Reminder for the 4th Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2025

Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 5, 27-41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5, 11-14; John 21, 1-19

Community Bulletin Board

Invitation: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner, ca. 7:00. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them.

Seven couples will renew their vows. Guess Who? Also, we will do a covered dish hors d’oeuvres & desserts, and music for dancing. Moreover, the slide show of The Great East African trip.

Download the Anniversary Party 2007 Invitation.

From Angie Carroll: I am a volunteer at the Heritage Farmstead Museum on 15th and Custer in Plano and am currently helping them to find volunteer docents to give tours of the house and grounds. There is a great training program that is held every Tuesday in May from 7 to 9pm and every Saturday in June from 3-5pm.

This has been a really fun job because there is an opportunity to meet other volunteers, learn a great deal about life in Collin County at the turn of the century, meet lots of visitors who are from all over the country and also attend several social events each year.

We are looking for any women or men who have just a few hours each month to come and give tours. Anyone interested can call me at 972-612-8169, or e-mail me at acarroll@heritagefarmstead.org.

Important technology announcement

As you may have noticed in our emails, we have set up a blog. What is a blog? Essentially it is a web site that allows for someone like me to post writings to one place for viewing by others. For the past few months we have been posting my emails to the site in addition to sending them out as we have been via regular email.

Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to transition to using the blog as the main source for distributing this information. Why? Three reasons.

First, this will dramatically reduce the amount of time I need to spend on this process. Right now, I have to break the distribution into many groups of people, taking about an hour per week. With this new process I will just have to post the text to the site and an email will be automatically generated to you.

Second, I believe the blog will allow us to cultivate a greater sense of community. In addition to allowing me to post, a blog allows you to comment on the posts. As my homilies usually end with a question, I think it would be neat for some of you (if you feel inspired of course) to answer the question or pose your own question back to me.

Third, the postings are available for future viewing and listening. All previous homilies (including the audio files) and announcements will be automatically archived. If you want to view or listen to them in the future you just need to go to the site and they will be there.

What does this mean for you? After this email (the one that you are reading) we will begin to upload the email address up to what is called an RSS feeder system. You will receive an email from a service call FeedBlitz asking you to subscribe to the service. Please accept this. This is a private list. You will not be solicited in any way and your information is kept private.

For the next two or three weeks you will receive both the standard emails from me and an email from the FeedBlitz service. Once we are satisfied that this new system is working properly you will only receive the one from FeedBlitz on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please let me or Ed Kless (ed.kless@choosegreat.com) know.

 Mass:  Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Extras

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

Readings: Isaiah 53,10-13; Psalm 33, Lord, let Your Mercy be on Us, as We place Our Trust in You; Hebrews 4, 14-16; Mark 10, 35-45

 

Community Bulletin Board: 

Special Notice: Mass again at Wilson Middle School this Sunday (on Custer between Plano Pkwy and15th)

Heritage Farm renovation: our neighbor is asking for help.  We plan to scrape & paint, replace rotten boards, and fix odd problems.  Tentative schedule: Saturday, Oct. 24.  Welcome!  Let me know. 

 

Christmas Performance Tickets have been bought:

1.  December 10, Thursday, 7:30: The Meyerson.  Christmas Special, tickets $56. 

2.  December 15, Tuesday, 8:00:   The Winspear, South Pacific, $57.

Pre-performance wine & cheese at the Tulip Lane Parsonage with a tour through the best Christmas decorations in Dallas on our way to the Arts District.

   

Lifenet Thanksgiving Dinner for the Disadvantaged: Volunteers!

Date: Saturday, November 21, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.  Also, Friday volunteers are needed to set up, 3:00 P.M.

Place: Lake Highlands Presbyterian, 8525 Audelia & Nwst Hwy.

Time: 10:00-2:00, two sittings.

Lifenet phone: 214-932-1950, David Bear

Welcome: Let Rosemary or me know, we'll see you there.

 

True?

Being who we are rather than becoming who everybody else says we must be is the ultimate simplicity.  Nothing is more difficult to acquire in life.

