Reminder for Sunday, September 7, 2014, 23rd Ordinary Time, Cycle A

 
Mass:   Coffee, pastries, & specials on the House.  

Time: 9:30;  Tony Celebrating

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

 
 
 Readings: Acts of the Apostles  2, 1-11; Psalm 104, Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the Face of the Earth; 1 Corinthians 12, 3-13; John 20, 19-23
 
  
Picture 1:   Emma                           

Picture 2:   Shonda & Ray & Jon                

Picture 3:   Claire & Andrew, Jackie & Bob                       

Picture 4:   Tony & Gayle                 

 
 
 
 
 Community Bulletin Board:

  1.   JS Ministries survey.  Download JSM Community Survey 5-27-11, Due this Sunday, please. 

  2.  Our community has donated $1000 each to Joplin, MO and to Bona Responds, the St. Bonaventure team that has taken our community members to Galveston & Tuscaloosa to do emergency help.  

Church Happenings: 

  1.   Fr. McBrien on Bishops vs Popes,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-6-11,  Download Bishops and the Pope 6-10-11

 2.  Big parishes, Coppell, for example, National Catholic Reporter, 5-24-11,  Download Example, St. Ann's Coppell 6-3-11

    True?   

See you, June 12,  2011

  J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Welcome:  Coffee & juice & specials on the house.

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

Readings:  

Deuteronomy 4, 32-34, 39-40, Ask from one end of the sky to the other, did anything so great ever happen?

Psalm 33, Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Romans 8, 14-17, The Spirit bears witness to our spirit. 

Matthew 28, 16-20, Behold, I am with all days until the end of the ages.

Kate Banzhaf with her dad, Wally

Community Bulletin Board:

1.  Check with Tom Fleming about the Habitat build coming.

2.  This weekend Rosemary & I will be at in New Orleans, my old Jesuit home office.  We will be attending a class reunion of my original Jesuit class of ’58.  Out of about 40 guys about 5-6 are still Jesuits & priests.  The rest all left & got married.

 What's going on in our Catholic World:   

1.     Pittsburg priest on American Nuns, National Catholic Reporter, 5-28-12, (325 words),  Download Pittsburg Priest & Nuns 6-1-12

2.  Pastor of Blessed Trinity Parish, Cleveland, giving an excellent summary of the American Nuns situation.  From one of my S.J. buddies whom I will be with this weekend in N.O., (830 words),   Download BLESSED TRINITY PARISH 6-1-12 

 3.  Vatican II observations by one of the few left who was there.  Again from one of my S.J. buddies, working in Peru & still a Jesuit priest, (5600 words, long but a superb summary),  Download Vat. II from one there 6-1-12

Kate, Wally, & Mackenzie

True?

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

— Buddha  

See you Sunday, June 3, Trinity Sunday

 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.

They finally caught her.
 

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.  

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade 

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

The Girls.  Again.

Readings:

Ezekiel  33, 7-9,    You have been appointed watchman for the house of Israel

Psalm 95,   If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts

Roman s 13, 8-10,  Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another

Matthew 18, 15-20,  Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am.  

Does that not look like a takeover!

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Most of us will be gone to Yosemite until the 14^th.  Take a break for a week?

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

The Community.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Jean Vanier, The Tablet & Corpus, August 18  800 words (a hero of mine from my years in Toronto),   Download VANIER 7-31-17

The Best Team.

True?    (from Patricia)

Author Anne Lamott recently turned 61. So she’s compiled the following list of “every single true thing I know.” A brief recap:

