Sunday Homily, December 9, Second Sunday, Advent

ByRosemary

Readings: Isaiah 11, 1-10; Psalm 72; Romans 15, 4-9; Matthew 3, 1-12

Isaiah: Once in a while in the course of our church calendar year we get a special selection.  Isaiah’s vision is one of those specials.  Read it and watch out for heart ache.  I imagine one of our ancestors centuries ago dreaming and coming up with this vision.  Later, another of our ancestors writes it down. 

To emphasize how special it is, Emily will read the vision, after her mom Julie has read the introduction.

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What is Your Dream?

In the late 60’s I spent four years in Toronto studying theology before I finally got ordained a priest in ’71.  At the beginning of my second year a new class of about 35 Jesuit priest students came in and one of the new guys got the room next to mine on the third floor.  He was unique: he was blind.

His name was Larry and he was also a cheese head and a Jesuit brother, meaning he was not going to be ordained a priest. Brothers are Jesuits who do all sorts of works, just not saying Mass.

Larry had spent a few years teaching at a Jesuit boarding high school in Prairie du Chien, WS.  During his time there, a number of Jesuits & others had encouraged Larry to looking into moving from being a brother to getting on track to get ordained a priest.  Trouble was, blind people did not get ordained. 

When Larry arrived at our college in the fall of my second year, he had been given permission to try studying theology, the subject necessary for ordination.  Consequently, he was studying on condition.  You do okay, you continue.  You don’t do well, you stay a brother.  Guess what: he did fine and all of us made him a project.  We wanted him to succeed.

After his first year, which was successful, the provincial in WS asked Rome if he could be ordained.  Rome’s response, "No."  After his second equally successful year, they asked Rome.  "No, and don’t ask again.  Blind people don’t get ordained."  After his third year, his provincial asked again.  "Yes," they said.

He was ecstatic.  We were ecstatic. 

The fall of his fourth year, this same second Sunday of Advent in the chapel of our college his class was getting ordained deacons, which is done before getting ordained priest in the spring.  The reading of that Sunday was exactly the same Isaiah reading as this morning, the dream of peace reading.  Larry was chosen to read the Isaiah dream passage–in braille.

That whole chapel was all in tears.  It was one of the special moments of my life.

Larry is still working as a Jesuit priest in Omaha or Milwaukee.  I even used to bring him down to help with retreats I ran at the retreat center I directed in Grand Coteau, LA.  We have not been in touch in probably about ten years.  I have to call him.

My friend Larry had a dream.  Our ancestor Isaiah had a dream. 

I would suggest that to be fully alive we have to have a dream.  Dreams fill me with energy, enthusiasm, and life.  Ideally my dream will also give life to others. Larry’s dream to get ordained gave life to all 100 plus of us Jesuits in that big house.  Isaiah’s dream, while unrealistic, can still energize me into creating peace in some small human way.

What must it be like to not have a dream? 

What is your dream?

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    ByRosemary

    Readings:

    Sirach 35, 12-14, 16-18,   The Lord hears the cry of the oppressed.

     Psalm 34,  The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

    2 Timothy  4, 6-8, 16-18, I have finished the race.

     Luke 18, 9-14,   The Pharisee and the tax collector.

     

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    Sirach observations:

    What: Again we take up one of the books of the Apocrypha, the 12 books written in Greek and not originally considered part of the Bible.  This book is basically a collection of Jewish wisdom statements and teachings, like, "A father who loves his son will whip him often, so that he can be proud of him later." 30, 1

    Who:  Joshua, who was translated from Hebrew into Greek by his grandson.

    Date:  ca. 200 years before Christ.

    Our selection in chapter 35 talks about the nature of god and what happens to the person who serves god.  It sets up Luke's parable about the pharisee & the tax collector in the temple.

     

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    Casey’s Convenience Store

    In Iowa there is a chain of convenience stores.  Everywhere in the towns.  These little stores are like our 7-11’s, but they don’t sell gas.   They are called Casey's.

