Reminder for Sunday, March 9, 2014, 1st Lent, Cycle A

Sirach 3:  My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.   Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,  and you will find favor with God.   

Hebrews 12:  No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, …

Luke 14:  Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

White Rock Lake
                                                                                

Love never counts—either what it gets or what it gives. “Love,” Eleanor Farjeon writes, “has no utter most, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

 Another Reminder for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

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.

Our Angels

 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, Magi from the east arrived.

An Angel named Torri

 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 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.  I use the first more often because it has fewer doors to pass through to get to the text.  Thanks, Gerald, for this idea.  I will include the link from now on.

One more week for our Christmas Tree

Emma at work

 Community Bulletin Board:

1.  This Sunday: Celebrate the First Sunday of The Year 2013.

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

The Reads, Taylor, Zach, and Teresa

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.    5 Things to do to make a better 2013, America and Corpus, December 31, 1000 words,   Download AMERICA 1-4-13 

Rosemary reading her blessing

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you stronger; the other weakens you.

The Teachings of Don Juan Carolos Castañeda

Communion helpers

 See you Sunday, January 6, 2013, First of The Year

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace be with you

  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.

True?

Special Reminder: Christmas Eve Mass will begin at 4:00, this Friday, the 24th.

Apologies for leaving it out of the Sunday evening blog.

Decorations for the stage are welcome!

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

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

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

The Gang, Emma, Zoe, and Leo.

The Girls, Rosemary, Dee, Mary, and Judy.

Readings:

 Zechariah  12, 10-11,  I will pour out a spirit of grace and petition.

Psalm 63,  My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Galatians 3, 26-29,  You are all one in Christ.

Luke 9, 18-24, If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself.

Liam with his daddy, Elliot.

Wine cups and bread cared for by Jan for Lindsay, our OU graduate.

 Community Events:  

1.   Our next Habitat special day is Friday, June 21.    Look for the neighborhood behind the Home Depot on Central, 11^th & Ave. E.  We have 2 more special JSMinistry days, July 13, and August 3.  A person may also work any Saturday. 

2.   Romeos’ lunch Friday, June 21, 1:00, NOT as usual.  Come to the Habitat house build and get fed free, same day, same time more or less.

 3.   The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays is on.  Next Thursday, June 27th at 1 pm, all will meet at Southern Recipe, 1381 W Campbell Rd  Richardson, TX 75080, (972) 231-7891. For info talk with Carol or Bernadette.  

4.   This Sunday, Dick Taylor, director of our local Habitat group, will talk
with the community.

Zoe and Emma on one of their favorite toys with Bernadette looking on.

Harper with that crazy lady, her grandmother, Cathy.

  What's going on in our Catholic World:    

1.   Francis cleans up the Vatican, New York Times via Corpus, June 12, 725 words,   
Download Francis cleaning Vatican 6-21-13

2.   A really good dad, Corpus, June 5, 400 words,    
Download Charlie 6-21-13

3.  Pope Francis' first 100 Days, National Catholic Reporter, Juen 12, 760 words,    
Download 100 days 6-21-13

Rosemary setting up Renee for the offertory procession.

Rosemary setting up Jessica and Steve for the procession.

True? 

 Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Abraham H. Maslow 

Led by Connie, the procession.

Mary Ellen with the sacrament of the sick.

 See you Sunday, June 23, 2013, 12^th Ordinary Time, C cycle   J.S.,

214-783-0443

Cole getting a little help from The Great Grandfather, Gil.

Communion with Mike and Bobby.

 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.

Communion with Jim & Lynda.

Communion with Jean and Grace, Lynda and Mike.

Acts of the Apostles 1: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Ephesians 1:  May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call,…

Luke 24:  And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you;…

Monterosso, Italy

Here are the links for Sunday:

For Zoom   ( the video conference, same as last week )

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7428208829?pwd=VERncTBxaWdkaFpkTUZKL3RROW81UT09

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Munich, Germany

 

 

A small town in the Alps

 

 

The pictures are courtesy of Tom and Teresa Quinn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

John Stack Ministries, 7017 Helsem Way, Dallas, Texas 75230

Peace, Fred and Barb.

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

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

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

A Light, Sienna.

Readings:

Sirach  15, 15-20,  Before man are life and death, good and evil.

Psalm 119,  Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2,  6-10,  We speak a wisdom to those who are mature.

Matthew  5, 17-37, If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.

Leo, "Where's that Cupcake?"

 Community Events:

1.   ROMEO lunch Friday, February 14,   Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids.  Don’t get in the way.  The old geezer is coming from having a colonoscopy Friday morning, coming hungry.

2.  The Women's Lunch Group on 1st Thursdays,  The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

Who let these guys in?, Jim, Tom, and John.

What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.     Veterans' Suicides, Corpus; Observer, February 2, 600 words,     Download Veterans' Suicides 2-12-14

2.    U.N. on the pedophile crisis, Corpus, February 5, 1150 words,     Download U.N. on pedophile crisis 212-14   

3.    Francis the Troublemaker, Corpus;Catholic Sun, Febraury 5, 1000 words,      Download Francis Troublemaker, 2-12-14

4.    Francis, a Harley man?,  Bonhams, February 6, 300 words plus pix,    Download Francis' Harley 2-12-14

A Light, Tori.

True? 

Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

 - Mark Twain 

Healing, for Mabel.

 See you Sunday, February 16, 2014, 6^th Ordinary Time, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

Fred with Martha and Maureen.

 JSM Mission-Faith Statement

     Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s
People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.

    Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

Coffee Shoppe with decor by Mike in honor of Valentine's Day, Hue, Jerry, John, and Mike.

A Light, Harper.

Happy Valentine's Day!