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Rosemary’s Blessing 

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,

     no hands but yours,

     no feet but yours,

Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s

     compassion is to look out to the world,

Yours are the feet with which Christ is to

     go about doing good,

Yours are the hands, with which Christ is to  

     bless all people now.

From a prayer by Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

 

Cheryl reading the Great Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah III)

                                                                                                                           

Our Special Thanks

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

 

Claire reading 1 Corinthians on gifts. 

 

Birthdays:  Becky Good (58, Monday), Erin Pack (Wednesday) & Sienna (6, Saturday)

Anniversary:  Ray & Claire (45^th, Saturday)

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Jerry who moved to the other side Saturday night, and for all the Gleason family;   For Tom Good;   For Lynda's mom who fell Saturday;   For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;   For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder & new grandbaby;  For Frank;     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 Stacey McKinley recovering from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer;  For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;     For Jackie's friend, Barbara   

 

Kevin helping to run everything smoothly.

                     

For Nina Tucker's dad, Art;   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; Beth Dugan's dad who just died;     Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;     Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;   For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

 

The Wyndham Gang, Bill, Claire, Kayla, Ray, Ron, & Barb 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Te   rri.  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece;   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; 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.

                           

Cole, our professional candle lighter at work.

 

Your Finances, January 17, 2016

Expenses:   $1110.00

Outreach:   $ 585.00

Donated today:  

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

Diane and her Candle Lighter.

 

 Have a Great Week, J.S

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Georgie says, "See you next week, Everybody."

 

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.

Special Thanks:

• For reading: Laura & Blair, her daughter
• For the Altar Bread: Bernadette
• For Serving: Noah
• For the Altar, muffins, juice & coffee: Margie, Lisa, Margarita, & Joan & Jerry
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol, Rob & Beth
• For the music: Ray & Shonda  & Wendy, Hue, Jackie & Rick

Happy Birthday: Diane McMahon (70th); Diane Drescher; David Delgado; Jud (29); Genny Mattingly; Noah (11).

Happy Anniversary:

• Tom & Denni Zurchin (34th)
• Barb & Ron Senter (36th)

Please Remember:  Carol Eshelbrenner’s mom in the hospital; Mary’s son John; Al Grenier’s sister dying with cancer; Denni’s mom; Odi’s friend Blanca with cancer;  Casey & Rob plus 4; Tom & Teresa’s friend Teri Knapke with cancer & their friend Eddie who just died with cancer & Teresa’s niece Angel; Cindy Cramer’s friend Sarah Dixon;  Diane’s friend Gina with cancer; Rosemary’s nephew, Kevin; Jean Atwood’s friend Kerry whose dad is dying; Margarita’s  Aunt Lenore, & Yolanda; one year old Sadie with cancer; Margie’s mom; Donna & Cathy Goode’s mom; David Pastula’s companions in the military overseas, including Margarita’s Matt Gomez on tour 3, Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, & T.J.’s friend Aimee; David & Rita; Mary Ellen’s Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; George & Marianne’s sons & Linda’s son; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Shawn in a car wreck; Dawn’s friend Jessica & Aunt Ann; Fred’s friend John with cancer; Roy’s daughter Bonny with cancer in NY.

Catch the latest on the quadruplets’ web: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com

Your Finances:

• December 2: Income for Running  Expenses: $ 1,366.00   
• December 2: Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 667.00      

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Thanksgiving, J.S

 

 

 

Cheryl  reads the neat story from Genesis.

 

Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

 

 

 

Mary reads from Colossians.

 

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Mary & Cheryl
•    For The Team:   Buddy & Georgie 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:   Jan
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Rick & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & Ben
•    For all who helped with communion
•              

 

 

 

Rosemary shares her Blessing of The Week.

 

Birthdays:   Caroline,  Cindy Ekes

 

 

 

Thanks, Zoe, for help with our Candles of The Week.

 

 

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  For Gilberto who had a gall bladder operation:  Claire Mazzei's knee replacement operation Tuesday;  For Sydney; For Sandra's brother;  For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder recuperation;      For a friend & neighbor, 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 a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;  

 

 

 

Thanks, Harper, for being such a Terrific Girl.

 

For 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;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;  

 

 

Thanks, Leo, for joining your mom & Ben to lead the singing.

 

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.

 

 

 

Seeing a vision, Linda?

 

Your Finances, July 28, 2019

Expenses:   $  625.00

Outreach:    $  305.00

 

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

 

So you just  landed at DFW this morning.

 

Thanks, Everybody 

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Sir Charlie, "John do I have a deal for 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.

 

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

 

God,

Bless anyone who has asked me to pray for them

    and anyone that I have promised to pray for.

Bless anyone that I cannot get along with

    and anyone that cannot get along with me.

Bless the person who has hurt me deeply

    and anyone that I have hurt.

Bless the person that I cannot forgive

    and anyone that cannot forgive me.

Grant me the grace to live as a person of peace today

    and to treat all I meet today with dignity.

 

Unknown

 

 

Mary Jane & John who read our first two readings 

 

 

Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   John & Mary Jane
•    For The Team:   Buddy  & Georgie
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Rick &  Mike
•    For the coffee and extras: John & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie
•    For the Music:     Ben  & David & Shonda
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

 

Two of The Best, Connie & John

 

 

Birthdays:    Ben  (13, Sunday)

 

Anniversary:

Fred and Martha (9^th, Thursday)

 

 

 

Happy 13th Birthday, Ben & welcome into your teens, a great time of life.

 

Remember these special people

For Ray & Beth & John O'Donnell;   For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good & his ope recuperation;   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

 

 

 

Rosemary doing her Blessing of The Week.

 

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 93;   For Connie's nephew, Fred;  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;

 

 

 

Thanks, My Dearest Zoe, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

A Cupcake to you, Bill, for being such an inspiration and challenge to me and to our whole Community.   You are constantly reaching for more.  You and members of the Community are just back from Dickinsen and already you have up the sign up sheet for the spring Love for Kids picnic.  

 

Your Finances, March11, 2018

Expenses:   $895.00

Outreach:    $295.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

John & Jean, You are in dangerous company there.  Do you think they will let her into Dublin next week?  

 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S.

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Just a small portion of the food collected for today's Food Drive.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

I'll Miss you, My Dearest Harper, while your grandmother is over there bugging the poor people in Dublin.

Rosemary's Blessing: 

O God from whom all blessings come, we thank you for this celebration and meal and community.  We also thank you for the joys with which you have blessed us through the years.  May our lives shine forth as bright lights of gratitude for all your gifts. 

Edited and adapted from a blessing by Fr. Andrew M. Greeley

Special Thanks: 

• For Reading: Mike & Geri Moran

• For the Communion Bread:  Christine & Megan

• For Serving:   Kevin Doherty & Sabrina

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Ray & Shonda & John & Allison & Rob

• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Wendy

• For the Pictures: Jan & Beth

• For the altar & sound:  Mary Ellen & Hue

• For the donuts & coffee:  Jackie & Charley & Jan

Happy Birthday:  Megan Robinson, Hunter Bentley, Marlene Ekes, & Rose Banzhaf 

 

Happy Anniversary: 

• Don & Virginia Mattingly

• Bernadette & Girlberto Delgado (44th)

Please Remember:   Lisa's uncle Keith with a kidney transplant; Chris Phipp's mom with cancer; Cara Kless who is having eye surgery; Christine Drescher's Grandmother; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis;   David Hoover's mom who is failing;  Ann Bivona with her broken leg;  Rita at home & recuperating; Jackie's friend Jack Brown with various cancers & Keith Beasley who fell off the 7th floor of a parking garage;  Julie Johnston who is dealing with a return of her cancer; Cathy Lynn's mom, Catherine, 93; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark, and a little baby, Reese who has tuberous sclerosis complex;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Tom & Teresa's friend Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;  Diane's dad Butch Uderman  & cousin Judy;  Margie's mom ; 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; David Hoover; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece just diagnosed with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann & Hector; 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:  Geri reading Proverbs

