4th Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2025

Rosemary's Blessing: 

Father,

We thank you for our political freedom. 

Help us never to take it for granted and to strive that freedom

be experienced by everyone in our land, 

especially the poor and the oppressed  and eventually  by all mankind.

 Adapted from A Prayer on the Fourth of July  by Andrew  Greeley.  Taken from A Book of Irish American Blessings and Prayers

 

                                           Claire reading the prophet Ezekiel.

 

Our Special Thanks:  

•    For  the Readings:  Claire and Beth
•    For The Team:  Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Cindy
•    For the Wine & Cups:   Mary
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Marlene, Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue 
•    For the Music:  Collin, Wendy, & Bethany 
•    For all who helped with communion

 

  Beth reading 2 Corinthians with Emma volunteering to help.

     

Birthdays:  Carol Eshelbrenner (today), Brent (38^th, Monday), Ryan Ekes, Kim Cross (both Tuesday), Paul Bieda (54, Wednesday), Cindy Cramer (Thursday)

Anniversaries:

Jan & Sir Charlie (53^rd, Sunday, today)

 

        For Carol's birthday, no cupcake, thanks, but a Cliff Bar.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For our three special little dears, Vivian and Genevieve and McKinley;  For  Lisa Ackerman dealing with cancer;  For Anthony;    For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;  For Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer;   For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;   For a little friend, Heather;   For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer;  For our good friend Kay in Ontario;  For Loraine, a girl I knew in Tanzania, whose wedding I did some years ago, and who has breast cancer;  For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Fred & Maureen’s  daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;     For Bethany & for the coming of her Little Visitor, Vivian;        For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

 

                Cupcake of The Week to Cindy for her birthday.
 

                                                     

Mike & Dee Miller's daughter, Lisa, not doing well;  for Nina Tucker's dad, Art;   For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;  Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;  from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer;   For Diane Drescher with a bad back & hips;  Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;   For Jackie;  Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;  Dee's friend, Don Fox, with cancer;  

 

   For their 53rd, Cupcake of The Week to Jan & Sir Charlie.  How did she do it??

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece;   Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter;  for Mary Ellen; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

 

              The debut of Collin subbing for Ray.  Excellent music.

 

Your Finances, July 5, 2015

Expenses:   $785.00

Outreach:   $320.00

We donated this week $300 to Plano Homes.

 Thanks for your Generosity.

 

                                              The Team

 

 Have a Good Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

              A special friend says, "See you next week, Folks."
 

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

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

 

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars.
Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings.
Now, think.
What delight God gives to humankind
with all these things. . . .
All nature is at the disposal of humankind.
We are to work with it.

For without we cannot survive.

 

Hildegard of Bingen

 

 

 

 

Beth reading from Exodus.

 

 

Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Beth &   Rob
•    For The Team:   vacation, school is out 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  John Cade
•    For the Pictures:   Rick   
•    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie 
•    For the Music:     Ben & Shonda
•    For all who helped with Communion

 

 

 

 

Rob reading from Hebrews.

 

 

Birthdays:    Judy Thomson (last Thursday), Mable (86 Tuesday), & Shonda (today, Sunday)

 

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

 

Remember these special people

For Beth & John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen;   For Carol's recuperation;   For  Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;   For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;   For Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a  young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart problem.

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Emma, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week and for being such a terrific girl.

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;   For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;   For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

Happy 86 years, Dearest Mabel.  I know a guy who really loves you.

 

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

 

 

 

After all you did for us all our years at Sigler Elementary, it is an enormous delight to see you here also at Legacy. Miguel.  Thanks.

 

 

Your Finances, June 3, 2018

Expenses:    $1465.00

Outreach:    $ 870.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Dearest Shonda, and thanks for all you do for us every week of the year.

 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

 

In his homily next week Mike threatens to expose ALL, all of what really happened in France when he & Judy,  Rosemary & I, all spent two weeks together.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Map to Legacy Charter School, Accent Drive.

  
  
 

 Special Thanks:

• For Reading:  John & Kevin
• For Serving: Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread:  Dee Miller
• For the Wine Cups:  Beth & Rob
•  For the Music:  Ben & Shonda & Wendy & Jon
• For the Pictures & Video:  Jan & Beth & John Simari
• For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue
• For the coffee and pastries: Jackie, Joan, Gayle, Jan,  & Fred & Maureen

 
 
 
 Happy Birthday:   Buddy Goode & Barb Wittek  

 

 

  Please Remember:

 Loretta Garcia Williams' husband, Ray, in the hospital with multiple myeloma;  Doug Read's Mom, Valdene, with stage 4; Carol Eshelbrenner's broken ankle;  Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;   Jackie Ritter's hand operation recuperation;  Marilyn Ackerman's mom who broke some vertebrae in her back;  Warren & Barb's friend,  Mike, fighting cancer;    Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer;   Mike & Dee's daughter;  Bonnie Roger's brother & sister, both seriously sick;    Kim Burkhart's dad;   Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke;   Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;    Gilberto Delgado's mom;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living;  Jean Wright's  daughter, Mary;   Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer;   Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad;  Theresa Quinn's dad;     Rita Dore;   Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;     Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, &  Jim;    Margie's mom;  our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino;   George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.   
   
