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Rosemary’s
Blessing:

May …

The light of God surround you

The love of God enfold you

The power of God protect you

The presence of God watch over you.

Anonymous

 

Denni 6-30-13

Denni reading 1 Kings.

 

Our
Special Thanks 

  • For Reading:   Denni and Tom
  • For The Team:   Kevin & Georgie
  • For the Communion Bread:  Alison
  • For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
  • For the Pictures & Video:   Connie &
    Rick
  • For the coffee and pastries:  Geri & Jackie
  • For the  altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
  • For the Music: Shonda & Ray

 

Tom 6-30-13

Tom reading Galatians.

 

 

Birthdays:  Carol Eschelbrenner
(Friday), Brent Burmaster (Saturday), Jim Butterly (34th,
Thursday), and Harper (2, Monday, tomorrow) 

Anniversaries:

Matt & Jamie Wilson 

Jan & Sir Charlie (51st, Friday)


Offertory 6-30-13

Offertory with Sydney and Hugh, Frank and Gerald.




 We
Remember
:

 

Ed Walker's 3 year old niece who got bitten by a rattle snake Thursday night;  Bobby who broke his arm;  Jean
O'Donnell's brother, Louis;  Chuck Pratt and his cancer;  John's
Caliope, who has been in and out of thehospital;   John Doherty's dad
who is declining rapidly; Diane Holcomb who is recovering from a bad bike
crash;   Dee's friend Carole and Cole, 17, facing brain
surgery;  John Simari’s friend Kieth;  Dick Thompson's
daughter, Teri Jill;   Barb & Warren's new grandbaby,
Leighton Elizabeth, and their friend, Mike &
Tara;     Jim Butterly’s
brother, Paul;    

 

Communion 6-30-13

Communion helps with Geri, Patricia, and Richard.

 

  Judy
Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer, David and Sue, her sister &
Sue's husband, Jim; Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her
foot operation;  Alexander Occhipinti;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid
of honor) with a stroke;  Rita

 Bernadette
Delgado's mom &  Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn
Ackerman's mom & brother, Dick; Tom &
Teresa Quinn's niece,
Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, &
Diane Kreeitzer; 
Connie Doherty's mom & her sister,
plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; 
Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;
our friends, sons, &
daughters in the military, including Cole Carey,
Ryan McClurg, &
 Chebino;  a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  
for our
President that he have great success and someday hold
his grandchildren in his lap.

 


Your Finances: June 30, 2013

 

Expenses:   $ 590.00

Outreach:   $1295.00

We donated this week: 

1.   $2000 to Soul's Harbor via Brent

2.  $300.00 to Plano Community Homes

 

Thanks for your Generosity.

Video: Entrance hymn, Sing to the Mountains, 2 1/2  minutes,

  

 Have
a Great Week, 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.

 

 

 

 

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    Rosemary's Blessing

    I, God, am in your midst.

    Whoever knows me can never fall.

    Not in the heights, nor the depths, nor in the breadths.

    For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.

    Hildegard of Bingen

     

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    Patricia reading from 1 Samuel.

     

    Our Special Thanks

    •    For  the Readings:  Patricia & Frank 
    •    For The Team:  Rick
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
    •    For the Wine & Cups:  Alison & John
    •    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Jackie  & Mike
    •    For the coffee and extras:   Tom  &  Becky & Jackie
    •    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben
    •    For the Music:  Shonda & Ben 
    •    For all who helped with communion 
    •    For John celebrating today   
    •    For the Nativity drama, Bernadette & helper elfs                      

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    Frank reading from Luke.

     

     Birthdays:   Meredith (last Wednesday), Hugh Bivona (Wednesday), Tom Fleming (59, Saturday)

     

    Anniversaries:

    Carol & Rich Eshelbrenner (43rd)

     Tom & Teresa Quinn (51st)

     

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    Rosemary reading her blessing of the week.

     

     

    Please Remember these special people:

    For Ray & Claire's son in Law, Christi's husband recuperating from a serious back surgery here in Dallas;  For Meredith, cancer free;  For David Dinsmore's mom in W. VA & for Darbyanne;  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 continued 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 Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;  

       

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    Thanks, Rick, for lighting our candles this morning–and even for bringing the Cowboys good luck with your shirt.   Also. congratulations on losing 30 pounds.

