Announcements

Rosemary's Blessing of  The Week: 

 May the sun bring you new energy by day,

May the moon softly restore you by night,

May the rain wash away your worries,

May the breeze blow new strength into your being.

Apache Blessing

 

Mike reading from Acts.

 

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:  Mike & Geri
•    For The Team:   Buddy & Georgie
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Mike & Rosemary
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Jackie & Marsha
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:   David and Shonda and Bethany
•    For all who helped with Communion 

 

 

 

Geri reading from 1 Peter.

 

 

Birthdays:  Patricia (Monday); Ron & Barb Senter (Tuesday & Saturday),  

Anniversaries:

Dick & Judy Thompson (14th, Saturday)

 

 

 

Hi Joe, Brent, and Cheryl.  Good to see you back, Joe.

 

Please Remember these special people:

 For Connie Bresson's mom;  For Rose Banzhaf who broke some bones in a skiing accident;  For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis;   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 Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;       For Cliff & Jean;    For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;    For Anthony;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery; Connie Bresson's mom & friend struggling with cancer;

 

 

Happy Birthday, Patricia.

 

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;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   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;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

Would you trust Lynda with the Senters' cupcake?  

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

 

 

Happy 20th Anniversary, Sydney and Hugh.
 

 

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;  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.

 

 

 

And Happy Birthday to you, Denni.

 

Your Finances, May 7, 2017

Expenses:   $865.00 

Outreach:   $330.00

                                   April 23, 2017

Expenses:    $815.00

Outreach:    $325.00

                                    April 30, 2017

Expenses:    $1780.00

Outreach:    $630.00

 

Thanks for lighting the candles, Zoe.

 

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

Happy Birthday to you, John.
 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

A Viking river boat.

 

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.

 

A Viking boat seen from the top deck of another Viking.

Rosemary's Blessing:  

Come, O Dancing God, Spirit of Life and Love, of Beauty and Diversity, stir up my soul, bathe me in your light, and unleash my own spirit that I may dance with you and be light for those around me and reflect your love to all that I meet this week.

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

Special Thanks: 

• For Reading: Donna & Noah

• For the Communion Bread:  Christine & Megan

• For Serving:   Kevin Doherty & TJ Gleason

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Ray & Shonda & Ray & Claire & Rob

• For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Wendy

• For the Pictures: Jan & Beth

• For the altar & sound:  Margie & Hue

• For the donuts & coffee:  Charley & Jan

Happy Birthday:  Eric Wittek, Becky Nugent, Stephen Farmer (19), Emery Zurchin (20), Lynda Fleming

 

Happy Anniversary: Hue & Linda Beavers (34th)

Please Remember:   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:  Noah reading Kings

Picture 2:  Birthdays & Anniversaries–Lynda, Emery, & Hue

 

Picture 3:  Yosemite 10: The Geezer, Tom, Mike, Bill, Rob, Ray; Daniel, Beth, Lynda, & Rose

 

Picture 4: Lynda & Friend on Jackass Pass, Yosemite (10,000 Ft. plus)

 

 

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

 

Your Finances:

 

August 9: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 981.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 338.00 

 Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Rosemary's Blessing:

May an abundance of gratitude burst forth in our minds and hearts as we remember all the blessings in our life.

May we slow our hurried pace these days so we can be aware of, and enjoy, what we can too easily take for granted.

May we always be open, willing and ready to share our blessings with others and never forget the God who loves us lavishly and unconditionally.

And may we remember that our thanksgiving is incomplete until we pay it forward by doing for others what they cannot do for themselves.

Amen.

From a  prayer by Sr. Jean Amore CSJ, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

 

 

John reading from The Prophet Isaiah.

 

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   John & Patricia
•    For The Team:    Georgie & Buddy & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Mike  
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:   Ray & David & Bethany & Shonda                   
•     For all who helped with Communion 

Patricia reading from Romans.

 

Birthdays:   Alex Grattifiori (19 Sunday, today) & Ben Porter (Sunday, today)

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week with a little help from her friend.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol's recuperation from her operation;      For Frank's family & friends;   For Tom Good;   For Dee;      For John Schanot's continued recuperation;     For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;       For Cliff & Jean;    For Laura's sister Claudia;    For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;    For Anthony;   For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;    For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

 

 

The Best, Shonda, Bethany, Ray, & David.

 

Gor Geri's friend, Elsa Billman, 88, whose house burned;  For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 90;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;     Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

Can we trust David to take this cupcake home to his son on his birthday today?

