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Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

 

Sometimes readings in Advent focus mainly on repentance and on waiting for the Savior and Messiah to redeem us from our sins.  Yet, the Jewish people of the Hebrew Scriptures and the early Christians had much broader expectations.  The Savior is the one who comforts and heals us, rescues and unbinds us, enlightens us and lifts us up as well as wipes away our sins.  The earthly life of Jesus was filled with his healing and compassionate acts; his treating outcasts and women with inclusivity, dignity and love; his breaking down cultural, religious and social walls that separate people; and his not only forgiving sinners, but also eating with them.   This is what Jesus wants to do for us.  Advent is a time of becoming more whole, a time of becoming all we want to be and all God wants us to be.

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week
 

 

 

This Advent, let us believe and trust in the broader meaning of the season.  Deep faith is a creative energy that opens us to participate in what God wants to do for us in our personal lives and through us in our broken world and fragile Earth. The weeks of Advent give us the time to ask: What are the dark places in my life that need God's wisdom, uplifting and light?  What's not OK in me?  What's preventing me from feeling the love, unity and peace I want and God desires for me?  Where do I fall short of witnessing God's inclusive love, mercy and justice?  To each of these questions, we say: Come, Lord Jesus, come!

 

Advent Reflection by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, VP for Mission and Academics, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

 

 

 

Jackie reading the Blessing of the Advent Candles 

 

 

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Mary Jane & John
•    For The Team:     Buddy  &  Georgie
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Mike & Connie 
•    For the coffee and extras:  Becky & Tom 
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:     Ben  & David  & Shonda
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

 

 

Mary Jane reading the Beautiful Isaiah #2.

 

 

Birthdays:  T C Fleming (Monday, Loretta (Tuesday), Linda Cardenas (Wednesday)

 

Anniversaries:

Shonda & Cody (1^st, last Sunday)

 

 

 

 

John reading from Peter.

 

 

Please Remember these special people

 For Myron who just moved to the other side last Monday, as well as for Chris & the family;   For two moms who recently died, Connie’s mom and Marilyn’s mom;  For Aggie's 99 year old dad who also recently died;   For Kathleen Macchio & her family;  For John O'Donnell;  For Bill Hammond's recovery from rotator cuff surgery, which is expected to take a whole year, despite the fact he is running a half marathon this morning at the Dallas Marathon;   For Carol's rcuperation; For Tom Good;     For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;  For Nadia's recuperation;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;   For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer;   For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart condition;

 

 

 

 

Happy First Anniversary, My Dear Shonda, to you and Cody.

 

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;     For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;    for Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Dearest Emma, for being our delightful Candle Lighter of the Week.

 

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen;  For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome Home, Mark

 

Your Finances, December 10, 2017

Expenses:   $850.00

Outreach:   $635.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

 

 

Welcome, Miles & Linda with our dear Beth.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

 

  

 

 

The Minor Elevation.  Good Job, Buddy.

 

 

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.

 

 

Thanks, Bill, for coordinating & bringing out even trouble makers like Bill & Zaile, Patricia & Fred.

 

 
   
 

Special Thanks:

• For Reading:  Alexandra & Morgan
• For Serving:  Kevin Doherty
• For the Communion Bread: Alison DeGenova
• For the Wine Cups:  Rob & Beth
• For the Music:  Ray & Shonda & Wendy & Jon
• For the Pictures:  Jan & Beth & Richard
• For the altar & sound: Margie & Jackie & Hue
• For the coffee and pastries: none Christmas Eve  
    
   
                                                                                        

Happy Birthday:   Lorynne (14),  Jackie Ritter (today), & Jeremy & Ashley (23)  

  

 

Please Remember:

   Devin & Kiran Mishra, whom we will baptize and welcome into our community this afternoon;  Jim Drescher who just died;  Warren & Barb's friend, Phil Fruge, with cancer;  Sebastian, ca. 2 years, who  broke his leg;  Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer;  John Cade's mother in law;   Mike & Dee's daughter, Lisa;  Kathleen Gardner's friend Dana;  Bonnie Roger's brother & sister, both seriously sick;   Margie Malone's 2 year old niece;    Kim Burkhart's dad;   Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke;   Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;    Gilberto Delgado's mom;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living;  Rose Banzhaf's friend, Graham Henning & Wally's sister, Chris;   Marilyn Ackerman's  brother, Dick, and their grand daughter, Alex;  Jean Wright's  daughter, Mary;  David Hoover;     Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer;   Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad;  Theresa Quinn's dad;     Rita Dore;   Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;     Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, &  Jim;    Margie's mom;  our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino;   George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.  

