Readings at Mass
Trinity Sunday - Year A
Entrance Antiphon Blest be God the Father, and the Only Begotten Son of God, and also the Holy Spirit, for he has shown us his merciful love.
Gospel
John 3:16-18 Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.’
Collect God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. First reading
Exodus 34:4-6,8-9 With the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up the mountain of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded him. And the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with him there. He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger rich in kindness and faithfulness.’ And Moses bowed down to the ground at once and worshipped. ‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he said ‘let my Lord come with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’ Canticle
Prayer over the Offerings Sanctify by the invocation of your name, we pray, O Lord our God, this oblation of our service, and by it make of us an eternal offering to you. Through Christ our Lord. Communion Antiphon Gal 4: 6 Since you are children of God, God has sent into your hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out: Abba, Father. Prayer after Communion May receiving this Sacrament, O Lord our God, bring us health of body and soul, as we confess your eternal holy Trinity and undivided Unity. Through Christ our Lord.
Daniel 3:52-55 You are blest, Lord God of our fathers. R. To you glory and praise for evermore. Blest your glorious holy name. To you glory and praise for evermore. You are blest in the temple of your glory. To you glory and praise for evermore. You are blest on the throne of your kingdom. To you glory and praise for evermore.
Sunday 11.15am Mass
You are blest who gaze into the depths. To you glory and praise for evermore. You are blest in the firmament of heaven. To you glory and praise for evermore.
Introit
337
Holy Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
Proc
116
All Hail the power of Jesus name
Off
Sheet Jesus Shall Reign (Galilee (Armes), LM
Off
122
Com
Sheet Just as I am, without one plea.
Com
Sheet Search me, O God, and know my heart today.
Com
628
Soul of my Saviour
Rec
96
Abba Father, Send your Spirit
All that I am, all that I do.
Second reading 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Brothers, we wish you happiness; try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints send you greetings. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Gospel Acclamation cf.Rv1:8 Alleluia, alleluia! Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; the God who is, who was, and who is to come. Alleluia!
15th June, 2014 • Trinity Sunday • Year A • Week 3
20 Huntly Street, Aberdeen
www.stmaryscathedralaberdeen.org Meditation The smallest functional unity of human life is not the individual. Every man and woman, no matter how deformed in spirit or body, exists because he or she was born of the coming together of two human beings. No infant survives without acts of touching and feeding which are acts of human relationship. If we exist at all, we exist as the product of some form of human community. We profess that we have been created in God's image. Our self-image is so clearly and relentlessly one of life in community that we can not help but see in the scriptures suggestions and revelations of God's own life as life for and with the other. Though we will never come to know God as God knows himself, every sign of God's action in our world leads us to him as a God in interaction. Creation itself is God's self-expression, the extension of his love to that which is other than himself. God's ongoing dialogue with creation reaches its climax in Jesus who is God -among-us. This Jesus is taken up into the fullness of the Father's glory and the fullness of their love is poured forth upon us in the gift of the Spirit. Though we falter before the complexity of centuries of theology seeking to understand the unfathomable depths of God, we resolutely form the shape of our faith by praying day after day to the Father, through the Son and in the Holy Spirit. Vienna International Religious Centre
Trinity Sunday
"No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the Splendour of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Them than I am carried back to the One. When I think of any One of the Three I think of Him as the Whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking of escapes me." St Gregory of Nazianzus
A Parish of the R.C. Diocese of Aberdeen Charitable Trust, a registered Scottish Charity, number SC 005122
Sunday 15th June, 2014
St Mary’s Cathedral - Aberdeen AB10 1SH Mass Times
