings, we want to be gathered up into God’s storage barns, that is, into his Kingdom. The last thing anyone wants is to be cast aside. Cast aside in this life, or in the next. Will we water? Will we weed? It is always our decision to make. Blessings upon your week. Stay safe! -Father Smith Saint Romuald, abbot (June 19): Saint Romuald was born in about 951 and the traditional date of his death is June 19, 1025/27. He was the founder of the Camaldolese Order and a major figure in the eleventh-century “Renaissance of eremitical asceticism.” He was from Ravenna. At the age of 20 he was his father’s second in a dual; his father killed the opponent, and Romuald, appalled, began to question the direction of his life. He entered the Benedictine monastic life and spent 30 years traveling and reforming various monasteries. In 1011 at Arezzo he was given, by (according to legend) a man named Maldolus, a piece of land called “Campus Maldoli,” hence the name of the new community. All you holy men and women, Saints of God, pray for us. WHY IS JUNE DEDICATED TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS? Philip Kosloski - published on 06/01/21, Aleteia June has been the Month of the Sacred Heart ever since the feast was instituted in the 19th century. In popular piety, each month of the year has a corresponding spiritual theme that focuses on various aspects of the Christian faith. June has become known as the Month of the Sacred Heart, due to the fact that the feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated each year during it. It all started when St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received private revelations from Jesus Christ. Jesus spoke to her on June 16, 1675, and asked her specifically to promote a feast that honored his Sacred Heart. I ask of you that the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi be set apart for a special Feast to honor My Heart, by communicating on that day, and making reparation to It by a solemn act, in order to make amends for the indignities which It has received during the time It has been exposed on the altars. I promise you that My Heart shall expand Itself to shed in abundance the influence of Its Divine Love upon those who shall thus honor It, and cause It to be honored. The feast of Corpus Christi has been celebrated after Trinity Sunday for many centuries and always falls during the month of June. The precise date fluctuates each year, as it is determined by the celebration of Easter. It took until 1856 for the feast of the Sacred Heart to be officially celebrated by the universal Church, and ever since then the month of June has been focused on devotion to the Heart of Jesus and his divine love for humanity. ARCHBISHOP’S COLUMN Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski Our pursuit of perfection is unique to each of us Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, “You have heard that it was said: An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.