 

   

 
Picture 1:   Alexandra  

Picture 2:   Morgan 

Picture 3:   Buddy & Torri making their debut

Picture 4:   Bobbi

 Video:         Nativity Drama      

   

   

  
Your Finances:  December 24, Christmas Eve

Expenses:   $2500.00

Outreach:   $1340.00

 Mexico:      $ 220.00  (total now, $1700.00)  

Thanks for the Generosity

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

 

 

 

 

Brent reading from Isaiah 66.

 

Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

May the day never burden.

May dawn find hope in your heart,

Approaching your new  day with dreams, possibilities, and promises.

May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.

And may you go into the night blessed, sheltered, and protected.

                                              

To Bless the Space Between Us   by John O’Donohue

 

 

 

Becky reading from Hebrews.

 

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Brent & Becky
•    For The Team:   Buddy & Georgie 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:  Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Mike & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & David & Cathy & Marsha
•    For all who helped with communion             

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

Birthdays:   Marsha Farmer, Marilyn Ackerman, Teresa Quinn, Rose Banzhaf

 

 

 

Thanks, Zoe, for doing the candles.

 

 

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Sydney, For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  For Gilberto who had a gall bladder operation:  Claire Mazzei's knee replacement operation Tuesday;    For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder recuperation;      For a friend & neighbor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free;    For Hue;  For John O'Donnell;    For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini; 

 

$1500 this month to you, Brent, for the wonderful work you do with Souls Harbor.

 

For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom;  for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;    for Steve Barrett,Rose, & Katie;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;  For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;  

 

 

The Candle Lighting Team.

 

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues, especially Mark Pelton; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

 

 

 

Happy Anniversary and welcome back, Dear Caroline & David.

 

Your Finances, August 25, 2019

Expenses:   $ 885.00

Outreach:    $ 205.00 

This week we donated $1,500.00 to Soul's Harbor.

 

 

Happy Birthday, Marsha.

 

 

 

Happy Birthday to you, Carrie.

 

Thanks, Everybody 

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

Peace, Everybody.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Amos 6:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!
1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
 Luke 16:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

 

Thanks…
Music,   Shonda & Ben
Readers,  Connie & John
Homily,   John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack
The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin
Final Blessing,  Rosemary

Remember these special people:

For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Cade:  For John Stack;    For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Warren Wittek; For Tom Good; For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;   For Mary Hall’s family and friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition;   For Sir Charlie;  For Ron ;  For Teresa Quinn’s niece, Maddie who has a brain tumor;

Jackie’s sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;    from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation,  the families of Annie and Michael and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

 

Birthdays:    Tori & Buddy Brown 10/3
Anniversaries:   Pat & Fred 10/2, John Cade Ordination 9/30

Expenses: $  1,250.00
Outreach: $  315.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

“Rivers do not drink their own water;
trees do not eat their own fruit;
the sun does not shine on itself
and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves.
Living for others is a rule of nature.
We are born to help each other.
No matter how difficult it is.
Life is good when you are happy
but much better when others are happy because of you.
Let us remember that pain is a sign that we are alive,
problems are a sign that we are strong and
prayer is a sign that we are not alone.
If we can acknowledge these truths and
condition our hearts and minds, our lives will
be more meaningful,
different and
worthwhile.” 

Pope Francis

John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at 9:30 at
the ArtCentre of Plano,
902 E. 16th St, Plano, Texas.

