Announcements

Rosemary's Blessing:          

 Next week.

Our Special Thanks:  

•    For  the Readings:  
•    For The Team:  Georgie and Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison 
•    For the Wine & Cups:  Mike & Judy 
•    For the Pictures & Video:   Rick & Mike,  & Beth
•    For the coffee and extras:   Jackie & Beth 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  Ben & Wendy & Shonda & Bethany
•    For all who helped with communion 

Cemetery

Jesuit Cemetery, Grand Coteau, LA

Birthdays:  Alexadra Froebe (26) & Jerry Gleason (81, both Sunday), special congratulations to Genevieve, a few days old, and her mother, Mary.

 Anniversaries

Randolph & Michelle (18^th, Saturday)

John and Alison (21^st, Thursday)

John & Connie Doherty (24^th, Tuesday)

Chair for contemplation, Grand Coteau.

 Please Remember these special people:

For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;   For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;  For Bernadette's recuperation from knee surgery;  For a little friend, Heather;  For Geri's sister Francine;  For John & Jean's son John Louis;   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;    And for Mary’s coming Little Visitor, Genevieve;   For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;  

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;  

Path for contemplation, Grand Coteau, where the Old Geezer spent years 1 through 4 in training and 4 years after ordination setting up a spiritual center.

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.

Your Finances, April 19, 2015

Expenses:   $ Next week.

Outreach:   $

 Thanks for your Generosity.

 Have a Good 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

May the God of the dawn awaken you
May the God of sunrise stir you up
May the God of morning bless your work
May the God of noon renew your strength
May the God of sunset bring you home
May the God of dusk soothe your soul
May the God of night bring you rest.

Adapted from a blessing by Andrew Greeley

Special Thanks: 

Happy Birthday:  Dalton O'Reilly (12), Jim Meyer, Graham Rogers, Jackie Johnson, Dona Thomson, & John Cade ordained 49 years ago today
 

Happy Anniversary:

Nancy & Ron Kovatis (38th)

Jim & Diane Drescher (44th)

Please Remember:

Shonda & Michelle; Connie Breeson's dad, Leon Boehm, who died 2 weeks ago;  Peyton, Sierra's dad in a wreck;  Evi, Barb Senter's sister with cancer; Curtis Ekes; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer & their brand new grandbaby, Vivian Collette;   Warren & Barb's friend,  Phil Fruge;   Gilberto Delgado's mom;  Chuck Pratt with a bad back; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter;  Rose Banzhaf's friend, Graham Henning & Wally's sister, Chris; The Robinsons' son, Geordie;  Marilyn Ackerman's  brother, Dick, and their grand daughter, Alex;  Jean Wright's  daughter, Mary;  David Hoover; Kathy Pieper’s sister, Michelle; Bill Smith's daughter, Tammy;   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; for the recuperation of Jerry's right knee;    Rita Dore;   Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Tom & Teresa's friend Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece, Angel & friend, Diane Kreitzer;   Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino,   George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite, 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 Simari reading

Picture 2:    Mary Ellen Munzell reading

Picture 3:    Ray & Ben

Picture 4:    Mass ending 

Video:   

Your Finances: September 26:

Expenses:  $1192.00

Outreach:    $575.00

Thanks for the Generosity

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

Isaiah  25:  On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
Philippians 4:  My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 22:  Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’

I have to apologize.  I forgot to take pictures today until I got to the birthdays.

Readers,  Annette & Roger
Homily,   John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Richard & Kevin
The Organization men,  Richard & Mike & Tom
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 Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;

For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;    For John Schanot;  For Ed Kless;  For Rosemary’s nephew, Patrick; For 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:    Richard Eshelbrenner 10/15
Anniversaries:   Shonda & Cody Mashburn last week

Expenses: $  890.00
Outreach: $   50.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s
compassion is to look out to the world,
Yours are the feet with which Christ is to
go about doing good,
Yours are the hands, with which Christ is to
bless all people now.

From a prayer by Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

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.

Rosemary's Blessing: Oh, Lord,

Lent goes by too quickly, as does my Life.

Help me to take advantage of all the opportunities You give Me.

Dop't let me be so caught up in the Demands of the Day,

The Phone, the Doorebell, The Computer that I lose Touch with You and the

Invitation to Love which You Always offer Me. 