Clergy & Staff Administrator: Fr. Keith Herrera (01224) 640 160 administrator@cathedral-abdn.org Assistant Priest: Fr. Tomasz Klin (Polish Chaplain) (07402) 099 944 curate1@cathedral-abdn.org Deacon:
Deacon Tony Schmitz deacon@cathedral-abdn.org
Safeguarding:
Chris Jones (07974) 690 719 chrisjones442@hotmail.com More information: Parish website or www.scottishcatholicsafeguarding.org.uk
Music Directors: David & Liz Meiklejohn music@cathedral-abdn.org
Hall Manager:
Gabrielle Watson (07821) 896 639 halls@cathedral-abdn.org Terms & Conditions: Parish website
Telephone:
(01224) 640 160
Secretary:
Cowan Watson secretary@cathedral-abdn.org
Gift Aid:
John Costello finance@cathedral-abdn.org
Bulletin:
bulletin@cathedral-abdn.org Notices to be in by Tuesday evening
Liturgical Ministries
Euch. Ministers: Trudy Coker (07896) 824 703 gcok6@aol.com Gordon Webster (01224) 59 22 46 webster200@btinternet.com
Altar Servers:
George Brand geobra@msn.com
Confessions Tuesdays: 6pm Saturdays: 10.30am & 6pm
Prayer of the Church
7.30am
Saturday:
9.40am
Evening Prayer (Sung) Thursday:
6.30pm
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Monday to Saturday —1 hour before Mass
Communion for Sick and Housebound Trudy Coker (See above)
Family Planning Nature’s Way Margaret Hammond (07891) 358 114 mgthammond13@yahoo.co.uk
Service
Cathedral News
Time
Solemnity of the Mass Most Holy Trinity Mass-Polish Mass Mass-Polish Mass
8.00am 9.30am 11.15am 3.00pm 6.00pm
Mass Intentions
L.Kuriakose For the Parish Frank Mcmahon RIP Private Intention
Mon 16th
Mass Mass
7.00am 12.30pm
Tue 17th
Mass Mass
7.00am 7.00pm
Wed 18th
Mass Mass
7.00am 12.30pm
RT.Rev. Mgr B.Donachie
Thu 19th
Mass Mass
7.00am 7.00pm
Rev Anthony Bancewicz RIP Very Rev Peter O’Farrell RIP
Fri 20th
Mass Comm. Service
7.00am 12.30pm
Rev Joseph Logue RIP Communion Service
10.00am 7.00pm
First Communions
8.00am 9.30am 11.15am 3.00pm 6.00pm
Monica Berni RIP
Sat 21st
Memorial of St Mass Aloysius Gonzaga Mass Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Mass Mass-Polish Mass Mass-Polish Mass
D.Dieseru Desmond Onyekwere
For the Diocese For the Parish
Mass Intention Envelopes
Mass Intentions.
Found at the back of the Church. Add details and post through Clergy House letter box. (Please do not put into the Offertory basket.) Recommended offering for each Mass Requested is £5.
Please note that due to the number of intentions it may not be possible for Mass to be celebrated on your preferred date or at the Cathedral itself. Note also that the Sunday 11.15 am Mass is normally reserved for the Administrator’s Intentions for the Parish.
Coffee after
Mass
Stewards:
Monday - Friday:
Details
08/06/14 Offertory £2647.08
Fiona Mitchell fiona.j.mitchell@hotmail.co.uk
Morning Prayer
Sun 15th
Sun 22nd
Parish Office
Readers:
Date
Polish £ 829.76
St Vincent de Paul 7/8 June 2014 £242.24 Money spent on food parcels £150.89. Thanks to everyone.
Deanery & Diocese Diocesan Pilgrimage Fatima Salamanca & Avila 11-18th October 2014 Organised by Pax Travel Details at: Pax travelinfo@paxtravel.co.uk Tel: 020 7485 3003 Limited spaces - book early. See poster on notice board for more details. FREE ORGAN RECITALS! Ronald Leith, the Cathedral’s acclaimed, resident organist can be heard playing at the Cathedral most week days from 9.00am to 11.00am.
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Monastic Experience Weekend The monks of Pluscarden Abbey offer a special opportunity to see at first hand what monastic life is about, from 7th to 10th Nov. There will be no charge for the weekend.
The invitation is extended to single young Catholic men who practise their faith, aged 18 - 35. Contact Fr. Benedict Hardy OSB: novicemaster@pluscardenabbey.org Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin, Moray IV30 8UA (01343) 890 257.
Life in the Spirit Seminars Life in the Spirit Seminars continue this week on Tuesday 17h June in the Cathedral main hall with a teaching on ‘EMPOWERED TO SERVE’. All are Welcome.
Peter’s Pence There will be a second collection on the weekend of June 28/29th for Peter’s Pence. The collection is intended for use by the pope in his worldwide humanitarian efforts.
St. Mary’s Seniors Club An afternoon of fun and fellowship. Our last meeting of the session is on Wednesday 18th June at 2.00pm in the Main Hall. Chair Exercises with Elaine and your last chance to book for the summer lunch on 25th June. Further information from Winnie on 632465.
African Summer Fest 2014 The African Community Aberdeen cordially invites you, your family and friends to the African Summer Fest 2014 which will be held at Balmedie Beach on Saturday 28th June from 12pm. All are most welcome to take part.
