Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023

 

 

It has been a rough Fall and a lot of our personally planted trees have been destroyed.   Others live on and greet us as we pass by, saying have a Peaceful remaining Fall and upcoming Thanksgiving.

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

How come so many people showed up Sunday?  Here is the reason.

 

Readings:

2 Malachi 3, 19-20, lo, the day is coming that will set them on fire. 

Psalm 98,  The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

2 Thessalonians 3, 7-12,   Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

Luke 21, 5-19,  The days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another.   (tough readings!)

 

 

 

Cathy in period attire reminds us of our historical roots.

Activities:  

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

 

JULIETS,  December TBA

         Juliet’s Christmas Luncheon

Please join us for Juliet’s Christmas Party; and afternoon of Christmas Cheer.

Date/Time:   Friday, December 6th at 12:00 Noon.

 

Place: Ye Shire Tavern,  3600 Shire Blvd.,  Richardson, TX 75082

          972-881-7570

 

To add to the Christmas Spirit we will have an ornament exchange; $10.00 limit.  Please bring a wrapped ornament.

 

Please let me know if you will be joining us. 

 

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday, December 6th.

 

Marilyn Ackerman,  972-491-7068

 

If you have already signed up at Rosemary’s birthday party, I have you down as coming.

 

Meyerson Christmas show, December 6, Friday, 7:30.  Let Rosemary know if you want to join the gang.  $35 per ticket.

 

 

 

What a Team!

 

True?

We make a living by what we get.   We make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

 

 

Communion 1.

 

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

What ideas came out of the Amazon Synod: https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/signs-times/what-us-bishops-can-learn-amazon-synod

 

 

Communion 2.

 

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

 

 

What a team!

 

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.

 

 

Friday Romeos, the Real Party.

 

 

 

 

 

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, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence.

 

Emma figures she will help her mom just in case Beth needs her.  What a gift, how at home she feels.

 

Readings:

 Amos 7, 12-15  I was no prophet.  I was a shepherd.

Psalm 85,    Lord, let us see you kindness and grant us your salvation.

Ephesians 1, 3-14, In love he destined us for adoption

 Mark  6, 7-13, Take nothing for the journey but a walking stick

 

                                  The Sacrament of Healing

 

Community Activities:  

1.        ROMEO MEET: Friday, July 10, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Welcome back,  CO Campers.

 2.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  August 6, Thursday, 1:00 P.M.,  Steve Fields Steak & Lobster Lounge, 503 West Park Blvd.

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

Carol 

 

                    Offertory, Mary, Louis, Mary Jane, and John

 

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.       Catholicism & gay marriages, America, June 26, 850 words,     Download Catholicism & Gay Marriage 7-9-15

 2.      Francis in Ecuador, National Catholic Reporter, July 5, 900 words,      Download Francis in Ecuador 7-9-15

3.      Chilean bishop rejected by the people, National Catholic Reporter, July 7, 1000 words,    Download Controversial Chilean bishop 7-9-15

 

 

               The Gang, Denni, Connie, John, Tom, & Rosemary

 

True?  

 “Hatred is love frustrated.”

                                                                Ashley Montagu 

 

                  Communion, Cindy receiving the bread she baked

 

See you Sunday, July 12, 2015, 15^th Ordinary Time

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

                           Communion for All, Emma receives

 

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, Everyone 

 

 

 

 

Readings:                          

1 Kings   19,  16, 19-21,  Please, let me kiss my father & mother goodbye.

Psalm 16,  You are my inheritance, O Lord.

Galatians 5, 1, 13-18,     You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Luke 9, 51-62,  I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family.

 

 

 

Says Donna, "Welcome in, Everybody."

 

Introduction

[first reading] In our reading from 1 Kings, Elisha realizes that he has received a call from God to first be Elijah’s servant, then his successor.

[second reading] The gospel sets us free from the Law! For the whole Law is fulfilled by these words of Christ, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’  We are led by the Spirit to be love, and this love is active in works.