Picture 2:  Mike reading Ephesians

 

Picture 3:  Chuck & Sandra Pratt's grandson from Nebraska, Alex

 

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

 

Your Finances:

 

August 16: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,375.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $    499.00  

 Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Rosemary's Blessing:  

Lord

Enlighten what’s dark in me,

Strengthen what’s weak in me,

Mend what’s broken in me,

Bind what’s bruised in me,

Heal what’s sick in me,

And lastly,

Revive whatever peace and love

Has died in me.

Amen. 

Author Unknown.

 Given to me by Lynda Flemming.

 

 

        Scott reading about the grumbling Israelites in Exodus.

 

 

Our Special Thanks:  

•    For  the Readings:  Scott & Lily
•    For The Team:  Kevin & Georgie
•    For the Communion Bread:   Cindy
•    For the Wine & Cups:   Sir Charlie and Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Bernadette & Gilberto, Jackie & Beth 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ray 
•    For the Music:  Ray & Wendy & Shonda
•    For all who helped with communion
•    For the special help of John and Mike who did our liturgies the past two weeks

 

     Lily reading about how bad the Gentiles are in Ephesians. 

 

 

Birthdays:    Linda Beavers (Tuesday), Eric Wittek, Lynda Fleming (55, Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Brian Bambanek & Kendal (10^th, Thursday)

Mike and Judy (51^st, Saturday)

 

 

Beginning their new life, Valerie and Victor Godinez, married Saturday evening.  Victor is Luciano's "little" brother.  Both brothers are doing really well.

 

 

Special Announcement: We are moving

After celebrating week after week for 10 years, PISD is asking us to move over to Sigler on Janwood.  Apparently it is quite expensive to A/C the large cafetorium at Vines.  Sigler will be more economical.  September 6 we begin our new adventure.

Check the map:    View this photo

 

 

 

Valerie being escorted up the aisle by her "little" brothers, John and Jason.

 

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Victor & Valerie Godinez, whose wedding we celebrated last night;  For our three special little dears, Vivian and Genevieve and McKinley;  For Barb Wittek & family whose father just died;  For  Lisa Ackerman dealing with cancer;  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 Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer;   For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;   For a little friend, Heather;   For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer;  For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

 

 

                    Ragbrai trust.  Not one bike locked.

 

Mike & Dee Miller's daughter, Lisa, not doing well;  for Nina Tucker's dad, Art;   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; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;  from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer;   For Diane Drescher with a bad back & hips;  Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;   For Jackie;  Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;  Dee's friend, Don Fox, with cancer;  

 

Is somebody crazy here?  "Make your own change?"  Ragbrai trust. 

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece;   Bernadette Delgado's mom; 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; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, 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.

 

 

Beware, Do not forget where you leave your bike when you walk around the town.  More Ragbrai trust.  

 

 

Your Finances, August 2, 2015

Expenses:   $1135.00

Outreach:   $ 450.00

Donated today: $2000 to Souls Harbor

 

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

Do not plan on riding your bike through the towns.  Between overnight towns, there are 5-6, always jam-packed with bikers walking.  Pictured, Fonda, just west of Fort Dodge and a few of the 15 thousand riders.

Have a Good Week, J.S

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Almost every little village had a water station, usually toward the end of the town.  A very popular stop by almost every biker. Look at that Iowa sky. 

 

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.

 

 

We passed a rainy night in Storm Lake, appropriately.  A second storm passed overhead at 7:00 A.M., heading west to east really swiftly.  By 8:45 we could head out following the storm, but not in rain.  The day turned beautiful and we arrived dry in the beautiful over night town of Fort Dodge, the former home of Kent & Diane.