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Announcements

Anouncements

ByRosemary August 6, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

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

Denni reading the prophet Daniel.

Special Thanks to these special people:

For the Readings: Denni & Tom
For The Team: Kevin & Leo, Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Jan
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie, Connie & Rabrai riders
For the coffee and extras: Judy & Jackie & All
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Shonda & Ben & David
For all who helped with Communion

Tom reading from 2 Peter.

Birthdays: Lynda (57, Monday), Emery & Carrie Croan (both Thursday), Stephen Farmer (27, Saturday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week

Anniversaries:

Bryan Bambaneck & Kendall, 12^th, Sunday, today)

Hue & Lynda, (42^nd, Wednesday)

Mike & Judy (53^rd, Tuesday)

Happy Birthday, Lynda (20 times 2 plus 21 minus 4)

Please Remember these special people

For Paul's daughter, Kim, getting married this weekend.

For Jackie Urbanczyk and 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's partner 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

Happy 42nd Anniversary, Hue & Linda.

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;

Happy 53rd Anniversary to you and Mike, Judy.

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;

Thanks for being a beautiful Candle Lighter of The Week for us, Emma.

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.

Thanks, Kevin, for all you have done for us and all you mean to me.

Your Finances, August 6, 2017

Expenses: $740.00

Outreach: $655.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

In honor of Kevin a community brunch.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

The Best Buddies, Georgie & her mom, Michelle.

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.

Yes, Good Luck & success to you these upcoming years in college.

Kevin, just look what you are going to be missing. Can it get any better!

Uncategorized

Reminder for Sunday, August 6, 2017, Transfiguration

ByRosemary August 2, 2017

Can you get a better welcome than this from these two, Sandra & Cathy!

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made. Plus, this week, Special Brunch in honor of Kevin

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack

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

Tom at work reading for us.

Readings:

Daniel 7, 9-10, 13-14, His dominion is an everlasting dominion

Psalm 97, The Lord is King, the Most High over all the earth.

2 Peter 1, 16-19, This is my son with whom I am well pleased.

Matthew 17, 1-9, The Transfiguration.

The Best Team.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 4, 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), Off for the summer. We will be back in September.

Brunch this Sunday in honor of Kevin going off to college.

Jackie Urbanczyk's Memorial: August 12, Saturday, 12:00-3:00, Hackberry Creek Country Club, 1901 WEST Royal Lane, Irving, TX, Welcome everybody.

Directions can be found on the website of:

Hackberry Creek Country Club at hackberrycreekcc.com

Look for DIRECTIONS under the “ABOUT the CLUB” tab on the bottom left corner of the page.

Cupcake for Buddy for being a Super Kid.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

Health Care, National Catholic Reporter, June 28, 140 words, Download HEALTH CARE EDITORIAL 8-3-17

True?

The person who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his or her own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and industries mend their ways.

Wendell Berry

Offertory with Paul & Carrie & Bill

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Yeah! The Coffee Man has arrived, Mike.

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.

Our Father.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, July 30, 2017,17th Ordinary Time A

ByRosemary July 30, 2017

Readings:

1 Kings 3:5, 7-12, Give your servant an understanding heart.

Psalm 119, Lord, I love your commands.

Romans 8, 28-30, We know that all things work for good for those who love God…

Matthew 13, 44-52, Kingdom Parables

Kevin and John ready to start Mass.

Homily:

We heard of Solomon’s call to be king of people of God

We heard in Paul’s Letter our call to be “conformed to the image of Jesus”

And we heard in Matthew the parables about putting the treasure buried in a field and the pearl of great price ahead of everything else we could have.

The Offertory helpers, Bill, Paul and Carrie.

Our word for today is asking how we hear our call and how do we answer our call?

I remember the answer I was given growing up (long long ago), hearing it in sermons and in weekend retreats at Grand Coteau, Louisiana. We were told that we are called to be holy and holiness was presented as perfection— You know the quote from Matthew: “Be you perfect as your heavenly father is perfect”. According to Matthew Fox, in his book Original Blessing, the quote from Matthew’s Gospel, “Be you perfect…”, does not refer to moral perfection and does not have here the later Greek meaning of being totally free of imperfection. The word ‘teleioi’, translated as “be you perfect”, actually meant “to be full-grown, to be complete or whole”.

Our musicians, Celeste, Shonda and Ben.