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala;   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler;     Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;   for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

  

Thanks, Leo, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

                                                                                          

Your Finances, December 18, 2016

Expenses:   $ 1,470.00

Outreach:   $  879.00     

Our food drive brought in over 280 lbs. of food.                       

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

Best buddies.

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

Have a Beautiful & Peaceful Christmas from Cathy & Donna.

 

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 Zoe, "See you Christmas Eve, 4:00, in the gym, bring flowers for the altar and stage, and get ready for a great Nativity Drama."

 

Rosemary's Blessing: Oh, Lord,

I am one worn out tired Branch,

And I need the newness of the Vine of You

To start the Hope-Life running through the Streams of Me again.

Lord, be my Vine and I’ll be your Branch.

Macrina Wiederkehr      Seasons of Your Heart

Special Thanks:

• For Reading:  Scott & Jo & Noah  

• For the Communion Bread:  Jan Keszler 

• For Serving: T.J.

• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Roy & Rob & Beth

• For the Music: Ben, Wendy & Celeste

• For the Pictures: Jan & Beth

• For the altar:  Margie

• For the donuts & coffee: Barbara & Warren

 

Happy Birthday:    Elliot Zurchin & Tom, Mark Ackerman, Jacob Wilson & Nicole, Jean Kovatis (25), Carly Ekes, Laura Chollick, Morgan Froebe

 

Happy Anniversary:

 

Teresa & Larry (3rd) 

Richard & Judy Lyons (37th)

 

 

Please Remember:     Richard Baack's shoulder recuperation from Tuesday's operation; Margie Weynant whose lung cancer has returned; Rick Cardenas' friend Joyce McKinstry; Charlie Sawtelle's friends Manuel & Suzanna Ruiz; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining; Cathy Lynn's mom who at 93 has skin cancer; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis; Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Mike Bulger;  Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark & Becky's baby who just arrived;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke 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 & Rita; 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:  Noah & Jo reading the Passion

 

Picture 2:  Rosemary with Jack, Wendy, Jack's dad Ben, & Celeste

 

Picture 3:  Anniversary of Larry & Theresa, Birthdays of Zurchins, Elliot & Tom

 

Picture 4:  With Cara Lyn & C.C., Barbara, Christi (mom), Ray (grand dad), & Ken (dad)

 

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

 

Both Holy Thursday & Good Friday: 7:00, the home of Rob & Beth Robinson, 1808 Dublin Road, Plano :  http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG51BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLWJ1dHRvbgRzbGsDbGluaw–#mvt=m&lat=33.020199&lon=-96.635357&zoom=15&q1=1808%2520Dublin%2520Road%2520plano%2520texas

 

Your Finances:

 

April 5: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $ 1,086.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $  567.00 

Thanks for your Generosity!

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

Revelation 7:  These are those who come from the great tribulation.  And they’ve washed their robes, scrubbed them clean in the blood of the Lamb.  That’s why they’re standing before God’s Throne.
1 John 3:  For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.  Let’s not just talk about love.  Let’s practice real love.
 Matthew 5:  When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside.  Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed ones, climbed with him.  Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions. 

Thanks…     

Music,   Shonda & Ben
Readers,  Connie & John
Homily,   John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & 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 Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Warren Wittek; 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

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:   Ed Kless 11/2,  Karen Anderlick 11/4
Anniversaries:  

Expenses: $  1,465.00
Outreach: $  500.00

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.

 

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.

 

 

"Welcome in, Everybody," say Harper & Tori.

 

 

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

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

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

 

Let the clowns begin.

 

Readings:  

 Acts of the Apostles 4, 8-12,  Peter speaks again.

Psalm 118,  The stone rejected by the builders has become the corner stone.

 1 John 3, 1-2,  Beloved, we are God’s children.

 John 10, 11-18, Jesus, “I am the Good Shepherd.” 

 

 

Sophia at work as our Candle Lighter.

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, April 20, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.  I’ll be gone for two Fridays, Campers.

 

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

 

 

 

A Sooner loose in public.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

1.    Francis on the existence hell,  Religious News Service,  April 3, 2018,  626 words ,  Download FRANCIS AND HELL 4-12-18                 

2.    Married Priest possibilities, Corpus & The Tablet, April 6, 2018,  369 words,     Download MARRIED PRIESTS 4-19-18

 

 

 

 

 

Georgie reading our Blessing of The Candles.

 

 

True?

 

 “The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work ..

 

On Listening: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

 

 

 

Play Station #1.

 

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

Watch out, here comes trouble.  She's back.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

John practices his dance steps for celebrating the next two Sunday Masses.

 

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS WILL BE THE LAST EDITION OF THE BLOG UNTIL MAY.