Reminder for Sunday 6-3-12, Trinity Sunday

Welcome:  Coffee & juice & specials on the house.

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

 

Readings:  

Deuteronomy 4, 32-34, 39-40, Ask from one end of the sky to the other, did anything so great ever happen?

Psalm 33, Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Romans 8, 14-17, The Spirit bears witness to our spirit. 

Matthew 28, 16-20, Behold, I am with all days until the end of the ages.

 

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Kate Banzhaf with her dad, Wally

Community Bulletin Board:

 

1.  Check with Tom Fleming about the Habitat build coming.

2.  This weekend Rosemary & I will be at in New Orleans, my old Jesuit home office.  We will be attending a class reunion of my original Jesuit class of ’58.  Out of about 40 guys about 5-6 are still Jesuits & priests.  The rest all left & got married.

                                               

 What's going on in our Catholic World:   

1.     Pittsburg priest on American Nuns, National Catholic Reporter, 5-28-12, (325 words),  Download Pittsburg Priest & Nuns 6-1-12

2.  Pastor of Blessed Trinity Parish, Cleveland, giving an excellent summary of the American Nuns situation.  From one of my S.J. buddies whom I will be with this weekend in N.O., (830 words),   Download BLESSED TRINITY PARISH 6-1-12 

 3.  Vatican II observations by one of the few left who was there.  Again from one of my S.J. buddies, working in Peru & still a Jesuit priest, (5600 words, long but a superb summary),  Download Vat. II from one there 6-1-12

 

 

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Kate, Wally, & Mackenzie

 

True?

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

— Buddha  

 

 

 

See you Sunday, June 3, Trinity Sunday

 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.

 

    

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