    It took me my first year riding RAGBRAI to discover how helpful these little places could be.  I found out, for instance, that for $1.10  I could get a large coffee in the morning.  Plus, they had all the typical foods that convenience stores carry.

    So, one morning on this past summer’s week long ride, I woke up right around dawn, put my wet tent in a plastic bag, rolled up my sleeping bag and thermarest air mattress, stuffed them in my foot locker, and placed the locker next to our bus. 

     

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    The other 25 members of our group were just getting up when I pulled away from the curb and headed to the nearby Casey’s for my coffee.  I pulled in and was surprised that only a few bikers were outside drinking their coffee.  Usually these little places are mobbed for coffee.  But our campsite was 4 miles from the center of this little town.  It was the third morning, I think.

    I walk in and, feeling terrific about the fun of the day ahead, I said “Good Morning” to the young girl at the cash register.  She barely looked up and perhaps only grunted a response. 

     

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    Welcome back, Diane & Norm.  So good to see you two.

     

     

    I am sort of disappointed because I myself feel so great.  I am feeling, also, somewhat negative toward the girl.  To further turn me off of her was that I noticed she had tattoos on her arms.  Sorry, folks, this is a weakness of mine.  But, at that moment, I felt pretty critical.

    I get my coffee and approach the girl to check out. We are the only two in the store.  I decide to take one more shot, so I ask her, “How you doing?” 

    She starts crying!

     

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    Kevin & Georgie, you got to let Buddy know that he needs to look like he is at least fascinated by whatever nonsense that old guy is saying.

     

    Suddenly, I am no longer in my superior, critical mode.  I begin to listen.  Turns out her mother is home dying of cancer, she had a tough night, and the girl has to work to keep making money to live on.  She had even tried to get a substitute for a couple of hours.  No one was available. 

    Know that, after being so critical of that girl, I was ready to volunteer to work at that Casey’s for a couple of hours to let her go home, plus give her the hourly wage.  I probably would not have done it, but I mentioned it to her and she said I would have to be a registered employee.

     

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  • Sunday Homily, October 28, 2007, 30th in Ordinary Time

    ByRosemary

    Readings: Sirach 35,12-18; Psalm 34; 2 Timothy 4, 6-18; Luke 18, 9-14.

    Sirach: Again we take up one of the books of the Apocrypha, the 12 books written in Greek and not originally considered part of the Bible.  This book is basically a collection of Jewish wisdom statements and teachings.

    Our selection in chapter 35 talks about the nature of god and what happens to the person who serves god.  It sets up Luke’s parable about the pharisee & the tax collector in the temple.

    I am Better than Whom?

    In our neighborhood there is an elderly couple.  Their yard is full of weeds and they tend to mow only a few times a summer. They have a couple of dead cars in the driveway, and drive an old, partially rusted pickup.

    Once while I was sitting at my desk in the living room I saw the lady come by our house in her truck, take a left away from me on the corner, stop the truck, and get out.  Next I saw our neighbor lady running across our yard going in the direction of the truck.  Her black lab had gotten out.  Guess who finally caught the dog.  Yes, the lady from the pickup.  I was impressed and a bit embarrassed at my judgmental attitude. 

    I was doubly embarrassed a few weeks later in the spring when I was working in the yard.  The pickup pulled up to the curb and from the driver’s side window the lady says to me, "You really have a nice yard."  We chatted, I found out her name, and now we wave at each other whenever she drives by.

    I am the pharisee in the parable about these two guys going into the temple to pray.  Let me make a few comments about the tax collector, the pharisee, and the setting.

    The setting first.

    • Prayer time was 9:00 or 3:00
    • Others were probably present
    • Prayer of soliloquy was normal
    • The parable is directly addressed to the rule keepers and especially the judgmental rule keepers.  Are these people fear based, following whatever they were programmed to believe as children? 

    The pharisee.

