Sunday Reminder 2-22-09, 7th Ordinary Time

Mass: Epiphany of Jesus: 9:30; coffee, donuts, home made muffins, & juice on the house.

Place: Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.

Readings: Isaiah 60, 1-6; Psalm 72; Ephesians 3, 2-6; Matthew 2, 1-12

Thanks again, everyone, for such a marvelous Christmas Eve Mass & Food Drive.

Community Bulletin Board 

Community Directory with  names, perhaps email addresses, phone number, even address.  This idea has received positive feed back.  May be done completely on line?                               

Tree Project update: maybe in January?  Waiting to hear from Collin Co. Child Advocacy Center, Park & Los Rios.

See you Sunday.

Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

Place: Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.

Readings: Joshua 5, 9-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5, 17-21; Luke 15, 1-32 (The Great Prodigal Son Story) A pre-homily Sunday.

Community Bulletin Board

The East African Travelers have returned!!!

Thanks to all of you who helped with the March 4 service: Carol Eshelbrenner, Claire Occhipinti, Bill Carey, Jimmy Miller, and especially, Fred & Maureen, who hosted the ceremony.

See you this Sunday, March 18.

They finally caught her.
 

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.  

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade 

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

The Girls.  Again.

Readings:

Ezekiel  33, 7-9,    You have been appointed watchman for the house of Israel

Psalm 95,   If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts

Roman s 13, 8-10,  Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another

Matthew 18, 15-20,  Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am.  

Does that not look like a takeover!

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Most of us will be gone to Yosemite until the 14^th.  Take a break for a week?

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

The Community.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Jean Vanier, The Tablet & Corpus, August 18  800 words (a hero of mine from my years in Toronto),   Download VANIER 7-31-17

The Best Team.

True?    (from Patricia)

Author Anne Lamott recently turned 61. So she’s compiled the following list of “every single true thing I know.” A brief recap:

1. All truth is a paradox. “Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift, and it is impossible here,” she says. Life is “filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.”
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2. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.” That includes you.
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3. Nothing outside of you will help you in any real, lasting way. Radical self-care is the only thing that will get you through. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true, and it works the other way around too. “If it is someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the solution,” she says.
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4. “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared. Everyone, even the people who seem to have it most together.” So don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides, she warns.
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5. “Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food. Its best use is as bait in snake traps or to balance the legs on wobbly chairs.”
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6. Every writer puts down terrible first drafts. The trick is that they commit to sticking with it. They take it Bird by Bird, her father’s advice that became the heart of her bestselling book. “Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better,” she says. “You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
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7. Creative success are “something you have to recover from. They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine.” And that brings us back to #1, because creative success is also amazing. “It is a miracle to get your work published,” she says. “Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes inside you. It can’t. It won’t.”
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8. Families are both astonishing and hard. Again reference #1. “Earth is forgiveness school,” she says. “It begins with forgiving yourself — then you might as well start at the dinner table.”
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9. Speaking of food: try to do a little better. “I think you know what I mean.”
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10. Grace is a powerful thing. “Grace is Spiritual WD-40 or water wings,” she says. “The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild.” Grace doesn’t always come in the forms you expect. Lamott sees it most in laughter. “Laughter really is carbonated holiness,” she says. “It helps us breathe again and again, and gives us back to ourselves.”
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11. God isn’t that scary. Rather than getting trapped in the mundanity of our own lives, she tells us to “go look up.” Now. “My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don’t look up,” she says. “If they did, they could fly to freedom. Instead, they walk around bitterly, bumping into glass walls.”
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12. Death is incredibly hard to bear, and you don’t get over losing people you love. “We Christians like to think death is a major change of address,” she says. “But the person will live again fully in your heart, at some point, if you don’t seal it off.” Memories of the people you love will make you smile at inappropriate times, but their absence will also be “a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.” Again, see #1.

She takes a deep breath. “Okay, I think that’s it. But if I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.”

Healing for Cindy.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

A footnote:  We are donating  as a Community

$1000 to the special fund established by the mayor of Houston,

$1000 to the 1st Baptist Church of Rockport

Healing and Life for Zoe.

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.

Communion for everyone.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the house served afterwards.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence

Anybody know this beautiful girl? It's our Georgie.

 Readings: 

 2 Kings 5, 14-17,  Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times.

Psalm 98,  The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

2 Timothy 2, 8-13,  The word of God is not chained.

 Luke 17, 11-19  Where are the other 9?

Cole, battered himself, bringing Emma up to get the Sacrament of the Sick.

  Community Events:     

1.  ROMEO lunch Friday, October 11, 1:00.  Welcome home, Wyndamites.
 Welcome All.

 2.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays,  The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

Diane reading Habakkuk (what a name!).