     

    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;  for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;  for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons;      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; 

     

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    Brent, thanks for the great work you do as director of Souls Harbor.  Hopefully this $1500 will be useful.  Sorry about OU.

     

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

     

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    Congratulations on your birthday, Meredith, and even more congratulations on being declared cancer free.  You & Brent make a beautiful couple.

     

    Your Finances, December, 30, 2018

    Expenses:   $900.00

    Outreach:    $300.00

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

    This week we donated $1,500 to Soul's Harbor.

     

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    Elevation time.

     

    Bulletin 5 on the Lumbar Stenosis event:

    1. Surgery at Dallas Presby yesterday to take the pinch off of my spinal nerve which sent pain from my derriere all the way to my right foot & arch.
    2. the only pain now comes from the incision.  This was expected to be pretty significant.  Remedy: 2 pain pills.  Result: no pain, but significant dizziness.  I thought I had downed 2 shots of Jack Daniels.    

     

     

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    A Little extra homily by Mike .

     

    Thanks, Everybody 

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    With Christmas candles in hand we wish you all a peaceful and happy New Year of 2019

     

    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.

     

     

     

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    Rosemary's Blessing: 

    Father of all that is good, keep us faithful in serving you.

    May we learn to care better for the Master’s goods so that when the Master returns,

    We will hear those blessed words: Well done! Come and share your master’s joy.

    Gerald Darring

    Mike 11-13-11

     Special Thanks:

    • For Reading:   Mike & Jerry
    • For Serving:  Kevin  
    • For the Communion Bread: Claire
    • For the Wine Cups:  Beth Robinson
    • For the Music: Ray & Shonda, Bethany & Jon
    • For the Pictures & Video:  Jan & Beth, Rick &  John
    • For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
    • For the coffee & specials:  Ron & Marilyn, Jackie & Joan 
    • For the Paint & Pizza Party at Rita's, Mike Carrell, Rob & Beth Robinson, Bill Hammond, Fred Macchio, Mike Moran, Jerry Gleason, Jeanne Vogel & Bob Dunbar, Kim Quirk, Jenny & Mellisa & Diane Holcomb; Ryan & Jim & Michelle McCabe.  A Great Thanksgiving Event. 

     Jerry 11-13-11

     

    Birthdays:   Penny Morrow, Frank Esparza and Rosemary

     Anniversary: 

    Jack & Jackie Carlson  ( Day 3, married 11-11-11, 11:00 A.M. )

    John & Connie Bresson (25th)

    Josh Baptism 11-13-11

    Please Remember:

    Jackie Urbanczyk's sister, Carol, with a back operation; Mike Miller's recuperation from his eye operation, Mike and Dee's daughter, Lisa;  Bernadette Delgado's brother, Danny,who died Monday & Gilberto's mom;    Chuck Pratt's recuperation;  Judy Carrell's mom, Marie, 93;  Jackie Ritter's good friend, Narges Akbari, with colon cancer;  Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Warren & Barb's friend, Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery & mom; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer;  Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; 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; Rita Dore; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer;  for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

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    Picture 1:    Mike reading                 

    Picture 2:    Jerrry        

    Picture 3:    Josh's baptism   

    Picture 4:    Wedding of Jack & Jackie, 11-11-11, 11:00 A.M.                                               

           Video:    Mass Beginning

     

    Your Finances: November 13, 2011,

    Expenses:   $650.00

    Outreach:   $400.00

    Thanks for your Generosity

    Have a Great Week, 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.

       

     

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    Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week    

    Life is Art,

    Paint your dreams,

    Sing your songs,

    Enjoy the dance.

    Author Unknown

     

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    Beth reading from the Minor Prophet, Habakkuk.

