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 We are the instruments of God’s gentle, motherly embrace. 

Let us make of ourselves a sanctuary

where God’s motherly love can embrace at least one person

who is lost, lonely or forgotten in our world

amid their struggles and despair. 

Come Lord Jesus, work through me.

 Taken from a  prayer by Benedictine Sr. Diana Seago

 

                                                                                                                                 Our Special Thanks:

•    For Reading:  Mike and Geri
•    For The Team:  Georgie & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:  Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie & Jan
•    For the Pictures & Video:   Rick & Beth, Mike Connie 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Sir Charlie & Jan,  Jerry and Jackie and Judy
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  Ray &  Shonda & Bethany

 

 

 Birthdays:   Ben Farmer (25, Saturday),  Bobby Ekes (Saturday), Jan Kezsler (Thursday), Tom Fleming (55, today, Sunday)

 

 

 

Please Remember these special people:

Chuck Pratt dancing with the Father since Dec. 8.;   Jackie Urbanczyk's recovery & Rick's mom, Irene, in Buffalo; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis;  Frank Esparza recuperating from an operation;  Fred and Maureen’s friend, Real Giguere;  Mary Templeton seriously hurt in a surfing accident (from Chris Phipps);  Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;

 

 

Dee's friend, Don Fox, with cancer;   Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends, Mike and Tara, and her dad in ICU;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson; Alexander Occhipinti; Rita;

 

 

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: January 5, 2014

Expenses:   $975.00

Outreach:   $875.00

 

Viedo:  Entrance hymn, We 3 Kings, 2 min.,

 

 

 We Donated this week:

$2000 to Soul's Harbor for December.

Thanks for your Generosity.

 

 

Have a Great New Year, 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Lord,

Who bestows life abundantly, in your plentiful graciousness renew our life of faith on this Easter morning of joy and help us to sing the alleluia with the hope that we too will rise again.

A Book of Irish American Blessings & Prayers Andrew Greeley

 

  

 

 

 

Special Thanks: 

·   For Reading: Sabrina & John

· For the Communion Bread: Gayle 

· For Serving: Kevin

· For the Wine Cups & Cross: Beth & Rob

· For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Celeste & Wendy

· For the Pictures: Beth & Emily & Jan

· For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue

· For the coffee & cake: None today, too busy 

 
   

Happy Birthday:  Buddy Goode, Chris Phipps, Kendall Gorman (11),  Elliott Zurchin, Jacob Wilson and Nicole Wilson, Carmen Pastula (16), Carley Ekes, Laura Chollick, Morgan Froebe (17), Cole Bentley (8)

 

Happy Anniversary:

Hugh & Sydney Bivona (3rd)

Larry Thompson & Theresa McClure (4th)

Dave & Margarita Pastula (21st)

Richard & Judy Lyons (38th)

   

 

 

 

Please Remember:

 

Marilyn Ackerman's mother who broke her hip, plus Paulette, a 4 year old niece of friends of the Ackermans, she died in Mexico City after being kidnapped; Jim Drescher; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary & sister, Judy; Dina McPherson's mother, Lena, who just died Saturday; David Hoover; Kathy Pieper’s sister, Michelle Guinigundo; Jackie Ritter's friends Bob Minarik with cancer & Todd Fred with leukemia;  Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Mark Leutkemeyer's friend, Guy Knight, down with terminal cancer; Wally Banzhaf's sister Chris with cancer;  Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad;  Theresa Quinn's dad; for the recuperation of Jerry's right knee;  Celeste's niece, Lexi Colmenero;  Matt Baggert & his family & parents; Christine Drescher's Grandmother;  Rita Dore;  Margie Weynant;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad;  Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & also Casey in a bad motorcycle accident;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Tom & Teresa's friend Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece, Angel & friend, Diane Kreitzer;   Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino,  Lisa's nephew Kristopher;  George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; 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.   
 

