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 Sorry, everyone, the editors are on break, for example:

Rosemary in Alsace.

  Special Thanks:

• For Reading:  John &  Jean O'Donnell  
• For Serving:  Georgie & Kevin
• For the Communion Bread:  Jan & Claire
• For the Wine & Cups:  Beth
• For the Music: Ray  & Shonda & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video:   Next week
•  For the coffee and pastries:  Fred & Maureen,  Jerry & Jackie
• For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue

 Birthdays: Dee Miller (today, Sunday), John O’Donnell (Thursday), Michael Kern (49 Saturday), Christine Drescher (Saturday)

Anniversary:  Fred Martinez & Martha (4^th, Friday)

Strasbourg Train Station, the new and the old.

We Remember  

Tom Quinn's shoulder surgery coming up, plus Tom & Teresa's daughter, Colleen, with cancer;  Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth;  Bill Ekes eye operation recuperation;   Jim Butterly’s brother, Paul;  Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family on their new grandkid, Warren;  Mary Hall who broke her foot; Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;  Judy's Matt Larson with cancer, David, and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Janie's friend Wilbur;  Gerald's mom really sick;  Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her foot operation;  Jean Wright's recovering from rotator cuff surgery;    Sue Tomas;   Mike & Dee’s daughter, Lisa;    Alexander Occhipinti;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;  Rita

  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;    Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, & Chebino;  a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

  Your Finances: March 10, 2013

Expenses:     $    See next weeks blog.

Outreach:     $  

 We donated this week: 

1.   Catholic Charities.

    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.

The editors in the vineyard above Colmar, France

Our Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Bernadette & Mike         
• For Serving:  Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread:  Lynda Fleming
• For the Wine Cups:  Jan & Sir Charlie
• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video: Beth
• For the pastries & coffee:  Joan & Jackie & The Wyndham Group
• For the altar & sound:   Jackie & Hue

Bernadette reading Acts

 Birthdays:  Judy Thompson & Scott Simari, John’s son (25)

Anniversaries:

John & Maria Gorman (14^th)

Mike reading 1 John

 We Remember  

A young man, Andy, who died of an overdose & his mom, Beverly;   Rich & Carol Eshebrenner's new grandson, Oscar, & his mom, Gloria, in Seattle;  Denni's older sister Patti who just died recently;  Michael Kern’s dad;  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;     Alison's recuperation;  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; Fred's friend John with cancer;  for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Your Finances: May 27, 2012

Expenses:    $1405.00

 Outreach:   $  685.00  

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 

Lord

May we never take our freedom for granted

and help us to strive so that this same freedom

may be experienced by everyone in our country,

especially the poor and the oppressed,

and eventually by all humankind.

Andrew Greeley   A Book of Irish American Blessings and Prayers  

Beth reading from the last chapter (66) of The Great Prophet Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:    Beth & Rob
•    For The Team:   Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Sir Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Mike & Beth
•    For the coffee and extras:   Jean & John & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  David & Bethany 
•    For all who helped with communion   

Rob reading from Galations.

Birthdays:   Jim Butterly (37^th, Monday), Carol Eshelbrenner (Tuesday), Brent (44, Wednesday),  Ryan Ekes (24, Thursday),  Kim (Thursday), Paul Bieda (55, Friday),  Cindy Cramer (Saturday), and Aggie (Saturday & see Anniversaries)

Anniversaries: 

Aggie & Allen  (49^th, Saturday)

Jan & Charlie  (54^th, Tuesday

 Remember:  July 10, Community Summer Brunch.

Happy Birthday, Brent, and congratulations on your excellent work at Souls Harbor.

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol’s treatment;  For Nina's dad, Art, who died at 93, and for Nina and the family;  For John Schanot's treatment;   For Nadia's recuperation;   For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom in Alberta;   For Dee and Mike;   For Tom Good;     For Cliff & Jean;   For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom;  For Frank; For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;      For Frank's treatment;     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;

Thanks, Dana, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

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 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;    Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;     Diane McClurg's mom;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Welcome back home to The Community, Angela, after being stuck for a few weeks with your car in service for air bags.

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;   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.

Happy Birthday, Cindy.

Your Finances, July 3, 2016

Expenses:   $640.00     

Outreach:   $210.00

Donated today:  $2000 to Souls Harbor

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy 54th, Jan, to you and that character with you, Sir Charlie.  How did you do it?

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

We are watching, Mike.  That cupcake is for Emily.  No cheating.

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.

Emily, if you don't get your cupcake, you take your friend there and he will get it for you for sure.

Rosemary's Blessing: 

Gracious Lord, you who reveals God's affection for us in the Birth of Jesus, help us to realize that our call , like yours, is to let God's Light shine among our Fellow Humans by Kindness, Generosity, Dedication, and Love.                                

                 Andrew Greeley,  Irish American Blessings
 

Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Christine & Megan Montesorin (Mom & Daughter)
• For the Communion Bread:  Claire & Bernadette & Christine
• For Serving:  Sabrina
• For the Books & Wine Cups: Cliff & Jean & Roy & Rob & Beth
• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Wendy & Celeste & Hue
• For the Pictures:  John Cade

Happy Birthday:   D'Arcy Drescher; Bobby Ekes (49); Ben Farmerr (21); Cole Carey (16); David Hoover & Doug Kite (54's); Don Sessler (51); Regan & Ryleigh (7).

