Rosemary's Blessing of  The Week: 

As a dog runs, barks, jumps, and dances

when its happy;

Oh God …

Help us to remember that

You run, bark, jump, and dance for love of us every day.

Carrie reading from  The Great Prophet Isaiah 56

Special Thanks to these special people:

•    For  the Readings:  Carrie & Paul
•    For The Team:    Georgie, Leo  & Buddy
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Cindy & Ken
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Rosemary 
•    For the coffee and extras:   John & Jackie
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:    Shonda & Ben & David 
•    For all who helped with Communion 

Paul reading from Romans.

Anniversaries:

Bernadette & Gilbert (52^nd, Monday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.
 

Please Remember these special people

For Judy Carrell; Mike's swollen knee;   For the Urbanczyk family;   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 Geri's  nephew, Martin Calabrese and Martins' family;  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;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;   For Anthony & Sabrina;   For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Rose's daughter in law Jamie

52 years Married??!!  Yes.  Congratulations, Bern & Gil.

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;

Thanks, Ben, for being an excellent Candle Lighter of The Week.

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;

The Wedding of the Week: Vika, our dearest Russian born Jew, escorted by her parents, Sasha and Inna.
 

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.

Welcome, Everybody.  Austin Good, the marvelous groom, I have known for 25 years and, in fact, some years ago did the wedding for his big brother, Nick, Austin's Best Man, in the right of the picture

Your Finances, August 20, 2017

Expenses:   $1445.00   

Outreach:    $ 795.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Vika and Austin exchange their vows.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Following an ancient Jewish marriage custom, Austin stomps on a wine glass wrapped in a napkin.    The custom certainly seems to refer back to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.  Then multiple interpretations come up.  I chose the idea that the couple celebrates how all of our ancestors have navigated the broken glass in their lives and says to the couple that they, too, because of being a couple, will navigate successfully the broken glass in their own lives. 

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.

Vika with Austin, her parents, and her aunt & uncle

Rosemary’s Blessing

Life is short …

Break the rules,

Forgive quickly,

 Kiss slowly,

 Love truly,

 Laugh uncontrollably,

 And never regret anything that made you smile.

 Author Unknown

Lily reading Acts.

 Our Special Thanks:

•    For Reading:  Scott and Lily
•    For The Team:  Georgie 
•    For the Communion Bread:  Alison
•    For the Wine & Cups: Denni & Tom
•    For the Pictures & Video:   Rick & Beth,  Mike & John 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Ron & Marilyn,  Jackie and Beth Dugan
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
•    For the Music:  Bethany & Shonda 

Scott reading 1 Peter.

Birthdays:     Stacey Fitterer (27, Monday), Ed Kless (49, Thursday), Denni (Thursday), John Sumari (Wednesday), Cliff Wright (70, Wednesday), David Dinsmore (Today, Sunday).

Anniversaries:

Jerry and Joan (57^th, today, Sunday)

Heritage Farm Saturday evening, Hay Ride with Mike.

Please Remember these special people:

For Nina Tucker's dad;   Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;  Cathy’s mom, Mary Dzuro, in hospice care;  For Patty Hammond’s recuperation from knee replacements;  From Mary Hall, Debbie Hooper with serious cancer;   for a special girl named Missy Ackerman; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Fred and Maureen’s friend, Real Giguere;   Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;  from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer;  

Saturday Evening Hay Ride, Heritage Farm.

Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;  Margie McKeon’s brother, Bill, with lung cancer;  Jackie's sister, Shellie;  Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;   Dee's friend, Don Fox, with cancer;   Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends, Mike and Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson; Alexander Occhipinti; Rita; 

So long, Kids, been good to know you.

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom and brother; 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; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg just home from Korea, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Saturday Evening in The Barn waiting for vow renewal. She signed on for one more year!

 Your Finances, April 27, 2014

Expenses:   $ 1,840.00

Outreach:   $ 898.00

We Donated this week:  

$ 2000 to Soul’s Harbor

$ 300 to Plano Homes

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Good Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Rosemary reading her blessing.

 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.

Special Thanks:

• For reading: Margarita & Beth
• For the Communion Bread: Bonnie
• For Serving: T.J., Lacee, & Lorynne
• For the Books & wine cups: Roy & Carol and Rob & Beth
• For the music: Ray & Shonda, Celeste & Wendy & Hue
• Wendy: thanks for the concert
• Beth: thanks for the pizza
• Cameron & Reid, Trey & Brady, plus mom & dad: thanks for your visit

Happy Birthday:  Margie Dugan, Barb Senter, Mark Dillon, Roger Parks, Steven Kern

Happy Anniversary:

• Julie Harris & Joe Sidhom (2nd)
• Scott & Lily (16th)

