Announcements for March 25, 2007

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week

Gracious God, slow my pace and soften my heart this Christmas. 

Keep me

from rushing through the season, but missing the Way . . .

from decorating the tree, but missing the Light . . .

from wrapping the gifts, but missing the Gift. 

www.PrayersAtWork.com

Hue reading from Zephania (beautiful reading)

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Hue & Cheryl
•    For The Team:  Georgie  &  Buddy
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups:    Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  &  Mike  &  Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Tom &  Becky & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie 
•    For the Music:  Shonda & David
•    For all who helped with communion 
•    For John & Mike helping with the celebration                                                    

     Cheryl, who read Philippians, with Connie and Geri.       

 Birthdays:   Allen Stryker (Monday), Ben (Tuesday), Alex Grattifiori (21, Tuesday)

Rosemary reading her blessing of The Week

Please Remember these special people:

For Ray & Claire's son in Law, Christi's husband recuperating from a serious back surgery here in Dallas;  For Meredith, cancer free;  For David Dinsmore's cousin in W. VA & for Darbyanne;  For Jerry Brophy, a high school classmate of mine  For Tom Quinn’s brother,Tim;  For Hue;  For John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen;   For Carol's recuperation;   For  Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;   For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;  

Our Community food drive.

For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 90 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    or Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen; 

Food gifts packaged for Single Parent Families.

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Donated Bikes for single parent families.

Your Finances, December, 16,  2018

Expenses:   $1825.00

Outreach:    $880.00 

Donated today:   Food for the Network of Community Ministries.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

And more donated bikes.

Next week we are collecting for the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center (DARCC).  Here is what is needed:

Hospital Advocacy Program:  Scrubs – tops and bottoms all sizes 10 and up, L, XL and up, Sports bras – all sizes, Underwear – all sizes, Travel size toiletries, Combs, Flip flops – size 5 and up, Slipper/household shoes – L, XL, and up, Zip-up fleece type sweaters – L, XL, and up.

Professional Counseling Program:  Amazon gift certificates – for therapeutic workbooks, etc., Composition books,Grocery gift cards, Art supplies – paint, brushes, construction paper.

Bulletin 2 on the Lumbar Stenosis event:

1.  Back operation date, 12/28/18

2.  Spinal surgeon, Dr. Jones-Quaidoo.  Check the September, 2018 issue of D Magazine.

3.  How did all this come about?  The best answer to me is back packing with an extra heavy pack, an observation submitted by Ron Kovatis, my Best Man in 2005 (Nobody else would take the job).   I have a refinement of Ron's observation, thanks to Beth, namely, during the  last two years I backpacked the cincture-belt around my waist stretched & I lost some weight, with the result that I carried the weight not on my waist, but on my shoulders, pushing down on my lumbar and spine.

Have a Good Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Says Geri & Friend, Have a wonderful Christmas, Everybody.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement  

      Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People,  provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.  

      Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world  we live in a better place to live.

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

Lord

May we never take our freedom for granted

and help us to strive so that this same freedom

may be experienced by everyone in our country,

especially the poor and the oppressed,

and eventually by all humankind.

Andrew Greeley   A Book of Irish American Blessings and Prayers  

Beth reading from the last chapter (66) of The Great Prophet Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:    Beth & Rob
•    For The Team:   Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Sir Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Mike & Beth
•    For the coffee and extras:   Jean & John & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  David & Bethany 
•    For all who helped with communion   

Rob reading from Galations.

Birthdays:   Jim Butterly (37^th, Monday), Carol Eshelbrenner (Tuesday), Brent (44, Wednesday),  Ryan Ekes (24, Thursday),  Kim (Thursday), Paul Bieda (55, Friday),  Cindy Cramer (Saturday), and Aggie (Saturday & see Anniversaries)

Anniversaries: 

Aggie & Allen  (49^th, Saturday)

Jan & Charlie  (54^th, Tuesday

 Remember:  July 10, Community Summer Brunch.

Happy Birthday, Brent, and congratulations on your excellent work at Souls Harbor.

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol’s treatment;  For Nina's dad, Art, who died at 93, and for Nina and the family;  For John Schanot's treatment;   For Nadia's recuperation;   For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom in Alberta;   For Dee and Mike;   For Tom Good;     For Cliff & Jean;   For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom;  For Frank; For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;      For Frank's treatment;     For Anthony;   For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;    For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

Thanks, Dana, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela;   For Nadia's friend, Shannon Freeman;   For Nina Tucker's dad, Art;   For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;  Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer;    Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;     Diane McClurg's mom;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Welcome back home to The Community, Angela, after being stuck for a few weeks with your car in service for air bags.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill.   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece;   Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;   for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Happy Birthday, Cindy.

Your Finances, July 3, 2016

Expenses:   $640.00     

Outreach:   $210.00

Donated today:  $2000 to Souls Harbor

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy 54th, Jan, to you and that character with you, Sir Charlie.  How did you do it?

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

We are watching, Mike.  That cupcake is for Emily.  No cheating.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement  

      Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People,  provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.  

      Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world  we live in a better place to live.

Emily, if you don't get your cupcake, you take your friend there and he will get it for you for sure.