    • Goes to the temple to pray.  Normal.  Considered a model citizen & temple member.
    • Utters a prayer of gratitude.  Normal.  A great prayer form.
    • Fasts twice a week and pays tithes on his whole income.  Above normal.  An outstanding temple member.  A paragon of virtue and worthy of all Yahweh’s blessings.
    • But.  The prayer of gratitude is based upon a judgmental attitude.  He thinks he is better than.  Superior to.

    The tax collector.

    • Shock!  A tax man going into the temple.  Going to pray.
    • Tax collectors were considered ritually impure, because of their job. They collected money from their neighbors to hand over to the hated Roman government.
    • The tax collector could have been stoned for entering the temple.
    • He does not confess his weakness, does not promise to repent, says nothing about restitution.  In fact, he could not give up his job.  Or would not? 
    • Begs for mercy.  Nothing more.  His only hope is to be accepted by Yahweh.

    The result: Escatalogical Reversal.  Big description for what takes place.  A flip.  Just the contrary to what the Jewish people listening would expect.  The Tax collector "went home justified."  God’s inconceivable love accepts someone who does not follow the rules?  See why they crucified him?

    Who are three people you dislike?  And why?

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  • Sunday Homily, July 8, 2007, 14 of the Year

    ByRosemary

    Readings: Isaiah 66, 10-14; Psalm 66; Galatians 6, 14-18; Luke 10, 1-20.

    Isaiah: The scene is this. The Israelites are enslaved in Babylon, which was in today’s Iraq, about 60 miles south of Bagdad, now called Al Hilah. Isaiah is telling the people that the day is coming when they will live again in Jerusalem. 

    What a Gift Community

    When I used to say Masses before we gathered here I was really spoiled. I would walk into St. Mark’s, for instance, put on my robes, celebrate the Mass, and depart, or go over and goof around with Duffy & Rita in the rectory. I had everything prepared before I walked out on the alter and everything was cleaned up after I left. 

    The first time we celebrated here, I remember thinking how many little things have to be taken care of. I got to get my own robes, set up an altar, provide bread & wine, and so on. 

    Now I am knocked over at how many people pitch in to make this celebration special. Margie does the alter, Jackie brings donuts, Lisa makes muffins, many of you take turns making altar bread and providing coffee. Margarita comes with juice, Roy with the books, Rob & Beth with the cross & wine cups. And this highlights only a few of you. 

    The past two weeks I have been especially touched and moved by the community extending itself.

    Last Sunday you may remember that we had the summer blood drive. I thought the numbers might be down. It is summer, after all. Yet, on the contrary, after Mass as I was preparing to depart with Rosemary & Naomi, I passed by the blood mobile. I had hoped we might reach 20 donors, though I was prepared for less. The nurses told me they had already received over 21 and I saw about 3 to 4 people waiting. I was stunned.  And grateful.

    The second amazing event took place yesterday when a group of about 15 showed up to put a roof on a home. I had spotted the need for this some time ago. I contacted Lynda & Tom to see if they could induce Habitat to help us. They only build new housing, however, and recommended we contact Lake Point Baptist, because they do renovations. 

    Through that contact we met this marvelous guy named Alex Moore, quiet, serene, skilled, and hard working. Alex, who is retired and from MN, actually came over by himself Wednesday & Thursday to augur, set, and cement about 15 4 by 4’s to hold up the roof. He did this so we could all work together Saturday. And did we work. Laying roofing tiles over black tar paper in the afternoon sun was like sitting on a hot frying pan. 

    I had to depart the project at 3:00 to get ready for a 6:00 wedding, and the last thing Alex asked me was, "We working next Saturday?" He was ready & wants to finish the job.

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    29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 18, 2020

    ByRosemary

    Readings:

    Isaiah 45, 1, 4-6, I have called you by your name.

    Psalm 96, Give the Lord glory & honor

    Thessalonians  1, 1-5, We give thanks to God always for all of you.

    Matthew 22, 15-21, Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.


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    Gospel,  Deacon Mike 

    Homily,  Stack 

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B, Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers, Mike, Ben, Richard, & Hue 

    Final Blessing, Rosemary

    For hosting us at Legacy, Becky

     

    Isaiah observations:

    Who : Can you guess which Isaiah this is in chapter 45?  1, 2, or 3?  A little more difficult than the last two Sundays.  This is Isaiah 2, going from chapter 40 to 55.

    Today’s selection:  this is not Isaiah 2 at his best.  I like the line, I have called you by your name.  Otherwise, the passage is mildly comforting to the people who are living in Babylonian slavery, around 555 before Christ.

     

    Cyrus: So, who is Cyrus?          

     Cyrus the Great of Persia, modern Iran, built the first great empire, which extended as far as Athens in Greece.   He was a benevolent emperor of his people and the people he conquered, for instance, the Israelites.

    Isaiah 2 is championing Cyrus because he hears of Cyrus coming and hopes Cyrus will defeat the Babylonians and set the Israelites free to return to Jerusalem.  This is exactly what Cyrus does.  Where is Babylon?  Try 50 miles south of Baghdad on the Euphrates River.  What is left?  Rubble. 

     

    Note: Watch out for the alleluia verse just before the gospel.  A good one.

    e.g.,  Shine like lights to the world, as you hold on to the word of life.

     

     

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    Homily for 10/20

    I bet you don’t know what special anniversary Rosemary & I are celebrating this Tuesday, October 20.  Yep, one year ago Tuesday we were visited by that massively destructive tornado. 

    Actually, I personally cannot tell you what the tornado was like.  It hit at 10:00 P.M. Saturday and Aviana & I had already been sound asleep in bed for an hour.   What woke us up was an enormous crash.  Rosemary came running in saying we needed to get into the hall closet.   We made it, but it was mostly over, leaving the front bay window on the south side of the house all blasted into the living room.  A lot of roofing was also blown away.

     

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    At that time Rosemary, still dressed, went out to check on some of our neighbors, especially two widows, one, Joyce, in her 90’s and Betty a little younger.  Joyce would have been killed in her bed if she had also gone to bed as usual at 9:00.    The roof was blown down on her bed.  Because her daughter was in town, they were up and they both got in a hall closet.  It took a neighbor’s chain saw to get them out.

    Betty was funny because she was getting ready for bed when the tornado hit and when she was pulled out of her collapsed house by neighbors, she said, “My pants are in there.  I have to go back in.”  She had no pants on.

     

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    To stay in this house for any time we had to fix the roof.  We stayed until Sept. 1

     

    Actually, on that corner of Tulip & Camellia 5 houses were totally ruined.  One of the five had been a quasi mansion owned by the Dallas hockey player, Tyler Sagan.  One couple moved into our den for the remainder of the night.  I ran around the house putting buckets in place to catch the leaks, about 20 all together.  TV broadcasts were taking place right in front of our house and police were everywhere.  The couple who spent the night in our den are still in an apartment waiting to get their house rebuilt.

    You have heard me talk already about how I was humbled and stunned at how many people from the neighborhood just showed up early in the morning.   They mainly pulled, dragged, and carried tree branches from around the face of the house to the curb for pick up.  The yard was a battle scene with limbs from our beautiful trees lying everywhere.   Doug LeBlanc showed up the first morning with plywood.  He & his buddies boarded up the bay window.  I was stunned, grateful, and humbled by how hard those people worked. 

     

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    And that was just the first day.  There were still loads of clearing to be done.  Kids from the neighborhood & St. Marks Boys School joined in and really worked.  A day or so later a bunch of our community members showed up and helped to load trucks with debris.  Loretta Garcia Williams fed us that day.

    Even Central Market on our south east corner of Preston Royal joined in.  They set up a mobile kitchen under a big tent and served breakfast, lunch, and dinner for four or five of days.

     

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    8 houses destroyed at the Tulip Lane & Camelia corner.

     

    These were real meals.  I can vouch for breakfast because some kids brought me a Central Market hot breakfast one morning. 

    We had known for years that our house on Tulip Lane was falling apart.  Built in 1950, the piers were deteriorating and the walls and ceilings had cracks.  You should have seen it after the tornado!   Which got us house hunting at full throttle.

