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Rosemary's Blessing: Oh, Lord,

I am one worn out tired Branch,

And I need the newness of the Vine of You

To start the Hope-Life running through the Streams of Me again.

Lord, be my Vine and I’ll be your Branch.

Macrina Wiederkehr      Seasons of Your Heart

Special Thanks:

Happy Birthday:    Elliot Zurchin & Tom, Mark Ackerman, Jacob Wilson & Nicole, Jean Kovatis (25), Carly Ekes, Laura Chollick, Morgan Froebe

Happy Anniversary:

Teresa & Larry (3rd) 

Richard & Judy Lyons (37th)

Please Remember:     Richard Baack's shoulder recuperation from Tuesday's operation; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned; Rick Cardenas' friend Joyce McKinstry; Charlie Sawtelle's friends Manuel & Suzanna Ruiz; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining; Cathy Lynn's mom who at 93 has skin cancer; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis; Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Mike Bulger;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark & Becky's baby who just arrived;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  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; 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 & Hector; 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:  Noah & Jo reading the Passion

Picture 2:  Rosemary with Jack, Wendy, Jack's dad Ben, & Celeste

Picture 3:  Anniversary of Larry & Theresa, Birthdays of Zurchins, Elliot & Tom

Picture 4:  With Cara Lyn & C.C., Barbara, Christi (mom), Ray (grand dad), & Ken (dad)

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

Both Holy Thursday & Good Friday: 7:00, the home of Rob & Beth Robinson, 1808 Dublin Road, Plano :  http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG51BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLWJ1dHRvbgRzbGsDbGluaw–#mvt=m&lat=33.020199&lon=-96.635357&zoom=15&q1=1808%2520Dublin%2520Road%2520plano%2520texas

Your Finances:

April 5: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,086.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $  567.00 

Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Rosemary's Blessing

The Christmas Story will always be the story of Emmanuel, of God-with-us, always and everywhere, in the everyday, in the chaos, in the flight into exile, in the love between a man and a woman and in the birth of a child. It is the story of God who heals, empowers and loves us just as we are – in our greatness and our foolishness. As we anticipate the joy, the love and the peace that are God's Christmas gifts to us, let us receive them with gratitude and be sure to unfold them and share them especially where they need to be more visible.

Sister Jean Amore, CSJ,  Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

John reading from Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:    John & Connie
•    For our team:    John  &  Mike, Ben & David & Shonda
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Rick
•    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David & Shonda
•    For all who helped with communion         

Connie reading from Romans.

Birthdays:   Allen Stryker,  Ben, Meredith, & Connie Bresson

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond,   For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  For my buddy since grade school at Christ the  King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie who is spoiling Pete;   For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation:  Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement;    For Michelle; 

Happy Birthday, Ben.

 For a friend, a neighbor, & a doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free.;    For Hue;  For John O'Donnell;    For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health;  For Anthony & Sabrina;    For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini; 

Hi, Betsy.  So happy your operation went so well.

John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom;  for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;    for Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;  For Laura's sister Claudia;  

Thanks for lighting the candles, Tori & Zoe.

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, especially Mark Terain; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Happy Birthday, Allen.

Your Finances, December 22, 2019 

Expenses: $700.00

 Outreach: $250.00  

Thanks, Everybody 

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Merry Christmas and

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.

A Peace filled New Year.  

Rosemary's Blessing:                            

This Advent, let us believe and trust in the broader meaning of the season. 

Deep faith is a creative energy that opens us to participate in what God wants to do for us in our personal lives and through us in our broken world and fragile Earth.

The weeks of Advent give us the time to ask: What are the dark places in my life that need God's wisdom, uplifting and light? 

What's not OK in me? 

What's preventing me from feeling the love, unity and peace I want and God desires for me? 

Where do I fall short of witnessing God's inclusive love, mercy and justice? 

To each of these questions, we say: Come, Lord Jesus, come!

Taken from an Advent Reflection by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, VP for Mission and Academics, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

Denni reading from Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Denni & Tom 
•    For our team:   John  &  John  &  Mike, Ben & David
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Rick   
•    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David
•    For all who helped with communion         

Tom reading from Romans.

Birthdays:  Fred Jansky, 72, Patricia last smoke, 2010, Tom Good (next week)

Anniversaries:

Shonda & Cody, 3rd (next week)

Tom & Denni, 44th

John & Michelle Simari, 34th

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For  Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf  family; For Bill Hammond,  For Cindy Cramer;  For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  For my buddy since grade school at Christ the  King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie who is spoiling Pete;   For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation:  Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement last Tuesday;    For Michelle; 

Despite struggling with a health issue, Bill still heads us off to two Saturday charity events.  Bona Responds.

 For a friend, a neighbor, & a doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free & her dad, Joe;    For Hue;  For John O'Donnell;    For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health;  For Anthony & Sabrina;    For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini; 

Offertory team Warren & Barb, Teresa & Tom.

For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom;  for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;    for Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;  For Laura's sister Claudia;  

Hi, Betsy, so good to see you.

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, especially Mark Terain; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Happy 44 years, Tom & Denni.

