Reminder for Sunday, February 4, 2018, 5th Ordinary Time

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.

Angels Sienna and Brooklyn with Payton and Brian

Our Bambino Emmit

 Readings:

1 Samuel 1, 20-28, Hannah conceived and bore a son whom she called Samuel.

Psalm 84, Blessed are they who dwell in your house, O Lord.

1 John 3, 1-2, 21-24, We are God’s children.

Luke 2, 41-52, After 3 days they found him in the temple. 

The Nativity

Leo future guitarist learning from dad

  Community Bulletin Board:

1.  This Sunday: Celebrate the Last Sunday of The Year 2012.

CC

Our Special Elf, Georgie

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.     Implosion in the Catholic Higherarchy, National Catholic Reporter, December 14, 950 words,  Download Implosions 12-28-12

Santa and Elf arriving

Santa with a Good Kid

2.     Swiss Abbott insistent about Church reform, The Tablet, December 20, 600 words,  Download Swiss abbot 12-28-12

3.     Editorial on The Catholic of the Year, National Catholic Reporter, December 26, 700 words,  Download Editorial 12-28-12 

4.    The Special Meaning of this year's Nativity, by James Carroll, ex Jesuit, The Boston Globe & Corpus, Dec. 24, 750 words,   Download This Christmas 12-28-12

Emma with mom and dad, Beth and Tom

Geordie, The Graduate, with Santa

 True?

 There must be more to life than having everything!

MAURICE SENDAK

Megan with her grandmother, Diane

Offertory, the Ekes Cousins, Carlie, Megan, Ashley, Ryan, and Jeremy

 See you Sunday, December 30, 2012, Last of The Year

J.S., 214-783-0443

Meredith preparing for Christmas dinner at Soul's Harbor

Brent and Rosemary, dining room ready.

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.

Soul's Harbor Christmas Dinner, here they come.

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!

 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:  Proverbs 31, 10-31; Psalm 128; 1 Thessalonians 5, 1-6; Matthew 25, 14-30

Community Bulletin Board:

• True?  Don't cry because it is over; smile because it happened.  Unknown

• This Sunday, November 16: Thanksgiving food & Kroger $20 gift card drive. 

•  December 7–Advent Blood Drive, Food Drive, & Community Brunch

• We have a Christmas family: mom, 3 little girls, and a baby on the way.  Date to finish: Dec. 14.

• After having an excellent job for the past few years, Rosemary had to be released because of the  times.  Anybody know of a part time opportunity?  15-20 hours per week?  Computer specialist, access database, excel?

• A note from CCAC explaining what it is like: Download ccac_1114.doc

• Special note from Bernadette Delgado & Loretta Garcia-Williams:

  Delta Kappa Gamma is a group of Plano teachers that is raising money for several scholarships for Plano seniors this year.  We would appreciate your help.  Just shop at Barnes and Noble on 15th St. on Sat. the 22nd using this coupon.  We will receive 10% of sales!  Thank you for your help with this worthy project.    Download barnes_noble_1114.doc

Picture 1: Dillon

Picture 2: J.T., Kendall, & Natalie Gorman

Picture 3: Lizzie Tomas & baby

Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Isaiah 66, 10-14; Psalm 66; Galacians 6, 14-18; Luke 10, 1-20.

Thanks, Thanks: All who donated to the Blood Drive.  We had ovr 20 volunteers!  WOW! The next blood drive will be the first or second Sunday of December for Christmas. 

Community Bulletin Board

Important Event Coming Up:

• Saturday, July 7: Roofing job in Rowlette, starting at 8:00 A.M., partnering with Lake Point Baptist.  If you can use a hammer, I need you.  Pizza for lunch.   Also, if you have them: bring tools like a framing nail gun, table saw, circular saw, extension ladder, old paint brushes for tar, extension cords, levels, and hand tools like hammers.  Get ready: We will have a ball!  Maybe no rain that day, please.

Special for Jimmy Kee: not doing well.

See you Sunday. J.S.

Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 5, 27-41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5, 11-14; John 21, 1-19

Community Bulletin Board

Invitation: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner, ca. 7:00. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them.