Next Big Community Party: May 1, The 5th Anniversary Party, 6:00 P.M., Heritage Farm this year (on 15th just east of Custer & Vines, south side), covered dish, music a la Hue, hay rides pulled by donkeys for the kids, in door and out door fun, and renewal of vows.  Our own Tony acting as M.C. this year.

 

 

Picture 1:  Sabrina reading and

 

Picture 2:  Sabrina's dad, John, reading

 

Picture 3:  The Great Easter Egg Hunt

 

Picture 4:  The Great Hunters: Hunter, Dillon, & Chloe 

 

Picture 5:  And there were Rewards!   Even a gold egg and a silver egg.

  

 

 

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

Video: Beginning of Mass 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Finances: April 4:

Income for Running   Expenses: $ 2,025.00

 

Income for Outreach Expenses: $  792.00

 

Thanks for your Generosity!

 

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

Special Thanks:

• For reading: Duncan & Conner Simpson (father & son) 
• For the Communion Bread: Christine & Megan 
• For Serving: Sabrina & Anthony 
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol and Bob & Jackie 
• For the music: Ray & Shonda & Hue

Happy Birthday:   Alison Degenova, Jessica Bresson, Sue Tomas, Bernadette Delgado, Joey Cade

Happy Anniversary:

• John & Azur Williams (Day 1)
• George & Marianne Elwell (13th)
• Doug & Julie Kite (22nd)
• Diane & Kent McClurg (36th)
• Jeff & Penny Morrow (38th)
• Lou & Lorraine Federico (38th)

 

Please Remember:   Pat Krsek's daughters friends;  Julie's knee operation; Cliff's knee operation; Claire's June 20 operation; Lisa Schleicher; Margie Weynant; Barb Wittek's friend Lois, her brother; Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Jackie's Jack Brown & neighbor, Earl; Dee Miller; Nina's friend Nancy;  Mary's son John; Casey & Rob plus Cameron & Reid, Brady & Trey; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel; Cindy Cramer's friend Sarah Dixon;  Diane's friend Mike Gertisen & cousin Judy; Rosemary's nephew, Kevin; Jean Atwood's foot operation June 13 & friend Kerry whose dad is dying; Margarita's Aunt Lenore, & Yolanda; one year old Sadie with cancer; Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; David Pastula's companions in the military overseas, including Margarita's Matt Gomez on tour 3, Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, Roy's son Chris; Lisa's nephew Kristopher on his 2nd Iraq trip, his grandmother Alice Quiocho & Lisa's friend Shelly; David & Rita; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann and Dawn's back op.; Fred's friend John with cancer & Maureen's friend Sharon. 

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

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Your Finances:

June 15: 

• Income for Running  Expenses: $ 1,686.00 
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $   444.00   

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Week, J.S

Special Thanks: 

·     For Reading: Rob & Beth

·     For Serving: Kevin Doherty 

·     For the Communion Bread: Cindy & Kim

·     For the Wine Cups:  Rob & Beth

·     For the Music: Ray & Wendy

·     For the Pictures:  Gayle & Beth 

·     For the altar: Denni & Margie

·     For the coffee and donuts: Marlene Ekes & Joan Gleason 

 

 

Happy Birthday:  Warren Wittek,  Audry Whitley (4), Taylor Read (16), & Clair Zurchin (25 & Chloe's mommy)

 

 

Happy Anniversary:

Lori Reynolds & Paul Bayer (Day 1 in Ashville, NC)

Doug & Teresa Read (21st) 

Richard & Monica Froebe (23rd, last Sunday)

Bill & Julie Carey (27th)

Tom & Lynda Fleming (28th)

Mike & Geri Moran (35th)

Mike & Dee Miller ( 53rd, last Tuesday)

 
  
 
 

 

Please Remember:

 

 Curtis Ekes; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer & their brand new grandbaby, Vivian Collette;   Warren & Barb's friend,  Phil Fruge;   Gilberto Delgado's mom;  Chuck Pratt with a bad back; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter;  Rose Banzhaf's friend, Graham Henning & Wally's sister, Chris; The Robinsons' son, Geordie;  Marilyn Ackerman's  brother, Dick, and their grand daughter, Alex;  Jean Wright's  daughter, Mary;  David Hoover; Kathy Pieper’s sister, Michelle; Bill Smith's daughter, Tammy;   Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer;   Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad;  Theresa Quinn's dad; for the recuperation of Jerry's right knee;    Rita Dore;   Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Tom & Teresa's friend Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece, Angel & friend, Diane Kreitzer;   Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino,   George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   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.  

