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Announcements

ByRosemary February 12, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,

May God’s love and mercy encircle you today

With living laughter that renews and saves

May bright hope lead you further on your way

And in your life may you celebrate his word

And be a witness to a gentle and gracious Lord.

A Book of Irish American Blessings & Prayers Andrew Greeley

Nina reading from Sirach

Special Thanks to these special people:

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

John reading from 1 Corinthians.

Birthdays: Dana Dinsmore (25, Tuesday),

Anniversaries:

John & Alison (23rd, Tuesday)

John & Lambrini (23rd, Saturday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis; For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good; For Christine Drescher in hopital; 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 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 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;

Happy 23rd Anniversary, John, to you and Lambrini.

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;

And Happy 23rd Anniversary to you two, Alison and John. Wanna take bets on who gets that 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;

And Happy Birthday to you, Hue. Thanks for all you do for our sound system.

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.

Happy Birthday to you, too, Tom, a week late. We saved that cupcake for you all week. (Not really, folks.)

Your Finances, February 12, 2017

Expenses: $720.00

Outreach: $380.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Thanks for being our special Candle Lighters of The Week, Tori and Zoe. You did great.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Happiness is an iPad in a corner, sez Zoe.

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.

And says the Beautiful Harper, "See you all next week."

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Reminder for Sunday, February 12, 2017, 6th Ordinary Time, Cycle A

ByRosemary February 8, 2017

"Hi, Everybody," says our pretty Victoria with her momma.

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 Cookie Monster?? No way. That is our Harper selling her Girl Scout cookies. How can you not buy from a girl like Harper? I think she cleaned up.

Readings:

Sirach 15, 15-20, If you trust in God, you too shall live.

Psalm 119, Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2, 6-10, What eye has not seen…

Matthew 5, 17-37, If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.

The Gang, pretty scary. Tom, Joe & Marsha, John & Connie.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, February 10, 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), March, TBA

The Community. I see you, Everett.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

Tommy & God, from Fr. John Powell, Loyola U. Chicago, Download TOMMY & GOD 2-9-17

Total service: Alison caretaking a little dog off her game a bit, Aviana.

True?

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

Johannesburg

Welcome back, Joe, so good to see you.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Healing for Angela.

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," says Everett and his mommy, Kristin.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, February 5, 2017, 5th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary February 5, 2017

Readings:

Isaiah 58, 7-10, If you bestow your bread on the hungry, then light shall rise for you in the darkness.

Psalm 112, The Just Person is a light in darkness to the upright.

1 Corinthians 2, 1-5, God chose the foolish of the world.

Matthew 5, 13-16, You are the light of the world.

Kristin and Everett say, "Welcome in, Everybody. " And we say to you, Everett, "Welcome into our world."

Isaiah reminders, again—(I lied again, Folks. I thought we were finished with Isaiah, my favorite, until next Advent. Nope. Not really sorry, though. We have him again Feb. 26, last Sunday before Lent.)

Author: This is Isaiah #3, the composer of chapters 56-66. Isaiah #3 lives after the Israelites have returned to the ruined city of Jerusalem. It is a very depressing experience after the exuberance of being allowed to depart from slavery in Babylon. Like returning to your shattered home after a tornado, hurricane, or forest fire.

Hi, Leo, good to see you.

Date: Ca. 555 before Christ, the composition. The Jewish people of Jerusalem are home again.

Subject: A great day will come for you Jews. You will be a bright light at dawn and your wound will be healed (of your defeat and slavery), if you take care of your neighbor, providing food, clothing, and shelter. The corporal works of mercy.

Welcome to our marvelous community, Michael Tuck. It is so nice to have you and you are welcome any time Ray cannot make it. Or even if he can.

Your Light must shine before Others

This is the fourth or fifth Sunday we have dealt with delightful readings that involve light, either receiving light or giving light. Guess what. I want to talk again about 3 people who are lights for me.

I have talked before about a guy whom I greatly admire, Jim Mahar, a professor of something like economics at St. Bonaventure University near Buffalo, NY. This guy just continues to amaze and humble me.

Hi, Harper. Welcome to the Queen of Girl Scout Cookies.

