Reminder for Sunday, March 26, 2017, 4th Lent, cycle A

Is that a little monkey saying, "Hi, Folks, Welcome."? No, that's Leo.

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.

Georgie suiting up.

Readings:

Mark 11, 1-10,  Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem, read as we process in

Isaiah 50,  4-7  I gave my back to those who beat me.

Psalm 22,    My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?

Philippians 2, 6-11,   God greatly exalted him.

 Mark  14,  The Passion in 4 parts.

The Best, Shonda, Bethany, & Ray.

Community Activities:

1.       Palm Sunday this Sunday.  Assemble in the hall before processing in.

2.      Easter Sunday, April 5, 1 Sunday from this Sunday.

3.      ROMEO MEET: Friday,  March 20, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   No ice cream, Mike, it’s Lent.

4.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  April 3-4?,  1:00, Mexigo, 6205 Coit, #396 & Spring Creek, NW corner.  

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

Carol 

Communion for Cole.

4.      Holy Thursday and Good Friday Services at Marlene’s house, 2017 Keystone, Plano, 7:00 P.M.   Welcome.

5.    Love for the Kids Spring Picnic, April 4,   Download All Kids 3-6-15

6.    Welcome all, The Great Annual Anniversary Party, 10^th Anniversary (bet you figured it would never last this long), April 25^th, Saturday,  Heritage Farm, 15^th & Custer, 6:00 P.M., Covered dish, kids welcomed.    Vows will be renewed by numerous special couples, like usual. 

Emma putting her bread into the communion bowl.

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.       New English translation of Mass possible, Tablet, March 12, 567 words,     Download English translation possibility 3-26-15

2.       Francis on LGBT, National Catholic Reporter, March 20, 600 words,    Download Francis & LGBT 3-26-15

3.       Francis on economic abuse,  National Catholic Reporter,  March 21,  1200 words,     Download Francis on economic corruption 3-26-15

Harper, "Cupcake time yet?"

True?  

 I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake

See you Sunday, March 29, 2015, Palm Sunday,  Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Sydney, Hugh, and Sandra solving world problems.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

   Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’sPeople, 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.

Beware, Marathoners passing, Bill, Paul, & Carrie. Hitch on for Boston Marathon.

Kaliope says, "Welcome, Everybody," in Greek while John translates for the illiterates.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the house served afterwards.

 Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack. 

 Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence.

Mikela and Kiera also say, "Welcome, Everybody," in English.

 Readings:

Isaiah  49, 3, 5-6,  I will make you a light to the nations.

Psalm 40,  Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will.

1 Corinthians 1,  1-3,  Grace to you and peace.

John  1, 29-34, I saw the spirit come down. Like a dove.

Chloe says, Hi, Everybody, meet my new little sister, Charlotte."

Community Events:

1.   Brunch Sunday, January 26, the Sunday after this one.  Rumor: an old geezer is celebrating a birthday.

2.    Anybody have any ideas of how we might celebrate Lent again this year?  We will have a penitential service, and are looking for other helpful activities.

3.   ROMEO lunch Friday, January 17,   Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids.  

4.  The Women's Lunch Group on 1st Thursdays,  The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

The Pastry Shoppe is open, "Take a number."

What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.     Who is Peter Faber?, National Catholic Reporter,  January 11, 1000 words,    Download Peter Faber 1-16-14  

2.     Francis' advice to us, National Catholic Reporter, January 14, 700 words,      Download Francis' Advice 1-16-14

A Pastry Shoppe regular, Tori, blowing bubbles in her grape juice, while Buddy wonders what is going on.

 True? 

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

Joseph Campbell, Myths To Live By

The girls solving the problems of the world, Sandra, Denni, Carol, and Geri.

See you Sunday, January 19, 2014, 2^nd Ordinary Time

J.S., 214-783-0443

Another regular of the Pastry Shoppe, Georgie, relaxing after working all morning.

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 Helpers ready.

Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Jan, The Most Welcoming Person, says, "Welcome in, Everybody."

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

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

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

Here, Buddy, let me get that bug out of your ear.

Readings:  

 Proverbs 9, 1-6,  Wisdom has built her house.  

Psalm 34,   Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.  (Wow, 2^nd week in a row, terrific)

 Ephesians 5, 15-20,  Watch carefully how you live. 

John 6: 51-58,  I am the living bread.

Sir Charlie, I am scared with you standing there so close to me.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 17, 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), September, TBA

Wake up, Joe.  Just because Marsha is not here you think you can sleep during my homily.  

TRUE?

I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair.

He turned to me and asked, "Are you having it catered?"

And that, my friend, is the sad definition of "OLD".

You are lucky, John.  When I was supposedly growing up in Christ the King parish, they had ushers who knocked sleepers on the head when they got caught sleeping during the sermons of old Monsignor Bender.   How come we got so many sleepers this morning, John?

Anything happening in our Catholic World?

1.  Why not report clerical sexual harassment, America, 8-1-18,   Download SEXUAL SECRECY 8-16-18

2.   Steve Blow used to write column for the Dallas Morning News.  On at least two occasions, one of which was our wedding, Steve wrote me up & we became friends.  John Cade came across this article, which I had never seen.   It is a homily subject.  It will make your day.  Enjoy.   Download PET DELIGHTS 8-15-18

Donna, Bernadette, and Dana, I don't even want to ask what is going on there.  You even got Cody and Ben watching.

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.

And even more Peace, Everybody.

 
Mass:   Coffee, pastries, & specials on the house.  

Time: 9:30;  Tony Celebrating

 Place:  Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side

 
 
 Readings: Genesis 2, 7-9, 3, 1-7; Psalm 51, Be Merciful, O Lord, for We have sinned; Romans 5, 12-19; Matthew 4, 1-11 
  
 

 
 
        
Picture 1:   Ryan on book patrol after Mass                        

Picture 2:   Wendy, Shonda, Ray, & Jon

Picture 3:   Leo in a baptism mood   

Picture 4:   Ash Wednesday at Curtis & Mabel's

Picture 5:   Ash Wednesday              

Picture 6:   Mabel recieving ashes

Picture 7:   Taylor reading

Picture 8:   Zach reading

Picture 9:   Bernadette with Gilberto, Mary Ellen, Nina, & Curtis

Community Bulletin Board:

1.   "All Kids Count" day from Bob McGrath, Download Bona Responds Flyer March 2011

 2.  New Way to Love Seminar with David McKeon (MC for our annual anniversary party) & Margie, his wife, Download New Way to Love Seminar 3-11-11 

3.  Early announcement & welcome: Our Annual Anniversary Party (6th), May 7, Saturday evening, 6:00, Heritage Farm, like last year. 

Church Happenings:

 1.  What is the read on The Future Catholics, National Catholic Reporter, 2-28-11, Download Younger Catholics 3-11-11 

2.   A contemporary exemplary Bishop, National Catholic Reporter, 3-7-11, Download Bishop Ruiz Hero Bishop 3-11-11 

3.  Mother Theresa, National Catholic Reporter, 3-5-11,  Download Mother Teresa 3-11-11

 True?

 And for Lent, 

Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful, or
          joyful.

See you Sunday, March 13, 2011

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Welcome:  Catholic Mass with coffee & juice & specials on
the house served afterwards.

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

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence

The Pratt family, Chuck and Sandra, Chip and Cathy, Mark and Pam and Alex.

Readings:

Jeremiah
38, 4-6, 8-10, 
 They threw Jeremiah into the cistern.

Psalm 40,  Lord, come to my aid.

Hebrews 21, 1-4,  We are surrounded by a great cloud of
witnesses.

Luke 12, 49-53, Do you think I have come to establish
peace on the earth?

The choir with interns Emma, Leo, and Sophia.

The banana peel, after dancing with the banana peel, Leo handed it to his momma.

Community
Events:  

  1.   Our next Habitat
special day is probably September.
Look for the neighborhood behind the
Home Depot on Central, 11^th &

Ave. E.  A person may also work any Saturday.  

There
is still work to be done on the current house.

2.   ROMEO lunch Friday, August
9, 1:00, as usual.   The Old Geezer will be in
Ogden, Utah for Ryan McClurg’s wedding Friday., returning Saturday night.

 3.  The Women's Lunch Group on
Thursdays is on vacation until further notice.    For info talk
with Carol or Bernadette.  

HHH bikers John, Grace, and Doug.

Preparing for the Hotter "N Hell Hundred, Doug and Grace ride these bikes to our celebration.

What's
going on in our Catholic World: 

1.   American nuns and the Roman Visitor, National
Catholic Reporter, August , 360 words,  
Download American Nuns & Vistor 8-16-13  

2.   Francis unsettling folks?, National
Catholic Reporter, August 8,
  900 words,  
Download Francis unsettling 8-16-13  

3.   Projects facing Francis,  National Catholic Reporter,  August 12, 1000 words,      
Download Francis' Projects 8-16-13

Leo ready to celebrate.

Leo stuck until Beth pulled him out head first.

 True? 

 Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark
Twain

Sophia.

 See you Sunday, August 18, 2013, 20^th  Ordinary Time, C cycle
  

J.S., 214-783-0443

Cupcake of The Week to John and Jean for 55 years.

One Cupcake of The Week to Marlene for her birthday and one a week late to Curtis, because his got accidentally given to a little girl (Emma) who visited the altar and left the gift of her toy car last 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.

Curtis and cupcake.

Photographers at work. Want to know how we get these pix? Beth and Sir Charlie.

Mass: 9:30; coffee, donuts, home made muffins, & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Genesis 12, 1-4; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1, 8-10; Matthew 17, 1-9.

Community Bulletin Board

Feb. 10 Mass, this past Sunday:   Thanks, Everyone.    

Rotary Camp Ryla: any high school juniors who would like me to sponsor you to an all expense paid, one week camp for leadership?  The camp has great press.  Takes place in June.

See you Sunday.