Remember also how we were given the lives of the saints, in which they were portrayed as achieving perfection and we were taught to imitate those perfect people. The lives of the saints inspired me, but there was no way I could live up to the idealized stories of their lives of perfection. Going to seminary at age 18 and to a monastery at age 22 was how I chased after the ideal of holiness as perfection.

Remember also how we were taught to make an examination of conscience, detailing everything we thought or did wrong–not about what we thought or did that was good or generous or loving or courageous or compassionate, not how we were becoming more full-grown or complete. The implication was that we were lacking and in sin almost all the time; that was scary folks. We were told we were imperfect, not holy, and I took that to mean I didn’t measure up, I wasn’t good enough. We were taught that there was a time, in the beginning when our original parents were in a paradise and were good/perfect, and connected to God. But that in Adam we sinned and were separated from God.

Georgie and Mom, Michelle.

What if we came to learn in the last 400 years, like Matthew Fox did, that there was never a state of perfection in our world, that creation in our universe has been going on for 20 billion years and that our universe has been expanding all that time, and is this moment expanding at unimaginable speed. It’s not really about being perfect.

In all creation beauty and imperfection go together. Every tree is beautiful, but if you get up close you will see that every tree is imperfect. The same is true of the human body. Every human body is beautiful, but every human body is imperfect. In creation, in nature, imperfection is not a sign of the absence of God. It’s a sign that the ongoing creation we are part of is no easy thing. We bear scars from the living process, and we can and must celebrate those scars, those imperfections.

Georgie's sister, Zoe.

My take on updating the idea of holiness includes thinking about how we accept imperfection, including our own, and about how we are growing, not to be perfect, but to be more complete, more whole, more caring for ourselves and others and more caring for mother nature and our place in the universe.

Yesterday I was visiting a friend who, when I said I was doing the Mass today, asked what my homily would be about and I said holiness. My friend said, I just finished watching a Ted Talk by Ann Lamont, a favorite author of mine. She said “Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

Question: How do you think of ‘holiness’ in our time?

Georgie's sister, Tori.

And Georgie's brother, Buddy.

Announcements

ByRosemary July 30, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Tom reading 1 Kings.

Special Thanks to these special people:

For the Readings: Tom & Patricia
For The Team: Kevin, Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Jan
For the Pictures: Mike, Rick & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Shonda & Ben & Celeste
For all who helped with Communion

Patricia reading Romans.

Birthdays:

Cindy Ekes, Monday; Linda Beavers, Friday; Brandon Gibson, Monday

Emma, the candle lighter.

Please Remember these special people

For Jackie Urbanczyk and 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 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

Cody and Shonda.

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;

Georgie gets a cupcake for being an altar server.

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;

Buddy also gets a cupcake for being an altar server.

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.

Emma gets a cupcake for being our candle lighter. Emma then gave the cupcake to Shonda to take home for Leo.

Your Finances, July 30, 2017

Expenses: $ 700.00

Outreach: $ 380.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

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.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, July 30, 2017, 17th Ordinary Time, cycle A

ByRosemary July 26, 2017

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

The Our Father.

Readings:

1 Kings 3:5, 7-12, Give your servant an understanding heart.

Psalm 119, Lord, I love your commands.

Romans 8, 28-30, We know that all things work for good for those who love God…

Matthew 13, 44-52, Kingdom Parables

Peace to All.

Cheryl, John, Paul and Carrie.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, July , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. The Old Geezer may be away.

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

Sandra, Carol, Richard and Celeste.

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

Nothing this week.

Cheryl, Paul and Carrie.

True?

Wag more and bark less.

Aggie and Allen.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Mike and Judy in the Coffee Shoppe.

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.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, July 23, 2017,16th Ordinary Time A

ByRosemary July 23, 2017

Readings:

Wisdom 12, 13, 16-19, You judge with clemency

Psalm 86, Lord, you are good and forgiving.

1 Corinthians 3, 6-8, the one who plants and the one who waters each have one purpose.

Matthew 13, 1-23, Kingdom Parables

Kevin, Mike and John ready to start our

Celebration.

Homily by Mike

Recall the Responsorial response that we sang together last Sunday, ‘The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest." Of course, the sower of the seed is the Lord who sows the Word of God. Through the power of the Holy Spirit that seed becomes alive within our hearts. So, we are likened to the fertile soil that receives the seed to be shared with others by word and example.

I commend you for doing just that, for we have gathered here today to be fertile soil with and for one another. Led by the Spirit we have come to nourish one another with hymns, sacred psalms and prayer with a meal of fish and bread: The Liturgy of the Word and Eucharist.

