Reminder for Sunday, May 24, 2015, Pentecost

Readings:

Isaiah 5, 1-7, My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.

Psalm 80, The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.

Philippians  4, 6-9, Have no anxiety at all.

Matthew 21, 33-43, There was a landowner who planted a vineyard.

 

 

Rosemary got a call from Sydney Bivona's daughter that Sydney has passed.  There will be a joint service for Sydney and Hugh (who passed in March).  Here are the details:

Saturday, October 3, 2020, 9:00 – 10:00 AM

Milestone Church, 201 Mount Gilead Rd, Keller, Texas 76248

Early lunch to follow at Wade and Venicia Carroll's home

12245 Hulson Trail, Haslet, Texas 76052

 

 

ROMEOS, Friday, October 2, 1:00,  as usual.    Welcome!

ROMEOs' Virtual Jason's Deli BYOB lunch
This is a recurring meeting, Friday, 1:00 pm
Link :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85798571623?pwd=NmFSTW1ocVMzRGdIc0QzUGxKdHM3dz09

Meeting ID: 857 9857 1623
Password: saladbar

 

John Cade presenting his Sunday Homily

 

Reminder for 27th Sunday Ordinary Time, October 4, 2020

Here are the links for Sunday:

 

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church

1.  A Cardinal refuses, https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vaticans-cardinal-becciu-renounces-cardinalate-shock-move  

2.  Pope Francis on gay children, https://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2020/09/gay-children-are-children-of-god-pope.html  

Music,   Shonda

Expenses: $   340.00

Outreach: $    80.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

 

 

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 spirit fill the world with beauty and wonder.

May our mind seek truth with humility and openness.

 

May our hearts forgive without limit.

May our love for friend, enemy and outcast be without measure.

May our needs be few and my living simple.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Hi, Emma, and Happy Christmas.  You look gorgeous.

 

 

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

Time: 4:00; Celebrate with the Community & Stack

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

                       

 Note for bad weather Sundays:  If you wonder if we will have our celebration, call me (214-783-0443) and I will record a message.   I will also get a phone tree moving.  Check the directory for phone numbers.  If we know for sure the Saturday evening before, I can also post a blog.

 

 

 

Hi, Nora, I hear Santa  is coming to visit you tonight and maybe even this evening.

 

Readings:

Genesis15, 1-6; 21, 1-3    Look up at the sky and count the stars.  Just so shall your descendants be.

Psalm, 105,  the Lord remembers his covenant forever.

Hebrews 11, 8, 11-12, 17-19  By faith Abraham obeyed.

Luke 2, 22-40,   Simeon & Anna meet Jesus

 

 

 

 

Quiz: how many people are singing in the photo.

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, December  29, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Apologies for the mix up last Friday.

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

 

Dickenson Trip:  February 23- March 3

 

 

 

 

Those Bresson kids.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

1    The cruelty of the tax plan, NationalCatholic Reporter, December 14, 666  words,    Download THE CRUEL BUDGET 12-28-17- 

2.  Jesuit parishes as sanctuaries, National Catholic Reporter,   December 21, 654 words,    Download SJ PARISHES SANCTUARIES 12-28-17

3.   How to reform the Vatican, National Catholic Reporter,  December 21, 255 words, Download REFORMING VATICAN 12-28-31

 

 

 

 

I think I see some shepherds.

 

 

True?

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

Max Born

 

 

 

 

Under that bush, could there be a Cathy?

 

 

See you Sunday, December 31, 2017

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

Sez Sam, "Where is that Santa character?"

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Sez Tori,  "He's coming, Sam.  You just watch."

 

 

 

 

"I've seen him," says Zoe

 

 

Says Tori, "Welcome in Everybody, and Happy Mother's Day.

 

 

Readings:  

 Acts of the Apostles 1, 15-17, 20-26,  The lot fell upon Matthias.

Psalm 103,  The Lord has set his throne in heaven.

 1 John 4, 11-16,  We must love one another.

 John 17, 11-19,  When I was with them I protected them.

 

 

 

They are back, Everybody.  Welcome Home, Bernadette, to you and Gilbert playing with the kids in the hallway.Welcome home to both of you from your around the world cruise.
 

 

Mother's Day History:

1905-08: Anna Jarvis of West Virginia began this celebration for her mother, Ann, who cared for wounded Civil War soldiers of both sides.  She campaigned to make it a national day and in 1914,  Woodrow Wilson made it national.

The spelling: always singular, according to Anna. 

Hallmark Cards: Anna hated them because she felt you know what.  

