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 Rosemary's Blessing:

A Prayer For Growing Old Gracefully

 Lord, Thou knowest better than I myself that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.

Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all; but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on my aches and pains; they are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

 

I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening cock-sureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

Keep me reasonably sweet, for a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people; and give, O Lord, the grace to tell them so.

 Seventeenth Century Nun’s Prayer

 

 Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Gilberto & Bernadette Delgado 
• For Serving: Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread:  Nina Waldron
• For the Wine Cups:  Beth & Rob
• For the Music:  Ray & Wendy & Jon
• For the Pictures & Video:  Beth & Rob
• For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue
• For the coffee and pastries: Mike & Geri, Joan & Jackie & Beth

 

 Happy Birthday:  Larry Thompson,  Debbie Ekes (today) 

 Happy Anniversary:

Emily Hubble & Ben Alderson (Day 1)

Mike & Candy Kerns (18th today)

Greg & Bonnie Rogers (25th)

Jon & Nina Waldron (32nd) 
   

 

 Please Remember:

 Loretta Garcia Williams' husband, Ray, needing a bone marrow transplant;  Curtis Ekes in rehab;   Doug Read's Mom, Valdene, with stage 4;  Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom who broke some vertebrae in her back;  Warren & Barb's friend,  Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery;    Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer;   Mike & Dee's daughter;  Bonnie Roger's brother & sister, both seriously sick;    Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke;   Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;    Gilberto Delgado's mom;  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; 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:   Bernadette                            

 Picture 2:   Gilberto                   

 Picture 3:   The Gang, Ashley with her boyfriend, Andrew, Teresa, Debbie celebrating her birthday, Tom, & Bobby 

 Picture 4:   Beth on the job   

 Picture 5:   Sienna with Brian                                          

     Video:   Mass Beginning 

  

Finances:  May 22, 2011 

Expenses:   $2640.00 

Outreach:   $1300.00 

First Quarter Financial Report:  Download Financial Report 5-22-11

 

Thanks for the Generosity

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

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing: 

Oh, God, who charms us by the changing of the Days and the Seasons,

Lift up our Spirits on this Spring Day.

Grant that ourJoy over Your Love for Us

May be the Sunlight for All Those around us that We meet This Week.

        Andrew Greeley, A book of Irish American Blessings

  Special Thanks:

• For Reading: George & Marianne Elwell  

• For the Communion Bread:  Jan Keszler 

• For Serving: T.J.

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

• For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Celeste & Hue

• For the Pictures: Beth & Jan

 

Happy Birthday:   Christine Drescher; Angelo; &  Bob McGrath  (80 today)

 

Happy Anniversary:

Cathy & Buddy Goode (29th today)

John & Margie Dugan (41st)

 

 

 

Please Remember:     Rick Cardenas' friend Joyce McKinstry; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining; Cathy Lynn's mom who at 93 has skin cancer; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis; Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Mike Bulger;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark & Becky's baby who just arrived;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;  Diane's dad Butch Uderman  & cousin Judy;  Margie's mom & her grand daugher Peyton having her tonsils out this week; 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, his grandmother Alice Quiocho; David & Rita; 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; 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:  Marianne Elwell reading Chronicles

 

Picture 2:  George Elwell reading Ephesians

 

Picture 3:  Morgan & Tyler McGrath

 

Picture 4:  Guess who??

 

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

 

 

Your Finances:

 

March 22: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 861.00  
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 596.00      

Thanks for your Generosity!

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

 

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Taken from IN FLANDERS FIELDS
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

 

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

 

 

 

Frank reading from Deuteronomy.

 

 

Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Frank & Mary
•    For The Team:   
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Ken & Cindy
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  &  Mike   &  John
•    For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:     Ben & Shonda
•    For all who helped with Communion

 

 

 

 

Mary reading from Romans.

 

 

Birthdays:   Ray (78, last Thursday), Scott Simari, Judy Thompson (72, Thursday), Zaile (last Thursday)

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

Anniversaries

John & Maria Gorman (20^th, Wednesday)

 

 

Thanks, Ben, for being our Candle Lighter of the Week. 

 

 

Remember these special people

For Beth & 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;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;   For Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a  young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart problem.

 

 

 

Happy 78th, Ray.  About time you catch up with me!

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;   For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;   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 Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

Remember, Bill, this cupcake is for Zaile's birthday.  I'll be checking.

 

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; 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.

 

 

 

Welcome home from college, Kevin.  Hope you have a good Summer.

