Reminder for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 23, 2025

Isaiah 6:  As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes it's growth  spring up, so will the Lord God make justice and praise spring up before all the nations.

1 Thessalonians 5:  May the God of Peace make you perfectly holy and may you entirely,  spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

John 1:  "I am the voice of one crying out in the desert, make straight the way of the Lord;"

 

 

 

Welcome in, Joe & Marsha.    

 

Welcome this Sunday: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made. 

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community  & John Cade 

Place: Legacy Charter School,  601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Note : No more blogs until the week of the 29th.  Editors gone Viking.

 

 

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Buddy, one of our best readers.

 

 

Readings:

Exodus 32, 7-11, 13-14,  Moses implored the Lord.

Psalm 51,  I will rise and go to my father

1 Timothy 1, 12-17, I have been mercifully treated

Luke 15, 1-32,   The Great Story of the Prodigal son.

 

 

 

Want to go to communion?  John will help you.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 13, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.   

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JULIETS,  October, TBA 

 

 

Hi, Jan.  Where is that Crazy Man, Sir Charlie?

 

True?

 

A scholar was bragging to a boatman about all the knowledge he had acquired. “Can you swim?” the boatman asked. “No,” the scholar replied…. “Then all of your knowledge is wasted,” replied the boatman, “because the boat is sinking.”

Zen story

 

 

 

Ben, I am so wanting a Zeke Elliott do like you got.

 

 

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church?  Like…

Francis calls criticism an honor, https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-calls-us-catholic-criticism-his-papacy-honor 

 

N.O. shoe shine, lhttps://www.ncronline.org/news/people/he-shines-light-new-orleans-shoeshine-stand?clickSource=email

 

 

Today's Offertory, Team Ekes with Marlene, Bill, and Cindy.

 

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

 

Coffee Shoppe is open say Mike & Tom.

 

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.

 

 

Peace, Everybody.

 

 

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

 I thank you God for this most amazing day:

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and

for a blue true dream of sky; and

for everything which is natural

which is infinite

which is yes.

e.e.cummings

 

 

 

Mike reading The Great Prophet Isaiah

 

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:   Mike & Patricia
•    For The Team:     Buddy 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Charlie
•    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Rosemary & Connie & Mike
•    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:     Ben & Shonda
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

Patricia reading from  Philippians. 

 

Birthdays:  Sabrina (22, Tuesday), Angela, (Wednesday), Bill Hammond (74, Friday)

Anniversaries:

Patricia & Fred (7th, last week)  

Shonda & Cody (Number 1, Monday)

   

   

Rosemary reads her Blessing of The Week.   

                                                                                                             

Please Remember these special people

For Bill Hammond's recovery from rotater cuff surgery, which is expected to take a whole year;  Mike's swollen knee;   For Myron Hubble;    For Connie Bresson's mom;     For Carol's recuperation;   For Tom Good;     For Dee and her daughter, Lisa;  For John Schanot's continued recuperation;  For Nadia's recuperation;     For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom; For Cliff & Jean;   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 condition

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Dearest Angela.

 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;     For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      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 Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;      For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

 

 

Bill, because this is your birthday, you receive this medication especially researched and prepared to help heal rotator cuff problems.

 

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 Mary Ellen;  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.

 

 

Cole, after escorting your mom to her wedding with Greg last week, there is nothing you cannot do in this world.  For us, thanks for being our Candle Man of The Week.

 

 

Your Finances, October 8, 2017

Expenses:   $650.00

Outreach:    $400.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

Folks, last night, Saturday night, the SWST flight from Phoenix was dancing in the sky because everyone gave a resounding round of applause to Patricia and Fred on their anniversary.   Did you tell that crew it was your anniversary, Patricia??? 

 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

Happy First Anniversary, Cody and Shonda.  You The Best.
 

 

 

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.

 

 

Paul & Carrie on Top of The World.

 

 

Music,   Ben 

Donna sharing a Thank You card from the men at Soul's Harbor for the sweatshirts and hoodies.

Expenses: $   2024   900.00           

                    2025   390.00

Outreach: $   2024   600.00           

                    2025   130.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

 

Lynda sharing a Thank You note  from the Plano Wellness Center for Older Adults for the gifts we gave them at Christmas

 

 

Rosemary's Blessing:

When the decorations of Christmas have been packed away then the work of Christmas begins:

Lord, help us

to find the lost,
to heal those broken in spirit,
to feed the hungry,
to release the oppressed,
to rebuild the nations,
to bring peace among all peoples,
and to make a little music with the heart…

Adapted from Work of Christmas Begins by Howard Thurman

 

 

 

Community Finances:   

  Expenses: $   1,100.00

  Outreach: $     300.00

 

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

Rosemary's Blessing:

Life is not a journey to the grave

With the intention of arriving safely

In a pretty and well preserved body,

But rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,

Thoroughly used up,

Totally worn out,

And loudly proclaiming

—WOW—What a Ride!

Hunter S. Thompson