Mass:  Coffee & donuts & treats on the house.  Welcome!

Place: Vines High School, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence, west of Central Expressway.

Time: 9:30,  Fr. Tony celebrating

Readings: Acts 5, 12-16; Psalm118; Revelation 1, 9-10; John 20, 19-31

Community Bulletin Board: 

An excellent program for Married Couples.  Will be led by John Cade & his wife, Lambrini.  Download A New Way to Love

Rosemary & I hope to attend this 5 week program.  Seeing as I am told the Jesuits never taught me nothing about marriage.

Save the Date: May 1, Saturday evening, 6:00, Heritage Farm, our neighbor (15th, just east of Custer on the south side), Community party and 5th Anniversary of Rosemary and hubby.  Covered dish, renewal of marriage vows, music & dancing a la Hue, hay rides with mules, indoors and outdoors.

Download Clericalism and the Liturgy - Check this lengthy but insightful article about where we are in the Catholic Church 45 years after Vatican II.  From the National Catholic Reporter.

Picture 1:  The Music Machine, Wendy, Shonda, Ray, & Celeste

Picture 2:   Mike & his girls

Picture 3:   Morgan with Alexandra looking on

Picture 4:   Hannah, Lilah, & Alaina, Tony & Gayle's grand kids

Picture 5:   Penny with Easter Egg Hunter

Picture 6:  Emma with her mommy, Beth

 See you Sunday, 4-11-10

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

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

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

Readings: Acts 4, 8-12; Psalm 118, The stone rejected by the builders has become the corner stone; 1 John 3, 1-2; John 10, 11-18, The Good Shepherd 

Community Bulletin Board: 

 The Annual Anniversay Celebration: May 23, 7:00, as usual, at  Fairview Farms & covered dish.  Book it.  Welcome!!

More Job opportunities from Lou Federico:

We have an immediate need for 2-3 experienced loan workout specialists.

The FDIC is requiring 10+ yrs. experience in loan workouts, negotiation skills, asset disposition, financial statement analysis, calculating net present value, etc. 

This is a contract, so no benefits. 

Hr. rate – $65.00. 

We will be working closely with FDIC staff on site. 

Hours will most likely be limited to 40 per week, unless pre-approved by FDIC. 

If interested – log on to www.careerconnection.org homepage…search for Loan Workout Specialist,

And follow the directions for the job opening. 

NOTE:  If you cannot pass a thorough background check by FDIC, please do not submit a resume. 

Likewise from Jane Drake:  Download TxDOT Summer Employment Program 2009

Tired of getting telephone books delivered to your door?  Want to stop them?www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org

True?  Life would not cause me sorrow if I thought of it as being like the Mountain Cherry blossoms which bloom and fade in a day.

Murasaki Shikibu

Picture 1:  52 years, Joan & Jerry with Kevin

Picture 2:  Reagan & Aviana with Hunter & Dillon

Picture 3:  Clare & Emery (sisters & Chloe's mom & aunt)

Picture 4: Zack

Picture 5: Taylor

 See you Sunday, May 3

 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:   Zecharia 9, 9-10;

Psalm 145, I will praise Your Name forever, My King and My God (Plus the great line, 8-9, The Lord is Gracious & Merciful, slow to Anger & abounding in Love);

Romans 8, 9-13;

Matthew 11, 25-30. 
 
 

Picture 1:    Brooklyn with her mom, Erin                                  

Picture 2:    Emma learning to climb                       

Picture 3:     Cole, "So what happened to the donuts?"                             

Picture 4:    Buddy with his grandmom, Bernadette    

 Picture 5:    Torri with her mom, Michelle 

  
 
 
 Community Bulletin Board:

  1.    Finally, the answer to the two biggest questions, Heaven?, Hell?   Download Proof of Heaven 7-1-11 

Church Happenings: 

  1.   Community, a Gift,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-26-11,  Download Community 7-1-11 

2.  Women Priests, National Catholic Reporter, 6-27-11,  Download Women Priests 7-1-11

3.  Long but excellent historical analysis of Catholicism since Vat. II, Corpus, 6-17-11, Download The 60' & Catholicism 7-1-11

  True?    "Our lives begin to end the
         day we remain silent about
             the things that matter."
                 –  Martin Luther King

 
 
 
   
Picture 6:    Kent, Shonda, & Jon    

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

Time: 9:30; Tony Celebrating

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

Readings: Isaiah 22, 19-23; Psalm 138, Lord, Your Love is eternal; do not forsake the Work of Your Hands; Romans 11, 33-36; Matthew 16, 13-20 

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Picture Picture  1:    Making music, Ray & Ben, Leo & Jack       

Picture 2:    Cole           

Picture 3:    Leo       

Picture 4:    Emma

Picture 5:    Victoria & David

Picture 6:    The Gazebo, Plano City Park, East Plano

Community Bulletin Board:

1.   Frank & Laura Reyes' son Blake has loved this dog for some years, but he has to move to an apartment.  Can someone adopt a special dog: Download SUMMER, great dog 8-19-11 

2. Ever hear of this Marvelous Plano Service: Download Plain-O-Helpers 8-19-11 

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.   A guilt shortage? Eugene Kennedy, National Catholic Reporter, August 4: Download Guilt shortage 8-19-11

2.  Eugene Kennedy on The New Indulgences, National Catholic Reporter, August 12: Download WYD indulgences 8-19-11

3.   Fr. McBrien on Vat. II & Ecumenism,  National Catholic Reporter, August 15: Download Vactican II themes 8-19-11

True?

After all, if we open our eyes and do not let our mind interfere too much with what we are actually perceiving, it is clear that we live only in the present. It is always now. 

ALAN WATTS

  
 
Picture 7:    Ring exchange       

Picture 8:    Ben & Amanda 

Picture 9:    Another Gazebo Wedding, University Park, behind the fire & police stations

Picture 10:   New life at twilight      

 
      

 
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)

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

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

Readings: Genesis 9, 8-15; Psalm 25; 1 Peter 3, 18-22; Mark 1, 12-15 

Community Bulletin Board: 

True?   We seldom think of what we have, always think about what we miss.

Spring Break Service Project: Date, March 1-7; place, Galveston; sponsor, St. Bonaventure University; cost, $50.  Bill Hammond & I are going.  Welcome.   Info: http://bonaresponds.blogspot.com/

Want to see what Joshua Bell looked like (from Sunday's Homily), click: 

Picture 1:  Bobby handing February's $2000 from community to Diane, Jackie, & Claire of the Collin County Adult Clinic where all doctors, staff, & nurses work pro bono

Picture 2:  Paul, Gilberto, Rich & Carol, Bernadette, Dawn, Ray, & Loretta (back to camera)

Picture 3:  Megan

Picture 4:  Guess Who!

See you this Sunday, March 1.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)