Sunday Reminder for 5-9-10, Mother’s Day & 6th Easter

Isaiah 9:  For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests.

Titus 2:  Beloved: The grace of God has appeared…

Luke 2:  Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

 

 

Christmas Eve Mass will be on Saturday, December 24th at 4:30 P.M.  There will not be a Mass on Christmas Day. 

 

 

 

 

Georgie reading from Isaiah

 

 

 

John Stack Ministries now meets at: 

The ArtCentre of Plano

902 E. 16th St, Plano

 

 

Please use the Haggard Park side entrance.  Latecomers please use the 16th Street entrance.

 

 

From Connie Bresson:                                                                                 

Jim Mahar and the BonaResponds team is heading to Florida January 2-13 to do hurricane relief efforts at Pine Island.  This is a tremendous group of students and adults from St. Bonaventure that work so hard to help others.  If you want to help any of the days they are there, please read the attached in the following link. 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqyl-QXF_emKTqbBhNGw4XCoBtq6zn_DuLkeTXMw-P5WJTcA/viewform

                                                       

          

 

 Mass:  Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Extras

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

Readings: Numbers 11, 25-29; Psalm 19, The Precepts of the Lord give Joy to the Heart; James 5, 1-6; Mark 9, 38-43.

Community Bulletin Board: 

Food Drive: This Sunday, Sept. 27  Tony will celebrate our Mass.

From the Delgados: found but can't keep a nice Australian Shepherd, male, neutered, 18 months to 2 years of age, black & white medium length hair, ca 50 lbs, would make a nice pet.   Bernadette,   Bernadettedelgado@tx.rr.com

From the Morrows: a recumbent bike available.   Try it out at White Rock Lake for a treat.  Jeffrey, jeffreymorrow@tx.rr.com   Penny,  pennymorrow@tx.rr.com

Get Ready for Christmas:   Here are two performances at two different venues, one at the Meyerson as usual, the other at the brand new Winspear Opera House.  The plans:

    1.  December 10, Thursday, 7:30: The Meyerson.  Christmas Special, $55 (New Director this Christmas.  David Davidson died of cancer Saturday.)

    2.  December 15, Tuesday, 8:00:   The Winspear, South Pacific, $50 (cheapest in the house; with 15 or more we get better seats at $55)

As an extra: pre-performance wine & cheese at the Tulip Lane parsonage with a tour through the best Christmas decorations in Dallas, i.e., Highland Park.

Let Rosemary or me know if you would like one or both performances, say, by the end of September. 

True?  This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others.

WALT WHITMAN

    

Picture 1:  Sunday Brunch with Greg, Rosemary, & Joe

Picture 2:  Monica & Richard

Picture 3:  Zoe with her grand daddy, Gilberto

Picture 4:  Bill & Zaile 

Picture 5: Marilyn with daughter in law, Lisa & her daughter, Lorynne & Tom

                   

 See you Sunday, September 27

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

 

 

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the house served afterwards.

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

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

 

 

 Readings:

Matthew 21, 1-11, Jesus enters Jerusalem

Isaiah 50, 4-7,   I gave my back to those who beat me.

Psalm 22,  My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?

Philippians  2, 6-11,  Because of this God greatly exalted him.

Matthew  27,, 11-54,  The passion & death.

 

 

 Community Events:

1.    Sixth Sunday of Lent:  Palm Sunday & Passion

2.   ROMEO lunch Friday, April 11,  Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids, plus the Real Romeos.

 3.  The Women's Lunch Group on 1st Thursdays,  The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

  4.  Love for kids picnic,   Download Love For Kids 4-10-14

  5.  Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center meeting,   View this photo

6.  Next Community Party: April 26.  Annual Anniversary Party (9 years!), Heritage Farm, 6:00 P.M., covered dish as usual.  

7.  Next book and game swap: May 18.  Save up.

 

 

 

 What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1. The Irish Cardinal, National Catholic Reporter, April 4, 1100 words,  Download Irish Cardinal 4-10-14

    2.  U.S. Parish profiles, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, 1400 words,          Download U.S, Parish demographics 4-10-14

    3.  A bishop’s compensation, National Catholic Reporter, April 7, 1600 words,     Download A bishop's worth 4-10-14

    4.  Immigration policies, Corpus, April 1, 1900 words,   Download        Immigration 4-10-14

 

True? 

It is your right to be happy. 
This is what you were made for. 
And if you will not resist, 
happiness will find a way 
to pour from your heart and fill your days. 
– Hugh Prather 
 

 

 

 See you Sunday, April 13, 2014, 6th Lent, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

  

  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.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Acts 2:   Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

1 Corinthians 12:To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.

John 14:  The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you."

 

Another Reminder for Pentecost, June 8, 2025

Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 5, 27-41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5, 11-14; John 21, 1-19

Community Bulletin Board

Invitation: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner, ca. 7:00. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them.

Seven couples will renew their vows. Guess Who? Also, we will do a covered dish hors d’oeuvres & desserts, and music for dancing. Moreover, the slide show of The Great East African trip.

Download the Anniversary Party 2007 Invitation.

From Angie Carroll: I am a volunteer at the Heritage Farmstead Museum on 15th and Custer in Plano and am currently helping them to find volunteer docents to give tours of the house and grounds. There is a great training program that is held every Tuesday in May from 7 to 9pm and every Saturday in June from 3-5pm.

This has been a really fun job because there is an opportunity to meet other volunteers, learn a great deal about life in Collin County at the turn of the century, meet lots of visitors who are from all over the country and also attend several social events each year.

We are looking for any women or men who have just a few hours each month to come and give tours. Anyone interested can call me at 972-612-8169, or e-mail me at acarroll@heritagefarmstead.org.

Important technology announcement

As you may have noticed in our emails, we have set up a blog. What is a blog? Essentially it is a web site that allows for someone like me to post writings to one place for viewing by others. For the past few months we have been posting my emails to the site in addition to sending them out as we have been via regular email.

Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to transition to using the blog as the main source for distributing this information. Why? Three reasons.

First, this will dramatically reduce the amount of time I need to spend on this process. Right now, I have to break the distribution into many groups of people, taking about an hour per week. With this new process I will just have to post the text to the site and an email will be automatically generated to you.

Second, I believe the blog will allow us to cultivate a greater sense of community. In addition to allowing me to post, a blog allows you to comment on the posts. As my homilies usually end with a question, I think it would be neat for some of you (if you feel inspired of course) to answer the question or pose your own question back to me.

Third, the postings are available for future viewing and listening. All previous homilies (including the audio files) and announcements will be automatically archived. If you want to view or listen to them in the future you just need to go to the site and they will be there.

What does this mean for you? After this email (the one that you are reading) we will begin to upload the email address up to what is called an RSS feeder system. You will receive an email from a service call FeedBlitz asking you to subscribe to the service. Please accept this. This is a private list. You will not be solicited in any way and your information is kept private.

For the next two or three weeks you will receive both the standard emails from me and an email from the FeedBlitz service. Once we are satisfied that this new system is working properly you will only receive the one from FeedBlitz on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please let me or Ed Kless (ed.kless@choosegreat.com) know.