Greetings to all from Cuernavaca, Mexico where the sun is shining and the sidewalk cafes around the town square are full.
NO MASS THIS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30
January 6: our next Mass
Thanks to all who helped make our Christmas Eve Mass so special. Was the spirit not everywhere!
Thanks, also, to all who contributed to the successful food drive.
Have a fun New Year and a peaceful and wonderful 2008. John & Rosemary
Mass: 9:30; coffee, donuts, home made muffins, & juice on the house.
Place: Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.
Readings: Acts 2, 42-47; Psalm 118; 1Peter 1, 3-9; John 20, 19-31.
Coomunity Directory: went out Wednesday. You should have your copy if you signed on. Any changes, let me know. We can alway update & add data periodically.
Quad Squad: Even a couple of hours once a month is a help! Let me know or Donna Thomson,
donnathomson@tx.rr.com
Next Community Party: May 3, 7:00 P.M., Fairview Farms’ Barn, The Anniversary. Hold the date.
Our taxi man, Rick Turner, knows the Metroplex. Call: 214-707-6536c; 972-412-0711h.
From Frank Reyes:
See you Sunday.
J.S.
Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.
Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade.
Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence.
Readings:
Ezekiel 33, 7-9, You duped me, Lord, and I let myself be duped.
Psalm 95, If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Romans, 13, 8-10, Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.
Matthew 18, 15-20, Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I.
Community Events:
1. Ladies luncheon, Thursday, Sept. 4, Chocolate Angel, N.E. corner of Plano Pkwy & Central, High Street, 1:00,
2. ROMEO lunch, Friday, September 5, Jason’s, 1:00. Welcome All. Branch Romeo meeting, same day, same time, Yosemite. Mike has enough Jason's cookies for all.
What's going on in our Catholic World:
True?
People want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention.
See you Sunday, September 7, 2014, 23rd Ordinary Time, Cycle A
J.S., 214-783-0443
JSM Mission-Faith Statement
Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s
People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.
Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.
Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice & specials on the house served afterwards.
Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack. Again, Welcome.
Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence.
Readings:
Wisdom 2, 12, 17-20, Let us beset the just one.
Psalm 54, The Lord upholds my life
James 3, 16-4, 3, Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder.
Mark 9, 30-37, Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me.
Community Bulletin Board:
1. Free Medical Clinic in September (message from John Ernst, CCAC): "September 29, there will be a large one day free clinic at the Dallas Convention Center sponsored by our national organization, of which we are members. Thousands of people will be served all by volunteers." Download Medical clinic 8-10-12
2. Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center Newsletter: Download DARCC 9-21-12
What's going on in our Catholic World:
1. Bishop Finn fallout, National Catholic Reporter, September 10, 225 words, Download Bishop Finn 9-21-12
2. Legionaries fallout, National Catholic Reporter, September 13, 600 words, Download Legionaries 9-21-12
True?
If you are depressed, you a living in the past.
If you are anxious, you a living in the future.
If you you are at peace, you a living in the present.
Lao Tzu
See you Sunday, September 23
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.
Brandon, our welcome man, says, "Hi, Folks, come in."
Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.
Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack.
Place: Vines High School, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence.
And guess who also says, "Welcome in, Everybody."
Readings:
Wisdom 1, 13-15, 2, 23-24 God did not make death.
Psalm 30, I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
2 Corinthians 8, 7, 9, 13-15, You excel in every respect.
Mark 5, 21-43, My daughter is at the point of death. Please come. Also, Who has touched my clothes?
Harper says, "Cupcake time yet?" Maybe next week.
Community Activities:
1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 26, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. More for us, because those campers are all out of town.
2. LADIES' LUNCHEON, June 25, Thursday, 4:30 P.M., Steve Fields Steak & Lobster Lounge, 503 West Park Blvd.
Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested. If you let me know I will add their email to the list.
Carol
What are you holding onto that umbrella for, Cowboy Cole?
What is going on in our Catholic World:
1. Francis' encyclical, National Catholic Reporter, June 18, 2600 words, Download Francis' Laudato Si 6-25-15
2. Ten Takeaways from encyclical, National Catholic Reporter, June 18, 2000 words, Download Top Ten Takeaways from Laudato Si 6-25-15
Buddy and Victoria working on that book about life as a twin.
True?
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
Can music get any better than this?