Your Finances, December 8, 2019 

Expenses: $4795.00 

 Outreach: $ 280.00 

Thanks, Everybody 

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Happy 34th Anniversary to you, John, and Michelle.

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.

Happy anniversary of no smoking, My Dear Patricia and Happy Birthday to Fred.

Advent Peace, Everybody.

 
Rosemary's Blessing:    

May God’s love and mercy encircle you today

With living laughter that renews and saves.

May bright hope lead you further on your way

And in your life may you celebrate his word

And be a witness to a gentle and gracious Lord.

A Book of Irish American Blessings & Prayers    Andrew Greeley

Mary Ellen reading Jeremiah.

Special Thanks:

• For Reading:   Mary Ellen and Mike
• For Serving:  Georgie & Kevin
• For the Communion Bread:  Alison
• For the Wine & Cups:  Beth
• For the Music: Ray  & Shonda & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video: Jan, Rick & Beth, John
• For the coffee and pastries:  Marlene, Jerry & Jackie  & Loretta
• For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue

Mike reading 1 Corinthians 13.

Birthdays: Katie Urbanczyk (27, Thursday), Becky & Christine Saturday at Rice), Geri Moran (Thursday), Natalie Gorman (11, Tuesday), Kayla (4 Tuesday), Candy Kern (Monday), Gilberto (Monday), Kevin Bresson (24, today, Sunday)

We Remember  

Bill Ekes having an eye operation, noon, Monday;   Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family on the death of Kate, their twin daughter;  Mary Hall who broke her foot; Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;  And Donna's recuperation from hip surgery;  Judy's Matt Larson with cancer, David, and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Janie's friend Wilbur;  Gerald's mom really sick;  Mark Ackerman’s recuperation from an operation and Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her foot operation;  Jean Wright's recovering from rotator cuff surgery;    Sue Tomas;   Mike & Dee’s daughter, Lisa;    Alexander Occhipinti;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;

Play time with Leo, Zoe, and Torri.

  Rita;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer;     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;    Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, & Chebino;  a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Buddy arriving with MIckey Mouse.

  
 Your Finances: February 3, 2013

Expenses:     $2540.00 

Outreach:     $1240.00  

 We donated this week: 

1.   Nothing special this week.

    Thanks for your Generosity 

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

  Video:   Exit Hymn, Blessed be the Lord  (2 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.

Rosemary's Blessing of  The Week:

May the Lord grant you

       A tolerance for those who don’t agree with you,

       A refusal to judge others,

       A willingness to forgive,

       A calm and hopeful spirit in the midst of anxieties,

       And a holy anger for injustice in the world.

From Seven Sacred Pauses by Macrina Wiedwrkehr

John reading from the book of Sirach.

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   John & Mary Jane
•    For The Team:    Georgie & Buddy 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Mike & Geri
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Mike  & Carrie
•    For the coffee and extras:  Mike & Judy & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:     Ben & Shonda 
•    For all who helped with Communion 

Mary Jane reading from Romans

Birthdays:   Sandra (77, Monday, a good age, yeah!), Claire Zurchin (Tuesday), Mary Jane Stephenson (Wednesday), Patty Hammond (71, Saturday), Bethany (Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Lynda & Tom (35^th, Monday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.                                            

Please Remember these special people

Mike's swollen knee;   For Myron Hubble;    For Connie Bresson's mom;     For Carol's recuperation;   For Tom Good;     For Dee and her daughter, Lisa;    For John Schanot's continued recuperation;  For Nadia's recuperation;   For Geri's  nephew, Martin Calabrese and Martins' family;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom; For Cliff & Jean;   For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;   For Anthony & Sabrina;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart condition

Happy 35th Anniversary, Lynda & Tom.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;     For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;    for Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Happy Birthday, Mary Jane, and thanks for all you do.

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; 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 Mary Ellen;  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.

Thanks for being our Candle Lighters of The Week,  Brady & Trey.

Your Finances, September 17, 2017

Expenses:   $905.00

Outreach:    $295.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Alpen Glow, evening, from a large granite boulder above one of the best campsites, after descending from Burrow pass, 11k plus, on the shore of Piutte Creek, night 6 or 7, probably night 6 because on night 7 we had an enormous rain, wind, lightening, and thunder storm about 8-9 P.M. Everybody survived the storm quite well.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Dinner at Frog Lake on the first night of our 8 nights.

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.

Stream crossing on the very last day of the 9 days.   A humbling experience for an old ex-Jesuit who thinks he knows the Matterhorn hike like a bike ride around White Rock Lake.  Since the past two Matterhorn hikes had low water in the creeks, so must be the case this year.  Wrong!  High water was everywhere.  Late & heavy snow.  Thanks, Andy, for loaning me your Keene sandals all 8 or 10 times I needed them.

Malachi 3:  But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.
2 Thessalonians 3:  Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us.
Luke 21:  Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute.

Thanks…     

Music,   Shonda & Ben
Readers,  Mary Jane & John
Homily,   John Stack
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 Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   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:   Frank Esparza 11/18, Cody Mashburn 11/19, Ron Ackerman 11/22
Anniversaries:  

Expenses: $  515.00
Outreach: $  230.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

None this week

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.