4th Sunday of Lent, March 15, 2026

Rosemary's Blessing

What is success?

To laugh often and much;

to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate the beauty;

to find the best in others;

to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frank reading from Malachi.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Mary & Frank
•    For our team:   Mike  &  John  &  John,  Georgie & Buddy
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Mike
•    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue 
•    For all who helped with communion         

Mary reading from Hebrews.

Birthdays:  Rick, Gilberto, Lisa Anderlick, Geri Moran, Tom Quinn

Candlemas with Geri, Aggie, & Allen singing.

Please Remember these special people:

For our Cheryl;  For Bill Hammond,    For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  Shonda's mom;  For my buddy since grade school at Christ the  King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie, Pete just died,   For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation:  for Michelle; 

Happy Birthday, Rick.

 For a friend, a neighbor, & a doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free.;    For Hue;  For John O'Donnell;    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; 

And Happy Birthday to you. Gilbert.

John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom;  for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;    for Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;  For Laura's sister Claudia;  

And to you, too, Geri, a most Happy Birthday.

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, especially Mark Terain; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Leo, this is for you being such a neat kid.

Your Finances, February 2, 2020

Expenses:  $700.00

 Outreach:  $290.00

Thanks, Everybody 

(214-783-0443)

Rosemary reads her Blessing of The Week.

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.

Peace, Everybody, and Happy Super Bowl Sunday.

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

May we be blessed with the gift of contemplation

of the blessings we have received

and then put this appreciation into action to help others.

And may there always be someone on our life’s journey

to help us on your way.  

Mary Jane reading Genesis.

Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Mary Jane & John
•    For The Team:   George, Buddy, & Mike
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  John Cade
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Connie & Becky
•    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie 
•    For the Music:     Ben & David 
•    For all who helped with Communion
•    For the homily, Mike

John reading from 2 Corinthians. 

Birthdays:    Bill Ekes (62, Monday), Alison (57, Thursday), Mary Esparza (Thursday), Deacon Mike ordained deacon 40 years ago today!

Anniversaries

Kent & Diane McClurg (46^th, Today!)

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.

Hi, Rookie, so nice to see you back, & you, too, Paul & Carrie.

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;

 The Best Music, Ben & David.

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.

Offertory time with John & Jim, Tom & Denni.

Your Finances, June 10, 2018

Expenses:    $565.00

Outreach:    $220.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

Hi, Tori and Harper.  So nice to see you dear girls

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Welcome to Legacy Charter School.  They even bought new chairs.

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.

Says Zoe, "See everybody next week."

  
Rosemary’s Blessing

 Oh God who created galaxies and worlds without number,

 Animals and plants and microbes beyond count,

 And tiny subatomic particles we can barely imagine,

 Help us to be as bountiful and gracious to all those we meet this

 week as you have been to us.

 Andrew N Greeley   A Book of Irish American Blessings and Prayers                   

 Video: Nancy reading Ephesians (1 min.)

Our Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Beth & Rob last week &  Richard & Nancy this week
• For Serving:  Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread:  Alison
• For the Wine Cups: Beth & Rob
• For the Music: Ray & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Rick & Beth & Connie & John
• For the pastries & coffee:  Jerry &  Jackie, John & Jean
• For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
• For all of you who helped John celebrate Mass last week

Richard reading 2 Kings

 Special Announcements:

1.  This coming Sunday, August 5, Special Mass & Brunch celebrating Joan Gleason's marvelous life.  Covered dish as usual.

2.  Apologies for failing to get out the blog/bulletins last Monday & Friday.  In Iowa the internet connections were poor in the small towns where we camped out at night, and after a day of riding a bike for 6-8 hours, exhaustion took over.

Birthdays:  Cindy Ekes (Wednesday), Payton Self (36 Friday), Linda Beavers ( Saturday), & Stacey McKinley (yesterday)

Ragbrai lunchtime

  We Remember  

Joan & her great family;   Bill Hammond's broken ankle;  Alexander Occhipinti;  Sydney Bivona’s unborn grandson, Isaiah & his mom & dad;  Diane McClurg's good friend, Suzy McGonigle with cancer;    Michael Kern’s dad;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;  Christine Drescher's grandmother Margie with a stroke;  Lisa's Ackerman’s  Louis & Jim;  Gina Adcock's mother with a new outbreak of cancer;  Dorothy Perry;     Rita;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer;    Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;   Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom & brother, Dick;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad  in assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including 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;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Ragbrai housing. Tents were everywhere, parks, front yards, back yards, library grounds, city hall grounds, everywhere. Everyone was usually so tired, by 9:00 most were heading to bed.

Your Finances: July 22 & 29, 2012

Expenses:    $2260.00              $ 960.00    

Outreach:    $ 230.00              $1230.00

Thanks for your Generosity 

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

 Video: Entrance Hymn (2 1/2 min.)    

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.

Alexandra reading Isaiah

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Alexandra, Morgan, & Sabrina
•    For The Team:  Georgie & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups:    Alison & John
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Connie, Mike & Bill
•    For the coffee and extras:   None today
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue 
•    For the Music:  Ray &  Wendy & Shonda
•    For all who helped with communion                                                       

Morgan reading Titus

 Birthdays:  Connie Bresson  & Tom Gleason (Sunday, today), Amanda Baach (Tuesday), TJ Gleason (20, Thursday), Robyn Pack (Friday), & Hugh Bivona (Saturday)

Anniversary:

Tom & Teresa (48, Wednesday

Sabrina reading The Nativity

Please Remember these special people:

For Betty's husband & the family;  For Jerry's back; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn;   Michelle Simari’s sister;   For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder & new grandbaby;  For Frank;     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 Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer; 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 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;          

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;     Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;     Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;   For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus. Also Angels,

Shepherds, a Sheep, a Camel, a Donkey, and a Star

 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;   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 Angels are arriving

Your Finances, December 27, 2015 

Expenses:   $2665.00

Outreach:   $1215.00 

Santa has come

Donated today:  

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Santa and his Helpers

Have a Beautiful Christmas Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Santa and his Helpers doing a great job

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.

Annabell

Genesis 2:  The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.
Romans:  One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
Matthew 4:  “Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.”

Music,  Ben & Shonda
Readers,  Carrie & Paul
Homily,   John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin
The Organization man,  Richard
Final Blessing,  Rosemary

Remember these special people:

For all the people affected by natural disasters like floods, earthquakes etc;  For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Stack;    For the Quinn’s daughter, Colleen  with breast cancer; For Carrie’s son, Chase, who was in an auto accident;   For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;

For Tom Good; For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;  For Ron and Marilyn;  For Ed Kless;  Jackie’s sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;    from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

Birthdays: Mike Elmore
Anniversaries:

Expenses: $  610.00
Outreach: $  160.00
Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at
9:30 at the ArtCentre of Plano,
902 E. 16th St, Plano, Texas.

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.

Special Thanks:

• For reading, Jeremy & Ashley
• For the Altar Bread, Bonnie & Greg Rogers
• For Serving, T.J.
• For the Altar, donuts,muffins, coffee, & juice, Margie,Jackie, Jerry & Joan, Lisa & Margarita
• For the Books & Communion Cups, Roy & Carol Strom, Rob & Beth Robinson
• For the music, Ray & Shonda, Roy & Hue

Happy Birthday: Debbie Ekes, Isabel Bodiker (10), Judy Thompson, Julie Johnston

Happy Anniversary:

• Erin Lyons & Matt Stockwell (1st)
• Matt Wilson & Niki (1st)
• Kelly Calson (Jack’s daughter) & Scott Parel (1st)
• Dina & Dan McPherson (4th)
• Jon & Nina Waldron
• Billy & Becky Nugent (32nd)

Please Remember: Rosemary’s nephew definitely improving; Jim Kee; Gina Adcock’s six months pregnant friend Lorraine; Fred & Martha’s new little friend Zoe about 3 weeks old; Jean Atwood’s uncle Harry & aunt; Margarita’s Uncle Ed & Yolanda; little 6 month old Sadie with cancer, friend of Jack Carlson; Tom Quinn’s brother Tim; Nina Tucker’s friend Nancy with stage 4; Margie’s mom & friend Connie Flavin; Dona & Cathy Goode’s mom; David Pastula’s companions in the military overseas, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, & T.J.’s friend Aimee; David & Ofelia, Rita; Mary Ellen’s Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; George & Marianne’s sons & Linda’s son; Rob’s mom & dad; & a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; & Shawn in a car wreck.

Your Finances:

• May 27: Income for Running Expenses:   $935
• May 27: Income for Outreach Expenses:  $656   
• May 27: Karina:Thanks So Much!! Goal Reached! ($3,000).                               

  Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Week, J.S.