Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026

Mass:  Plus coffee & donuts & specials on the house.  Welcome!

Place: Vines High School, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence, west of Central Expressway.

Time: 9:30,  Fr. Tony celebrating

Readings: Isaiah 6, 1-8; Psalm 138, In the Sight of the Angels I will Sing Your Praises, Lord; 1 Corinthians 15,1-11; Luke 5, 1-11. 

Word from the Old Geezer:

"One more week until the end of being house bound; 3 more weeks until the next hip."

 Community Bulletin Board: 

Next Party & Brunch: Feb. 14.  An Old Bionic Geezer will make a debut and invites all to his Big 70 Birthday.  So we celebrate birthdays, Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, and Mardi Gras.   Welcome!  Covered dish as usual.  A-O hot food, P-Z dessert.

Heritage Farm renovation:  Next work date, March 6.  Get ready.

Excellent seminar on marriage, Harville Hendrix, Friday morning:

Download HarvilleHendrix 2-5-10

In a gentle way you
can shake the world.

One of Cesar Chavez's favorite quotes from Gandhi

    
  
 
Picture 1:  Georgie & Zoe, sisters 

Picture 2:  Coach Class

Picture 3:   Business Class

Picture 4:   Zoe with Alison

See you Sunday, February 7  

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

Mass: Second Sunday of Advent: 9:30; coffee, donuts, home made muffins, & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Isaiah 35, 1-6, 10 (again beautiful); Psalm 146; James 5, 7-10; Matthew 11, 2-11

Thanks to all who donated or tried to donate their blood in Sunday’s blood drive.  Despite having about 50% rejected. 

Thanks also for making our Sunday brunch So Terrific!  See the Pictures.   

Community Bulletin Board

Christmas Eve Mass: 4:00 P.M.  Welcome!

The Mass after Christmas, Dec. 30: No Mass.  Rosemary & I will be in Mexico.

Two questions:

• What do you think about putting together a community directory with just names, perhaps email addresses, phone number, even address?
• What about a food drive Christmas Eve?  When St. James Parish said they did not want our donations any more, I forgot about the project.  But, we have Food Banks in Plano & Richardson, and people have said they would like to contribute.

Tree Project update: maybe in December?  Waiting to hear from Collin Co. Child Advocacy Center, Park & Los Rios.

See you Sunday.

Welcome: Coffee & juice & specials on the house.

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

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

Curtis & Mabel hosting our Thursday & Friday outdoor services

Thursday Hand Washing with Tom, Teresa, & Jean

Readings:   Acts 4, 32-35, They had everything in common; Psalm 118, Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, his love is everlasting; 1 John 5, 1-6, Everyone who loves the Father loves the one begotten by him; John 20, 19-31, Jesus came and stood in their midst.

Hand Washing with Bobby

Cindy, Neil, Megan, & Stephanie

  Community Bulletin Board:

1. Easter Egg hunt:  Return your empty plastic eggs and get a prize.  Thanks to The Gang who helped.
2. Big Annual Anniversary Party: April 28, Heritage Farm, 6:00 until…  As usual, covered dish, wagon & mules for the kids, and renewal of wedding vows of 15 plus couples from 5 years to 60 years. 
3. Check out YELP on line.  Comment on our community.  Thanks, Carol Eshelbrenner.

Sean & Donna with their daughters Kimberly & Courtney

Alexandra with her parents, Richard & Monica and Jackie

Alicia with her granddaughter

 What's going on in our Catholic World:   

1.  Benedict and Cuba, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, (400 words),  Download Benedict & Cuba 4-13-12

2.  Kennedy on substitutes for Easter & Passover, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, (700 words), Download Kennedy on Easter 4-13-12

3.  The Cardinal’s Lunch, National Catholic Reporter, April 9, (500 words), Download A Cardinal 4-13-12

The Handsome One, Tristan

The Beautiful One, Gracie, Hue Beavers' grandkids

Emma on The Hunt

Leo ready for Easter

True?