        Andrew Greeley, A book of Irish American Blessings

  Special Thanks:

Happy Birthday:   Barb Wittek, Buddy Goode, Chris Phipps, Elliot Zurchin

Happy Anniversary:

Hugh & Sydney (2nd)

Bobbi & Danny (3rd) 

Cathy & Buddy Goode (29th)

Please Remember:     Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned; Rick Cardenas' friend Joyce McKinstry; Charlie Sawtelle's friends Manuel & Suzanna Ruiz; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining; Cathy Lynn's mom who at 93 has skin cancer; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis, whom we will visit this week; Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Mike Bulger;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark & Becky's baby who just arrived;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;  Diane's dad Butch Uderman  & cousin Judy;  Margie's mom & her grand daugher Peyton recuperating from having her tonsils out last week; 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 & Rita; 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; 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:  Tom Fleming reading Jeremiah

Picture 2:  Claire Occhipinti reading Romans

Picture 3:  Reed with his beautiful grandmom Jackie

Picture 4:  $2000 donation to CCAC (Collin Co. Adult Clinic), Ray & Claire, Ron, Jackie, Mike

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

Your Finances:

March 29: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,042.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 577.00

Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

Sometimes readings in Advent focus mainly on repentance and on waiting for the Savior and Messiah to redeem us from our sins.  Yet, the Jewish people of the Hebrew Scriptures and the early Christians had much broader expectations.  The Savior is the one who comforts and heals us, rescues and unbinds us, enlightens us and lifts us up as well as wipes away our sins.  The earthly life of Jesus was filled with his healing and compassionate acts; his treating outcasts and women with inclusivity, dignity and love; his breaking down cultural, religious and social walls that separate people; and his not only forgiving sinners, but also eating with them.   This is what Jesus wants to do for us.  Advent is a time of becoming more whole, a time of becoming all we want to be and all God wants us to be.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week
 

This Advent, let us believe and trust in the broader meaning of the season.  Deep faith is a creative energy that opens us to participate in what God wants to do for us in our personal lives and through us in our broken world and fragile Earth. The weeks of Advent give us the time to ask: What are the dark places in my life that need God's wisdom, uplifting and light?  What's not OK in me?  What's preventing me from feeling the love, unity and peace I want and God desires for me?  Where do I fall short of witnessing God's inclusive love, mercy and justice?  To each of these questions, we say: Come, Lord Jesus, come!

Advent Reflection by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, VP for Mission and Academics, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

Jackie reading the Blessing of the Advent Candles 

Special Thanks to these special people:

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

Mary Jane reading the Beautiful Isaiah #2.

Birthdays:  T C Fleming (Monday, Loretta (Tuesday), Linda Cardenas (Wednesday)

Anniversaries:

Shonda & Cody (1^st, last Sunday)

John reading from Peter.

Please Remember these special people

 For Myron who just moved to the other side last Monday, as well as for Chris & the family;   For two moms who recently died, Connie’s mom and Marilyn’s mom;  For Aggie's 99 year old dad who also recently died;   For Kathleen Macchio & her family;  For John O'Donnell;  For Bill Hammond's recovery from rotator cuff surgery, which is expected to take a whole year, despite the fact he is running a half marathon this morning at the Dallas Marathon;   For Carol's rcuperation; For Tom Good;     For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;  For Nadia's recuperation;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;  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 condition;

Happy First Anniversary, My Dear Shonda, to you and Cody.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;     For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      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 Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Thanks, Dearest Emma, for being our delightful Candle Lighter of the Week.

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 Mary Ellen;  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.

Welcome Home, Mark

Your Finances, December 10, 2017

Expenses:   $850.00

Outreach:   $635.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Welcome, Miles & Linda with our dear Beth.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

The Minor Elevation.  Good Job, Buddy.

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.

Thanks, Bill, for coordinating & bringing out even trouble makers like Bill & Zaile, Patricia & Fred.

Rosemary’s Blessing      

Loving Father,

often we forget your gifts to us,

letting them pass unnoticed through each day.

Show us how to look again, to see through your eyes

and give freely in response to what we see.

Amen

 www.christianaid.org.uk/images/count-your-blessings-2010.pdf

Sandra reading Deuteronomy.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Sandra & Bill
•    For The Team:   Kevin & Georgie
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups:    Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Mike
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Judy & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue 
•    For the Music:  Ray & Bethany & David
•    For all who helped with communion                                                     

Bill reading Romans 10.

 Birthdays:   Dana Dinsmore (24, Today, Sunday), Drew Grattifiori

Anniversaries: 

John & Alison (Today, Sunday)

John & Lambrini (22, Thursday)

 Stacey and Paul planning to marry this week. 

Special Date: February 28, food drive.

Ugh, Oh, Folks, here comes that girl.  Watch out.

 Please Remember these special people:

For Dee and Mike;   For Tom Good;   For Lynda's mom who fell recently;   For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;      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 recovering from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis;    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 Jackie's friend, Barbara 

And there she goes, Folks.  What a tutu!  What a sight!
 

For Nadia's friend, Shannon Freeman;   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 who just died;     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;

Yes, Bethany, Yes, Ray, that is Genevieve you are looking at.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill.   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 & 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.

Ash Wednesday at Marlene's house.

Your Finances, February 14, 2016

Expenses:   $1755.00

Outreach:   $ 630.00

Donated today:   

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Ashes for Lynda. 

 Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Our Father. 

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.