Special Announcement

 

Invitation to pray with Sandra Pratt

 

The Sophia Inclusive Catholic Community, a virtual faith community started in Northwest New Jersey in 2008, is inviting the members of John Stack Ministries to join us,  Sandra and other friends of Sandra Pratt for a Zoom service of blessings, readings and songs honoring Sandra on Saturday morning, May 13.  The start time has not been finalized.  We will probably begin at 11 am Central time (noon Eastern time).  The service will be about 30 minutes.

 

We will send the Zoom invitation email to Rosemary with two attachments (the worship guide and Highlights of Sandra Pratt’s Amazing Life) on Wednesday  5/10.  Rosemary will forward that information to the members of John Stack Ministries.

 

 

A message from Richard Eshelbrenner

 

Here are the links for Sunday:

 

Thanks…     

Music,   Ben & Shonda

Donna updates us on the sweatshirt and hoodie drive

 

Expenses: $   1,000.00

Outreach: $   450.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

 

Lynda reads her blessing

 

 

Lynda's Blessing:

Today I am thankful for eyes that have come to see that life will not always be easy.
That road will bend.
Those lines will blur.
That tides will rise.
And that storms will come.
I am thankful for those lights that took the form of humans.
Who shone into me when I was at my lowest.
Who were not afraid of sadness. Or darkness.
Or the many layers that wove themselves around me and made me hard to understand.
Or reach. Or even hard to love sometimes.
I'm thankful for skies that change color.
For paths that change direction.
And for seasons that remind me that we are all just one breath away from a new beginning.
I am thankful, knowing that kindness still exists.
That the truth is out there.
That faith can move mountains.
And that I was made for every last bit of it.

~ 'Thankful' by Ullie Kaye

 

 

 Mass:  Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

                          

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

Readings: Acts 1, 15-26; Psalm 103, the Lord has set his Throne in Heaven; 1John 4, 11-16; John 17, 11-19.

                   

Community Bulletin Board: 

 This Saturday, 7:00 — The Annual Anniversary Celebration:   Fairview Farms, Parker & Central, same corner as Costco; covered dish (R to Z please bring deserts; A to Q hors d'oeurves)  Welcome!!  About 12 couples will renew their wedding vows. 

Information on Rosemary's trip to the hospital Sunday-Wednesday: Rosemary just got out of the hospital today, Wednesday where she went Sunday with an old problem with rapid heart beat, called SVT, supra ventricular tachycardia, a pulse (180) that won't come back down.  She had a procedure yesterday that will stop this.  She is home now ready to celebrate Saturday night at our anniversary party.  J.S.

    

 

True?    To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings–it's all a miracle.  I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Aurthur Rubinstein

Picture 1:  Daddy Ed Kless with Cara

Picture 2:  Georgie with her grand parents, Bernadette & Gilberto

Picture 3:  Marianne & George Elwell

Picture 4:  Dorothy & Jim Wedding

Picture 5:  Alesia & Gary Wedding

          

 See you Sunday, May 24

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Acts of the Apostles 8:  Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. 

1 Peter 3:  For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God.

John 14:  I will not leave you orphans;  I will come to you.

                  

 

Hue reading from the Acts of the Apostles

 

                                        

                                                                 

Thanks…     

Music,    Ben

Readers,  Linda & Hue

Gospel,   John Cade

Homily,   John Cade

Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

Final Blessing, Rosemary

                                                                              

 

Linda reading from the First Letter of Peter

 

 

 

Readings:  Download 05-14-23 Readings – 6th Easter

Homily:  Download 05-14-23 Homily – 6th Easter

 

                        

Mary and Ben commenting on the homily

 

Remember these special people:

For Cindy Cramer's family;  For the family of Ron Senter;   For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;  For Jan;  For Tom  Quinn who had back surgery on November 21st;  For Sandra who has been diagnosed with Large B Cell Lymphoma;   For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;   For Tom Good;  For a young man, 19 struggling with a brain tumor and cancer;     For Mary Hall's friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition;   For Sir Charlie & Jan; 

                                                                                                   

       

 

Jackie's mom, sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & friends, Annie, a mom of 3 kids and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

 

 

The women of the Community get a special blessing for Mother's Day

 

                                          

Birthdays:  

Anniversaries:  

 

Community Finances:   

Expenses: $  480.00

Outreach: $  125.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

       

John Cade and John Stack begin Mass.

 

Thanks…     

Music,   Ben & Shonda

 

  Expenses: $    330.00

  Outreach: $        0.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing:

Gracious God inspire us with the hope in the gift of shalom, the gift of wholeness and the promise of your presence.

Give wisdom to seek nonviolence as an answer to the violence of our lives and world.

Give us courage to seek wholeness in a fractured and divided world, to find reconciliation rather than revenge, to abandon the instruments of violence and death and entrust our lives, our homes and our families to you.

May your presence fill us and others with the thirst for unity, wholeness, and the desire to see all people valued as created in your image.

May we and others receive your shalom, that we might be faithful instruments of your love.

Blessed be your name forever,

Amen.

Rabbi Andrew M. Paley, senior rabbi with Temple Shalom, Dallas. He emailed this letter to his congregation in 2018 after a gunman shot members of the Tree of Life Synagogue. He gave The Dallas Morning News permission to publish it.