 

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:   

We end this meal with grace

For the joy and nourishment of food,

The slowed time away from the world

To come into presence with each other

We pray the wise spirit who keeps us

To change the structures that make others hunger

And that after such grace we might go forth

And impart dignity wherever we partake.

John O’Donohue    To Bless the Space Between Us

Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Lou Federico & Megan Dulenti

• For the Communion Bread:  Alison, Sabrina & Anthony

• For Serving:  Kevin & T.J.

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Roy & Carol & Beth & Rob

• For the Music: Ben & Wendy & Celeste

• For the Pictures: Jan & Beth

• For the altar & sound:  Margie & Hue

• For the donuts & coffee: Jackie & the Baack Family

Happy Birthday:    Alison Degenova, Jessica Bresson, Sue Tomas, Bernadette Delgado, Joey Cade (John's daughter)

Happy Anniversary:

Diane & Kent McClurg (37th)

Ray & Loretta Garcia Williams (41st)

George & Marianne Elwell (14th)

Doug & Julie Kite (23rd)

Lou & Lorraine Federico (39th)

2 anniversaries of ordination: Tony O'Donovan (36th), The Old Geezer (38th)

 

Please Remember:  Gayle O'Donovan's mom; Sabrina on her trip to France, Italy, and Greece; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis;  Jack Carlson's friend Tommy Ketchum, 37, in the hospital with emergency brain surgery after a stroke; Rita in the hospital starting to walk again & hoping to return home; Tyler Hayden Reed born last week prematurely at less than 2 lbs.; Jackie's sisters Sandy & Sue and friend Jack Brown with various cancers & Keith Beasley who fell off the 7th floor of a parking garage & is still living;  Julie Johnston who is dealing with a return of her cancer; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining;  Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark, and a little baby, Reese who has tuberous sclerosis complex;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  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; David Hoover & his brother Hugh in the hospital; 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 & Hector; Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

 

                   

Picture 1:  Lou, alias "Federico" reading Exodus

 

Picture 2:  Megan reading Hebrews

 

Picture 3:  Kayla with her mommy Christi & Alison: birthdays

 

Picture 4:  Bill Hammond with some Old Geezer, Collin Co. Classic (55 mi.)

 

 

 

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

 

Your Finances:

 

June 14: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,818.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $  857.00   

Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Rosemary’s Blessing:

May God grant you the strength and faith to

Count your blessings, not your crosses;

Count your gains not your losses.

Count your joys not your woes;

Count your friends not your foes.

Count your health not your wealth;

And love your neighbor as much as yourself.

An Irish Blessing

  Our Special Thanks 

•   For Reading:   Grace and Richard
•   For The Team:   Kevin & Georgie
•   For
  the Communion Bread:  Alison
•   For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
•   For the Pictures & Video:   John & Connie & Rick
•   For the coffee and pastries:  Ron & Marilyn, & Jackie & Beth
•   For the  altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•   For the Music:  Bethany & Ray

 

 

 Birthdays:  Beth (Friday)

Anniversaries:

Joe & Rita Hogan (32^nd, Saturday)

We Remember:

 

 Jan's family members who are doing badly;  Bobby who broke his arm;  Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis;  Chuck Pratt and his cancer;  John's Caliope, who has been in and out of the hospital;   John Doherty's dad who is declining rapidly; Diane Holcomb who is recovering from a bad bike crash;   Dee's friend Carole and Cole, 17, facing brain surgery;  John Simari’s friend Kieth; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill;   Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friend, Mike & Tara;     Jim Butterly’s brother, Paul;    

 

 

 Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer, David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim; Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her foot operation; Alexander Occhipinti;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;  Rita

 

 Bernadette Delgado's mom &  Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman'smom & brother, Dick; 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; 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: July 14, 2013

 Expenses:   $740.00

Outreach:    $190.00

We donated this week: 

1.  $1000 to our Habitat Group.  (The special donation to us)

2.  $300 to Plano Homes.

 

Thanks for your Generosity.

Video: Exit hymn, Lead us to the Water, 1 1/ 2 minutes, with a special, first time ever visit from Emma, practicing her dancing,

  

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.