Landings Programme Welcoming back Catholics to the Church. Meetings begin on Wednesday 18th June at 7.00pm in the Lower Hall . Enquiries to Parish Secretary. Aberdeen African Catholic Ladies (AACL) Quarterly Meeting on Saturday, 21st of June in the Main Hall from 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm. Speaker: Bishop Hugh Gilbert. For further info: Ngozi Amu (07791) 294 609 or aberdeenafricancatholicladies@yahoogroups.com Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Next Sunday (22 June) the Cathedral’s Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion will receive a blessing at the 11.15am Mass. Fundraising for Maciek On the 22nd June after each Mass there will be an opportunity to support Maciek's cancer treatment by buying cakes, books, handmade jewellery and many other items. All are very welcome to participate.
28th June from 8.00pm to 11.00pm Night Fever at the Cathedral Vigil of Prayer and Evangelisation The latest SCIAF newsletter is now available at the back of the church. This edition is about how the money you donate to SCIAF is used to help people in poverty. Pope Francis: 'In the poor and outcast we see Christ's face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.' Bookshop Sale Lots of great bargains to be had in the great Cathedral Book Shop sale: Sweatshirts; Bags; Books; Candles; DVD’s etc. all at knock down prices! A Traditional Latin Mass is celebrated every 2nd Sunday of the month at 11:00am at Sacred Heart Church, Torry. For further information contact: martin@guardair.co.uk or (07976)027 346
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden Abbey on 29 June 10.45am Departs St Peter’s, Castle St. (opp. Blackfriars pub.) 11.00am Departs Union St, across Huntly Street 11.20am Departs St Joseph’s, Woodside Cost is £22.00 per person, incl. high tea at Baxters of Fochabers, payable by 22nd June. Booking: Maureen Sinclair (01224) 626 359 or office@tiscali.co.uk Indicate meal choice (see notice board) and where you wish to be picked up.
NEW DAWN IN SCOTLAND Catholic Pilgrimage Conference 7th– 11th July Daily Mass - Reconciliation - Teaching - Healing - International & Local Speakers For more information Contact: (01314) 476 153
Young Adult Group (18-35) Wednesdays at 7.00pm Upper Room @ St Peter's Church
Mon Credo Community Meeting Polish charismatic prayer group. Main Hall at 7.30pm . Contact: Fr Tomasz Klin SJ Tue Magnificat Prayer Group Main Hall after Mass Contact: Paul Akagwu (07574) 103 852
St. Vincent de Paul Feeding the homeless Contact: Evelyn Murray RCIA For those interested in learning more about the Faith. Clergy House after Mass Contact: Parish Office or Deacon Tony Wed Light Exercise Class for all Main Hall—10:00am Contact: Laura Walker (0777 3) 021 851 laura@laurawalkerlimited.co.uk
African Choir For Africans and anyone else. Upper Hall from 6 - 8.00pm Contact: Kingsley Emeye (07956) 039 763 Thu Healing of Memories Prayer for the healing of painful memories of the past so as to bring peace to the present. Clergy House at 2.30pm (by appointment) Contact: Deacon Tony
Legion of Mary Members serve the Church as needed Lower Hall at 5.30pm Contact: Jide Okwujiako jeedarkor@yahoo.com
Flower Arrangers Contact: Pixie Mather (01224) 321 953 Cenacolo Prayer Group Exposition & Rosary praying for healing of those with addictions. Church after Mass Contact: Liam Sharkey (07774) 931 996 liam.sharkey@fsmail.net 6pm Music Group Contemporary music for the Sunday 6pm Mass Upper Hall after Mass Contact: Margaret Spence mag.m.spencer@btinternet.com Fri Our Lady of Aberdeen Prayer Group Gentle prayer & praise Chapter Room from 1.30 - 2.30pm Contact: Pixie Mather (01224) 321 953 Sat Church Cleaning Church at 10.30am Contact: Joyce Webster (01224) 319 154
Youth JAM Youth Group (12 - 16 ) Sundays at 7.15 - 9pm Upper Room @ St Peter's Church
Weekly Calendar
St Patrick Youth Pilgrimage to Ireland For Teens aged 12-17 Aug 9th-17th 2014 Details St Andrew’s Community at: standrewscommunity@cathedral-abdn.org or phone (07754) 891 808
Nazareth Check out the new diocesan youth website: http://nazareth.dioceseofaberdeen.org
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African Choir As above Upper Hall from 6 - 8.00pm Holy Hour Adoration ending with Night Prayer Church from 8—9.00pm Sun 11:15 Choir Leading the music for 11:15 Sunday Mass Upper Hall at 10 am Contact: David & Liz Meiklejohn