3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time January 25, 2026

 

Rosemary's Blessing: 

 

Loving Father,

Often we forget your gifts to us,

letting them pass unnoticed through each day.

Show us how to look again,

to see through your eyes

and give freely in response to what we see.

www.christianaid.org.uk/images/count-your-blessings-2010.pdf

  
  

Special Thanks: 

·     For Reading: John Simari & Jim McCabe

·     For the Communion Bread:  Jan

·     For Serving: Kevin

·     For the Wine Cups & Cross:

·     For the Music: Ray &  Shonda

·     For the Pictures: Charlie

·     For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue

·     For the coffee & cake: Fred & Maureen & Joan

 

Happy Birthday:   Diane McClurg, Anthony DeGenova (11), & Ray Winkler 

 

The Status of The Hips:

2 more days of freedom until Feb. 24, when the right hip gets recycled.  I cannot wait!  Then a final month of being home bound.

  
 

Please Remember:  Geri & Mike Moran's 2 month old grand nephew, Cormac, recieving a liver replacement; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; David Hoover; Margie Dugan's grand kids Emma & Finn & their parents, having some rough times;  Jackie Ritter's friends Bob Minarik with cancer & Todd Fred with leukemia; Roy & Carol Strom's daughter Kelly with cervical cancer; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Mark Leutkemeyer's friend, Guy Knight, down with terminal cancer; Wally Banzhaf's sister Chris with cancer;  Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad;  Theresa Quinn's dad; for the recuperation of Jerry's right knee;  Celeste's niece, Lexi Colmenero;  Matt Baggert & his family & parents; Christine Drescher's Grandmother;  Rita Dore;  Julie Johnston;  Margie Weynant;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad;  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 Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece, Angel & friend, Diane Kreitzer;   Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino,  Lisa's nephew Kristopher;  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;  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:  John Simari reading

 

Picture 2:   Jim McCabe reading 

 

Picture 3:   Mike & Geri Moran

 

Picture 4:   Mr. A.&M., Daniel with his mom, Lynda, and Leah

 

 

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

Your Finances: February 21:

 

Income for Running   Expenses: $ 2,150.00

Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 1,115.00

 

 

Thanks for your Generosity!

 

 

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

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,  

 The Lord said to Moses: 

“… You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  I am the Lord”

May you

Give generously,

Forgive unceasingly,

And Love perfectly.

 

Cheryl reading from Leviticus.

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Cheryl & Patricia
•    For The Team:  Kevin &  Georgie & Buddy
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Mary
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Mike & Connie  
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Judy & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:   Ray & Shonda & Bethany             
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

Patricia reading from 1 Corinthians.

 

Birthdays:   Drew (Sunday), Ray (Wednesday), Rosemary (20th), Leighton Elizabeth Wittek (4, Friday)

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week?  No way. Receiving a cupcake?  Yes, for a 20th anniversary.   No smoking.

 

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis;   For Carol's recuperation;   For Tom Good;   For Christine Drescher in hopital;   For Dee;    For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;   For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;       For Cliff & Jean;    For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;    For Anthony;   For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

 

 

 

Would you trust this woman with your cupcake?  Even if she is your mom?  We are putting our trust in you, Caroline, you and David.  Trouble is, folks, Drew, their son, is at A&M.  

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 90;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;     Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

Thanks, Leo, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week, and, also, for being such a neat kid.  

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

 

 

Happy Birth Day, Bethany.  She says one more week, only!!

 

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;  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.

 

 

 

 

Guess what everybody is trying to get in on.  Only 4 today??

 

Your Finances, February 19, 2017

Expenses:   $520.00

Outreach:   $265.00                           

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

                                                                                                             

   
 

Blessed be The Lord.                                                                                                        

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

Says Harper, "Welcome back next week, 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.

 

 Peace Everybody.

Isaiah 50:The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.
Philippians 2:Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness;. . . .
Matthew 26:  He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The teacher says, “My appointed time draws near; in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.”‘”

 

Music,  Ben & Shonda
Readers,  Connie & John
Homily,   John Cade
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Richard & Kevin
The Organization man,  Richard
Final Blessing,  Rosemary

Remember these special people:

For all the people affected by natural disasters like floods, earthquakes etc;  For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Stack;    For the Quinn’s daughter, Colleen  with breast cancer;   For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;

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 Ron and Marilyn;  For Ed Kless;  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 ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

Birthdays: Barbara Wittek
Anniversaries:

Expenses: $  1,250.00
Outreach: $    100.00
Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Gethsemane by Mary Oliver

The grass never sleeps.
Or the roses.
Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.

Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept.

The cricket has such splendid fringe on its feet,
and it sings, have you noticed, with its whole body,
and heaven knows if it ever sleeps.

Jesus said, wait with me.

And maybe the stars did, maybe the wind wound itself into a silver tree, and didn’t move,
maybe the lake far away, where once he walked as on a blue pavement, lay still and waited, wild awake.

Oh the dear bodies, slumped and eye-shut, that could not
keep that vigil, how they must have wept,
so utterly human, knowing this too
must be a part of the story.

 

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.

