In the spirit of Holy Week, here is a copy of a contemporary Stations of the Cross which we have used in past years. You may like to read them as a family and meditate on them.
If you would like to download and print the stations here is a link Download Stations of the Cross-Covid 2020.
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Due to CDC recommendations, we request that everyone wear a mask on Sunday. Thanks for your understanding.
Acts of the Apostles 4, He is the stone rejected by you
Psalm 118, The stone rejected by the builders has become the corner stone
1 John 3, Beloved, We are God's children.
John 10, I am the good shepherd and I know mine.
Shonda & Ben sharing the Spirit
Romeos, Welcome! Jason's Deli, 1:00, Friday. April 23. Required: vaccines, mask for entrance & departure.
All of you who attended Mass this past Sunday are welcomed this Sunday, circa 30 people. Let me know if you cannot make it.
John sharing his spirit.
Another Reminder for Sunday, April 25, 2021.
Here are the links for Sunday:
Song Sheets for Sunday's Mass can be found online.
The Link to the Music Folder is
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1IOrhygLoXEtbwb3Jws3-JMXMUOzESA8l
2 Chronicles 36: Whoever, therefore, among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him!”
Ephesians 2: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; . . .
John 3: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Thanks…
Music, Ben
Readers, Mary & John
Homily, John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B, John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers, Hue & Kevin
Final Blessing, Rosemary
Mary reading from Ephesians
Remember these special people:
For John Stack; For Shonda's Grandmother; For the family of Ron Senter; For Meredith whose cancer has come back; For Tom Good; For Tom Quinn who had back surgery on November 21st; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ; For Allen Stryker; For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter; For Hue; For Jackie; For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall; For Mary Hall's friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition; For Sir Charlie; For Ron ; For Teresa Quinn's niece, Maddie who has a brain tumor;
Jackie's sister, & friend, Lynn; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.; For Jean & Cliff Wright; For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & the families of Annie and Michael ; for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.
Jackie sharing her homily
Birthdays: Dee Miller 3/10, John O'Donnell 3/14
Anniversaries:
John commenting on the homily
Community Finances:
Expenses: $ 780.00
Outreach: $ 250.00
Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.
David commenting on the homily
Donna sharing the bags of toiletries, socks and other goodies for the men at Soul's Harbor
God,
Bless anyone who has asked me to pray for them
and anyone that I have promised to pray for.
Bless anyone that I cannot get along with
And anyone that cannot get along with me.
Bless the person who has hurt me deeply
and anyone that I have hurt.
Bless the person that I cannot forgive
and anyone that cannot forgive me.
Grant me the grace to live as a person of peace today
and to treat all I meet today with dignity
Author Unknown
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.
Deuteronomy 18, 15-20, A prophet like me will the Lord raise up.
Psalm 95, If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts
1 Corinthians 7, 32-35, The world in its present form is passing away.
Mark 1, 21-28, In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit.
Music, Ben & Shonda
Readers, Sandra Pratt & Mary Hall, and Buddy, the candle blesser
Gospel, Mike Carrell
Homily, John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B, Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers, Hue & Richard & Mike
Final Blessing, Rosemary
For hosting us at Legacy, Becky
Buddy, our blessing boy.
Sunday Readings:
Download Reading 4th Sunday 1-31-2021
Homily by John Stack
Sandra reading Deuteronomy.
Please Remember these special people:
For Carrie's ex, Larry; For Alan Stryker; For Joe Sullivan; For Rosemary's great niece, Rylie ; For Richard's grand daughter, Madeleine; For Esparza's new great grandson baby, son of Monique; For all the medical personnel struggling to treat the tsunami of sick people, in particular, locally, Cindy's staff at Presby, Dallas, and at Frisco Presby, the mother of Harper and Betsy, Kendle, working in labor & delivery, and for Hue & Linda's daughter, Doctor Rosemary Beavers; For Mary & Dave Hall's g-daughter Allison Keller working at St. Lukes, The Woodlands, For Loretta's aunt Alicia; For Sir Charlie & Jan; Shonda's mom & Cody & Leo & all of Shonda's dear family,
Jackie's mom, sister, & friend, Lynn; For both Jean & Cliff Wright; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free; For John O'Donnell & Jean; For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health; For Anthony & Sabrina; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini, plus John's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little 4 month old boy undergoing an operation & for Rollie with Corona; for David McKeon's brother, Hugh; for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.
Shonda & Ben alive!
Birthdays: Mike Carrell, Randolf Brown, Rick Turner, Gilberto, Lisa Anderlick, Kevin Bresson.
Anniversary:
Community Finances, January 31, 2021
Expenses: $ 810.00
Outreach $510.00 (often for Souls Harbor, Legacy, etc.)
Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.
Mary reading Corinthians.
Rosemary's Blessing:
What good did it do when you frowned? Let me ask:
Did it help you at all to accomplish your task?
Did it lighten your burden or help you along?
Did the frown that you wore make a right out of wrong?
What good did it do to be grouchy today?
Did your surliness drive any trouble away?
Did you cover more ground than you usually do?
Because of the grouch that you carried with you?
If not, what’s the use of a grouch or a frown?
If it won’t smooth a path or a grim trouble down?
If it doesn’t assist you, it isn’t worth while:
Your work may be hard, but just do it and smile.