Isaiah 11:  Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child to guide them.
Romans 15:  May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 3:  I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I.  I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Thanks…   
Music,  Ben & Shonda
Readers,  Connie & John
Homily,   John Cade
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin
The Organization man,  Richard
Final Blessing,  Rosemary

Remember these special people:

For all the people affected by natural disasters like floods, earthquakes etc;  For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Stack;    For the Quinn’s daughter, Colleen  with breast cancer; For Carrie’s son, Chase, who was in an auto accident;   For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Warren Wittek; For Tom Good; For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;    For Ron

Jackie’s sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;    from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

Birthdays:   Fred 12/8
Anniversaries:

Expenses: $  610.00
Outreach: $   130.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Prayer for Good Humor
by St. Thomas More

Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest.
Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it.
Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good
and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil,
but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.
Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments,
nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called “I.”
Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy,
and to be able to share it with others.

John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at
9:30 at the ArtCentre of Plano,
902 E. 16th St, Plano, Texas.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement
Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s
People, provides for & challenges spiritual & total
growth.   Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged &
make the world we live in a better place to live.

Rosemary's Blessing: Oh God who made me absolutely unique,

Help me to value more the Person You made Me to be.

Protect me from comparisons and envy and discouragement over what I am not.

               Andrew Greeley,  Irish American Blessings 

Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Hugh & Patricia 
• For the Communion Bread:  Christine & Megan
• For Serving: Sabrina
• For the Books & Wine Cups: Roy & Carol & Beth & Rob
• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Wendy & Hue
• For the Pictures: Beth & Jan & Sabrina

Happy Birthday:   Grace Leal

Happy Anniversary:

Nikki & Keith (2nd & new parents)

John Cade & Lambrini (15th)

Bobby & Debbie ( 24th)

Please Remember:   Maureen Gleason's operation; Rosemary's brother Peter with congestive heart difficulties; Diana Cameron who just had an emergency apendectomy; Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Mike Bulger; Jamie Wilson's visit to Mayo; Beth's sister Katie ;  Bill Smith's eye operation; Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark & Becky's coming baby, plus Lee Ford in a car wreck;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  Andy Goode;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;  Diane's dad Butch Uderman  & cousin Judy;  Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, Roy's son Chris, Lisa's nephew Kristopher on his 2nd Iraq trip, his grandmother Alice Quiocho; David & Rita; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann; Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:  Hugh Bivona reading Leviticus

Picture 2:  Patricia reading Corintians

 Picture 3:  Grandpa Hue

 Picture 4:  Dad Ken & his girls C.C. & Kayla Grace

Check out the Quads: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com   

Your Finances:

February 15: 

• Income for Running  Expenses: $ 1,381.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 1,369.00

Thanks for your Generosity!

 Have a Great Week, J.S    (214-783-0443)

Rosemary’s Blessing: 

 Our Special Thanks :

•    For Reading:   Jackie & Rick
•    For The Team:  Georgie and Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:  Alison & Claire
•    For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie & Jan
•    For the Pictures & Video:     None this week 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Bill, Jackie & Jerry 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  Ben & Shonda & Bethany

Anniversaries:

Erin & Chuck (7th, Sunday, Today)

Tom and Denni (38th, Friday)

Please Remember these special people:

Chuck Pratt and his cancer;   Jackie Urbanczyk's recovery & Rick's mom, Irene, in Buffalo;   Betty Myrick with cancer;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli, who broke her hip/leg again just after the 3 of them returned from Greece;   Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; 

 Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Your Finances: December 1, 2013

Expenses:   $            Please wait until next week, December 8.

Outreach:   $ 

We donated this week: 

Nothing special this week.

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 JSM Mission-Faith Statement  

      Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, 
provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.  

      Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world 
we live in a better place to live.

  
    Video: Special preparations by special little people (1 min.)

Rosemary’s Blessing

May you thank the Lord with all your strength
For food and drink and family and friends,
For His goodness through life's long length
And His promise of love that never ends.

 Edited and adapted from a blessing by Fr. Andrew M. Greeley

Erin reading Deuteronomy

Our Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Erin & Chuck
• For Serving:  Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread:  Christine & Alison
• For the Wine Cups:  John & Alison
•  For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Shonda
• For the Pictures & Video:  Rick & Jan & Beth, Connie & John
• For the coffee and pastries:   John & Mary Jane, Claire & Ray, Jackie & Jean
•  For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue

Chuck reading James

 Birthdays:  Mary Harrell (21 today), Carl Falke (65 Monday), Megan Kite (24 Thursday), & Maureen Macchio (tomorrow)

Anniversaries:

Connie Bresson (1st weekend of retirement)

Ben Cronin & Amanda with Emmit (1^st tomorrow)

Richard & Monica (25^th Wednesday)

Nina & Sean Tucker (25^th Wednesday)

Beth & Rob (38^th Friday)

Mike & Dee (55^th Friday)

Play time with Erin

We Remember  

Mike Moran's mom who just died Wednesday;  Fred Macchio's sister, Toni; Joan & her great family;   Jackie Ritter's recuperation;  Bill Hammond's broken ankle;  Alexander Occhipinti;    Diane McClurg's good friend, Suzy McGonigle with cancer;    Michael Kern’s dad;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;  Christine Drescher's grandmother Margie with a stroke;  Lisa's Ackerman’s  Louis & Jim;   Rita;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer;    Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;   Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom & brother, Dick;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad  in assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Any excuse to get out of going backpacking in the Mountains, Bill Hammond with broken ankle

 Your Finances: September 2, 2012

Expenses:    $1475.00    

Outreach:    $ 510.00 

Thanks for your Generosity 

Have a Great Week, J.S (214-783-0443)

 Video: Entrance Hymn with Dancer (3 min.)    

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

      Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.

      Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world we live in a better place to live.