Seven couples will renew their vows. Guess Who? Also, we will do a covered dish hors d’oeuvres & desserts, and music for dancing. Moreover, the slide show of The Great East African trip.

Download the Anniversary Party 2007 Invitation.

From Angie Carroll: I am a volunteer at the Heritage Farmstead Museum on 15th and Custer in Plano and am currently helping them to find volunteer docents to give tours of the house and grounds. There is a great training program that is held every Tuesday in May from 7 to 9pm and every Saturday in June from 3-5pm.

This has been a really fun job because there is an opportunity to meet other volunteers, learn a great deal about life in Collin County at the turn of the century, meet lots of visitors who are from all over the country and also attend several social events each year.

We are looking for any women or men who have just a few hours each month to come and give tours. Anyone interested can call me at 972-612-8169, or e-mail me at acarroll@heritagefarmstead.org.

Important technology announcement

As you may have noticed in our emails, we have set up a blog. What is a blog? Essentially it is a web site that allows for someone like me to post writings to one place for viewing by others. For the past few months we have been posting my emails to the site in addition to sending them out as we have been via regular email.

Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to transition to using the blog as the main source for distributing this information. Why? Three reasons.

First, this will dramatically reduce the amount of time I need to spend on this process. Right now, I have to break the distribution into many groups of people, taking about an hour per week. With this new process I will just have to post the text to the site and an email will be automatically generated to you.

Second, I believe the blog will allow us to cultivate a greater sense of community. In addition to allowing me to post, a blog allows you to comment on the posts. As my homilies usually end with a question, I think it would be neat for some of you (if you feel inspired of course) to answer the question or pose your own question back to me.

Third, the postings are available for future viewing and listening. All previous homilies (including the audio files) and announcements will be automatically archived. If you want to view or listen to them in the future you just need to go to the site and they will be there.

What does this mean for you? After this email (the one that you are reading) we will begin to upload the email address up to what is called an RSS feeder system. You will receive an email from a service call FeedBlitz asking you to subscribe to the service. Please accept this. This is a private list. You will not be solicited in any way and your information is kept private.

For the next two or three weeks you will receive both the standard emails from me and an email from the FeedBlitz service. Once we are satisfied that this new system is working properly you will only receive the one from FeedBlitz on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please let me or Ed Kless (ed.kless@choosegreat.com) know.

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

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

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

Time Change this Sunday.

Chloe.

Kevin with Chuck.

 Readings:

Joshua 5, 9-12, Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.

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

2 Corinthians 5, 17-21,  We are ambassadors for Christ.

Luke 15, 1-32,  A man had two sons, The Prodigal Son.

Torri.

Zoe.

Community Bulletin Board:

1.  March 10, donate to Catholic Charities from bean soup meal. Time change Sunday to Daylight Time.

2.  March 17, Soul’s Harbor truck will collect everything brought in, clothes, utensils, furniture, appliances.  We are also collecting powdered laundry soap for Soul's Harbor.

3.  March 24, Palm Sunday 

4.  April 13, Love for the Kids picnic

5.  Mens' lunch will be held Friday, March 8, 1:00, Jason's on 75 & Collin Creek.  Welcome Romeo's.

Natalie.

Leo.

 What's going on in our Catholic World:  

1.  Three Conclave Myths, National Catholic Reporter, March 1, 1200 words,   Download Conclave Myths 3-8-13

2.  Observations by The Great Hans Kung on Conclave,  New York Times, February 28, 1300 words,    Download Hans Kung 3-8-13

3.  Three Challenges for the New Pope, Guardian, February 28, 800 words,    Download Challenges for Pope 3-8-13

4.  Who is paying Cardinal Mahoney's bills?,  National Catholic Reporter, March 2, 1400 words,   Download Mahony's bill 3-8-13

Offertory, Tom and Lynda, Claire and Ray.

Pope B. with her aides, Celeste and Cliff.

True? 

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Winston Churchill

The Smile, Emma.

Mice in The Cafeteria! Zoe & Emma with Gil watching out.

 See you Sunday, March 10, 2013, 4th Lent, C cycle 

J.S., 214-783-0443

Harper.

Torri and Buddy.

 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.

Sacrament of the Sick, Debbie, Tom and Teresa, Dee and Mike.