Leo, a great candle lighter.

When we entered through those open doors, we were greeted by; a stanza of psalm and the tuning of guitar; those being chosen to present the Scriptures; bite sized bread being made ready for the meal, along with grape juice that is a metaphor for the Holy Spirit being poured out for all; early pictures being taken for the blog; the altar being covered with table cloth and candles, sweet bread and coffee being placed on the back tables for fellowship after Mass; and hugs given to John and Ro and to those who have not taken seat yet.

Celeste, Shonda and Ben, singers and musician.

The opening hymn announced the coming of the procession of those assigned to the Table, both young and old. We sit to reflect on where we are and why. John welcomes everyone, visitors by name first…which he has written on a small piece of paper, if necessary. We become aware of the status of those who have or are about to have surgery; those who we will visit; or send a card; or bring dinner.

Mike reading Matthew.

And we will join our hands and hearts as fertile soil to live the Lord’s prayer to bring about the kingdom of God here and now and grant one another with a sign of Christ’s peace in the unity to which we have been called. Children are invited to the Table, visitors as well, all are invited for God has no favorites. ‘ We love each person here as Christ has and does love each of us.’ We are brothers and sisters.

Harper wishing us all a wonderful day.

We are anointed with the sacred oil, for together, we are the fertile soil, who forgives others as God has forgiven us. We smile, one and all, granting young and old happy birthday or anniversary with a simple small cut of cake. Alleluia, Deacon Mike

The Offertory Helpers.

Announcements

ByRosemary July 23, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

Let no one ever come to you

without leaving better and happier.

Be the living expression of God's kindness:

kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Dee reading from Wisdom.

Special Thanks to these special people:

For the Readings: Dee & Celeste
For The Team: Kevin
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Mary
For the Pictures: Mike, Rick & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Shonda & Ben & Celeste
For all who helped with Communion

Celeste reading Corinthians.

Anniversary:

David and Donna Dinsmore (Wednesday, 31^st)

Rosemary reading her blessing.

Please Remember these special people

For Jackie Urbanczyk who died this morning and 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 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

Leo, a very happy candle lighter gets a cupcake.

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;

Celeste gets a cupcake for coming home. Celeste

taught school last year in Albania and next year

will be in Beirut.

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;

Carol gets a cupcake.

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.

Your Finances, July 23, 2017

Expenses: $ 1,595.00

Outreach: $ 646.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

John and David ready to leave for Iowa.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

RAGBRAI is going through the town of Paulina

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.

Uncategorized

Reminder for Sunday, July 23, 2017, 16th Ordinary Time, cycle A

ByRosemary July 19, 2017

Blind leading the Blind?

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

The Gang. Lot of having fun here. Suspicious behavior.

Readings:

Wisdom 12, 13, 16-19, You judge with clemency

Psalm 86, Lord, you are good and forgiving.

Romans 8, 26-27, The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness.

Matthew 13, 1-23, Kingdom Parables

Minor elevation time.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, July , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. The Old Geezer may be away.

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

Communion for the communion helpers

What is going on in Our Catholic World

Health Care, National Catholic Reporter, June 28, 140 words, Download HEALTH CARE 7-13-17
Vatican laws vs practice, Crux, April, 2016, 600 words, Download VATICAN LAW VS PRACTICE 7-19-17

New styles in community foot wear. Identities?

True?

If the enemy is in range, so are you.

Infantry Journal

Healing for Sydney & Hugh.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Healing for Bern.

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.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, July 16, 2017, 15th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary July 16, 2017

Readings:

Isaiah 55, 10-12, Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down…

Psalm 65, The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.

Romans 8, 18-23, The sufferings of this present time are as nothing…

Matthew 13, 1-23, The parable of the sower.

Emma and her mom, Beth, say, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Isaiah, The Great One, observations—

Who: One of the Big 3 prophets, the greatest in my estimation. Jeremiah and Ezekiel are the other two. Actually, the book includes the work of 3 prophets. Our selection is the last chapter written by Isaiah 2.

Time: Isaiah 2 was living during the Babylonian Captivity, ca. 555. Isaiah 1 writes before the Captivity, maybe 150 years. Isaiah 3 writes after the return to Jerusalem.

Subject today: better times will come. I am expanding today’s passage by a third line, because it is so good.

Isaiah 2 has some of the most beautiful passages, many of which are seen as foretelling the coming of the Savior. His readings are used all through the Advent & Christmas readings, as well as in Lent. Handel uses Isaiah 2 in his marvelous work, The Messiah.