I first met Jim through Bill Hammond. He, I, and Bob McGrath, all went down to Galveston to help with the clean up and repair of the city after the hurricane Ike in 2008. It seems to me like yesterday and, yet, incredibly long ago.

There were 20-25 of us, mostly students probably on spring break. We stayed in a very hospitable Protestant church. The pastor himself was most friendly and accommodating. The kids had bunk beds on the left & right of the church. We old guys bedded down in a rectangular room with about 20 Baptist Men volunteers. I could talk about those guys all day, they are so good. The only problem that time: one guy in our dorm snored like a bear.

Buddy, our Candle Man of The Week. Thanks, Buddy.

These guys had an 18 wheeler trailer that they had rigged up with a number of showers. The people in the church community fed us 3 meals a day.

This was the first time I worked with Jim Maher. I also went to Moore, OK, a suburb of OK City to help with a tornado that passed through. And now just a week or so ago I get a facebook note from Jim, working with a bunch of St. Bonaventure kids in maybe the Bahamas.

Offertory, Cindy, Bill, and Marlene.

Jim is a bright light in my life. In fact, his light is blinding. I am exhausted just following him from one disaster to another. He and some kids even came to help in Rowlett last year. I did not get to help out, but Bill Hammond was there.

Secondly, I have told you about another light of mine, Coach Frank Hart, mostly bed ridden in a home for elders. I have been visiting Frank almost every Friday afternoon for some years.

Ready or not, here we go.

When I first started entering this house, I noticed the particular accent with which three black caretakers ladies spoke English. I immediately recognized from where that accent comes, East Africa. They were marvelous caretakers.

So one afternoon, I took a minute to speak with one of the girls who bubbled over with personality. I addressed her in Swahili, which I totally still remember.

Anybody know who these characters are??

Folks, I thought she was going to faint, drop her teeth, and go crazy. She yelled to her 2 girl friends and we had a marvelous time. They were from Kenya. Very caring, very courageous girls. Lights to me for their courage in making a better life for themselves and others, like Coach Frank.

The third group: our kids. They don’t have to do anything and I love them. I am so delighted with their presence, which brings light to our celebrations.

The "Juliets," just us ladies into eating together."

I have always welcomed little kids at the Masses I celebrate, and for sure, at St. Marks. I would normally invite them up around me during the Eucharistic prayer. One time a little boy knocked over the standing candles and another time a little baby barfed on my shoulder while I was welcoming her for maybe the first time.

Is this not a pretty tough group?! Hi, Carol. Love the hair.

Guess what, everybody was so timid and cowed they did not even stop me to let me know the baby had thrown up on my shoulder until after the Mass, when even I was beginning to wonder about where that smell was coming from. These events both took place in the big church, not the 10:30 cafetorium. That 10:30 crowd would have spoken up, probably laughing at me.

And another play station.

Again the questions:

Who gives you light?

To whom do you give light?

Announcements

ByRosemary February 5, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,

Loving Father,

often we forget your gifts to us,

letting them pass unnoticed through each day.

Show us how to look again, to see through your eyes

and give freely in response to what we see.

Amen

www.christianaid.org.uk/images/count-your-blessings-2010.pdf

Tom reading from The Great Prophet Isaiah.

For the Readings: Tom & Lynda
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Jan
For the Pictures: Rick & Beth & Mike & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackiey
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Michael & Bethany & Shonda
For all who helped with Communion

Lynda reading from 1 Corinthians.

Birthdays: Sunday: Natalie Gorman, 14 & Lisa Anderlick, 31; Tuesday, Geri Moran; Wednesday, Tom Quinn; Thursday, Becky & Christine; Saturday, Scott Shaw (along with the girls Thursday), Hue, Dick Thompson, & John Bresson

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis; For Carol's recuperation; 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 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 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;

Happy Birthday, Geri, and thanks for all you do for our community.

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;

Happy Birthday, Dick and thanks to you for all you have done for our country.

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 & Kaitlen;

Happy Birthday, John, and thanks for sharing your gift to gather us together to celebrate.

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.

Thanks, Buddy, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week and for being such a neat kid.

Your Finances, February 5, 2017

Expenses: $1,225.00

Outreach: $ 550.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Thanks, Michael, for helping us with the music today and for fitting so smoothly into our community.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Happy Birthday, Gilbert, and thanks for being such a neat granddad, to say nothing about specials we won't mention around Christmas time.

