Here is a link to this week’s newsletter: Pentecost Sunday (Year C) Welcome: to all our visitors, feel free to look around our beautiful church, particularly the St John Ogilvie Chapel & Exhibition. Last week Collection: 25/5/2025 £194.00 Att: 59 1/6/2025 £349.80 Att: 60 The month of June is traditionally dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and this year we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on Friday 27th June. June & July: Fr Kingsley has now started his much needed holiday, returning at the start of July, we look forward to his return, rested and reinvigorated. In the meantime he has handed all his work over to Fr Peter and Deacon Graeme! Communications: on the diocesan website (rcda.scot), if you click Contact on the drop down menu, and scroll down, you will find a pro forma to sign up for the Diocesan newsletter, and to opt in to other communications. Encouraging news: press reports tell of 500 young people in the Netherlands, 18000 (not a typo!) in Paris, plus hundreds in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh who converted to Catholicism at Easter this year. Sometimes we look around and see the gaps where people used to worship beside us, so it’s good to know there is growth in the Church. We pray for growth in our own parish, in numbers and in Faith. Ordination: All are welcome to attend the Priestly Ordination of Rev Aidan Matheson in St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen on Friday 27th June at 6pm. Second Collections in June: 1 Day for Life; 7/8 Maintenance Fund: 28/29 Peter’s Pence (not Fr Peter – the Vatican). The Community of Pluscarden Abbey Pentecost Lectures from Tuesday 10 – Thursday 12 June 2025 our Lecturer will be Professor Tracey Rowland from the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Her topic will be “Trinitarian Anthropology: What Does it Mean for all of Creation to be Marked by the Form of the Trinity?” Prayer Group: Monday evenings, 7pm in the hall. Contact Elizabeth Danby for information. Tea & Coffee in the hall after Mass each Sunday. All welcome. St Thomas’ Church is open each day from 10am to 3pm for private prayer. Please note, the church may not be open on weekdays in the event of severe weather. Pope’s Prayer Intention: Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for June, a month devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is “that the world might grow in compassion.” “Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his heart, learn to have compassion on the world” Safeguarding: The Parish Safeguarding Coordinator is Elizabeth Danby, and she can be contacted as shown on the Contacts page. The diocesan Safeguarding page can be found at Safeguarding – Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen (rcda.scot) and the text of In God’s Image (V2) is accessed by clicking on https://www.bcos.org.uk/LinkClick.aspx?link=131&tabid=124& portalid=0&mid=584 PRAYER FOR THE SICK & HOUSEBOUND AND ALL THOSE IN NEED Father in Heaven; grant them comfort in their suffering. When they are afraid, give them courage, When afflicted, give them patience, When dejected, afford them hope, And when alone, assure them of the support of your holy people. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.