Happy Anniversary: 

• Jackie Johnson & Rick Turner (8th) 

Please Remember:   Beth's sister Katie who had a knee operation Friday;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & Rick in Chicago;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  Andy Goode;   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; 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, his grandmother Alice Quiocho, & Bill Mehalco's son Mike on his 3rd in Iraq; 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 elect that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:  Megan Montesorin (Daughter) 

Picture 2:  Christine Montesorin (Mom)

 Picture 3: Regan & Ryleigh at 7

 Picture 4:  Guess Who?

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

Your Finances:

January 11: 

• Income for Running  Expenses: 1,275.00 
• Income for Outreach Expenses:   619.00

Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Rosemary’s Blessing

Oh God of humor enable us to laugh at your mischievous plans. 

Life can become serious during these cold winter months, and our hearts can become heavy and burdened with responsibilities, decisions and trying to keep everyone happy. 

Let us look for the funny things that happen, the unexpected surprise that catches us off-guard, along with the incongruences that we encounter. 

Smile, snicker, giggle, give a belly laugh, and spontaneously guffaw. 

Amazing how God works through laughter.

  Sr. Mary Elizabeth Schweiger

Michelle reading the beautiful Isaiah 42.

Our Special Thanks:

•    For Reading:  Richard & Michelle
•    For The Team:  Georgie & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:  Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie & Jan
•    For the Pictures & Video:   Rick & Beth, Mike Connie 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Sir Charlie & Jan,  Jerry and Judy
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  Ray &  Shonda & Bethany

Richard reading Acts.

  Birthdays:   The Marvelous Gerwer kids, Trey, Brady, Cameron, and Reid (6, Thursday), Doug Kite (59 Wednesday), Ben Kern ( Monday), Cole Carey (20, Sunday, today)

Anniversaries:

Jackie and Rick (13th Monday)

 

Our lunatic fringe, Connie and Cathy with poor John.

Please Remember these special people:

Jackie Urbanczyk's recovery;  From Mary Hall, Debbie Hooper with serious cancer;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis;  Frank Esparza recuperating from an operation;  Fred and Maureen’s friend, Real Giguere;  Mary Templeton seriously hurt in a surfing accident (from Chris Phipps & Beth);  Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;  from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer; 

John looking for Leo who was home with his grandparents.

The Great Kaliope, John Cade's mother in law, visiting the community for the first time after breaking her hip, for which she gets a Cupcake of The Week.  Speak Greek only, please.

Beginning the feast of The Baptism.

 Your Finances: January 12, 2014

Expenses:   $895.00

Outreach:   $490.00

Viedo:  Cupcakes of The Week for 4 special kids, 1 min.,

 We Donated this week:

$1200 for a family with an emergency.

Thanks for your Generosity.

Rosemary reading her blessing.

 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

Group blessing of all the women of our community.  See below.

Mary Jane reading Acts.

 Our Special Thanks:

•    For Reading:   John and Mary Jane
•    For The Team:  Georgie & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:  Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures & Video:   Rick, Mike, & John 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Mike & Judy,  Jackie and Beth Dugan & Jerry
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  Bethany & Ray

John reading 1 Peter.

 Birthdays:    Barb Senter (Tuesday),  Monica Froebe (51, Friday & Rich on the 19th), Stephen Kern (17, Friday)

Last week: Ron Senter (Friday), Patricia (68, Thursday), Cowboy Cole (5, Tuesday), Fred Martinez (41^st of ordination, Monday)

A Mother's Day blessing for some of the women of our community.

Anniversaries:  

Jessica Bresson & Steve (2nd, Monday)

Dick & Judy Thompson (11th, Tuesday)

Scott & Lily Thompson (22nd, Friday)

Last week:    Hugh and Sydney Bivona (7^th, Sunday)

                      Bill and Patty Hammond (46^th, Sunday)

And a few more.

 Please Remember these special people:

For Tom Quinn's surgery Friday;  for the father of Sheila Baach and Pat Haigh, who died this week;   for Nina Tucker's dad;   Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;  Cathy’s mom, Mary Dzuro, in heaven, and the family;  For Patty Hammond’s recuperation from knee replacements;      for a special girl named Missy Ackerman; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Fred and Maureen’s friend, Real Giguere;   Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;  from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer;  

And even these.

John Simari's collegue with the final stages of cancer;  Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;  Margie McKeon’s brother, Bill, with lung cancer;  Jackie's sister, Shellie;  Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;   Dee's friend, Don Fox, with cancer;   Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends, Mike and Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson; Alexander Occhipinti; Rita; 

The Community Blesses.

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; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg just home from Korea, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Video: A Mother's Day blessing for all the women of our community, ca. 2 minutes,

Your Finances, May 11, 2014

Expenses:   $1305.00

Outreach:   $ 600.00

Last Week:

Expenses:   $260.00

Outreach:   $175.00

The Blessing.

We Donated this week:  nothing special.

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Good Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Three Special Gifts receiving their Blessing, Zoe, Emma (with cupcake), and Tori.

 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.