Reminder for Sunday, November 3, 2013, All Saints

Isaiah 66:   …as a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you;

Galatians 6:  Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule and to the Israel of God.

Luke 9:  The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;

Here are the links for Sunday:

For Zoom   ( the video conference, same as last week )

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7428208829?pwd=VERncTBxaWdkaFpkTUZKL3RROW81UT09

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                  

 

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.

 

John Stack Ministries, 7017 Helsem Way, Dallas, Texas 75230

Welcome home, Wendy!

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

Kevin, our Candle Man of The Week

 Readings:

Zacheriah 9, 9-10,   He shall proclaim peace to the nations.

 Psalm 145,   I will praise your name forever, my king and my God.

Romans 8,  9, 11-13,  You are not in the flesh (?).  You are in the spirit.

Matthew 11, 25-30,  All creation is groaning in labor pains.

A cupcake for Rocco.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, July 7, 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), For July,  TBA

The Refreshment Queen (and her helper) for the July 4 Preston Hollow Parade and Picnic.  Ready for the onslought.  20 dozen donut holes gone in a flash.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. New group of different Cardinals,   National Catholic Reporter, June 28,   555 words,      Download NEW CARDINALS 7-6-17

Let the parade begin.  All bikes & trikes  & dogs welcome. 

True?

"Every single day, we need to choose hope over fear, and diversity over division.
Fear has never fed a family nor created a single job.
And those who exploit it will never solve the problems that have created such anxiety."

– Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
  in address to UN

From Louise Penny's July Newsletter 

Little cars welcome, too.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Even trains are welcome.

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.

Peace, Everybody.

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.

Mass:  Coffee & donuts & treats on the house.  Welcome!

Place: Vines High School, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence, west of Central Expressway.

Time: 9:30; Tony celebrating 

Readings: Proverbs 8, 22-31; Psalm 8, O Lord, Our God, how Wonderful your Name in all the Earth; Romans 5, 1-5; John 16, 12-15.

  


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Community Bulletin Board:

Take Note:  June 13 through August 1 we will meet at Sigler Elementary School, 1400 Janwood, Plano 75075 (corner of  Brentwood, just west of Alma).  Janwood is the first street south of St. Mark’s.  Vines will be undergoing major renovation.

Thoughts on The Church, National Catholic Reporter, 5-26-10:

Download Ewens 5-28-10.  The author, Jim Ewens & I studied theology together in Toronto, '68-'72, a great guy, a good Jesuit, a member of the Wisconsin Province.  This gives a picture of what it is like to exit.

 Picture 5:  The Juice Bar

 Video: Offertory & Sacrament of the Sick

See you Sunday, 5-30-10

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

Readings:

Sirach, 27, 30-28, 7, Hate not your neighbor.  

Psalm 103,  The Lord is Gracious and Merciful, never gets angry and is abounding in Love.  (Wow!)

Romans  13, 7-9,  Whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

Matthew 18, 21-35   If my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him?  .. not seven times, but seventy-seven times…

ROMEOS, Friday, September 11, 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

Reminder for 24th Sunday Ordinary Time, September 13, 2020

Here are the links for Sunday: