Reminder for Sunday, September 30, 2018, 26th, Ordinary Time

Readings:

Isaiah  58, 7-10,  Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless.

Psalm 112,  The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

1 Corinthians 2,  13-16,  I came to you in weakness and fear.

Matthew  5, 13-16, You are the light of the world.

Harper says, "I am so happy to be back. Time for cupcakes yet?"

Isaiah reminders, again—

 Author: This is Isaiah #3, the composer of chapters 56-66.  Isaiah #3 lives after the Israelites have returned to the ruined city of Jerusalem.  It is a very depressing experience after the exuberance of being allowed to depart from slavery in Babylon.  Like returning to your shattered home after a tornado, hurricane, or forest fire.

 Date:  Ca. 555 before Christ, the composition.  The Jewish people of Jerusalem are home again.

Subject:  A great day will come for you Jews.  You will be a bright light at dawn and your wound will be healed (of your defeat and slavery), if you take care of your neighbor, providing food, clothing, and shelter.  The corporal works of mercy.

Sienna says, "Welcome, Everybody."

Do-ers and Be-ers

I would like to propose this morning that all the world is divided into two groups.  Group one is the doers.  Group two is the beers.  I know, a bunch of you guys are ready to sign up for the beers.  Me, too.  I’ll get you in cheap if you are nice to me.  I know, dream on.

I would further suggest that both of these types of persons are okay.  In fact, both are lights to the world.  The readings today say that you are a light to the world if you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless.  Excellent, I buy that.  We try to do that as a community.

Brookyn sharing her charm with everyone.

In fact, I have an example of a person who wants to remain nameless because she is embarrassed.  However, if you marry a priest, all bets are off.  No respect, no refuge.

This nameless person and her girl friend, Barbara, take Meals on Wheels to about a dozen poor people in North Dallas every Thursday.  Heat, cold, or snow, as was the case last week, they bring food to these people, some of whom are home bound.   They know each person by name and there is a mutual caring love.

Erin, Momma to Sienna and Brooklyn, waits to receive her Cupcake of The Week about 3 weeks late.

They are doing what Isaiah and Matthew are exhorting us to do.  And they are lights to my world.

The second group brings light to our world just by their being here, by their very presence.   Three examples of what I mean.

Monday evenings Rosemary & I go dancing at the Farmers’ Branch Senior Center.  Last Monday there were about 50 pairs of people, despite the cold and crazy weather.  The folks are mostly singles with a few couple mixed in  These people are lights.  They are lights to me just by being there.

Zoe sharing her charm with everyone.

There is even one lady who comes all the time.  She is blind.  I hope to dance with her one evening.  She is a light perhaps to the whole room.

Secondly, last week Rosemary & I were honored to have the chance to coordinate  the wedding at TCU of a charming couple.   Just their presence, their joy and their enchantment were lights to me and to a large group of people in that chapel.

Georgie preparing to suit up.

Yesterday I sat down with another couple, in fact, our Rebecca Senter and her fiancé Rob Scott.  We are planning their April wedding.  I am so touched just by their presence.   

Finally, look around this community.  You have to go no further than to Leo and Cowboy Cole, Emma and Zoe, Buddy and Tori, Chloe and Charlotte, to say nothing of Harper and Sienna and Brooklyn when they are here.  Lights to the world?  Absolutely.  Totally, lights to me.

So what makes for a light to the world?  Two things, not just one.  First of all, obviously, we are invited and challenged to care for our neighbor.  Excellent.

Leo says, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in."

However, I would include people just as they are.  You, I, all of us are lights.  How so?  Ever come away from an encounter with a person feeling happier, more peaceful, even delighted?  The light has struck.

So how does it feel to be a light just by being here? 

And again, who gives you light?

Emma, The Thinker, seriously at work here.  Remember the sculpture?

All Saints 

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack

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

All Saints.
 

Readings:

Wisdom 6 12-16,   Resplendent and unfading is wisdom.