See you Sunday, June 28, 2015, 13th Ordinary Time
J.S., 214-783-0443
Genevieve says, "See you next week, Everybody."
JSM Mission-Faith Statement
Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.
Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.
Mass: Coffee & donuts & treats on the house. Welcome!
Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood, Plano 75075, west from Alma, across from Brentwood which runs N-S just behind & west of St. Mark's. Our last Sunday at Sigler.
Time: 9:30; Tony Celebrating
Readings: Ecclesiastes 1, 2; 2, 21-23; Psalm 90, If Today You hear his Vioce, Harden not your Hearts; Colossians, 3, 1-11; Luke 12, 13-21
Community Bulletin Board:
Take Note: this is our last Sunday at Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood, Plano 75075 (corner of Brentwood, just west of
Mike Bulger has a used HP Office Jet 5610 printer, 972-726-8277
Baby Shower/Party for Shonda & Ray's coming arrival, Sunday, August 8, our first Sunday back home at the new edition Vines High School. They are registered at Target & Babies R-us. Check the invitation: Download Winkler Babyshower 7-30-10
A State of the Union at CCAC from John Ernst: Download CCAC-Ernst 7-30-10
Check out something amusing: Download Advocate Magazine 7-30-10
A member of our community found out. You cannot hide forever.
Thoughts on The Church:
1. Gary Wills in Mirabile Dictu, 7-23; Download A Catholic Struggles with the sins of his Church 7-30-10
Picture 1: The Music Team, Celeste (for one more Sunday), Shonda, and Ray
Picture 2: Frank & Mary
Picture 3: Georgie with her buddy
Picture 4: Charlie with his mom from Budapest
Picture 5: Frank & Grace
Picture 6: Coffee Shoppe, Diane, Margie, Jackie, & Jan
Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.
Place: Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.
Readings: Acts 5, 27-41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5, 11-14; John 21, 1-19
Community Bulletin Board
Invitation: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner, ca. 7:00. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them.
Seven couples will renew their vows. Guess Who? Also, we will do a covered dish hors d’oeuvres & desserts, and music for dancing. Moreover, the slide show of The Great East African trip.
Download the Anniversary Party 2007 Invitation.
From Angie Carroll: I am a volunteer at the Heritage Farmstead Museum on 15th and Custer in Plano and am currently helping them to find volunteer docents to give tours of the house and grounds. There is a great training program that is held every Tuesday in May from 7 to 9pm and every Saturday in June from 3-5pm.
This has been a really fun job because there is an opportunity to meet other volunteers, learn a great deal about life in Collin County at the turn of the century, meet lots of visitors who are from all over the country and also attend several social events each year.
We are looking for any women or men who have just a few hours each month to come and give tours. Anyone interested can call me at 972-612-8169, or e-mail me at acarroll@heritagefarmstead.org.
Important technology announcement
As you may have noticed in our emails, we have set up a blog. What is a blog? Essentially it is a web site that allows for someone like me to post writings to one place for viewing by others. For the past few months we have been posting my emails to the site in addition to sending them out as we have been via regular email.
Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to transition to using the blog as the main source for distributing this information. Why? Three reasons.
First, this will dramatically reduce the amount of time I need to spend on this process. Right now, I have to break the distribution into many groups of people, taking about an hour per week. With this new process I will just have to post the text to the site and an email will be automatically generated to you.
Second, I believe the blog will allow us to cultivate a greater sense of community. In addition to allowing me to post, a blog allows you to comment on the posts. As my homilies usually end with a question, I think it would be neat for some of you (if you feel inspired of course) to answer the question or pose your own question back to me.
Third, the postings are available for future viewing and listening. All previous homilies (including the audio files) and announcements will be automatically archived. If you want to view or listen to them in the future you just need to go to the site and they will be there.
What does this mean for you? After this email (the one that you are reading) we will begin to upload the email address up to what is called an RSS feeder system. You will receive an email from a service call FeedBlitz asking you to subscribe to the service. Please accept this. This is a private list. You will not be solicited in any way and your information is kept private.
For the next two or three weeks you will receive both the standard emails from me and an email from the FeedBlitz service. Once we are satisfied that this new system is working properly you will only receive the one from FeedBlitz on an ongoing basis.
If you have any questions, please let me or Ed Kless (ed.kless@choosegreat.com) know.
