Reminder for Sunday, July 21, 2019, 16th Ordinary Time (C cycle)

Numbers 6:  The Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace!  

Titus 2:  Abba,  Father!

Luke 2:  And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.

May you have a Wonderful and Happy New Year

John Stack Ministries now meets at: 

The ArtCentre of Plano

902 E. 16th St, Plano

From Connie Bresson:                                                                                 

Jim Mahar and the BonaResponds team is heading to Florida January 2-13 to do hurricane relief efforts at Pine Island.  This is a tremendous group of students and adults from St. Bonaventure that work so hard to help others.  If you want to help any of the days they are there, please read the attached in the following link. 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqyl-QXF_emKTqbBhNGw4XCoBtq6zn_DuLkeTXMw-P5WJTcA/viewform

Here they come out of the cold, Gil with Tori and Zoe.

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

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

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

What has Zoe found in the parking lot. Why, it's Buddy!

Readings:

Genesis 2, 7-9, 3, 1-7,   The Lord planted a garden in Eden.

Psalm 62,  Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Romans  5,  12-19,  Through one man sin entered the world.

Matthew  4, 1-11,  Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

Zoe in party hat continues, with the gang, Buddy and Tori.

Community Events:

1.    First Sunday of Lent, with ashes just in case you missed them & want them.

2.    Watch Out: Daylight Saving Time Sunday.                

3.   ROMEO lunch Friday, March 7,  Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids.  

 4.  The Women's Lunch Group on 1st Thursdays,  The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

Kevin is ready.

 What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.     The Rome Questionaire Results, National Catholic Reporter, February 24, 1300 words,    Download Synod questionnaire 3-6-14

2.    Francis, Get moving!, National Catholic Reporter, February 27, 1200 words,    Download Act faster 3-6-14

3.    Religious Orders' Treasurers gathered in Rome, National Catholic Reporter, March 3, 600 words,   Download Treasurers meet in Rome 3-6-14

4.    Francis' anniversary remarks, National Catholic Reporter, March 5,  1100 word,     Download Francis marks anniversary 3-6-14

Georgie and Kevin snoozing through another great homily.

True? 

People will pay more to be entertained than to be educated.

Johnny Carson

Our Talents, Bethany and Ray.

 See you Sunday, March 9, 2014, 1^st Lent, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

The beginning.

 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.

Wisdom 18:   Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes.

Hebrews 11:  Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.

Luke 12:  Gird  your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master's return  from a wedding  ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.

The entrance hymn, Kevin, Hue, Brett, Meredith, Connie, John and Warren

Here are the links for Sunday:

For Zoom   ( the video conference, same as last week )

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7428208829?pwd=VERncTBxaWdkaFpkTUZKL3RROW81UT09

 

 

 

 

Linda gets a package of BelVita cookies

 

 

                                                                                                                                                  

 

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.

 

John Stack Ministries, 7017 Helsem Way, Dallas, Texas 75230

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.

Harper & Sophia say, "Hi, Everybody, want a cookie?"

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

Mike sharing his insights of the day.

Readings:

Job  7, 1-7,  Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery?

Psalm 147,    Praise the Lord, who heals the broken hearted.

1 Corinthians 9, 16-25,   I have made myself a slave to all.

 Mark 1, 29-39,   They brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons.

Offertory Marlene, Cindy, Zaile, and Bill.

Community Activities:

1.    ROMEO MEET: Friday,  February 6 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Time to get together again.  The Older Geezer will take attendance.   Let's do it.

2.    LADIES' LUNCHEON, Thursday, February 5,  1:00, Café Amore’, Midway, BYOB.

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested.  If you let me know I will add their email to the list. 

Carol

Leo volunteering to sing along with Shonda (mom) and Bethany.

3.    February 15, Community memorial for Fred with brunch catered by Maureen & the Macchio gang. 

4.    Febrary 17,  Mardi Gras Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday.

5.    John Cade announces a Harville Hendrix seminar on Safe Conversation, Feb. 14, free.  214-357-0371,   Download FWD Flier Feb english 2015 B (3)

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.        The read on the new generation of priests, Pray Tell,  January 26,  2800 words,       Download Recently ordained

Leo sweet talking his dad, Ray.

 True? 

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So man should be man. But to know what man is, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love….For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements. 

Jerry and Shirley with John plotting a take-over.

See you Sunday, February 8, 2015, 5th Ordinary Time, Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Our Goals:

   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.

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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.

Mabel and Curtis

 Readings:

Isaiah 40, 1-11, Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.

Psalm 104,  O, Bless the Lord, my soul.

Titus  2, 11-14, 3, 4-7, The grace of God has appeared.

Luke 3, 15-16, 21-22, With you I am well pleased.

Georgie

 For those who don’t have a decent Bible or a book of the readings, here are two links that I use, The Bible at Your Fingertips and USCCB, The New American Bible. 

The difference?  The first is Protestant more or less, and the second is officially Catholic and has the 12 little books in between the O.T. & N.T., called Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha. 

Both are good translations.     

Mary arriving with broken foot.

  Community Bulletin Board:

1.  January 24, Thursday night, 8:00, Collin County Homeless Coalition is having their annual census of homeless.  We will have a signup sheet at Mass.  Last year we had two teams of about 5 each. 

Our Emma

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.    History of women leaders in Catholic Church, Corpus and U.S. Catholic, January, 2013, 2500 words,   Download Women 1-11-13

2.  U.S. Nuns & Church Officials, National Cathoic Reporter, January 5, 800 words,    Download U.S. Nuns 1-11-13

Harper with her grandmom, Cathy, who had a bad evening Monday.

True?

If you ask me a question I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

YOGI BERRA

 

Meghan and Geri

  See you Sunday, January 13, 2013, The Baptism

J.S., 214-783-0443

Leo dances

  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.