 

 

Your Finances, May 27, 2018

Expenses:    $750.00

Outreach:    $ 65.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

 

 

 

Sorry Brent, no more cupcakes.  But we do have a $2000 for your marvelous Souls Harbor.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

Watch out, Hue, there may be critters that bite in that garden.

 

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.

 

 

Says Harper, "See you next week at Legacy Charter School, Everybody.  Check the map below."

 

 

See you next Sunday at Legacy Charter School, Everybody.

4th Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2025

Sirach 3: God sets a father in honor over his children;  a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons.
Colossians 3: And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Matthew 2:  Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, Out of Egypt I called my son.

Music,  Ben
Readers,  Carrie & Paul
Homily,   John Cade
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  David & Buddy
The Organization man,  Mike
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: 
Anniversaries:  Teresa & Tom Quinn

Christmas
Expenses: $  450.00
Outreach:         0.00

December 28th
Expenses: $  765.00
Outreach: $   135.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Dear Lord, please give me
A few friends who understand me and remain my friends;
A work to do which has real value,
without which the world would be the poorer;
A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed;
A sense of humor;
Time for quiet, silent meditation;
The patience to wait for the coming of these things,
Amen.
Anonymous

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: 

Let us pray to our God,

To the God of Mary and Joseph,

To the God of Abraham and Sarah.

May our actions bear witness to the suffering of others.

May our hands never harm a living being.

May our steps stay on the journey of justice.

May our tongue speak to those who are poor

Without fear of the powerful.

May our prayers rise with patient discontent

Until no child is hungry.

Taken and adapted from a prayer by Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB for Pax Christi USA in commemoration of the United Nations International Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World.

 

  Special Thanks:

• For Reading:   Claire & Bill 
• For Serving:  Georgie & Kevin
• For the Communion Bread:  Jan & Claire
• For the Wine & Cups:  Sir Charlie
• For the Music: Ray  & Shonda & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video:  Rick, John & Connie and Mike & Beth
• For the coffee and pastries:  Fred & Maureen,  Jerry & Jackie
• For the altar & sound: Jackie & Leon

 

 Birthdays: Jackie Urbanczyk (61 Thursday & day 3 of her New Life in Retirement) & Chuck Pratt (special 25th)

We Remember  

Tom Quinn's shoulder surgery coming up, plus Tom & Teresa's daughter, Colleen, with cancer;  Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth;  Bill Ekes eye operation recuperation;   Jim Butterly’s brother, Paul;  Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family on their new grandkid, Warren;  Mary Hall who broke her foot; Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;  Judy's Matt Larson with cancer, David, and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Janie's friend Wilbur;  Gerald's mom really sick;  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;  Rita

  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.

 

  Your Finances: March 3, 2013

Expenses:     $950.00 

Outreach:     $450.00  

 We donated this week: 

1.   $1000 to Bona Respond & their recovery work in NY

    Thanks for your Generosity 

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

  Video:   Entrance Hymn, Lead us to the Water (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.

  

  

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

 

If the only prayer you say

In your entire life is

“Thank you”

That would suffice.                                                        

Meister Eckhart

 

 

Beth reading from Malachi.

 

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Beth & Rob
•    For The Team:     Buddy  &  Georgie
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Beth & Mike & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:     Ben & Wendy 
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

 

Rob reading from Thessalonians.

 

Birthdays:  Ryan McCabe (16, Monday)

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

 

Please Remember these special people

For Bill Hammond's recovery from rotater cuff surgery, which is expected to take a whole year;  Trey, age 19, recuperating from 8 gun shot wouonds;    For Myron Hubble;    For Connie Bresson's mom;     For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good;     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 Cliff & Jean;   For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart condition;

 

 

 

Thanks, Sophia, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

 

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;     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;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

Along with your editor, these all participated in the Dallas Rides bike rally Saturday morning, Rob & Beth, Leila & Randy, & Rosemary

 

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; 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 Mary Ellen;  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.

 

 

 

First time I've ever seen this, a secure bike parking lot with valet parkers.  This was at the end of the rally at Dallas City Hall.

 

Your Finances, November 5, 2017

Expenses:   $1140.00

Outreach:   $ 485.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

 

The kids in red were the valet parkers.  You give them your bike.  They tag it and give you the stub.   Return the stub and get your bike.  Pretty efficient.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

Wendy & Ben making beautiful music.

 

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.

 

 

See you next week, My Dear Tori.