  
 
 Picture 1:   John              

 Picture 2:   Kevin    

  Picture 3:   Patricia giving communion   

 Picture 4:   The Coffee Shoppe, John, Kevin, Sandra

 Picture 5:   American Cemetary, Normandy, France                                              

 
 

Finances:  March 27, 2011  (Next Report 4/10)

Thanks for your generosity

Have a Great Week, J.S    (214-783-0443) 

 

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing:  May the blessing of God be like soft rain on you, falling gently on your head, & refreshing your soul with the sweetness of summer flowers newly blooming.

Anonymous

  

Special Thanks: 

• For Reading: Jeff & Penny Morrow

• For the Communion Bread:  Claire Occhipinti

• For Serving:  Sabrina & Ruth

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: John & Alison & Rob

• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Wendy & Celeste

• For the Pictures: Jan 

• For the altar & sound:  Margie & Hue

• For the donuts & coffee: Mike and Geri Moran & Joan & Jerry Gleason

 

Happy Birthday:     Hope & Holden Bentley (9), Bonnie Rogers, & Beth Robinson

 

Please Remember:  Christine Drescher's Grandmother; Neighbors of Ron & Marilyn Ackerman lost their son Trip McGehee in a motorcycle wreck in FL (Tom & Elaine McGehee) & Alice & Will Alt and Tim Kirkman with a prostate biopsy this week;   Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis now on a heart transplant waiting list;  June Andringa's sister in law, Maureen, who was hit by lightning 2 years ago and whose lungs just collapsed; Rita at home & recuperating; Jackie's friend Jack Brown with various cancers & Keith Beasley who fell off the 7th floor of a parking garage & is still living;  Julie Johnston who is dealing with a return of her cancer; Cathy Lynn's mom, Catherine, 93; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining;  Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark, and a little baby, Reese who has tuberous sclerosis complex;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Tom & Teresa's friend Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;  Diane's dad Butch Uderman  & cousin Judy;  Margie's mom ; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, Roy's son Chris, Lisa's nephew Kristopher on his 2nd Iraq trip; David Hoover & his brother Hugh in the hospital; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann & Hector; Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.                  

Picture 1:  Penny & Jeff reading Jeremiah & Ephesians

 

Picture 2:  Bob & Jackie McGrath with Alec, Lauren, & Blake

 

Picture 3:  Mary with grand daughter & Amanda in the background

 

 

Check out the Quads: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com   

 

Your Finances:

 

July 19: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,463.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $   630.00

 

 Thanks for your Generosity!

 Have a Great Week, J.S    (214-783-0443)

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Loving God,

Enable us to grow in the Benedictine spirit

In ways that make us

Compassionate co-creators of a world in process,

Creative keepers of the human community,

Loving listeners to the heartbeat of the world,

Caring sisters and brothers to its wounded

And bringers of peace to a world in distress.

 

Taken from The Prayer for Those Who Dwell in the Monastery of the Heart by Joan Chittister

Our Special Thanks 

•    For Reading:  Patricia, Fed, RIchard and Jim 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Jackie and Jerry and Claire

 

Birthdays:   Warren Wittek (Saturday), Teresa Read (Wednesday),
Jean Wright & Wendy Boyce (33), (both Tuesday), Dee Miller (Today, Sunday)

Anniversaries:

Bill and Julie Carey, (30^th, Saturday)

Mike and Geri, (38^th Friday)

 

Please Remember these special people:

Irene Urbanczyk, Rick's mom in Buffalo, who is just about ready to move to the Other Side, that she do so peacefully;   Monica's medical deal last Tuesday; Jan's family members who are doing badly & Charlie's brother in law with cancer;    Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; Chuck Pratt and his cancer;   JohnDoherty's dad who is declining rapidly;  Dee's friend Cole, 17, facing brain surgery; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin
Terri. 

Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends,
Mike & Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer, David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;   Alexander Occhipinti;  Rita

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

 

 

 

Your Finances: September 8, 2013

Expenses:   $ 830.00

Outreach:   $ 277.00

 

We donated this week: 

1.  Nothing special this week.

 

Thanks for your Generosity.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week    

 

… May God bless you with enough foolishness
to believe that you can make a difference
in this world, in your neighborhood,
so that you will courageously try
what you don't think you can do, but,
in Jesus Christ you'll have all the strength necessary.

"Troubadour: A Missionary Magazine," published by the Franciscan Missionary Society

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                       

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings: Jackie  & Patricia
•    For The Team:   Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Marlene
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie,
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Judy & Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
•    For the Music:   Ray & Bethany & Shonda 
•    For all who helped with communion   

 

 

Birthdays:    Sandra (today), Claire Zurchin (31, Monday), Mary Jane Stephenson (Tuesday), Bethany (Friday), Holly Kern (23, Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Lynda & Tom, (34^th Sunday, today)

 

 

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Dee and for Mike, who just moved to the other side Thursday afternoon;  For Carol’s treatment;  For John Schanot's treatment;   For Brent's mom;   For Frank's treatment;    For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;   for Zaile's mom in the hospital in the Philippines;  For Rosemary's great nephew, Patrick who broke his leg amd is in a body cast (3 years old); For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;     For Tom Good;     For Cliff & Jean;   For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom;  For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;          For Anthony;   For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;    For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;   

 

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;  Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer;    Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill.   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler;    Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;   for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

 

 

 

Your Finances, September 18, 2016

Expenses:   $  1,475.00

Outreach:   $  611.00

Donated today:  Nothing special today.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

A Reminder: Thursday, 9/22/16 is North Texas Giving Day

 

 

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.