Joan Chittister

 

Picture 1:  The O'Reillys, Dalton, Debbie, & Shelby

Picture 2:  Zack, Teresa, Doug, & Taylor

Picture 3:  Zoe with her grand dad, Gilberto

Picture 4:  Jacob Parel with his dad, Scott, and mom, Kelley

Picture 5: Jake

 
          

 See you Sunday, October18

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

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

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

Readings: 1 Kings 19, 4-8; Psalm 34, Taste and see the goodness of the Lord; Ephesians 4, 30-5, 2; John 6, 41-51

Community Bulletin Board: 

From Jane Drake:

A very good friend of mine needs in-home care for six months, starting anytime and including her surgery date of Dec. 15. She is a delightful person and easy to get along with. Her husband, who is blind, works out of the house, and they have a son who is 20. They have a lot of critters in their home!

The person’s main job would be to clean, do laundry, and make three square meals a day. No heavy lifting. No patient care. Person does not need to speak English OR drive. They must live in (they will have their own room and bath). It could also lead to a permanent position.

True?  Good friends are like stars; you don't always see them, but you know they are there!

                  

 See you Sunday, August 9

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

 

The Our Father.

 

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

 

 

Leo, John, Georgie and Buddy.

 

Readings:

Sirach 27, 30-28, 7,  Remember death & decay, and ease from sin.

Psalm 103,   The Lord is kind and merciful, never gets angry, and is rich in compassion  (one of the Great Lines)

Roman s 14, 7-9,  None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.

Matthew 18, 21-35,  The king and the debtors  

 

 Caroline and Judy.

 

Charlie and Richard.

 

 

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.   

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

 

 

The Community reading the Prayer of St. Francis.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Nothing this week.

 

Beth and Emma.

 

True?

The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble…

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

Zoe, Michelle and Tori. 

 

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.

 
Mass:   Coffee, pastries, & specials on the House.  

Time: 9:30;  Tony Celebrating

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

 
 
 Readings: Acts of the Apostles  2, 1-11; Psalm 104, Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the Face of the Earth; 1 Corinthians 12, 3-13; John 20, 19-23
 
  
Picture 1:   Emma                           

Picture 2:   Shonda & Ray & Jon                

Picture 3:   Claire & Andrew, Jackie & Bob                       

Picture 4:   Tony & Gayle                 

 
 
 
 
 Community Bulletin Board:

  1.   JS Ministries survey.  Download JSM Community Survey 5-27-11, Due this Sunday, please. 

  2.  Our community has donated $1000 each to Joplin, MO and to Bona Responds, the St. Bonaventure team that has taken our community members to Galveston & Tuscaloosa to do emergency help.  

     

Church Happenings: 

  1.   Fr. McBrien on Bishops vs Popes,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-6-11,  Download Bishops and the Pope 6-10-11

 2.  Big parishes, Coppell, for example, National Catholic Reporter, 5-24-11,  Download Example, St. Ann's Coppell 6-3-11

 

    True?   

 

See you, June 12,  2011

  J.S.   (214-783-0443)

 

      

 

 

 

 

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. 

 

 Readings:

Isaiah 61, 1-2, 10-11,  He has sent me to bring glad tiding to the poor,  (excellent, see Handel’s Messiah)

 Psalm – Luke 1,    My soul rejoices in my God

1 Thessalonians 5, 16-24,  Rejoice always.

Mark 1, 1-8,   I am the voice of one crying out in the desert

 

 

 Community Activities:

1.    ROMEO MEET: Friday, December 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  All left over turkeys welcome.  The Old Geezer will miss.

2.    LADIES' LUNCHEON, Thursday,  January? 1:00?

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

Carol

 

 

 3.  Love for the Kids’ picnic, December 13, Saturday, from 8:00-1:00 more or less.  More info from Bill Hammond.

4.  Christmas gift toffee will be on sale Sunday & following Sundays, $13.  Proceeds go to Dallas North Rotary, my club.

 

 

  What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.    10 Things Francis should do in Philly, Fr. James Martin, S.J.,  America,  November 21,  1000 words,    

 

 

 

True? 

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

 

 

See you Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3rd Advent, Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

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.