Reminder for Sunday 1-15-12, 2nd Ordinary Time

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack. Again, Welcome.

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

Mabel and Curtis

 Readings:

Isaiah 40, 1-11, Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.

Psalm 104,  O, Bless the Lord, my soul.

Titus  2, 11-14, 3, 4-7, The grace of God has appeared.

Luke 3, 15-16, 21-22, With you I am well pleased.

Georgie

 For those who don’t have a decent Bible or a book of the readings, here are two links that I use, The Bible at Your Fingertips and USCCB, The New American Bible. 

The difference?  The first is Protestant more or less, and the second is officially Catholic and has the 12 little books in between the O.T. & N.T., called Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha. 

Both are good translations.     

Mary arriving with broken foot.

  Community Bulletin Board:

1.  January 24, Thursday night, 8:00, Collin County Homeless Coalition is having their annual census of homeless.  We will have a signup sheet at Mass.  Last year we had two teams of about 5 each. 

Our Emma

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.    History of women leaders in Catholic Church, Corpus and U.S. Catholic, January, 2013, 2500 words,   Download Women 1-11-13

2.  U.S. Nuns & Church Officials, National Cathoic Reporter, January 5, 800 words,    Download U.S. Nuns 1-11-13

Harper with her grandmom, Cathy, who had a bad evening Monday.

True?

If you ask me a question I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

YOGI BERRA

 

Meghan and Geri

  See you Sunday, January 13, 2013, The Baptism

J.S., 214-783-0443

Leo dances

  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.

 Mass: 9:30; Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

Place: Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.  Time: 9:30

Readings:  2 Samuel 7, 1-16; Psalm 89; Romans 16, 25-27; Luke 1, 26-38.    

Community Bulletin Board:

• True?  The line separating good & evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either–but right through every human heart–and through all human hearts.  This line shifts.  Inside us, it oscillates with the years.  And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.                                             Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

• Our Christmas family: mom, 3 little girls, and a baby boy on the way.  We have reached our goal and doubled it!  More Sunday.

• Carol Eshelbrenner asks for any & all Dale Carnegie books lying around.  Her daughter Cary, a medical intern in New Orleans says that all the interns get copies of this book & they do not have enough.  

• Just a reminder that we have a treasure in our community: Greg Rogers.  He can do any building and handiwork.  Just ask Rosemary.     email: greg@able-bodiedconstruction.com  Phone 214-686-0892.

Picture 1:  Claire & Ray, Mabel & Curtis, Warren & Barb, Ken & Frank

Picture 2:  Christopher & Gail Bentley (Dr. & Mom)

Picture 3:  More Bentleys, Hunter, Cole, Holden, & Hope 

• See you this Sunday, December 21.

Mass: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

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

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

Readings:  Isaiah 60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem, your light has come!; Psalm 72, Lord, every nation on earth will adore you; Ephesians, 3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs; Matthew 2, 1-12, The Magi arrived from the east asking, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews?"  
                                                                                                                                                                                           Picture  Picture 1:    Getting ready                                                    

Picture 2:    Bethany & Shonda         

Community Bulletin Board  

    1.  Special Date: January 26, a Thursday.   Celebrate an old geezer's 72nd.  Help City House census Plano homeless that evening.  We will form teams, 3-4 per car.   Download Volunteers needed, City House 1-1-12

 What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.  Catholic of the Year,  National Catholic Reporter, December 30, (words 1,000), Download Catholic of the Year 1-6-12

2. Bishop Ponders Losses, National Catholic Reporter, January 2, (words 800), Download Bishop ponders reasons Americans leave 1-6-12          

 3.  Chicago Cardinal's remarks, National Catholic Reporter,  January 2,  (words 485),  Download Cardinal 1-6-12

4.  LA Bishop resigns, National Catholic Reporter, January 4 (words 360), Download Bishop resigns 1-6-12  

                      
 
True?

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.    (or trees that you plant!)

Robert Louis Stevenson

  Video: Final Blessing & Hymn (1 Min.)