 

 

 

 

Welcome in, too, Tom & Teresa.  Are you ready for an around the world Viking cruise?

 

 

Happy Mother’s Day

This morning I would like to tell the story of how on one occasion I attempted to make up to my mom all that she had to put up with in me.  This took place when I must have been about 40, still living and working in East Africa, but on a home leave.  Rosemary says I have shared this story before.  Pardon me if I go here again.  It was one of the highlights of my life.

I had a couple of things I figured I owed her for.  The first was that she thought I was a bad kid, especially that afternoon the University Park Police came to our house looking for me. 

It just happened to be the very day on which my mom was hosting her whole bridge club. 

 

 

 

Sister team, Zoe & Georgie teaming up to light and bless our candles for the week.

 

 

The second was that I did not go to College (I was enrolled at N.D.) 
Instead, I joined the Jesuits in the days when we never came home.  It was seven years before I got back to Dallas, not to go home, but to teach at Jesuit.

To compound this event some 15 years later I agreed to accept an invitation to set up a spiritual center in Nairobi, Kenya.  For at least 5 or 6 years my mom never spoke to the Jesuits in Dallas.  She was convinced I had been sent.

 

 

 

The team special for today on Mother's Day & the special vow renewal.

 

 

So, at about 40 years of age I am on a few months home leave, when my mom asks would I be willing to come to Ireland with her and her two sisters, Kitty and Pauline.  “Sure,” I said.  I would be their driver.

So, we met up in London.  

We went to eat at The Irish Pub where we were seated in the basement.  Half way through the meal a victorious Irish rugby club tromps in.  There was a piano player doing Irish songs at the end of the room on a little platform.  These guys joined in with such gusto that I think they drove the poor guy out.

 

 

 

John reads the closing.

 

 

Guess who took up the piano, my Aunt Pauline from N.Y.  Eventually, all the guys and my girls got up, made a ring around the otherwise now empty basement, we held hands, and with my aunt playing we danced around in a counter clockwise direction.  It was one of the most memorable nights of my life and got us all off to a roaring start.

In Dublin we rented a little red car, took off to the north, and laughed our way through the next ten days.  We drove counter clockwise all the way over to and beyond Shannon.   

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Shonda and Ben, for singing & leading us in The Father will Dance, one of my most favorite hymns.

 

 

Our daily drill was breakfast around 9:00, in the car about 10:00.  At 12:00 we were looking for lunch until 1:00 or 1:30.  3:00 was time for tea, and by 5:00 I had to find a place to stay that was clean, had carpet, and had bathrooms connected to the rooms.  The girls stayed in one room and laughed until they cried every night.  If Ireland were not so small we would never have gotten anywhere.

This was probably the best time I ever had with my mom.

You?  What was the best time?  Or as a mom, what was the best time?

 

 

 

The Blessing of All The Mothers, actual or virtual.

 

 

 The Special Blessing.

 

Jeremiah 17:  But blessed is the man who trusts me, God, the woman who sticks with God.

1 Corinthians 15: But the truth is that Christ has been raised up, the first in a long legacy of those who are going to leave the cemeteries.

Luke 6:  Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.

 

 

 

 

Another Reminder for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 16, 2025

Genesis 18:   For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it.

Colossians 2:  … he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our  transgressions, …

Luke 11:  … how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

           

John reading from Genesis

 

Thanks…

Music,    Ben

Readers,   Connie & John

Gospel,   John Cade

Homily,  John Cade

Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

The Magic Zoom makers,      Richard & Kevin

Final Blessing, Rosemary

Connie reading from Paul's letter to the Colossians

 

Readings:  Download 07-24-22- Readings – 17th Sunday Ord

Homily:  Download 07-24-22 – Homily – 17th Sunday Ord

                  

                               

Cheryl sharing a beautiful blessing

                                          

 

Remember these special people:

For Sandra who has been diagnosed with Large B Cell Lymphoma;   For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer and Kaliope, John Cade's Mother-in-law;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;    For Tom Good;  For a young man, 19 struggling with a brain tumor and cancer;     For Mary Hall's friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition;   For Sir Charlie & Jan; 

                           

Ben sharing a blessing too

 

Jackie's mom, sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;     For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & friends, Annie, a mom of 3 kids and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

 

The Kiss of Peace, Kevin, John, Mary, Claire and Ray

   

Birthdays:   

Anniversaries:   David & Donna Dinsmore 7/26

      

Community Finances:   

Expenses: $  325.00 

Outreach: $  50.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

                 

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing: