Reminder for Sunday, April 9, 2017, Palm Sunday

Amos 6:  Thus says the Lord the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion!

1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness,  devotion,  faith,  love, patience, and gentleness.

Luke 16:  Jesus said to the Pharisees: "There was a rich man ….  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus,… 

                     

 

 The biggest crape myrtle I have ever seen

 

 

 

 

Starting Sunday, September 18th, we will be meeting at:

ArtCentre of Plano

902 E. 16th St, Plano

 

 

 

 

Please use the Haggard Park side entrance.  Latecomers please use the 16th Street entrance.

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

1 Kings, Elijah went a day's journey into the desert.

Psalm 34, Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Ephesians 4, Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another.

John 6, I am the bread of life.

 

 

 

Buddies, Patricia & Dee

 

Romeos, Welcome!    Jason's Deli, 1:00, Friday, August 6.  

All of you who attended Mass on line this past Sunday are welcomed this Sunday.  We are circa 40 people.   Wear a mask, please, because of the current spread.    We request that everyone be vaccinated.   

 

Welcome in, Grace.

 

Another Reminder for Sunday, August 8, 2021.

Here are the links for Sunday:

 

 

So sorry about the masks, Cathy.

 

Mass:   Coffee, donuts, and specials on the house.   Note: Christmas Brunch in 2 weeks.

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating 

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

 
  

 
Readings: Isaiah 11, 1-10 (a beauty); Psalm 72, Justice shall Flourish in His Time, and Fulness of Peace Forever; Romans 15, 4-9; Matthew 3, 1-12. 

 

Community Bulletin Board: 

No Discussion after Mass This Sunday.  

December 12, next Sunday, Christmas Brunch 

Toys for Kids: Beth Robinson says she is collecting this Sunday & the next, then they distribute.  For more info, 214-675-0310.

Need a Taxi during the holidays:  our man, Rick Turner, the best, Jackie Johnson's husband, 214-707-6536

  
    

Picture 1:    Ray & Ben

Picture 2:   The Ekes, the Flemings, & Ray

Picture 3:   Jenny with her mom, Diane, & Jon & Nina 

Picture 4:   Alison with Gilberto 

Picture 5:   Ryan with his dad & mom, Jim & Michelle

  
  

What's going on in The Church:

  1.  Thanksgiving revisited, James Carroll (a married priest), Corpus (Group of Married Priests), 11-4-10, Download Thanksgiving in Hindsight 12-3-10

 2.  Antiabortion thinking today, Editorial, National Catholic Reporter, 11-29-10, Download Effective Antiabortion Policy 12-3-10

3.  Pope Benedict & Condoms, National Catholic Reporter,  11-24-10, Download B. XVI & Condoms 11-3-10

 
 

True? 

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer 

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 See you Sunday, December 5

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 56, 6-7; Psalm 67, O God, let all the Nations praise You; Romans 11, 13-15, 29-32; Matthew 15, 21-28            

 
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Picture Picture  1:    Our Father   

Picture 2:    The music, Shonda, Ray, & Jon    

Picture 3:    The Coffee Shoppe   

Picture 4:    The Coffee Shoppe

   

  
 

Community Bulletin Board:

1.   CCAC report & thanks to our community from the director, John Ernst, 7-15-11 ,    Download CCAC & Ernst 8-12-11

2. We are looking at updating the community directory. More about this & the survey in September.

 
 

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.   Fr. Roy Borgeois getting expelled from Maryknoll, New York Times, 8-8-11, Download Fr. Roy, 8-12-11

2.   Fr. McBrien on Vat. II & c0mmunion/union, National Catholic Reporter, 8-8-11, Download Vat. II & Communion 8-12-11

3.The New Mass language, Commonweal, 6-30-11, Download New Liturgy Translation 8-12-11

 

True?

The one who plants a tree plants a hope.

Lucy Larcom

 
 
 
Picture 5:    The Dancers,   

Picture 6:    The Girls, Gayle, Jackie, & Denni   

 

 Mass: 9:30; Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

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

Readings:  Exodus 22, 20-26; Psalm 18; 1 Thessalonians 1, 5-10; Matthew 22, 34-40

 

Community Bulletin Board:

• True?  Those move easiest who have learned to dance. Chris Frazier

• Performance Review: Check it out–Download performance_review_08.doc

• Habitat update: Download Habitaters.doc

• Next Big Date: Dec. 7–Advent Blood Drive, Food Drive, & Community Brunch

 

Picture 1: coffee with Curtis, Cindy, Kim, & Ken

Picture 2: Hunter, Chloe, & Jackie

Picture 3: Mass with T.J., Lorynne, & Lacee

Picture 4: Welcome into Our World a new Baby Girl on the 4th anniversary of her parents, Ed & Christine Kless, 10-23.  To be named Friday.  Sean, you now have a baby sister:

See you this Sunday, October 26

J.S.   (214-387-0443)