 

 

 

Advent Celebrations already: this is way early, but two of my favorite performances are already scheduled for December, and tickets will go quickly.  As in past years, if you would like to join Rosemary & me, give me your name and the number of tickets you want.  We’ll have our usual evening of wine & cheese before each performance.

 

 1.  December 3, Friday, 8:00 P.M.: Dallas Symphony Pops Christmas concert (special for kids) at the Meyerson.  Tickets in the Choral Terrace (behind & above the stage & orchestra), $33.00.

 

  2.  December 14, Tuesday, 8:00 P.M.: Dallas Symphony Christmas Pageant (a platinum event) at the Meyerson. Tickets on the Orchestra Floor (like last year) $55.00.

 

I will place our orders by September 16 or 17.  Welcome to one or both wonderful evenings.

 

  

 

Picture 1:   Rob reading

 

Picture 2:   Beth reading

 

Picture 3:   Our Emma

 

Picture 4:   David & Maureen

 

Picture 5:   Tony & Gayle, Mike & Geri (35th Anniversary) 

 

 

Your Finances: September 12: Report next week

 

Thanks for the Generosity

 

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

 

Rosemary's Blessing:   

We end this meal with grace

For the joy and nourishment of food,

The slowed time away from the world

To come into presence with each other

We pray the wise spirit who keeps us

To change the structures that make others hunger

And that after such grace we might go forth

And impart dignity wherever we partake.

John O’Donohue    To Bless the Space Between Us

Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Lou Federico & Megan Dulenti

• For the Communion Bread:  Alison, Sabrina & Anthony

• For Serving:  Kevin & T.J.

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Roy & Carol & Beth & Rob

• For the Music: Ben & Wendy & Celeste

• For the Pictures: Jan & Beth

• For the altar & sound:  Margie & Hue

• For the donuts & coffee: Jackie & the Baack Family

Happy Birthday:    Alison Degenova, Jessica Bresson, Sue Tomas, Bernadette Delgado, Joey Cade (John's daughter)

Happy Anniversary:

Diane & Kent McClurg (37th)

Ray & Loretta Garcia Williams (41st)

George & Marianne Elwell (14th)

Doug & Julie Kite (23rd)

Lou & Lorraine Federico (39th)

2 anniversaries of ordination: Tony O'Donovan (36th), The Old Geezer (38th)

 

Please Remember:  Gayle O'Donovan's mom; Sabrina on her trip to France, Italy, and Greece; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis;  Jack Carlson's friend Tommy Ketchum, 37, in the hospital with emergency brain surgery after a stroke; Rita in the hospital starting to walk again & hoping to return home; Tyler Hayden Reed born last week prematurely at less than 2 lbs.; Jackie's sisters Sandy & Sue and friend Jack Brown with various cancers & Keith Beasley who fell off the 7th floor of a parking garage & is still living;  Julie Johnston who is dealing with a return of her cancer; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining;  Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark, and a little baby, Reese who has tuberous sclerosis complex;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  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 Hoover & his brother Hugh in the hospital; 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:  Lou, alias "Federico" reading Exodus

 

Picture 2:  Megan reading Hebrews

 

Picture 3:  Kayla with her mommy Christi & Alison: birthdays

 

Picture 4:  Bill Hammond with some Old Geezer, Collin Co. Classic (55 mi.)

 

 

 

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

 

Your Finances:

 

June 14: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,818.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $  857.00   

Thanks for your Generosity!

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