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 Rosemary's Blessing of The Week

 Another fresh new year is here …
     Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
     To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
     To live each day with zest …
To daily grow and try to be
     My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
     Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
     And sing more joyful songs!

William Arthur Ward

 

 

 

John reading from Numbers.

 

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   John & Connie
•    For The Team:     Kevin 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & John & Mike  
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:   Ray & Katie                   
•    For all who helped with Communion 

Connie reading from Galatians.

 

Birthdays:   Meredith (last Monday), Connie Bresson (last Tuesday), Hugh Bivona (tomorrow), Tom Fleming (57 Thursday)

 

Anniversaries

Carol & Richard (41st, Wednesday)

Tom & Teresa Quinn (49th,  last Friday)

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol's recuperation from her operation;      For Frank's family & friends;   For Tom Good;   For Dee;      For John Schanot's continued recuperation;     For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;  For Jan’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 a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;    For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

 

 

 

Ray with Katie on music.

 

For Geri's friend, Elsa Billman, 88, whose house burned;  For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 90;   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;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;     Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

Happy Marvelous 49th, Tom & Teresa. 

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala;   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler;     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 our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including 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.

 

 

 

Richard, Happy 42nd to you and Carol.  

 

Your Finances, January 1, 2017

Expenses:   $570.00 

Outreach:   $290.00                           

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

Happy Birthday, Connie, and thanks for all you do for us all.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

Thanks, Brandon, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week and even more for being such a neat young man.
 

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.

 

Resource: to check the source for the marriage homilies, Project Everlasting, click the link.  Thanks to Carol Eshelbrenner for finding this lost resource.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19031744/

Rosemary’s Blessing: 

May God grant you the strength and faith to …

Count your blessings not your crosses; Count your gains not your losses;  Count your joys not your woes; Count your friends not your foes;  Count your smiles not your tears; Count your courage not your fears; Count your full years not your lean; Count your kind deeds not your mean; Count your health not your wealth; And love your neighbor as much as yourself.

Special Thanks:

• For reading: Carl & Jessica
• For the Communion Bread: Kim & Cindy
• For Serving: T.J., Lacee, & Lorynne
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol, Beth & Rob
• For the music: Ray & Shonda & Celeste, Hue

Happy Birthday: Michelle Brown, Diane McClurg, Sara Varnau (14), Gabriella Robinson (2).

Happy Anniversary: Tara & Scott Blankenship

Please Remember:  Rose Banzhaf’s mom; Victor Lozada (the policeman who died Friday), Terry his wife & his family; Jackie’s brother John & neighbor Earl; Dee Miller; Barb Wittek’s friends Ronald & Alice Kirk; Libby’s uncle; 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 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; Shawn in a car wreck; Dawn’s friend Jessica & Aunt Ann and Dawn’s back op. March 11; Fred’s friend John with cancer & Maureen’s friend Sharon.

Catch the latest on the quadruplets’ web: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com     —   Note: we are forming a "Quad Squad" of volunteers to help take care of these jewels.  More in Friday’s blog.

Your Finances:

• March 2:  Income for Running  Expenses: $ 786.00
• March 2:  Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 771.00
• February Expenses:  In: $4,600      Out: $5,400
• February Outreach:  In: $2,100      Out: $2,800

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Week, J.S

 

 

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

 

May you live a long life full of gladness and health,
With a pocket full of gold as the least of your wealth.
May the dreams you hold dearest be those which come true,
The kindness you spread keep returning to you.
May the friendships you make be those which endure,
And all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure.
And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray,
May a song fill your heart every step of the way.

Grace E. Easley

 

 

Hue reading from Numbers.

 

 

Thanks to these special people:  

•    For  the Readings   Hue & Cheryl
•    For The Team:   Georgie & Buddy
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  &  Connie  & Mike
•    For the coffee and extras:  Jackie & Becky & Tom
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue 
•    For the Music:     Ben & Shonda
•    For all who helped with communion
•    And for the Fall Brunch, Everybody

 

 

 

Cheryl reading from James.

 

 

Special Note: No blogs the weekends of October 7 & 14.