 

 

Mabel and Marlene also say, "Hi, Folks, Come on in."

 

Homily by Mike:

How do we become the Lord’s disciples? Discipleship is a choice, through grace, to be led by the Holy Spirit to live the gospel by treating others with goodness and justice, with tenderness and compassion.  ‘For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal live!’ 

 

 

 

Cole, our Candle Lighter, at work.

 

As Jesus walked along the road to Jerusalem with his aspiring disciples in today’s gospel, others joined to walk along with him.  And a man said to Jesus, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus turned to him, ‘Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head.’  The journey to Jerusalem is the structural backbone of the Gospel for it is there that Jesus literally dies to himself for humankind.   He is telling this man that if he wants to follow him he must die to self.   Everyone’s Jerusalem is different; but the journey is the same. The inspired writers tell Jesus’ aspiring disciples to return to Galilee, in the written gospel. It is there that the Holy Spirit will lead them, and us, to their Jerusalem.

 

 

Happy Birthday, Alison.

 

Jesus said to another man who had begun to walk along beside him, ‘Follow me!’  The man replied, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ Obviously he wouldn’t have been walking along with Jesus that day if his father had just died.  The man’s answer to Jesus was that he wasn’t going to make a decision until he received his  inheritance when his father died. So Jesus said to him. ‘Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead, but you I have asked to be spiritually alive, to proclaim by word and deed the kingdom of heaven.

 

 

Offertory, John & Alison, Carrie & Paul.  Thanks.

 

Still another said to Jesus, ‘I will follow you Lord, but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.  Jesus replied, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit to serve in the kingdom of God.’   Those who are looking back over their shoulder literally do not know where they are going; they are likely to fall.  Jesus is saying to him, ‘put the past behind; look forward, follow me.’ 

 

 

Special Good Wishes to you, John, on the big Wednesday Operation.

 

 

This past Sunday my younger brother and I were visiting our older brother in Florida.  I took a short walk that afternoon to a park not far from his house.  There, on Father’s Day, I began to enjoy watching a woman and her twenty-something son celebrating a picnic lunch together.  Later, after joining them, I learned that her husband, the young man’s father, had recently passed unexpectedly.  It had been difficult for them, but members of their church community had supported them with help and encouragement.  She had gone back to work, was making good friends, and he had returned to college.  Each of us has a cross to bear on our journey in the kingdom of heaven; but, we are called to assist one another, to press forward, our burden light.

 

 

Mike sharing his thoughts on today's readings.

Isaiah 6:  And then I heard the voice of the Master: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" I spoke up, "I'll go. Send me!"

1 Corinthians 15:  So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.

Luke 5:  When he finished teaching, he said to Simon, "Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch."

 

 

 

 

 

Another Reminder for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 9, 2025

Deuteronomy 8:  … that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:  Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body,  for we all partake of the one loaf.

John 6:  This is the bread that came down from heaven.

 

 

Connie reading from Deuteronomy

 

 

Thanks…     

Music,    Shonda & Ben 

Readers,  Connie & John

Homily,   John Cade

Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

Final Blessing, Rosemary

 

                                                                              

John reading from Paul's Letter to the Corinthians

 

                                                                    

 

Readings:  Download 06-11-23 Readings – Corpus Christi

Homily: 

                                                                                     

                                                 
                           

                        

Cody and John commenting on the homily

 

 

Remember these special people:

For Sandra Pratt's family;  For Cindy Cramer's family;  For the family of Ron Senter;   For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;  For Jan;  For Tom  Quinn who had back surgery on November 21st; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  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; 

                                                                                                   

       

 

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.

 

 

Barbara asking for prayers for a friend

                 

                        

Birthdays:  Mary Esparza

Anniversaries:  

                                                              

Community Finances:   

Expenses: $  665.00

Outreach: $   175.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

       

Community Finances:   

  Expenses: $  130.00

  Outreach: $   

 

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

 

Ray gets a cookie for his birthday