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.

Ugh, oh, looks like Beth is getting bored. I better shut it down!

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, February 5, 2017, 5th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary February 1, 2017

Hey, Mary, is that a little mouse on top of your head?

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

John, now you got two mice. These mice sure do love you.

Readings:

Isaiah 58, 7-10, If you bestow your bread on the hungry, then light shall rise for you in the darkness.

Psalm 112, The Just Person is a light in darkness to the upright.

1 Corinthians 2, 1-5, God chose the foolish of the world.

Matthew 5, 13-16, You are the light of the world.

Our community has mice. Now do we have a tree growing out of Cathy's hair?

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, February 3, 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), February,

Juliet’s ladies luncheon group will be meeting Friday, February 3 at 1:00 P.M. at Eddy’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant, 2108 W. 15^th Street, Plano. It is located at 15^th Street and Custer next to McDonalds.

For those of you who have not eaten there; it is a cozy Italian Restaurant who offers pasta dishes, pizza and other Italian specialties. Lunch prices are very reasonable and their garlic rolls are great. Even better it is a BYOB.

And now Rosemary will show us all a new dance step.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

Parish priests: Stop closing parishes, National Catholic Reporter, 1-31-17, Download STOP CLOSING PARISHES, 2-2-17

So sorry, Brent, we just ran out of cupcakes. This will have to be your consolation ($2000 to Souls Harbor).

True?

It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Johannesburg

Brandon got it.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Le Patisserie: Happiness is eating pastries while checking out Girl Scout cookies.

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.

Happiness is healing for Carrie and Paul.

Happiness is peace, peace to you all.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, January 29, 2017, 4th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary January 29, 2017

Readings:

Zephaniah 2, 3; 3, 12-13, They shall do no wrong and speak no lies.

Psalm 146, Blessed are the poor in spirit, the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

1 Corinthians 1, 26-31, God chose the foolish of the world.

Matthew 5, 13-16, You are the light of the world.

Welcome in, Everybody.

Zephaniah observations:

What: a tiny book of only 4 chapters.

Who: a prophet in the typical mode, criticism of current bad behavior, promise of punishment, a better day after repentance and purification.

When: about 600 years before Christ.

Today's selection: A promise of better days in the future.

And from Kevin, too, "Come on in, Folks."

The Lord will give Sight to the Blind (Psalm 146, verse 8)

I have talked the past two Sundays on how I was given light to find my way by various people. I would like to continue this theme this morning because I am struck by the line in the Psalm that says the Lord will give sight to the blind. Another story.

When I was ordained at St. Rita’s in ’71, I returned from Toronto where I had been studying theology to my mother Jesuit province, called the New Orleans or Southern Province.

Hi, Kara, Hi, Denise, daughter & Mom team.

For about 4 years I gave spiritual retreats mostly to nuns and priests, retreats which were individually directed instead of preached to large numbers. To do this I established a base and a team at St. Charles College in Grand Coteau, LA, a beautiful place where Jesuits were trained for the first 4 years of their times as a Jesuit.

There was another center like ours in Wernersville, PA. I would go there once a year to consult with their team and director, George Schemel. He was maybe 20 years older than I and a sage in my eyes.

Hi, Cole, Hi, Erin, son & mom team.

At some point on one of my visits there, George asked me to be part of a team he wanted to send to East and West Africa to give these directed retreats to the religious over there. Would I go?

I was stunned that he believed in me so much. I was both scared and honored. What does this guy see in me that he would ask me to be part of this team?

We are loaded with great Candle Lighters, this week Brandon.

I checked with my home province, got the okay, and went off for a year with another young Jesuit, Bob Hamm. While there I got asked to come back after the year to set up a permanent spiritual center. Guess what I did. Yep, I came back.

As a result of George Schemel believing in me, a number of things took place.

The Offertory Team, Mike & Geri, Connie & John

I spent ten years in East Africa, mostly in the country of Tanzania, where I coordinated a team going to about 4 centers in the country to give seminars and retreats, some lasting a month.

I also had the privilege of setting up a spiritual center in Nairobi, Kenya, and working there for about 4 years. I found a plot of 39 acres & two houses on the edge of town. On one side was the town, on the other, the Nairobi game park. One night we came home and a giraffe was walking casually across our yard.