Anonymous
From last week's readers, Denni & Tom, a visitor.
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.
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,…
Denni reading from Amos
Thanks…
Music, Ben
Readers, Denni & Tom
Gospel, John Cade
Homily, John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B, John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers, Hue & Richard & Kevin
Final Blessing, Rosemary
Tom reading from Paul's letter to Timothy
Readings: Download 09-25-22- Readings – 26th Sunday Ord
Homily: Download 09-25-22- Notes- 26th Sunday Ord
Remember these special people:
For Jan; For Sandra who has been diagnosed with Large B Cell Lymphoma; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer and Kaliope, John Cade's Mother-in-law; For Donna and the Dinsmore Family after her brother, Dennis died from pancreatic cancer; For Hue; For Jackie; For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall; For Tom Good; For a young man, 19 struggling with a brain tumor and cancer; For Mary Hall's friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition; For Sir Charlie & Jan;
Paul putting the cross together
Jackie's mom, sister, & friend, Lynn; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.; For Jean & Cliff Wright; For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & friends, Annie, a mom of 3 kids and Michael ; for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.
Geri visiting from North Carolina
Birthdays:
Anniversaries: Becky & Tom Good 9/26, John Cade – Ordination 9/30
Community Finances:
Expenses: $ 815.00
Outreach: $
Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.
Allen, Aggie and Cindy
Rosemary's Blessing:
“Rivers do not drink their own water;
trees do not eat their own fruit;
the sun does not shine on itself
and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves.
Living for others is a rule of nature.
We are born to help each other.
No matter how difficult it is.
Life is good when you are happy
but much better when others are happy because of you.
Let us remember that pain is a sign that we are alive,
problems are a sign that we are strong and
prayer is a sign that we are not alone.
If we can acknowledge these truths and
condition our hearts and minds, our lives will be
more meaningful,
different and
worthwhile.”
Unknown
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.
Readings:
Ezekiel 17, 22-24, Birds of every kind shall dwell beneath it.
Psalm 92, Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
2 Corinthians 5, 6-10, We are always courageous.
Mark 4, 26-34, Through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.
Observations on Ezekiel
Who: Ezekiel is one of the Big 3 prophets. Why? 48 chapters. The other 2: Isaiah & Jeremiah. Lots of chapters.
Ezekiel was born into the priest class. He later was considered a prophet. When he was about 25 he was swept up in the Babylonian captivity, around 590.
When: It covers the period of the Captivity, but it is composed toward the end of the Captivity, around 550, before Christ. This is Ezekiel’s material, but it has been saved and edited by his fellow priests.
Message:
Today’s selection: Consolation. Watch for a comforting message about a cedar tree.
Sources: Good News Bible, New Interpreter’s Study Bible, Wikipedia
Father’s Day
In honor of Father’s Day I want to tell you 4 vignettes that I saw this weekend at a wedding Rosemary & I celebrated in Marshall, TX. Two of the fathers are the couple’s dads. The other two are guys I saw in action.
The wedding was for Kyle Dansby, a boy whom I have known and loved since way back in the nineties when he & often his two younger brothers helped me as altar servers at St. Mark’s. Ashli Marie Acker was Kyle’s fiancé’.
The first time I noticed something special was at breakfast yesterday morning in our motel, Comfort Suites. Rosemary & I were seated at a table in the dining room about 9:00. In comes a young couple with a girl about 3 and a boy who was placed in a high chair.
This little boy fell immediately in love with Rosemary. To see her he had to turn around left in his chair. Despite dad’s efforts to interest him in eating, the little boy just watched Rosemary. Food went uneaten and even on the floor.
We talked with the little boy who never spoke, just watched. Despite dad’s plans and despite the mess, dad never lost his cool. When it was time for them to leave, he simply cleaned up, held out his arms, and the little boy put up his arms to be held. I was touched, especially by his not placing project over people.
Later at the wedding, which was outdoors across the plaza from the pretty Marshall courthouse in a small park with a gazebo attached to a building. So there was a stage effect. We had two little flower girls, Lily & Abby. Kids are always a delight at a wedding and these little girls were no exception.
First, they got lost trying to choose which access to get up on the gazebo stage. So I went and helped them up. Then, as the wedding progressed, they were everywhere. They went up and down, they went to pick up their flower baskets, and they were chatting with the bride’s maids. Dad never got flustered. Nor did anyone on the stage. Instead of being seen as distractions, they were celebrated as delights.
Another example of people over project.
Then there was Ashli’s father. Nice guy, congenial, probably in his fifties. Then I discover he has recently obtained his doctorate and is teaching at a college maybe in Beaumont. I am most impressed because I was trained as a Jesuit and still believe it that we never stop learning. Life is an adventure in learning. And here is an example.
Finally, Kyle’s dad. I discovered that when Kyle was about 2 or 3 his mom died of cancer. She was only about 34. I cannot imagine how difficult this must have been. I talked with him just a little bit about the event and he admitted that it was really, really tough.
Later, fortunately, he met his present wife and has two more sons. Faithfulness.
These four guys touched me each in their own special way. The two fathers of the little kids reminded me of my own struggle with placing projects over people. Ashli’s dad exemplifies the ideal that learning is a lifelong adventure. And Kyle’s dad, faithfulness.
How are you blessed by the dads in your life?
How are you dads blessing our world?