 3.  Christmas Concert at the Meyerson:

We have the date:  December 19; cost: $45 (cheaper than last year).  Rosemary says that you may still sign up.  Her contact, Blake, knows that we usually have a few additional people.   Total so far, 29 people.  Anybody know of a party bus?

Welcome, also, to the Rectory for wine & cheese and a ride through Highland Park to see the best lights.  

Connected with this, a plan is developing to visit the Christmas lights in Highland Park on bikes one evening, a common event in that neighborhood.  We have our guide, Chris Phipps, who lives there, and the old geezer can second, since this is his old neighborhood.  Get your bike lights polished.

4. For those of you who heard, yes, Rosemary fell on her bike Thursday morning (on the path near the corner of East Lawther and Garland Road).  The path was wet and she fell on a curve.  No broken bones, but she hit the back of her helmet.  She is being watched by our internist and me.   She is also sore all over.  

Fred reading Timothy.

 What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.      The Mass translation seen from Germany, National Catholic Reporter, October 3, 500 words,   
Download Mass translation 10-11-13

2.      The G8 Meeting, the 8 cardinals and Francis, National Catholic Reporter, October 4, 1100 words,   
Download Council of Cardinals 10-11-13 

3.       The New York Times on Francis, October 4, 800 words,    
Download Different Francis 10-11-13

Brunch, Richard, Patricia, and Fred with Kevin in the background.

 True? 

 Whoever said diamonds are a girl's best friend, never owned a dog.

Brunch with Carol and Loretta, Gilberto and Bernadette, et moi.

See you Sunday, October 13, 2013, 28^th  Ordinary Time, C cycle

J.S., 214-783-0443

Toy World with Leo in mask, Emma, CC, Kayla, and Cole, with Claire and Ray looking on.

 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.

Reggie loading our stuff into the Soul's Harbor truck.

 
Mass:   Coffee, pastries, & specials on the house.  

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating

Place:  Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side

Readings: Ezekiel 37, 12-14; Psalm 130, With the Lord there is Mercy and Fullness of Redemption; Romans 8, 8-11; John 11, 1-45, The raising of Lazarus
 

 Picture 1:   Chloe & Hunter                          

Picture 2:   Sienna  

Picture 3:   Brooklyn Michelle  

Picture 4:   Justin & Ashley  

Picture 5:   The Community  

 
  
 
Community Bulletin Board:

1.   Appeal for blood for our Ray Williams, Loretta's husband,  April 19, 7–2 @ Poor Richards Café, 2442 Ave. K, Download Blood Drive for Our Ray Williams 4-8-11

 2.  Save the Date & Welcome: Our Annual Anniversary Party (6th), May 7, Saturday evening, 6:00, Heritage Farm, like last year. 

3.  Wish list for this Sunday's Baby Shower for My Friends' House, Download My Friends' House 4-8-11

Church Happenings:

 1.   A San Vino in Rochester?  Corpus, 4-7-11, Download A San Vino in Rochester 4-8-11

2.   A new type of bishop in Dublin?  National Catholic Reporter, 4-8-11, Download Archbp Martin 4-9-11

3.  The Philadelphia situation,  Fr. Richard McBrien, National Catholic Reporter, 4-8-11, Download Philadelphia 4-8-11 

Picture 6:   Omaha Beach today.  June 6, 1944, 2,200 American soldiers died on this beach.

Picture 7:   German gun bunker above Omaha Beach 

Picture 8:   Omaha Beach with gun bunker and cliffs  

Picture 9:   Bomb craters with spring flowers  

Picture 10:  German soldier, Heinrich Mundorff, 19.  Rosemary's mom's name was Mundorff.       

  
 True?

 All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

  See you Sunday, April 10, 2011

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Mass:  Coffee & donuts & treats on the house.

Place:  Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side

Time: 9:30; Tony Celebrating 

Readings: Amos 61-7; Psalm 146, Praise the Lord My Soul; 1 Timothy 6, 11-16; Luke 16, 19-31. 
 

Community Bulletin Board:

Open Discussion after Mass this Sunday.  End by 11:00, latest.

Next Sunday, Oct. 3, back to school & fall brunch.

Thanks from Plano Homes: Download Plano Homes 9-24-10

Thoughts on The Church:

1.  Good article on prayer, National Catholic Reporter, 9-22-10  Download Prayer 9-24-10

2.  Excellent article on the state of the Catholic world written by Anthony Padovano, a married priest & scholar.  The article is both excellent and long.  Therefore, I will publish it over three weeks.  The first edition: Download Padovano 9-24-10

Picture 1:   Can you believe!  Who are these kids?? 

Picture 2:    Some people grow up when you look away for a moment

Picture 3:    A Treasure, The Quads & Mom & Dad

Picture 4:    Last Sunday

 See you Sunday, September 26