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Revelation 7:  These are those who come from the great tribulation.  And they’ve washed their robes, scrubbed them clean in the blood of the Lamb.  That’s why they’re standing before God’s Throne.
1 John 3:  For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.  Let’s not just talk about love.  Let’s practice real love.
 Matthew 5:  When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside.  Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed ones, climbed with him.  Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions. 

Thanks…     

Music,   Shonda & Ben
Readers,  Connie & 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 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:   Ed Kless 11/2,  Karen Anderlick 11/4
Anniversaries:  

Expenses: $  1,465.00
Outreach: $  500.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Gracious God inspire us with the hope in the gift of shalom, the gift of wholeness and the promise of your presence.

Give wisdom to seek nonviolence as an answer to the violence of our lives and world.

Give us courage to seek wholeness in a fractured and divided world, to find reconciliation rather than revenge, to abandon the instruments of violence and death and entrust our lives, our homes and our families to you.

May your presence fill us and others with the thirst for unity, wholeness, and the desire to see all people valued as created in your image.

May we and others receive your shalom, that we might be faithful instruments of your love.

Blessed be your name forever,

Amen.

Rabbi Andrew M. Paley, senior rabbi with Temple Shalom, Dallas.  He emailed this letter to his congregation in 2018 after a gunman shot members of the Tree of Life Synagogue.

 

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.

 

Special Thanks:

• For reading: Nancy (Luciano) & Victor
• For the Altar Bread: Claire Occhipinti
• For Serving: Sabrina
• For the Altar, donuts, muffins, coffee, & juice: Margie, Jackie, Marilyn & Ron
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol Strom, Rob & Beth Robinson
• For the music: Ray & Wendy, Hue, Rick & Jackie

Happy Birthday: Cindy Ekes, Marlene Ekes, Stephen Farmer (17), Lance Anderson (50), Megan Robinson & Perry Robinson, Hunter Bentley, C.J. Lackey, Amanda Miller (22), Carolyn Harrell, & Jim Drescher,

Happy Anniversary:

• Bridget & Bryan (Day One)
• Karen & Rick (Day One)
• Don & Genny Mattingly
• Alicia & Bill Harris (29th)
• Bernadette & Gilberto Delgado (42nd)

Please Remember:  Jack Flovin; Gil Swift; Cheryl Ann’s dad with cancer; Rosemary’s nephew definitely improving; Jean Atwood’s uncle Harry & aunt; Margarita’s Uncle Ed, Greg, & Yolanda; little 8 month old Sadie with cancer, friend of Jack Carlson & Jackie Ritter; Jackie Ritter’s friend Jack Brown with lung cancer; Nina Tucker’s friend Nancy with stage 4; Margie’s mom; Donna & Cathy Goode’s mom; David Pastula’s companions in the military overseas, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, & T.J.’s friend Aimee; David & Ofelia, Rita; Mary Ellen’s Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; George & Marianne’s sons & Linda’s son; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Shawn in a car wreck; & Shonda.

Your Finances:

• August 19: Income for Running Expenses:              $ 1,405.00 
• August 19: Income for Outreach Expenses:             $   673.00   

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Week, J.S

 

Rosemary's Blessing: 

 

May God bless you with tears…
to shed for those who suffer from pain,
rejection, starvation and war.
May God bless you so that
you may reach out your hand
to comfort them and turn their pain into joy.

Taken from A Franciscan Christmas Blessing for Justice and Peace December 20, 2005

 
 

 

Special Thanks: 

·     For Reading: Claire & Ray

·     For the Communion Bread:  Claire Occhipinti

·     For Serving:

·     For the Wine Cups & Cross: Ron & Nancy & Rob & Beth

·     For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Celeste

·     For the Pictures: Jan & Richard

·     For the altar & sound: Denni & Hue

·     For the coffee & donuts: Jackie & Joan & Claire & Ray

 
 
 

Happy Birthday:  Megan Carroll, David Ekes, Filipita (Celeste's mom), Jeff Morrow, Melissa Holcomb (18), Charlie Keszler, Kevin Doherty (14), Dillon (9), Maggie McGrath (7), Chloe (4)

  

The Status of The Hip:

1.  Been off pain meds since Tuesday.  Not because of being macho.  Just no pain.

2.  The physical therapist says the therapy is going so good that probably Monday we will get rid of the walker and use a cane to walk with.