Both the Isaiah reading and Psalm 65 are beautiful.

David and Donna, our hearts and our complete condolences go out to you on the loss of your 1 year old little Yorkie, Dixie Belle. On a sunny morning this past week in the Canyon Creek neighborhood, David was taking his coffee on the patio of their fenced in back yard and Dixie was playing, when a bobcat climbed over the fence, grabbed Dixie by the neck, and climbed back over the fence with her. David, yelling, climbed over the fence in pursuit. With the help of a neighbor Dixie was rescued. But it was too late. She died later that day. A year ago February the same thing happened to another of their little Yorkies. So sorry!

And My Seed Landed Where?

This morning I would like to talk about how Jesus is said to describe how the farmer’s seed is scattered on four different types of ground, the path, the rocks, the thorns, and the fertile. Where did your seed fall? Where did my seed fall? I’m sure a lot of volunteers would be happy to let me know where my seed fell.

If you are a sinful gambler poker player you would look at this explanation and notice the bad odds, one out of four. I would propose, however, that we all landed on fertile soil. Let me offer some examples.

Hi, Tori.

I’ve shared this example once before, so you might remember it, but probably not.

When I was a little kid about 5 years old, I was playing in the driveway of our house in University Park. There were no fences and the drive went from the street, through the space between our house and the neighbor’s, and to the back up against the alley.

The neighbor was Sam Berger, who owned a hat store in downtown Dallas. He was Jewish and lived next to us all during the Holocaust. I was oblivious to it all. He & his wife had a big black lady who not only worked in the house, but lived in the back in an apartment attached to the garage, the servant quarters. This black lady was not nice to me.

Our Candle Lighter of The Week at work.

So this day as I am playing in the driveway, the lady steps out of the kitchen door & stands on the steps. Without thinking, I say, “You are a big fat elephant.”

To the lady’s credit, she marches right across the drive and tells my mom. My mom comes out of the house, drags me in, and spanks me. Thinking back, I am impressed that my mom respected the lady. The spanking, however, and her treatment of me confirmed my suspicions that my seed had fallen at least on the path or rocks, if not right on the thorns. I definitely grew up with the belief that I was a bad kid.

Best buddies, Mary, Judy, and Mike.

Despite the fact that you folks might agree with that assessment, I would propose that I was just a normal little boy doing silly things.

This habit of doing silly, not bad things, can continue into adult years. I know a guy who gets on his bike and rides off for an hour leaving the driver’s door of his car wide upon.

The Best, Shonda and Ben

I know a lady who last week let her Lincoln run out of gas in rush hour traffic. Her husband, a bit nettled, brought gas, but then could not start the car. It had to be towed.

I know a dear friend who drove into her garage with a canoe strapped to the top of her car.

Wake up, Buddy, we are almost through.

You do this stuff and you begin to believe the bad news, ‘I am a loser, I am bad, my seed obviously landed in the ditch.”

And then there are the malicious acts. You know where I come in on this. Kids hurt and abused grow up to hurt and abuse. They are not bad. They are damaged.

So, who landed on fertile soil? All of us. God don’t make bad seed.

So, what do you think about all this?

Beware Angela! Cathy may be treating you all nice, but she's probably trying to sell you that mint condition Edsel that her husband brought home. I bet she told you Bill, your son in law would love it.

Announcements

ByRosemary July 16, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week:

Good Morning!

This is God.

I will be handling all your problems today.

I do not need your help.

So have a good day!

Author Unknown

Jackie reading from that great Prophet Isaiah, in fact, from 2nd Isaiah, The Beautiful Dreamer.

Special Thanks to these special people:

For the Readings: Jackie & John
For The Team: Kevin & Buddy & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Mary
For the Pictures: Beth & Mike, Rick & Connie
For the coffee and extras: John & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Shonda & Ben
For all who helped with Communion

John reading from Romans.

Birthdays: Beth

Happy Birthday to you, Marvelous June Bug Beth.

Please Remember these special people:

For Jackie Urbanczyk; 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 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

Thanks, Emma, for being our Candle Lighter. Your marvelous smile better not get any more beautiful or you will blow out all the light bulbs in the room.

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;

Major Elevation time.

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;

John & Kevin plotting the morning events.

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.

Play station with 4 kids.

Your Finances, July 16, 2017

Expenses: $1180.00

Outreach: $575.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

And finally, the beautiful Georgie says, "See you all next week."

Have a Great Week, J.S

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