 

Special Thanks:

• For reading: The Kites: Megan & Emily
• For the Altar Bread: Christine & Megan
• For Serving: T.J., Lacee, & Lorynne,
• For the Altar, juice, & coffee: Margie, Margarita, & Joan & Jerry
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol, Megan Shadrack
• For the music: Ray & Shonda, Wendy & Hue, Jackie & Rick
• Thanks to all who brought food and helped us celebrate Wendy

Happy Birthday: Megan Kite (19) & Julie Kite, Westley Lackey (16); Emily Wilson (10) Teresa Read* & Taylor Read (13); Mary Harrell; Daniel Fleming at Tech (19); Chloe’s mom Claire; Shon; Teresa McClure;  & Wendy.

Happy Anniversary:

• Chebino & Lydia (2nd!)
• Doug & Teresa Read (18th)
• Nina & Kerry Tucker (20th)
• Bill & Julie Carey (24th)

Please Remember:  Sylvia Grappa; Jim & Diane Drescher; Diane’s friend Gina with cancer; Rosemary’s nephew; Jean Atwood’s uncle Harry & aunt; Margarita’s Uncle Ed, Aunt Lenore, Greg, & Yolanda; little 11 month old Sadie with cancer, friend of Jack Carlson & Jackie Ritter; Jackie Ritter’s friend Jack Brown with lung cancer; Nina Tucker’s friend Nancy with stage 4; Margie’s mom; Donna & Cathy Goode’s mom; David Pastula’s companions in the military overseas, including Margarita’s Matt Gomez on tour 3, Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, & T.J.’s friend Aimee; David & Ofelia, Rita; Mary Ellen’s Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; George & Marianne’s sons & Linda’s son; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Shawn in a car wreck; Dawn’s friend Jessica; Barb Wittek’s friend Bill Snyder; Fred’s friend John with cancer; Roy’s daughter Bonny with cancer in NY.

Your Finances:

• September 16: Income for Running Expenses:              $ 1,053.00
• September 16: Income for Outreach Expenses:             $ 764.00    

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Week, J.S

   
 Rosemary's Blessing:

A Prayer For Growing Old Gracefully

 Lord, Thou knowest better than I myself that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.

Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all; but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on my aches and pains; they are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

 

I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening cock-sureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

Keep me reasonably sweet, for a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people; and give, O Lord, the grace to tell them so.

 Seventeenth Century Nun’s Prayer

 

 Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Gilberto & Bernadette Delgado 
• For Serving: Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread:  Nina Waldron
• For the Wine Cups:  Beth & Rob
• For the Music:  Ray & Wendy & Jon
• For the Pictures & Video:  Beth & Rob
• For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue
• For the coffee and pastries: Mike & Geri, Joan & Jackie & Beth

 

 Happy Birthday:  Larry Thompson,  Debbie Ekes (today) 

 Happy Anniversary:

Emily Hubble & Ben Alderson (Day 1)

Mike & Candy Kerns (18th today)

Greg & Bonnie Rogers (25th)

Jon & Nina Waldron (32nd) 
   

 

 Please Remember:

 Loretta Garcia Williams' husband, Ray, needing a bone marrow transplant;  Curtis Ekes in rehab;   Doug Read's Mom, Valdene, with stage 4;  Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom who broke some vertebrae in her back;  Warren & Barb's friend,  Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery;    Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer;   Mike & Dee's daughter;  Bonnie Roger's brother & sister, both seriously sick;    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;  Jean Wright's  daughter, Mary;   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;    our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino;   George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, 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:   Bernadette                            

 Picture 2:   Gilberto                   

 Picture 3:   The Gang, Ashley with her boyfriend, Andrew, Teresa, Debbie celebrating her birthday, Tom, & Bobby 

 Picture 4:   Beth on the job   

 Picture 5:   Sienna with Brian                                          

     Video:   Mass Beginning 

  

Finances:  May 22, 2011 

Expenses:   $2640.00 

Outreach:   $1300.00 

First Quarter Financial Report:  Download Financial Report 5-22-11

 

Thanks for the Generosity

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

 

 

 

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

Good Morning!

This is God.

I will be handling all your problems today.

I do not need your help.

So have a good day!

 

Unknown

 

 

Denni reading from Deuteronomy.

 

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   Tom & Denni
•    For The Team:   John & Buddy & Georgie 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:   Jan
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Rick & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike Carrell & Jackie 
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & David & Ben
•    For all who helped with communion
•              

 

 

Tom reading from Colossians.

 

Birthdays:   Caroline,  Brent (63, celebration to be delayed two weeks, July 14), John Schanot (Save until July 21), Kim, Cindy Cramer (80 Tuesday), Paul Bieda (63, Monday)

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week, while hiding her bike wreck wounds.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  For Sandra's brother;  For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder replacement;      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 her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;  

 

 

Happy 8th Birthday, Dearest Harper.

 

 

For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 90 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, 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;  

 

 

Happy 80th, Dearest Cindy.   I'm right behind you.

 

 

For Ray & Claire's son in Law, Ken, Christi's husband recuperating from a serious back surgery;  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 57th Anniversary, Dearest  Jan & Crazy Sir Charlie.

 

Your Finances, July 14, 2019

Expenses:   $ 1415.00

Outreach:    $  450.00

 

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

 

Welcome back, Dearest Luke.

 

 

Thanks, Everybody 

(214-783-0443)

 

Offertory Team of the Week, Bill, Cindy, & Marlene, all of the Ekes Clan.

 

 

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.

 

 

Yep, John & Connie, you snookered me by taking that cupcake to Bill.  Now I cannot pick on you.