    And look at what we have. We have been blessed.   It was worth waiting, though a number of days it all seemed to be going no where. 

     

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    You can even see into the St. Mark's Boys School parking lot.

     

    You know how Rosemary found this house? With the help our agent, a good friend, Rosemary mailed out 90 personal letters to home owners.  One of them was our present house, which is a story by itself.

    The one downer right now is our old house.  I thought it would be bulldozed during this month we have been gone.  I do not want to ride by and look at it.  But just riding by on Royal Lane I can see it.   It looks forlorn and I have abandoned it and all the improvements I put into the place.  All the trees that shaded and beautified that corner are gone.  Tuesday, Rosemary & I will celebrate and give thanks.  What has been your blessing?

    Late addendum to this homily.  Our old house has just been bulldozed.  How do I feel? Both sad and relieved.   Yes, blessed that it is finally done. 

     

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    We ask this in Jesus’ name who taught us the truth and the way. 

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  • Sunday Homily for June 3, 2018, Corpus Christi

    ByRosemary

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    Welcome, Everybody, to our new home.  And thanks, Becky, for all you have done to welcome us.

     

     

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     Exodus 24, 3-8,   This is the blood of the covenant

     Psalm 116,   I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord

     Hebrews 9, 11-15,    He is a mediator of a new covenant.

     Mark 14, 12-16, 22-26,   The Eucharist   

     

     

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    Exodus:   8 points on the readings, including 2 on Exodus, 4 on points from the other readings, 2 more on Exodus

        1.  This is the 2nd book of the Torah/Pentateuch, the first section of the Old Testament.  Deuteronomy, which we visited last week, is the 5th & last book.

     

     

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        2.  Story: This is a fabulous and edifying fable that tells how the Israelites got out of slavery in Egypt with the leadership of Moses. 

        3.  Passover: the night the angel passed over the first born male children of the Jews because they had smeared lamb blood on their door posts.  But the angel killed all the Egyptian first born sons to make Pharaoh let the people go.  Remember, this is not history, rather like a fable, like Aesop's Fables.  There is a story about the burning bush in the Holy Land, for tourists.  Tourists are told this bush was the bush that burst into flame and from which Yahweh spoke to Moses.

     

     

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        4.  Covenant vs Contract: in a contract two parties agree to do something.  If one fails, the contract is often null.  In a covenant two people agree, and even if one party fails, the other party honors the covenant.  The Covenant between Yahweh & the People:  the people will honor Yahweh as their only god; Yahweh will protect and care for them as his chosen, and bring them into a new land.

        5.  Sacrifice & holocaust: ancient tribal belief that I must offer to my god (s) things precious to me to appease the god's anger or win his favor, for example, animals, prisoners, and the most beautiful girl in the community.  Jesus was seen as this sacrifice to appease the god, and also as the high priest who usually performed the sacrifice.  Thus the emphasis on blood & death.  Today scripture scholars as well as ordinary folks don't believe in a God who was so angry that he demanded special sacrifice.  We do not have a vengeful, angry God.

     

     

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        6.  12 tribes: the 12 sons of the patriarch Jacob (or Israel; the 3 patiarchs were Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob-Israel).

        7.  Author & Date of Exodus: not Moses.  Rather a compilation of material from different centuries, that was mostly put together after the Babylonian Captivity, e.g., ca. 550 BCE.

        8.  Our Selection from Exodus: the people have been wandering in the desert and are now being given laws and customs they must observe.  The Covenant is being sealed.

     

     

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    A Banquet of Joy

    In  honor of it being the feast of Corpus Christi, which is a celebration of our relationship with someone who totally loves us and accepts us as we are, I want to tell you a banquet of joy story.

    These banquets take place morning, noon, and night.  It does not matter.  In fact, my dad was part of a morning banquet every week day at Christ the King parish, as I mentioned last week.