  See you Sunday,  January 8, 2012

 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

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

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating 

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

 
 
 
  
 
Readings: Isaiah 7 10-14; Psalm 24, Let the Lord enter, He is King of Glory; Romans 1, 1-7; Matthew 1, 18-24 

Community Bulletin Board: 

Christmas Eve Mass: 4:00, Friday  

Need a Taxi during the holidays:  our man, Rick Turner, the best, Jackie Johnson's husband, 214-707-6536

Picture 1:   Wendy, Shonda, & Ben

Picture 2:   Community

Picture 3:    Sebastian with his grandparents, Carol & Richard

Picture 4:    Sienna & Robyn

Picture 5:     Dillon, Hunter, Audrey, & Granddad, Tony

Picture 6:     Taylor with her mom, Teresa

Picture 7:      Wendy in the brunch line

Picture 8:      Gilberto, Bernadette, Mike, & Geri

What's going on in The Church:

  1.  Christmas traditions and their origins, researched by Jim Swayze, Download Christmas traditions 12-17-10

 
 
 
 Picture 9:    John & Jean, John & Mary Jane, & Nina

Picture 10:   Warren & Barb & Diane .

True?  

 There is nothing on this earth
more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

See you Sunday, December 19

Welcome: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

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

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

Leo

 Readings:   Exodus 20, 1-17, God delivered all these commandments; Psalm 19, Lord, You have the words of everlasting life; 1 Corinthians 1, 22-25, The weakness of God is stronger than human strength; John 2, 13-25, He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple.

Bill talking up the Love for Kids picnic, March 31

Bethany, Shonda, & Ray

Community Bulletin Board: 

    1.   This Sunday, 18th: Collection for the Child Advocacy Center.  Children’s clothes.

    2.  Carol Eshelbrenner's mom just died Wednesday.  A service is at St. Jude's Saturday.

    3.  To hear an excellent contemporary theologian March 17, check this out, Download MICHAEL MORWOOD 1-27-12 

    4.  Watch out Sunday, time change.

Stacey Fitterer with her dad, Dave

Stacey & Robert

 What's going on in our Catholic World:   

1.   Another special community, National Catholic Reporter, March 5, (1500 words), Download Cleveland parish 3-9-12 

   2.   3 Catholic Myths, National Catholic Reporter, March 2, , (700 words), Download Catholic Myths 3-9-12

Jacob, Stacey & Robert's son & one of the Bambini in our Nativity Drama, Christmas Eve

Pretty Chapel of Christ Church, Pensacola, scene of the wedding. Not an active church, a museum. Ca. 1825 built.

                   
True?

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination
and then works its way out.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.

— Albert Einstein  

     Video: Nancy reads Romans (2 min.)

  See you Sunday, March 11, 2012

 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

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack.    Again, Welcome.

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

Payton with his grandmother, Linda

Esparzas, Mary, Cameron, Nikki, and Frank

 Readings:    

Numbers  11, 25-29,  Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all.

 Psalm 19,   The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart

 James 5, 1-6,   Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.

Mark 9, 38-43, 45, 47-48,  If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.

Zoe with granddad Gilberto and family, Randolph and Michelle and Georgie, plus Buddy and Torri

Meet Max Garcia, the works foreman who helped when Rosemary fell off her bike, Jan. 6. Max has just received a token of Rosemary's appreciation. See Sept. 2 homily for the story.

Community Bulletin Board:   

1.  Free Medical Clinic this Saturday (message from John Ernst, CCAC):   "September 29, there will be a large one day free clinic at the Dallas Convention Center sponsored by our national organization, of which we are members.  Thousands of people will be served all by volunteers."  Download Medical clinic 8-10-12 

Anybody know who this girl is? Either in Peru or LA.

Wendy with Estella, her sister, Brandi's baby. In Denver.

What's going on in our Catholic World:     

1. Nuns on the bus, National Catholic Reporter, September 7, 400 words, Download Nuns on the Bus 9-28-12
2. German Catholics forced to pay the Catholic Church tax or get out?, National Catholic Reporter, September 29, 400 words,  Download Church tax on Germans 9-28-12   

Our Girl working in LA on a musical project with Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi.

A special weddinig at a gazebo in Addison.

True? 

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,

So as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell 

Craig

Zara

See you Sunday, September 30 

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.