Reminder for Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 19, 2021

Genevieve says, "Welcome in, Folks."  Beware: this little girl walks!

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

Victoria, also, says, "Hi, Folks, Come in."

Readings:

Acts  13, 14, 43-52,  Paul and Barnabas continued on from Perga.

Psalm 100,  We are his people, the sheep of his flock.

Revelation  7, 9, 14-17, I, John, had a great vision.

John 21, 19-31,  My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.   

 Sunday's A Team, Kevin, John, Buddy, Georgie, & Mike.

Community Activities:  

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, April 15 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.                                                                                                                                                      
2. JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together):                

   Please join us for the next JULIET gathering.  Thursday EVENING to include

   those who work during the day.  May, 5 at 6:00 for cocktails, followed by

   dinner at 7:00.  MARCUS CAFE in the II Creeks Shopping Center

   Custer at Lookout in Richardson,  South of Bush Turnpike.

    Named "The best patio for outdoor dining in the Metroplex" (or if weather

   demands we can eat inside as well).  Great Italian food, live music, full bar,

   friendly atmosphere.  Come, Eat, Drink, Laugh, Sing, Enjoy the music

   and friends!     Respond with reservation to prattquest@yahoo.com

Sunday's A Music Team, The Best.

What is going on in our Catholic World 

1.     Six points to watch for in Francis' Amoris Laetitia, National Catholic Reporter, April 5,   286 words,    Download Six Points 4-14-16
2.     How to read Amoris Laetitia, National Catholic Reporter,  April 8,   808 words,   Download Reading Amoris 4-14-16      

Leo, the Candle Lighter.

True? 

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take off their shirts during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Dave Barry

 Trophy tree, Spring Hill  College campus,  one of many.  A Live Oak.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

  Assumption Hall, Spring Hill College, the Jesuit students' residence.  I lived there 1962-1965 with ca. 150 fellow Jesuits.  It has been torn down and replaced with a colony of attractive student apartments.   Did the college not want to make  it a historical monument??  

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.

 Spring Hill College Chapel.  Saturday evening after Mass  reception.

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.

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

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

Time: 9:30; Stack celebrating; we will rotate weeks. 

Readings: Acts 2, 1-11; Psalm 104, Lord Send our your Spirit, and Renew the Face of the Earth; 1 Corinthians 12, 3-13; John 20, 19-23.  

Community Bulletin Board:

Thoughts on The Church, National Catholic Reporter, 5-17:

Download Fr. Donald Cozzens, 5-21-10

Picture 5:  Marianne & George Elwell

Picture 6:  Gayle & Joanne caught at it

Picture 7:  Communion, Joanne, Jackie, & Rosemary

See you Sunday, 5-23-10

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

Ugh, oh, Folks, Cathy is back.  Help,  help!

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

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

Place: Legacy Charter School,  601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Nothing better than my warm grandmom.  A Pieta portrait.

Readings: 

Genesis 15, 5-12, 17-18,  The Lord God took Abraham outside and said to him, "Look up at the sky and count the stars."  

Psalm 27,  The Lord is my light and my salvation.

Philippians 3, 17-4, 7,  He will change our lowly bodies

Luke 9, 28b-36,  The Transfiguration.

You people are crazy.  Not only is it cold and gray, but it is Daylight Time.   Was all this not a great excuse for sleeping in?!

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, March 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.   

JULIETTE LUNCHEON:  April   - TBA

"Help," yells Jan on being smothered by Carrie & Paul.

TRUE?

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Bono  

Healing Touch for Tom.  You should find, Tom, that you will now run even swifter in your next series of Marathons.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church?  Like…

1.     Did Pius XII know about the Holocaust?   Old archives being  opened..  http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2019/03/opening-archives-wont-settle-debate.html

Peace Ken.

See you Sunday,  

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace, Everybody.

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.

Wilmington Hootenany with our man Bill on guitar and maybe also David.

Some of those crazy St. Bonaventure kids on Spring Break.

Both Holy Thursday & Good Friday:

7:00 P.M., the home of Rob & Beth Robinson, 1808 Dublin Road, Plano 75094  http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG51BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLWJ1dHRvbgRzbGsDbGluaw–#mvt=m&lat=33.020199&lon=-96.635357&zoom=15&q1=1808%2520Dublin%2520Road%2520plano%2520texas

Thursday Readings: Exodus 12 (The Passover Story); Psalm 116; 1 Corinthians 11, 23-26; John 13 (Last Supper & Washing of the Feet)

Friday: Stations of the Cross

For Kids Only: The Easter Bunny is coming and is loaded for the Big Hunt after Mass, Sunday.  Get ready.  Bring your basket.

Picture 1: Cara with Christine (Mom) & Sean (Big Brother)

Picture 2:  Cara Lyn with Christi (Mom) & Claire & Barb

Anybody know where I can get a decent used or inexpensive refrigerator?  Got a family in need. 

Welcome Thursday & Friday, J.S.