Psalm 63,  My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Thessalonians 4, 13-18 ,  The Lord will come down from heaven.

Matthew 25, 1-13,  The kingdom of heaven will be like the 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

All Saints' Team, Sandra, Karen, Geri, & Denni.

Reminder: Central Expressway will be shut down at Plano Parkway on Saturday and Sunday.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 10, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  

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

Healing for Joe, Brent, & Meredith.

Love for Kids picnic:  December 9

Dickenson Trip:  February, more TBA

Healing & Fullness of Life for Tori & Zoe.

Jackie & Rick: have a nice bedroom they would like to put up for rent, $500 per month.   Location: Garland, near a DART  train station.

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Our Father.

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

1.  Trump vs Constitution, National Catholic Reporter,  November 6, 1400 Words,        Download TRUMP VS CONSTITUTION 11-9-17

       2.   Notre Dame & contraceptives, National Catholic Reporter,  November 7,  200 Words,     Download N D ON CONTRACEPTIVES 11-7-17

Communion for Richard and Carol at home.

True?

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Plato

Communion for All God's Critters.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace.

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.

Peace, Everybody.

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 5, 1-7; Psalm 80, The Vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel; Philippians 4, 6-9; Matthew 21, 33-43 

 
                                                                                                                                                                                                Picture Picture  1:    The Team                        

Picture 2:     Bethany, Ray, & Jon                               

Picture 3:     Communion helpers         

Picture 4:     Freddie on the move

Picture 5:     Sunday Brunch 

Picture 6:     The line up    

Community Bulletin Board:

1.    Congratulations to Becky & Christine Shaw, National Merit semi-finalists.  The only two students from J.P. II.    

2.   The next team Mass, Sunday, 6:30 A.M., The Detroit Lions.  

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.   Fr. McBrien on Catholic Finances,  National Catholic Reporter, September 27:  Download The financial scandal 9-30-11

Picture 7:     Ray digging in        

Picture 8:     Tom & Lynda, Ray & Claire        

Picture 9:     Richard & Carol with Marilyn & Judy

Picture 10:    Jean & John, John & Mary Jane       

True?

Always remember that you are absolutely unique.  Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

   Video: Final  Blessing, Lambrini, John's wife

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.

Note: this Sunday we begin meeting at Legacy Academy.

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack  

Place: Legacy Charter School, Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Says Harper, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:  

 Exodus 24, 3-8,   This is the blood of the covenant

 Psalm 116,   I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord

 Hebrews 9, 11-15,    He is a mediator of a new covenant.

 Mark 14, 12-16, 22-26,   The Eucharist   

A down payment (local honey) to Becky for inviting us to Legacy and for helping us transition this Sunday.   Sigler, our present location is being renovated during the Summer.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 1, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

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

from Cathy Bambeneck & Geri Moran:  next luncheon, June 1, 12:30, Urban Rio Cantina, 1000 E 14th, ste. 100, Plano.  Please reply to Cathy if you can make it, not if you won't be there.                  Cathy Bambenek [cbamben@hotmail.com]

Healing for Meredith still in Medical City, Dallas.

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

  Was Jesus Married?,  Corpus,  2013,    Anthony Padavano,    Download Was Jesus Married  

Bill & Frank Hart, Frank, Sr.'s two oldest sons.

True?

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Abraham Lincoln

Too much fun going on in that corner!

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Says Emma, "Want to dance, Mom?"

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.

Peace, Everybody.

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

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

Readings: Jeremiah 38, 4-10; Psalm 40; Hebrews 12, 1-4; Luke 12, 49-53

Community Bulletin Board

Are there any further kids or adults who would like to take part in our Spiritual Development program, prepare for First Communion on Mothers’ Day, or prepare for Confirmation on Fathers’ Day?

I have a peanut butter jar full of foreign coins of various denominations.  Anyone collect this stuff?

Want to take a Leap Year Cruise next Feb.? (from Marianne Elwell): mariannes_cruise.pdf

See you Sunday.

J.S.