 

 

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

 

 

Birthdays:   Leo (8, last Monday),  Judy Carrell last Thursday), Beth Dugan (last Wednesday), Sophia (10 last Moday), & the Candle Lighter

 

Anniversaries:

Paul & Carrie (1^st, last Saturday)

Tom & Becky (39^th, last Wednesday)

 

 

 

 

Happy 8th Birthday and for being such a neat kid, Leo.

 

 

Remember these special people

For Meredith, cancer free;  For Jerry Brophy, a high school classmate of mine  For Tom Quinn’s brother,Tim;  For Hue;  For John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen;   For Carol's recuperation;   For  Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;   For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;   

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Dearest Carol.

 

 

For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 90 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    or Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  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; 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday to you, too, Beth, and for being such a terrific mom with Emma.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Happy 1st Anniversary, My Dear Paul & Carrie.  Oh, what a memorable wedding it was a year ago, on the south rim of Grand Canyon.
 

 

 

Your Finances, September 30, 2018

Expenses:    $950.00

Outreach:    $215.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

 

 

 

 

Happy 39th Anniversary, My Dear Tom & Becky, and enormous gratitude to you for hosting us at Legacy.

 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Dearest Victoria, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Sez The Great Luke, "Wake me up, Everybody, when that old geezer gets finished."    Thanks, My Dearest Luke, for visiting us, for welcoming everybody, and for being such a cool kid.  Come back.

 

 

Isaiah 7:  Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel.
Romans 1: Through him we have received the grace of apostleship, to bring about the obedience of faith, for the sake of his name, among all the Gentiles, among whom are you also, who are called to belong to Jesus Christ;
Matthew 11:  Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means “God is with us.”

John Cade’s Homily :  12-21-25 Homily-4th Sunday of Advent

 

Thanks…   
Music,  Ben & Shonda
Readers,  Becky & David
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 and Marilyn

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: Meredith Burmaster 12/26, Connie Bresson 12/27
Anniversaries:

 

Expenses: $  1,985.00
Outreach: $    570.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:
May…
the spirit of Christmas which is Peace…
the gladness of Christmas which is Hope…
the adoration of Christmas which is Joy…
and the heart of Christmas which is Love…
be yours now and tomorrow.

 

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)

Rosemary's Blessing:  Dear God …

Draw me into the radiant glory of your presence and into the small lights of those with whom I live and work.  Inspire me to take time for those who are discouraged.  And may I live with the kind of presence that enables others to feel at home.  Seven Sacred Pauses by Macrina Wiederkehr 

Special Thanks:

• For reading: George & Marianne   
• For the Communion Bread: Carol & Richard 
• For Serving:  Noah 
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol
• For the music: George Milton & Wendy & Hue 
• For the coffee & Juice: George & Marianne 
• For the pictures:  Jan
• For all of You who made our Fall  Back to School Brunch Super! 

Happy Birthday:   Ron Monteserin (50);  Teresa McClure; Daniel Fleming (20th); Taylor Read (14th); Audry (2) & Hunter (6); Kayleigh McCoy (8), Jim Meyer; Gloria Landry; Dona Thomson; My Aunt Kitty (102); Graham Rogers (16)

Happy Anniversary: 

• Doug & Teresa Read (19th)

• Mike & Geri Moran

• Ron & Nancy Kovatis (36th)

• Jim & Diane Drescher (42nd)

Please Remember:    John Cade's  by pass recuperaton; Andy Goode; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; Maureen Macchio's brother Michael with cancer;   Barb Wittek's friend Lois, her brother; Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Jackie's Jack Brown & neighbor, Earl;  Nina's friend Nancy;  Mary's son John; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel; Cindy Cramer's friend Sarah Dixon & Ken's brother Don;  Diane's dad & cousin Judy; Jean Atwood's friend Kerry whose dad is dying; Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; David Pastula's companions in the military overseas, including 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 & Uncle Keith; David & Rita;  George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann; Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Brady & Trey.

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

Good Article by Bishop Spong (Episcopal): Download a_call_for_a_new_reformation.doc

Your Finances:

September 28: 

• Income for Running  Expenses: $ 1,090.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $    547.00  

Thanks for your Generosity!

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