                                     

    Our Special Thanks

    •    For  the Readings:   Beth & Rob
    •    For The Team:   Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
    •    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Sir Charlie
    •    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie, Beth & Mike
    •    For the coffee and extras:   John Cade & Jackie 
    •    For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
    •    For the Music:   Ray & Bethany & Shonda
    •    For all who helped with communion   

     

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    Rob reading from 2 Timothy

     

     

    Birthdays:    Marlene Barera & Jackie (both today, Sunday);  Tori & Buddy (Monday 6);  Georgrie (15, Wednesday);  Frank Reyes (58, Tuesday);  Erin McClurg (Thursday)

    Anniversaries:

    Patricia & Fred (Today, Sunday, 6th)

    Tom & Becky (37th, last Tuesday)

     

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    Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

     

     

    Please Remember these special people:

    For Dee and for Mike, with Mike’s Memorial, 11:00, October 8, Dickeys, Plano;    For Carol’s treatment;  For John Schanot's treatment;   For Brent's mom & family;   For Frank's treatment;    For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;   for Zaile's mom in the hospital in the Philippines;  For Rosemary's great nephew, Patrick who broke his leg amd is in a body cast (3 years old); For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;     For Tom Good;     For Cliff & Jean;   For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom;  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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;   

     


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    Happy 15th Birthday, Georgie and thanks for being such a marvelous person.  

     

    For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  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;  Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer;    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;

     

     

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    And Happy 6th Birthday to you, too, Buddy & Tori, and, likewise, thanks for being such neat kids.  

     

    Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill.   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler;    Gilberto's mom and brother; 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.

     

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    Happy 6th Anniversary, Fred and Patricia, and thanks, too, for all you do for the community.

     

     

    Your Finances, Oct0ber 2, 2016

    Expenses:   $920.00  

    Outreach:   $370.00 

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

    Have a Great Week, J.S

    (214-783-0443)

     

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    Happy 37th Anniversary, Becky & Tom, and thanks, too, for all you do to make our community marvelous.  

     

    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.

     

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    Thanks, Chloe, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.  Thanks, too, Denni for taking this cupcake to Claire and Andrew for their 5th.  Should we trust her, Folks?  

     

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    Says Charlotte,  "See you next week, Everybody."

     

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    Rosemary's Blessing

    Valentine  Gift of Love

    Make me mindful this day of the Signs of Love all around me:

    Of good words spoken, of gentle touch extended,

    Of important things that spring from appreciation, and true passion,

    Of deeds born of generosity and real understanding.

    Grant me the power this day to live with thoughtful intention in my speech, choices, and actions,

    So that I may build the habit of living gracefully, with love for the people and experiences that shape my life,

    Which is Your Gift of Love to me each day.

    Ken Philipps

     

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    John reading from the Great Prophet Isaiah (3).

     

    Our Special Thanks

    •    For  the Readings:   John & Jim
    •    For our team:   Mike  &  John  &  John,  Georgie & Buddy, Shonda & Ben
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
    •    For the Wine & Cups:  Jan
    •    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Mike
    •    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie 
    •    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue 
    •    For all who helped with communion         

     

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    Jim reading from Corinthians.

     

    Birthdays:  Hue (69), John Bresson (64), Dona Dinsmore

    Anniversaries:  John & Alison (26)

     

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    Mike reading from Matthew.

     

    Please Remember these special people:

    For our Cheryl;  For Bill Hammond,    For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  Shonda's mom;  For my buddy since grade school at Christ the  King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie, Pete just died,   For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation:  for Michelle; 

     

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    Thanks for lighting our candles, Zoe & Tori.

     

     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.;    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; 

     

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    Happy Birthday, Hue, and thanks for your help.

     

    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;  

     

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    Happy Birthday, John.

     

    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.

     

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    Peace to you, Cheryl.

     

    Your Finances, February 9, 2020

    Expenses:  $545.00

     Outreach $310.00

    Thanks, Everybody 

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    Rosemary reads her Blessing 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.

     

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    Peace this week, Everybody.

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    Rosemary's Blessing:    

    May the blessing of light be upon you, 

    Light on the outside, Light on the inside.

    With God's sunlight shining on you,

    May your heart glow with warmth,

    Like a turf fire that welcomes friends and strangers alike.