3.  I was told one hour of being up, one hour of rest.  So true.  After an hour sitting up, I am exhausted and can sleep an hour.  In fact, I am delighted that the exhaustion, the trembles, the cold to the bone feeling, and the dizziness at the end of the hour has gone away a day or so ago.   

4.  Thanks for everything, the food, the special, community blessed shawl, and the affirmation.

 

  

 Please Remember: Roy & Carol Strom's daughter Kelly with cervical cancer; Bob McGrath's cut foot; 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;  Julie Johnston;  Margie Weynant;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad;  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 Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;   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. 

  
 

   
  

Picture 1:  Claire Occhipinti reading

 

Picture 2:   Ray Occhipinti reading 

 

Picture 3:   The Hip at 1 1/2 weeks with 2 1/2 to go (Feb. 10)

 

Picture 4:   Our Father, Jeff & Chloe (birthdays) & Tony

 

 

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

Your Finances: January 24:

 

Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1040.00

Income for Outreach Expenses: $  655.00

 

Thanks to Ken we caught a glitch in the financial report:

 

Download Correction Operations Q4 2009

 

 

Thanks for your Generosity!

 

 

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

Special Thanks:

• For reading: Blake & Blair
• For the Altar Bread: Bernadette
• For Serving: T.J., Lacee, & Lorynne
• For the Altar, donuts, muffins, juice & coffee: Margie, Jackie, Lisa, Dave, & Joan & Jerry
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy, Rob & Beth
• For the music: Ray & Shonda, Wendy & Celeste, Hue, Rick & Jackie

Happy Birthday:  Dawn Schultz; Alex Grattifiori (10); T.C. Fleming; Jeremy & Ashley (20); Rosemary Beavers; Jackie Ritter; Mitch Miller, Connie Bresson.

Happy Anniversary:

• Tom & Theresa Quinn (40th)

For the best Christmas decorations: try Highland Park Village, Beverly Drive & Armstrong Parkway both east & west of Preston Road south of Mockingbird Lane.

Please Remember: Mary’s son John; Odi’s friend Blanca with cancer;  Casey & Rob plus 4; Tom & Teresa’s friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa’s niece Angel; Cindy Cramer’s friend Sarah Dixon;  Diane’s friend Gina with cancer; Rosemary’s nephew, Kevin; Jean Atwood’s 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, & T.J.’s friend Aimee; 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; Shawn in a car wreck; Dawn’s friend Jessica & Aunt Ann; Fred’s friend John with cancer; Roy’s daughter Bonny with cancer in NY.

Catch the latest on the quadruplets’ web: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com

Your Finances:

• December 23: Income for Running  Expenses: $ 1,302.00   
• December 23: Income for Outreach Expenses: $   504.00         

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Christmas, J.S

Rosemary's Blessing of  The Week

 May you use the gifts that you have received, and

    pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content with yourself just the way you are.

Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow

    your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.

From a prayer by St. Terese of Liseaux

 

Rosemary doing her Blessing of The Week.

 

From Ken &  Cindy Cramer:  (blame them!) 

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Mike, with broken foot, reading from Exodus.

 

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:  Mike & Geri
•    For The Team:   Buddy & Georgie & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Mike & Connie  
•    For the coffee and extras:   Ray & Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:   Ray &  Shonda.  Bethany Had Her Baby!!    
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

Geri reading from Romans.
 

 

Birthdays:   Ken Cramer (Sunday), Kaliope (90), Sheila Baach (Saturday)

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Ken.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis;   For Carol's recuperation;   For Tom Good;   For Christine Drescher in hospital;   For Dee and her daughter, Lisa;    For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;   For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;       For Cliff & Jean;    For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;    For Anthony;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery; Connie Bresson's mom & friend struggling with cancer;

 

 

John, I don't know.  Can we trust you to get this birthday cupcake to Kaliope, your dear mother in law from Greece on her 91st?
 

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;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   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;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

Thanks, Brandon, for being our Candle Man of The Week and for being such a neat kid.

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

 

 

One of the Minor Elevations.

 

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; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;  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.

 

 Welcome back, Carol, so good to see you.  And, wow, you got more hair on your head than Richard, though not quite as much as Bernadette, yet.  

 

Your Finances, March 12, 2017

Expenses:   $520.00

Outreach:   $205.00                        

                                March 19, 2017

Expenses:   $1685.00

Outreach:   $ 835.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

Could we even dream of a better team than this? 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 Peace, Everybody.

 

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:                            

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 

(214-783-0443)

 

 

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.