23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 6, 2026

Rosemary's Blessing:

 

Father,

Please wrap your loving arms around the children of the world

who have special needs.

We pray that you give special blessings to their caregivers

and all who love them.

Please teach us to be kind, patient and understanding.

Help us to really see the person and not just the disability.

  

Special Thanks: 

·   For Reading: John & Kevin

· For the Communion Bread: Gayle 

· For Serving: Kevin

· For the Wine Cups & Cross: Alison & John

· For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Celeste

· For the Pictures: Jan & Sabrina

· For the altar & sound: Denni & Hue

· For the coffee & cake: Nina & Jon & Mary Ellen

 

 

Happy Birthday:   Sheila Baack & Bob McGrath 

Happy Anniversary:

Buddy & Cathy Good (30th)

The Status of The Hips:

Monday, I get my medical check out and am off home confinement.  Yeah!  Swelling continues to slowly recede.  No pain at all.  See you all next Sunday! 

 

Please Remember:

Marilyn Ackerman's mother who broke her hip; Jim Drescher; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; David Hoover; Kathy Pieper’s sister, Michelle Guinigundo; 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:  Kim Yaklin & Laura Chollick reading about autism

 

Picture 3:  First Day of Spring at the Parsonage, March 21, Sunday morning

 

Picture 4:  Rosemary digging out Sunday Morning for Mass

  

 

 

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

Your Finances: March 21:

 

Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,625.00

 

Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 980.00 

 

Thanks for your Generosity!

 

 

 

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

Isaiah  25:  On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
Philippians 4:  My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 22:  Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’

I have to apologize.  I forgot to take pictures today until I got to the birthdays.

Readers,  Annette & Roger
Homily,   John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Richard & Kevin
The Organization men,  Richard & Mike & Tom
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 Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;    For John Schanot;  For Ed Kless;  For Rosemary’s nephew, Patrick; For 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:    Richard Eshelbrenner 10/15
Anniversaries:   Shonda & Cody Mashburn last week

Expenses: $  890.00
Outreach: $   50.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s
compassion is to look out to the world,
Yours are the feet with which Christ is to
go about doing good,
Yours are the hands, with which Christ is to
bless all people now.

From a prayer by Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

 

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 of The Week 

 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Taken from IN FLANDERS FIELDS
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

 

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

 

 

 

Frank reading from Deuteronomy.

 

 

Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Frank & Mary
•    For The Team:   
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Ken & Cindy
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  &  Mike   &  John
•    For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:     Ben & Shonda
•    For all who helped with Communion

 

 

 

 

Mary reading from Romans.

 

 

Birthdays:   Ray (78, last Thursday), Scott Simari, Judy Thompson (72, Thursday), Zaile (last Thursday)

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

Anniversaries

John & Maria Gorman (20^th, Wednesday)

 

 

Thanks, Ben, for being our Candle Lighter of the Week. 

 

 

Remember these special people

For Beth & John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen;   For Carol's recuperation;   For  Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  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 problem.

 

 

 

Happy 78th, Ray.  About time you catch up with me!

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;   For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;   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 Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

Remember, Bill, this cupcake is for Zaile's birthday.  I'll be checking.

 

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 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 from college, Kevin.  Hope you have a good Summer.

 

 

Your Finances, May 27, 2018

Expenses:    $750.00

Outreach:    $ 65.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

 

 

 

Sorry Brent, no more cupcakes.  But we do have a $2000 for your marvelous Souls Harbor.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

 

 

 

Watch out, Hue, there may be critters that bite in that garden.

 

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.

 

 

Says Harper, "See you next week at Legacy Charter School, Everybody.  Check the map below."

 

 

See you next Sunday at Legacy Charter School, Everybody.

Exodus 17:  Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.
Romans 5:  For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly.
John 4:   If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

 

Music,  Ben & Shonda
Readers,  Brent & Tom
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 Richard Froebe;

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: Dee Miller
Anniversaries:

Expenses: $  840.00
Outreach: $  190.00
Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

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.

Amen.
17^th Century Nun’s Prayer

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:

 

During this Lenten season, may you …

Fast from selfishness; feast on service.
Fast from criticism; feast on praise.
Fast from discouragement; feast on hope.
Fast from complaining; feast on appreciation.
Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.

  

Special Thanks: 

·     ·     For Reading: Kevin & his father, John

·     ·     For the Communion Bread: Gayle 

·     ·     For Serving: Kevin

·     ·     For the Wine Cups & Cross: Alison & John

·     ·     For the Music: Ben &  Shonda

·     ·     For the Pictures: Jan & Beth & Sabrina

·     ·     For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue

·     ·     For the coffee & cake: Nina & Jon & Joan

 

Happy Birthday:   Tori Rogers, Christine Drescher, Michael Kern, Joanne Languel, & Ken Cramer

Happy Anniversary:

Fred Martinez & Martha (1st)

Margie & John Dugan (42nd) 

 

The Status of The Hips:

One week from Monday, I get my medical check out and am off home confinement.  Yeah!  Swelling continues to slowly recede.  No pain at all. 

Please Remember:

Marilyn Ackerman's mother who broke her hip; Jim Drescher; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; David Hoover; Kathy Pieper’s sister, Michelle Guinigundo; 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 Doherty reading and his son 

 

Picture 2:  Kevin reading

 

Picture 3:  Communion with Diane & David

 

Picture 4:  Wilson Middle School

  

 

 

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

Your Finances: March 14:

 

Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,015.00

 

Income for Outreach Expenses: $   325.00

 

Thanks for your Generosity!

 

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

Rosemary's Blessing:  

May you thank the Lord with all your strength
For food and drink and family and friends,
For His goodness through life's long length
And His promise of love that never ends.

Edited and adapted from a blessing by Fr. Andrew M. Greeley

 

Special Thanks: 

• For Reading: Tom & Denni

• For the Communion Bread:  Claire Occhipinti

• For Serving:  T.J. Gleason & Kevin Doherty

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Roy & Claire

• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Wendy

• For the Pictures: Jan 

• For the altar & sound:  Margie & Hue

• For the donuts & coffee:  Charley & Jan

Happy Birthday:  Curtis Ekes & Linda Beavers

 

Happy Anniversary: Mitch & Mandy Miller (31st)

Please Remember:  Dawn Schultz's tests; Chris Phipp's mom with cancer; Cara Kless who is having eye surgery; Christine Drescher's Grandmother; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis now on a heart transplant waiting list;   Rita at home & recuperating; Jackie's friend Jack Brown with various cancers & Keith Beasley who fell off the 7th floor of a parking garage;  Julie Johnston who is dealing with a return of her cancer; Cathy Lynn's mom, Catherine, 93; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;   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 Neva Flynn 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; 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:  Denni reading Exodus

Picture 2:  Tom reading Ephesians

 

Picture 3:  Megan and Caroline (Bob & Jackie McGrath's granddaughters)

 

Picture 4: Chloe and Jackie

 

 

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

 

Your Finances:

 

August 2: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 945.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 379.00 

 Thanks for your Generosity!

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