     

     

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    The banquet I was part of was in the morning about 6:00, at the Jewish Community Center, in the second floor gym, in fact.

    There is a little lady named Rita.  She is black, about 60, big hair, somewhat round, and walks slowly into the gym with a walker.  She arrives with a DART bus, the small type bus that picks up individuals.

    She comes maybe twice a week and settles on a recumbent bike which she pedals easily for 30-40 minutes. 

     

     

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    I noticed her because she was unique in the gym.  And I really admired her for doing it.  So I started greeting her and we exchanged names sometime during the past year.  Last April I told her that I would be gone for a couple of weeks.  Rosemary & I were going to France.

    She was so excited and asked me to bring her a little key chain statue of the Eiffel Tower.

     

     

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    Want to know why Rosemary played hookey from Juliettes Friday?   These two little critters, great nieces Rosemary (how about that!) and Alice, flew into Dallas with their mom, Kristine.   

     

     

    I told Rosemary and, lo and behold, one afternoon in a tiny town curio shop in the Perigord region we found just what she wanted.

    It was a week or two until I saw her come in one morning.  I got the Eiffel Tower key chain, went to her bike, bowed, and gave her the gift.

    She went so crazy over that little token of my affection for her that I was almost in tears.  Her delight was my Banquet of Joy.

     

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    Coming up, Cupcake of The Week Time, everybody's favorite part of our celebration.

     

     

    When was the last time you had a Banquet of Joy?

     

     

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  • 18th Sunday, Ordinary time, 8-1-2021

    ByRosemary

    Exodus 16, The whole community grumbled against Moses & Aaron.       

    Psalm 78, The Lord gave them bread, bread from heaven.

    Ephesians 6, You should put away the old self of your former way of life

    John 6, My father gives you the true bread from heaven.

     

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    Thanks……

    Music,    Ben & Shonda

    Readers,  Carrie & Paul, & Buddy, our candle blesser 

    Gospel,     John Cade

    Homily,   John Cade

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,     Richard, Hue, & Mike

    Final Blessing, Rosemary

    For hosting us at Legacy for all these years & will miss you enormously, Becky

     

     

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    Paul reading from Exodus.

     

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    Carrie reading from Ephesians

     

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John & Karen Anderlick's unborn grandson;  For Alan Stryker;   For Candice Taht, friend of Mary Hall;   For Rosemary's great niece, Rylie ;  For Richard's grand daughter, Madeleine;   For Esparza's new great grandson baby, son of Monique, & Frank with shingles;  For all the medical personnel struggling to treat the tsunami of sick people, in particular, locally, Cindy's staff at Presby, Dallas, and at Frisco Presby, the mother of Harper and Betsy, Kendle, working in labor & delivery, and for Hue & Linda's daughter, Doctor Rosemary Beavers;   For Mary & Dave Hall's g-daughter Allison Keller working at St. Lukes, The Woodlands,   For Loretta's aunt Alicia;  For Sir Charlie & Jan;  Shonda's mom & Cody &  Leo & all of Shonda's dear family; For Ursuline Sr. Mary Troy, 

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    Richard with communion for Barb.

     

    Jackie's mom, sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.; For Meredith, cancer free & John Schanot;    For John O'Donnell & Jean;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren  ;  For Anthony & Sabrina;    For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini, plus John's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little 4 month old baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation; for David McKeon's brother, Hugh; For Beth's friends & brother;   for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

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    A special sister celebration, Marlene with retirement & Cindy with her birthday.

     

    Birthdays:    Cindy Ekes & Linda Beavers

    Anniversaries:  Souls Harbor (1956)

     

     

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    Joe & Marsha, Peace & Happiness on your move to North Carolina.

     

     

    Community Finances,   August 1, 2021

    Expenses: $1010.00

    Outreach: $455.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

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    Rosemary sharing her special Blessing of The Week.

     

     

    Rosemary's Blessing:

    People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
    If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
    If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
    If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
    The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
    Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
    For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

    Mother Teresa

     

     

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    Happy Birthday, Dearest Beth.