Reminder for Sunday, August 23, 21st Ordinary Time, B

 
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: Coffee & juice & specials on the house.

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

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

 

 

 

Readings:   Acts 4, 32-35, They had everything in common; Psalm 118, Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, his love is everlasting; 1 John 5, 1-6, Everyone who loves the Father loves the one begotten by him; John 20, 19-31, Jesus came and stood in their midst.

 

  Community Bulletin Board:

1. Easter Egg hunt:  Return your empty plastic eggs and get a prize.  Thanks to The Gang who helped.
2. Big Annual Anniversary Party: April 28, Heritage Farm, 6:00 until…  As usual, covered dish, wagon & mules for the kids, and renewal of wedding vows of 15 plus couples from 5 years to 60 years. 
3. Check out YELP on line.  Comment on our community.  Thanks, Carol Eshelbrenner.

 

    

 

 What's going on in our Catholic World:   

1.  Benedict and Cuba, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, (400 words),  Download Benedict & Cuba 4-13-12

2.  Kennedy on substitutes for Easter & Passover, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, (700 words), Download Kennedy on Easter 4-13-12

3.  The Cardinal’s Lunch, National Catholic Reporter, April 9, (500 words), Download A Cardinal 4-13-12

 

  

True?

The more I read, the more I meditate, and the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

VOLTAIRE

 

 

 

  

 

  Video:  (3 min.)

       

 See you Sunday, May 15, 2^nd Easter

  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.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Watch out, Norm & Cheryl & Mike, that little girl will swipe your cookies when you are not looking.

 

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

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

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075 

 

Beware, Richard, friendly Sir Charlie is just getting ready to stick that left hand in your pocket.

 

Readings:

2 Samuel  5, 1-3,  They anointed David king of Israel.

 Psalm 122,  Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

 Colossians 1, 12-20,  Let us give thanks to the Father.

 Luke, 22, 35-43,   If you are king of the Jews, save yourself.

 

Welcome Home, Kim, with all your Dallas family.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 18, 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), December 9; 12:30

 Download Juliet Xmas

LOVE KIDS PICNIC: December 10, Saturday; Bill will work sign up beginning this Sunday.

ADVENT PLANS:   Download Advent 2016

 

Offertory with Jim and John and Connie trying to make them behave for a few moments.

                        

Christmas at the Dallas Symphony

This year we are going to the Meyerson on Friday, December 16th at 7:30 pm.   We will have seats in the Orchestra section at approximately $45.00 per person.  Please let Rosemary (rosemary.mcginn@sbcglobal.net) know as soon as possible if you are interested in going.  As always we will gather at Tulip Lane before the performance.

 

Welcome Home Norm and Diane.  Wow, can that Diane dance!

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Vatican observations on D. Trump, National Catholic Reporter,  November 12, 777 words,      Download VATICAN ON TRUMP 11-17-16
2. Church observations on immigrants to U.S., National Catholic Reporter, November 14,  430 words,     Download IMMAGRANTS & US CHURCH 11-17-16

 

One cupcake to the Candle Lighter of The Week.

 

True? 

Six Best Doctors in the World

1. Sunlight
2. Rest
3. Exercise
4. Diet
5. Self Confidence
6. Friends

KC

 

Some of the 19 Juliettes out on the town.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

Friday meeting of some of The Board.  A question of quantity vs quality?

 

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.

Special Healing for Carol.  Special prayer Friday.  

 

 

 

 

They finally caught her.
 

 

 

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade 

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

 

The Girls.  Again.

 

Readings:

Ezekiel  33, 7-9,    You have been appointed watchman for the house of Israel

Psalm 95,   If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts

Roman s 13, 8-10,  Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another

Matthew 18, 15-20,  Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am.  

 

 

 

Does that not look like a takeover!

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Most of us will be gone to Yosemite until the 14^th.  Take a break for a week?

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

 

 

The Community.

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Jean Vanier, The Tablet & Corpus, August 18  800 words (a hero of mine from my years in Toronto),   Download VANIER 7-31-17

 

 

 

The Best Team.