    Taken from a work of music By Phil Coulter

     

    Patricia 1-27-13

    Patricia reading Nehemiah



    Special Thanks:

    • For Reading:  Bernadette and Patricia 
    • For Serving:  Georgie & Kevin
    • For the Communion Bread:  Alison
    • For the Wine & Cups:  Beth
    • For the Music: Ray  & Bethany
    • For the Pictures & Video: Jan, Rick & Beth, John & Connie
    • For the coffee and pastries:  Ron & Marilyn, Jerry & Jackie  
    • For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue

     

    Bernadette 1-27-13

    Bernadette reading 1 Corinthians 12

    Birthdays: Sir Charlie, Melissa Holcomb (21, Monday), Dillon (13 Wednesday), Randolph Brown (Friday), John Doherty (Saturday), Rick Turner (54, Saturday), and Mike Carrell (Friday)

    Leo-Brandon 1-27-13

    Leo and Brandon

    We Remember  

    Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family on the death of Kate, their twin daughter;  Mary Hall who broke her foot; Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;  And Donna's recuperation from hip surgery;  Judy's Matt Larson with cancer, David, and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Janie's friend Wilbur;  Gerald's mom really sick;  Mark Ackerman’s recuperation from an operation and Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her foot operation;  Jean Wright's recovering from rotator cuff surgery;    Sue Tomas;   Mike & Dee’s daughter, Lisa;    Alexander Occhipinti;        Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;

     

    Cole 1-27-13

    Cole

      Rita;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer;     Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom & brother, Dick;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad  in assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary;    Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, & Chebino;  a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

     

    Plano Census 1-27-13

    Plano Census of the Homeless 2 teams from our community. 20 teams were involved. We were teams 13 and 19. Last Thursday night.

     Your Finances: January 27, 2013

    Expenses:     $640.00 

    Outreach:     $750.00  

     We donated this week: 

    1.   $2000 to Soul’s Harbor. 

        Thanks for your Generosity 

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

      Video:   Entrance Hymn, City of God  (2 min.)

          

    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.

      

      

     

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    Sunday Homily, June 9, 2019, Pentecost–Delayed

    A Note from Ye old Editor of our beloved Community Newsletter and Blog: 

    Sorry for the delay this week.  I was all ready to join the community for Pentecost, then came down with a beauty of a cold after arriving Thursday night from our cruise through Alaska, which is even more beautiful than I expected.  Hope to see everybody this Sunday, Trinity.

     

     

    Readings: 

    Genesis 11, 1-9, The whole world spoke the same language.  (from the vigil Mass)

    Psalm 104,  Lord, Send out your spirit, and renew the face of the earth. (Vigil)  

    Exodus 19, 3-8,   Moses went up the mountain to God.  (Vigil)

    John 14, 15-16, 23-26,   If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

     

     

    Homily:

    Alaska Dreaming

    Despite the fact that Rosemary & I would love to invite all of you to join us on the Alaska cruise, we know it is impossible.  In place of that, however, I would like to high light 4 specials that touched us.

    Of all the many specials that we experienced, l would say that the profound natural beauty that surrounded us was overwhelming, whether in the south of Ketchikan and Sitka to the north of Valdez and Seward.  It struck me as Yosemite on steroids.  Necklaces of glaciers and snow capped mountains.  We saw a lot because the sun rose about 3:00 A.M. and set about 11:00. 

    A small phenomenon that hit me was Juneau, the State capitol, chosen by the people in 1906.  You cannot get there by car.  No roads in or out.  A few cars wander the  town roads because they are shipped in by boat.  Instead, snowy peaks and glaciers.

    Another place that struck me was a little island called IcyStraight Point, an island occupied by the Tlingit tribe.

    This tribe has gone all in on tourism, providing 6-8 daily excursions around the island to see bears, go fishing, and wander the trails.  They also built the longest zip line in the world, so they told me, one mile long with six cables running simultaneously.  It takes about an hour bus ride to get to the top of this peak.  We all get buckled in, they double check everybody, then, “Away we Went.”  And it was beautiful.  If only I could have gone again I would appreciate it even more.

    Another thing that struck me and really touched me was the number of people using wheel chairs, walkers, and canes.  I remember seeing four women in wheel chairs.  I told the lady with a walker that I would give her $25 to use her walker on the shore excursion we were taking.  She said, “Make it $50 and I’ll think about it.

    At the gym where I worked out in the mornings two guys came in most mornings, put down their canes by their machines or bikes, and off they went.  This meant a lot to me because in future years I can see myself boarding with a cane.

    I feel doubly blessed that Rosemary & I could witness such natural beauty and such beauty in our fellow travelers.  Your blessing this week?