1. All truth is a paradox. “Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift, and it is impossible here,” she says. Life is “filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.”
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2. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.” That includes you.
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3. Nothing outside of you will help you in any real, lasting way. Radical self-care is the only thing that will get you through. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true, and it works the other way around too. “If it is someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the solution,” she says.
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4. “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared. Everyone, even the people who seem to have it most together.” So don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides, she warns.
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5. “Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food. Its best use is as bait in snake traps or to balance the legs on wobbly chairs.”
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6. Every writer puts down terrible first drafts. The trick is that they commit to sticking with it. They take it Bird by Bird, her father’s advice that became the heart of her bestselling book. “Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better,” she says. “You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
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7. Creative success are “something you have to recover from. They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine.” And that brings us back to #1, because creative success is also amazing. “It is a miracle to get your work published,” she says. “Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes inside you. It can’t. It won’t.”
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8. Families are both astonishing and hard. Again reference #1. “Earth is forgiveness school,” she says. “It begins with forgiving yourself — then you might as well start at the dinner table.”
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9. Speaking of food: try to do a little better. “I think you know what I mean.”
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10. Grace is a powerful thing. “Grace is Spiritual WD-40 or water wings,” she says. “The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild.” Grace doesn’t always come in the forms you expect. Lamott sees it most in laughter. “Laughter really is carbonated holiness,” she says. “It helps us breathe again and again, and gives us back to ourselves.”
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11. God isn’t that scary. Rather than getting trapped in the mundanity of our own lives, she tells us to “go look up.” Now. “My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don’t look up,” she says. “If they did, they could fly to freedom. Instead, they walk around bitterly, bumping into glass walls.”
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12. Death is incredibly hard to bear, and you don’t get over losing people you love. “We Christians like to think death is a major change of address,” she says. “But the person will live again fully in your heart, at some point, if you don’t seal it off.” Memories of the people you love will make you smile at inappropriate times, but their absence will also be “a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.” Again, see #1.

She takes a deep breath. “Okay, I think that’s it. But if I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.”

Healing for Cindy.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

A footnote:  We are donating  as a Community

$1000 to the special fund established by the mayor of Houston,

$1000 to the 1st Baptist Church of Rockport

Healing and Life for Zoe.

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.

Communion for everyone.

Genesis 18:  "Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.  What if there are at least ten there?"  He replied, "For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy  it."

Colossians 2:  You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Luke 11:  "And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

It is doubt, not certitude, that enables us to believe, because it requires us to think deeply about an entire subject.

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

Another Reminder for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 27, 2025

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

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

Readings:  Exodus 24, 3-8; Psalm 116, I will take the cup of Salvation, and call on the Name of the Lord; Hebrews 9, 11-15; Mark 14, 12-26

Community Bulletin Board: 

Food drive: Congratulations, everyone, the community donated over 140 lbs. of food.

Baptism this Sunday after Mass: Cole Ryan Webster, son of Erin & Chuck, grandson of Diane & Kent McClurg.  Check picture below.

True?   Have no fear of perfection.  You'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

Picture 1:  Wendy, Shonda, Ray, & Celeste

Picture 2:  Happiness is Audry

Picture 3:  Ryan with his dad, Jim

Picture 4:  Happiness is Chloe

Picture 5:  Cole Ryan with Chuck & Erin, courtesy of Betsy@betsymariephotography.com

 See you Sunday, June 14 

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Mass: Coffee, pastries, & specials on the House.

Time: 9:30; Stack celebrating

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

  
 Readings:  Isaiah 5, 1-7; Psalm 80, The Vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel; Philippians 4, 6-9; Matthew 21, 33-43 

 
                                                                                                                                                                                                Picture Picture  1:    The Team                        

Picture 2:     Bethany, Ray, & Jon                               

Picture 3:     Communion helpers         

Picture 4:     Freddie on the move

Picture 5:     Sunday Brunch 

Picture 6:     The line up    

Community Bulletin Board:

1.    Congratulations to Becky & Christine Shaw, National Merit semi-finalists.  The only two students from J.P. II.    

2.   The next team Mass, Sunday, 6:30 A.M., The Detroit Lions.  

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.   Fr. McBrien on Catholic Finances,  National Catholic Reporter, September 27:  Download The financial scandal 9-30-11

Picture 7:     Ray digging in        

Picture 8:     Tom & Lynda, Ray & Claire        

Picture 9:     Richard & Carol with Marilyn & Judy

Picture 10:    Jean & John, John & Mary Jane       

True?

Always remember that you are absolutely unique.  Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

   Video: Final  Blessing, Lambrini, John's wife