 

True?    (from Patricia)

Author Anne Lamott recently turned 61. So she’s compiled the following list of “every single true thing I know.” A brief recap:

1. All truth is a paradox. “Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift, and it is impossible here,” she says. Life is “filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.”
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2. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.” That includes you.
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3. Nothing outside of you will help you in any real, lasting way. Radical self-care is the only thing that will get you through. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true, and it works the other way around too. “If it is someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the solution,” she says.
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4. “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared. Everyone, even the people who seem to have it most together.” So don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides, she warns.
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5. “Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food. Its best use is as bait in snake traps or to balance the legs on wobbly chairs.”
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6. Every writer puts down terrible first drafts. The trick is that they commit to sticking with it. They take it Bird by Bird, her father’s advice that became the heart of her bestselling book. “Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better,” she says. “You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
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7. Creative success are “something you have to recover from. They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine.” And that brings us back to #1, because creative success is also amazing. “It is a miracle to get your work published,” she says. “Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes inside you. It can’t. It won’t.”
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8. Families are both astonishing and hard. Again reference #1. “Earth is forgiveness school,” she says. “It begins with forgiving yourself — then you might as well start at the dinner table.”
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9. Speaking of food: try to do a little better. “I think you know what I mean.”
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10. Grace is a powerful thing. “Grace is Spiritual WD-40 or water wings,” she says. “The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild.” Grace doesn’t always come in the forms you expect. Lamott sees it most in laughter. “Laughter really is carbonated holiness,” she says. “It helps us breathe again and again, and gives us back to ourselves.”
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11. God isn’t that scary. Rather than getting trapped in the mundanity of our own lives, she tells us to “go look up.” Now. “My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don’t look up,” she says. “If they did, they could fly to freedom. Instead, they walk around bitterly, bumping into glass walls.”
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12. Death is incredibly hard to bear, and you don’t get over losing people you love. “We Christians like to think death is a major change of address,” she says. “But the person will live again fully in your heart, at some point, if you don’t seal it off.” Memories of the people you love will make you smile at inappropriate times, but their absence will also be “a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.” Again, see #1.

She takes a deep breath. “Okay, I think that’s it. But if I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.”

 

 

Healing for Cindy.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

A footnote:  We are donating  as a Community

$1000 to the special fund established by the mayor of Houston,

$1000 to the 1st Baptist Church of Rockport

 

 

 

Healing and Life for Zoe.

 

 

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 for everyone.

 

 

Readings:

Wisdom 12, 13, 16-19, There is no God besides you.

Psalm 86,  Lord, you are good and forgiving.

Romans  8, 26-27,  The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness.

Matthew 13, 24-43,   A sower went out to sow.  Three agricultural parables.

 

 

Oaxaca Dreaming.

 

ROMEOS, Friday, July 17, 1:00,  as usual.    Welcome!

ROMEOs' Virtual Jason's Deli BYOB lunch
This is a recurring meeting, Friday, 1:00 pm
Link :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85798571623?pwd=NmFSTW1ocVMzRGdIc0QzUGxKdHM3dz09

Meeting ID: 857 9857 1623
Password: saladbar

 

Amsterdam.

 

Reminder for 16th Sunday Ordinary Time, July 19, 2020

Here are the links for Sunday:

 

 Mass:  Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Extras

Place:  Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.  Time: 9:30

Readings: Revelation 7, 2-14; Psalm 24, Lord, this is The People that longs to see Your Face; 1 John 3, 1-3; Matthew 5, 1-12

 

Community Bulletin Board: 

Special Notice: Time Change Sunday.

Heritage Farm renovation: last Saturday we were able to scrape the old paint off the four outside walls of the cottage.  This Saturday our goal is to replace the rotten boards and paint the walls.  Welcome!  We'll work from 9:00 until ca. 1:00.  If you have a roller pan and 6" or 12" roller, bring them.  Maybe a hammer. 

 

Lifenet Thanksgiving Dinner for the Disadvantaged: Volunteers!

Date: Saturday, November 21, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  Also, Friday volunteers are needed to set up, 3:00 P.M.

Place: Lake Highlands Presbyterian, 8525 Audelia & Nwst Hwy.

Time: 10:00-2:00, two sittings.

Lifenet phone: 214-932-1950, David Bear

Welcome: Let Rosemary or me know, we'll see you there.

   

 Excellent Article on the Pope welcoming Dissedent Anglicans, by James Carroll, ex Paulist priest & author of Practicing Catholic and other superior works:  Download THE BOSTON GLOBE

True?

 

Take more time,
cover less ground.

Thomas Merton
Dancing In The Waters of Life

  
 

 

Picture 1:  Bobby handing over our monthly support to CCAC

Picture 2:  Birthdays & Choir, Cara & her daddy, Ed, & Patricia

Picture 3:  Rosemary's blessing

Picture 4:  Jackie's Best Halloween House.  Welcome!  Be prepared for some live spooks from this community.  6409 Bastrop Court, Dlls 75023

          

 See you Sunday, November 1, All Saints

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)