Please Remember:  Colleen’s Dad; Lisa Schleicher; Margie Weynant; Barb Wittek’s friend Lois, her brother; Kathleen’s friend Jim Wallis; Jackie’s Jack Brown & neighbor, Earl; Dee Miller; Nina’s friend Nancy;  Mary’s son John; Casey & Rob plus Cameron & Reid, Brady & Trey; Tom & Teresa’s friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa’s niece Angel; Cindy Cramer’s friend Sarah Dixon;  Diane’s friend Mike Gertisen & cousin Judy; Rosemary’s nephew, Kevin; Jean Atwood’s friend Kerry whose dad is dying; Margarita’s  Aunt Lenore, & Yolanda; one year old Sadie with cancer; Margie’s mom; Donna & Cathy Goode’s mom; David Pastula’s companions in the military overseas, including Margarita’s Matt Gomez on tour 3, Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, Roy’s son Chris; Lisa’s nephew Kristopher on his 2nd Iraq trip, his grandmother Alice Quiocho & Lisa’s friend Shelly; David & Rita; Mary Ellen’s Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; George & Marianne’s sons & Linda’s son; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Shawn in a car wreck; Dawn’s friend Jessica & Aunt Ann and Dawn’s back op.; Fred’s friend John with cancer & Maureen’s friend Sharon.

For Quad Updates: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com   

Your Finances:

• May 4: 
• Income for Running  Expenses: $1,815.00
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $  564.00

Thanks for your Generosity!

Have a Great Week, J.S

Note: We are testing a new system for the blog. You should have received this post previously.

Wisdom 9: Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?  For the deliberations of mortals are timid,  and unsure are our plans.

Philemon: Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man and in the Lord.

Luke 14: Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Becky reading from the Book of Wisdom

Thanks…     

Music,   Shonda

Warren gets a cookie for his birthday

Outreach: $  660.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

Annette gets a cookie for her birthday

Rosemary’s Blessing:

Loving God…

Give us hearts
where all may enter in,
ears to hear your call,
hands to do your will,
voices to sing your praise
and soul enough
to recognize You
in everything we do.

Taken from The Prayer for Those Who Dwell In A Monastery of the Heart by Joan Chittister

Rosemary's Blessing:

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.
Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.
Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

Christmas Eve Prayer

Frank Borman, Apollo 8 space mission
1968 

 Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Check The Messiah, by Handel, part 1 for Isaiah 40.  
• For Serving:  Kevin  
• For the Communion Bread: Nina Waldron
• For the Wine Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie 
• For the Music: Ben & Jon & Shonda & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video:  Jan & Beth & Richard
• For the altar & sound:  Jackie & Hue
• For the coffee & specials:  Jan & Sir Charlie, Jackie & Joan
• For all of you who contributed to the food drive & the toy drive
• For Cindy & Ken Cramer who coordinated the food drive and Beth & Rob Robinson who coordinated the toy drive
• For John Cade

Birthdays:   Diane Drescher, David Delgado, Cathy Bambanek, Genny Mattingly, Noah Thomson (15), and Sean Kless (6)

  Anniversary:  

Tom & Denni Zurchin (36th) 

Please Remember:

Mike Moran's parents, especially his dad with ALS;  Ed Kless' Aunt Kathleen, who died a week ago;   Barb Wittek's mom who died; Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer; Jackie Urbanczyk's sister, Carol, with a back operation; Mike Miller's recuperation from his eye operation, Mike and Dee's daughter, Lisa;  Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;    Chuck Pratt's recuperation;  Judy Carrell's mom, Marie, 93;   Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer;  Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer;  for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:    Granddad John's Leo meets Zoe                            

Picture 2:    Coming out of the rain, the Butterlies                        

Picture 3:    Ryan & Michelle come in out of the rain             

Picture 4:    A great toy drive   

       Video:    Mass Beginning & Candle Lighting (5 min.) 

Your Finances: December 4, 2011,

Expenses:   $1400.00

Outreach:   $ 805.00

Thanks for your Generosity

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

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:

Loving God,

Enable us to grow in the Benedictine spirit

In ways that make us

Compassionate co-creators of a world in process,

Creative keepers of the human community,

Loving listeners to the heartbeat of the world,

Caring sisters and brothers to its wounded

And bringers of peace to a world in distress.

Taken from The Prayer for Those Who Dwell in the Monastery of the Heart by Joan Chittister

Our Special Thanks 

•    For Reading:  Patricia, Fed, RIchard and Jim 
•    For the coffee and pastries:   Jackie and Jerry and Claire

Birthdays:   Warren Wittek (Saturday), Teresa Read (Wednesday),
Jean Wright & Wendy Boyce (33), (both Tuesday), Dee Miller (Today, Sunday)

Anniversaries:

Bill and Julie Carey, (30^th, Saturday)

Mike and Geri, (38^th Friday)

Please Remember these special people:

Irene Urbanczyk, Rick's mom in Buffalo, who is just about ready to move to the Other Side, that she do so peacefully;   Monica's medical deal last Tuesday; Jan's family members who are doing badly & Charlie's brother in law with cancer;    Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; Chuck Pratt and his cancer;   JohnDoherty's dad who is declining rapidly;  Dee's friend Cole, 17, facing brain surgery; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin
Terri. 

Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends,
Mike & Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer, David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;   Alexander Occhipinti;  Rita

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; 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; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, 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.

Your Finances: September 8, 2013

Expenses:   $ 830.00

Outreach:   $ 277.00

We donated this week: 

1.  Nothing special this week.

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 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.