Sunday Reminder 11-6-09, 32nd Ordinary Time

Genesis 12:  The  Lord said to Abram; … I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; …

2 Timothy:  Beloved: Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.

Matthew 17:  And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light.

John Stack Ministries now meets at:  The ArtCentre of Plano, 902 E. 16th St, Plano

Welcome back, Dearest Tori, so nice to see you.

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

REMINDER: Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend.

He is coming!

Readings:

Malachi 1, 14-2, 2, 8-10,   A great king am I, says the Lord

Psalm 131,  In you, O Lord, I have found my Peace

Thessalonians 2, 7-9, 13 ,  We were gentle with you.

Matthew 23, 1-12,  Do not be like the Pharisees.

Healing for Sandra.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 3, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  

Healing for John.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  November Lunch 

GREETINGS JULIET LADIES

Our event for November will be held on Friday November 3 at 1:00 p.m.

Please join us for a fun time in the private dining room of

 Palio's  Pizza Café in Richardson, the southeast corner of Campbell and Coit   ( to the right of Sprouts and Dress Barn)

• You can BYOB of wine if you like. 
• They are giving us a 20% discount
• Lots of Parking right in front
• Great Pasta, Pizza, Salads, etc.
• Very reasonable prices
• Plenty of room for everyone
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Please email me if you have any questions and/or to let me know you are able to join us.  It can be our early Thanksgiving Party.

Sandra Pratt

prattquest@yahoo.com 

972-235-6622

 Hope you can join in the fun time we always have.

Our Father

Love for Kids picnic:  December 9

Jackie & Rick: have a nice bedroom they would like to put up for rent, $500 per month.   Location: Garland, near a DART  train station.

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Our Father.

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

    1.  NCR editorial on where we are at, National Catholic Reporter,  November 1, 727 Words,       Download NCR EDITORIAL 10-1-17

Clapping?   For ME??

True?

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

-Phyllis Diller
 

Not for Me?   No, huh, Buddy?  No!!

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Finally, the favorite part of our celebration.

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.

Cowboy Cole our Candle Lighter welcoming everyone to our Palm Sunday Celebration.

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

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

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

Cupcake of The Week for Candle Lighters? Absolutely.

Readings:

Acts 10, 34, 37-43,   Peter proceeded to speak.

Psalm 118,  This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad.

1 Cortinthians  5, 6-8,  A little yeast leavens all the dough.

John  20, 11-18,  Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene.

Palm Sunday entrance with palms sprinkled.

 Community Events:

1.    Easter Sunday, Beware, an Easter Bunny may be around, plus hidden Easter Eggs.

2.   ROMEO lunch Friday, April 18,  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.

The procession. See the video in Sunday's blog.

 What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1. Current Liturgy terminology?, National Catholic Reporter, April 8,     Download Liturgy translations 4-17-14  

    2.  About finances and abuse, National Catholic Reporter, April 10, 1000 words,       Download About finances and abuse 4-17-14    

    3.  Check out Pope Francis on 60 Minutes, Google to access.  Good.  

    4.  Slomo video.  Apply to biking?  What think? Download Slomo 4-17-14

Play Time with Emma, Tori, Zoe, and Cowboy Cole, with Beth watching over.

True? 

No one is in charge of your happiness but you.* 

What a Team!

See you Sunday, April 20, 2014, Easter Sunday, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

Zoe, Tori, and Emma under the watchful eyes of Emma's pal.

  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.

Awaiting the beginning, Mary Ellen, Kerry & Nina, Linda & Patricia.

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, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 10, 34-43; Psalm 118 (This the Day the Lord had made; let us Rejoice and be Glad); Colossians 3, 1-4; Mark 16, 1-7 (from Saturday night readings)

Community Bulletin Board: 

Self Decoration this Sunday: please bring a flower or plant for the stage.

Anyone know where I can find a good used or inexpensive refrigerator?  I have a family in need.

Anybody seen that Easter Bunny?  He passed by here loaded down for Easter.  Sez, "I'm looking for kids after Mass Sunday."  Bring yo baskets, kids. 

From Lou Federico some job opportunities: 

True?   The grace of God means something like: Here is your life.  You might never have been, but you are because the party would not have been complete without you.

Frederick Beuchner

Picture 1:  Richard Eshelbrenner reading Exodus, Holy Thursday Evening Mass

Picture 2:  Hand Washing, patio of Rob & Beth Robinson's house

Picture 3:  Ryleigh & Reagan

Picture 4: Guess who??

Picture 5:  Our Father, Holy Thursday Mass

 See you Easter, April 12.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Cupcakes of The Week to Dana, Geri, Gil, Rick, and Megan.

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

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

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

Dana at 22 with her treasure, and with David, her dad, and Dawson and Darbianna.

 Readings:

Isaiah  58, 7-10,  Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless.

Psalm 112,  The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

1 Corinthians 2,  13-16,  I came to you in weakness and fear.

Matthew  5, 13-16, You are the light of the world.

Want to know why poor Denver last? Try Fred. With Carol and Rick.

Community Events:

1.   ROMEO lunch Friday, February 7,   Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids.  The Old Geezer will miss to attend a seminar on psychology.

2.  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. 

Leo checking out the scene.

 What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.     The Francis Revolution, National Catholic Reporter, January 29, 1000 words,     Download Francis revolution 2-6-14

2.    Francis taps a reformer, National Catholic Reporter, January 30, 400 words,     Download Francis taps reformer 2-6-14

3.    Family Survey in Germany & Switzerland, National Catholic Reporter, Febraury 4, 830 words,    Download Family Surveys 2-6-14

Recharge time.

True? 

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?

Albert Einstein 

Sir Charlie trying to fool Geri and Gil.

See you Sunday, February 9, 2014, 5^th Ordinary Time, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

Got problems? Ken & Cindy got solutions.

 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.

Somebody say, 'Old Geezers?'

Zoe says, "Goodbye for now."