The more I read, the more I meditate, and the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

VOLTAIRE

Leo running from Who Dat?

The Prize Table under control with Loretta, Sabrina, Alison, Dillon, & John

  Video:  (3 min.)

 See you Sunday, May 15, 2^nd Easter

  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.

Connie  & Cathy.

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

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

Harper and her buddies.

Readings: 

Sirach 35, 12-14, 16-18, He hears the cry of the oppressed.

Psalm 34,  The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

2 Timothy 4, 6-8, 16-18  I have competed well.

Luke 18, 9-14, Two people went up to the temple to pray.

Freddie, a happy kid.

 Community Events:     

1.  ROMEO lunch Friday, October 25, 1:00.   Welcome All.  Note: New location, Poor Richard's

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

Leo, Freddie's big brother.

3.  Christmas Concert at the Meyerson:

Rosemary is collecting for the tickets, $45 each.

The date:  December 19.   Rosemary says that you may still sign up.  Her contact, Blake, knows that we usually have a few additional people.   Total so far, 29 people.  

Welcome, also, to the Rectory for wine & cheese and a ride through Highland Park to see the best lights. 

Leo and Freddie making it work.

 Connected with this, a plan is developing to visit the Christmas lights in Highland Park on bikes one evening, a common event in that neighborhood.  We have our guide, Chris Phipps, who lives there, and the old geezer can second, since this is his old neighborhood.  Get your bike lights polished.

John Cade at the Pastry Shoppe with Sienna, Freddie, and Leo.

What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.      Church Reform possibilities, National Catholic Reporter, October 17, 1500 words,   Download Reform Meetngs 10-25-13

2.      Female Cardinal?, National Catholic Reporter, October 18, 1000 words,     Download A Female Cardinal 10-25-13 

3.       Francis' many activities, National Catholic Reporter, October 18, 3000 words,     Download Francis Activities 10-25-13

CC celebrating a birthday.

 True? 

Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many. 

Cupcake Time.

  See you Sunday, October 27, 2013, 30^th  Ordinary Time, C cycle

 J.S., 214-783-0443

Buddy.

 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.

Kristin and Josh.

Genesis 14:    "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand."

Corinthians   11:  For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

Luke 9:  They all ate and were satisfied.  And when the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled twelve wicker baskets.

Without pain we could never know the real meaning of joy. “A wounded deer,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “leaps highest.”

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

Another Reminder for Corpus Christi Sunday, June 22, 2025

Harper & Sophia say, "Hi, Everybody, want a cookie?"

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

Mike sharing his insights of the day.

Readings:

Job  7, 1-7,  Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery?

Psalm 147,    Praise the Lord, who heals the broken hearted.

1 Corinthians 9, 16-25,   I have made myself a slave to all.

 Mark 1, 29-39,   They brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons.

Offertory Marlene, Cindy, Zaile, and Bill.

Community Activities:

1.    ROMEO MEET: Friday,  February 6 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Time to get together again.  The Older Geezer will take attendance.   Let's do it.

2.    LADIES' LUNCHEON, Thursday, February 5,  1:00, Café Amore’, Midway, BYOB.

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested.  If you let me know I will add their email to the list. 

Carol

Leo volunteering to sing along with Shonda (mom) and Bethany.

3.    February 15, Community memorial for Fred with brunch catered by Maureen & the Macchio gang. 

4.    Febrary 17,  Mardi Gras Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday.

5.    John Cade announces a Harville Hendrix seminar on Safe Conversation, Feb. 14, free.  214-357-0371,   Download FWD Flier Feb english 2015 B (3)

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.        The read on the new generation of priests, Pray Tell,  January 26,  2800 words,       Download Recently ordained

Leo sweet talking his dad, Ray.

 True? 

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So man should be man. But to know what man is, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love….For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements. 

Jerry and Shirley with John plotting a take-over.

See you Sunday, February 8, 2015, 5th Ordinary Time, Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Our Goals:

   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.

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