Reminder for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 25, 2022

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

Wake up, Seth, you are missing The Best Homily.

Readings:

Acts of the Apostles  2, 1-11,  Arrival of the Holy Spirit

Psalm 104,   Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth

1 Corinthians 12, 3-7, 12-13, different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit

 John 20, 19-23,   Peace be with you; receive the Holy Spirit. 

"Welcome in, Everybody," say Diane, Gil, and Bernadette.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 2, 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), For June,   Hi Everybody

Please Save the Date: Thursday Evening June 8th

Marcus Cafe, 2701 Custer Rd. Richardson

6:00 P.M.

We would like to change to Thursday Evening in June so all the working gals can be included.  We will be eating on their lovely patio. The food is very good and we can enjoy some great music while we sip and dine.  More information to follow.

Marilyn

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Observations on the budget,   National Catholic Reporter,  May 26, 2017, 660 words,    Download TRUMP BUDGET 6-1-17

I and all the Community will really miss you, Bethany.
 

True?

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast.  We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

 Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)

Did somebody say the Coffee Shoppe is open?

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Hi, Harper, and thanks for being such a neat girl.

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.

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.

 Mass: 9:30; Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

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

Readings:  Ezekiel 18, 25-28; Psalm 25; Philippians 2, 1-11; Matthew 21, 28-32

Community Bulletin Board:   

See you this Sunday, September 28

J.S.   (214-387-0443)

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

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

Readings: Jonah 3, 1-5 & 10; Psalm 25; 1 Corinthians 7, 29-31; Mark 1, 14-20  

Community Bulletin Board: 

True?  A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.

From Kathleen Gardiner: Charles R. Walter upright piano.  This hand-crafted piano is in the traditional style with a walnut finished cabinet. It features a 40 inch sounding board & is recently tuned.  Asking price: $2000 & will negotiate with serious buyer.  972-542-0288

From Frank & Laura Reyes: Plano Community Theater. The dates are Jan. 22,23,24,29,30 and 31 at 7:15pm. The show is called Villian Wore a Dirty Shirt, a Melodrama set around the gold
rush era. Tickets are $15 in advance or $17 at the door, but that includes
beer and wine. As I had mentioned we found that we are much better actors if
our audience is good and liquored up. You can call and reserve tickets for $15 and pay for them at the door.  Seats are benches, so bring a pillow.  972-422-2575  Want to put together a group with Rosemary & me for Jan. 29? 

Picture 1:  Noah, no. 58 

Picture 2:  Emily & Rachel

Picture 3:  Jim McCabe, Louie "Federico," Jackie & Bob & Tanya & Maggie McGrath

Picture 4: Hugh & Sydney Bivona

See you this Sunday, January 25.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Cupcake of The Week to Brian with two little mice awaiting crumbs, Brooklyn and Sienna.

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.

For all Kevin's years of service, the least our community could do was give him a gift of $100. He is on a band trip to Europe.

Readings:

Acts  12, 1-11,   The chains fell from his wrists.

Psalm 34,   The angel of the Lord will rescue those who fear him.

2 Timothy  4, 6-8, 17-18,  The Lord stood by me and gave me strength.

John  21, 15-19,  Simon, son of John, do you love me.  (this reading comes from the vigil Mass)

Jackie & Rick, our special honorees, for Rick's retirement from RISD, his birthday, their anniversary, and Jackie's recuperatiion.

Community Events:

1.   ROMEO lunch Friday, June 27,  Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids, plus the Real Romeos.  Take a break July 4.  

2.   Meatball Macchio, all you ever want to know, plus even more,     Download Meatball Macchio 6-26-14

Harper with her grandmother, Cathy, and our honoree on her retirement from years with PISD.

What's going on in our Catholic World:    

1.    Francis cleaning house!, New York Times,  June 13, 1450 words,     Download Vatican clean-up 6-26-14  

2.    The American Parish, National Catholic Reporter,  June 21, 900 words,     Download The American Parish 6-26-14

Buddy, the Candle Man, with his mom, Michelle.

True? 

Know what sparks the light in you.  Then use that light to illuminate the world.

Oprah Winfrey 

Offertory with Cheryl, Meredith, and Brent.

See you Sunday, June 29, 2014, Peter & Paul, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

The Beginning. Are hats in this Sunday? In honor of Cathy.

 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.

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

Wake up, Everybody, time for another unforgetable homily.
 

Readings:

Samuel 3, 3-10, 19,   The call of Samuel by Yahweh.

Psalm402,  Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will.

1 Corinthians 6, 13-15, 17-20,  Your bodies are members of Christ.

John 1, 35-42,  What are you looking for?    

Wake me up when he is finished, or it is Cupcake time!

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Sorry, Guys, I will miss this Friday.  Wedding in PA.

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

Dickenson Trip:  February 23- March 3

Does it get any better than this!

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

Francis comments on migrants, National Catholic Reporter,  January 8,      Download FRANCIS ON MIGRANTS 1-8-18       

What a team!

True?

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.   It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. 

 Joseph Campbell

It don't get better than this, either.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

These friends are all going on a cruise and they never invited me!

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.