Hi, Zoe, you look beautiful.

While doing this, I discovered I had a talent hidden up to then. I learned Swahili and discovered through the language I could really enter into the cultural fabric of the people.

Once when I was at the little town of Moshi, near Kilimanjaro, I went to the local market. I knew an old man who sold fruit and veggies. I loved the old guy and we would chat up a storm when I was in town. I could also leave my motor cycle near him, so he would keep thieves away.

The Play Station.

At one point after chatting with him, I was picking up some fruit while he talked with a little old lady. She asks my friend about me, “Is he one of us,” using a word I would never presume to use for myself, ndugu, meaning brother, but more than that. She had overheard me talking Swahili with my old friend. He responded, “Yes.”

The Best, Bethany (plus 1 soon to arrive) & Ray

Talking about Kilimanjaro, I climbed that old mountain 5 times

After all this, I finally returned to the States, and what did I encounter? Two more lights who, incredibly, believed in me. Who? Bernadette and Carol. Because of them we are here this morning. What a Blessing!

I think, Ray, we may have another understudy here.

George Schemel believed in me and showed it. Because of his believing, I was able to accomplish things I never would have dreamed about. Plus, I lived a marvelous 10 year adventure. George was a light to me. As are Bernadette, Carol, and you people.

Who has believed in you?

Whom do you believe in?

Yeah! It is Girl Scout Cookie time again and Harper is ready to supply all your favorite flavors. Good work, Dear Harper.

Announcements

ByRosemary January 29, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,

What good did it do when you frowned? Let me ask:

Did it help you at all to accomplish your task?

Did it lighten your burden or help you along?

Did the frown that you wore make a right out of wrong?

What good did it do to be grouchy today?

Did your surliness drive any trouble away?

Did you cover more ground than you usually do?

Because of the grouch that you carried with you?

If not, what’s the use of a grouch or a frown?

If it won’t smooth a path or a grim trouble down?

If it doesn’t assist you , it isn’t worth while:

Your work may be hard, but just do it and smile.

Author Unknown but I found a copy of this in The Spokesman, September 1910

Mary Jane reading from the Prophet Zephaniah.

Our Special Thanks

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

John reading from 1 Corinthians.

Birthdays: Mary Hall (Sunday, today), Mike Carrell & Randolph Brown (Wednesday), Megan Ekes (33, Thursday), Kevin Bresson (28, Friday), Gil & Candy Keren ( Saturday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman in Medical City, Plano with cellulitis; For Eleanor Anne Stryker, who just arrived last night; For Carol's recuperation; 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 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 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;

Meredith and Joe are great, but who let that Sooner in?

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;

Happy Birthday, Mary.

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 & Kaitlen;

And Happy Birthday to you, too, Mike.

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 to you, too, Rick, Happy Birthday and thanks for being such a big help with all the photos you take each week.

Your Finances, January 29, 2017

Expenses: $895.00

Outreach: $340.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

We donated $2,000.00 to Soul's Harbor this week.

Randolph, I do think you have some little mice eager to help you with you birthday gift. Happy Birthday, Man.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

And lastly, Genevieve to everybody, "See you next week, Folks."

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.

While waiting to join up next week, saying, "I can dance."

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, January 29, 2017, 4th Ordinary Time.

ByRosemary January 25, 2017

I say, Ray, do we have an apprentice joining the Music Team?

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

Jackie & Rick renewing their marriage vows at 16 years.

Readings:

Zephaniah 2, 3; 3, 12-13, They shall do no wrong and speak no lies.

Psalm 146, Blessed are the poor in spirit, the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

1 Corinthians 1, 26-31, God chose the foolish of the world.

Matthew 5, 13-16, You are the light of the world.

Nina and Kerry.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 27, 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), February,

Juliet’s ladies luncheon group will be meeting Friday, February 3 at 1:00 P.M. at Eddy’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant, 2108 W. 15^th Street, Plano. It is located at 15^th Street and Custer next to Mc Donalds.

For those of you who have not eaten there; it is a cozy Italian Restaurant who offers pasta dishes, pizza and other Italian specialties. Lunch prices are very reasonable and their garlic rolls are great. Even better it is a BYOB.

What a feast for a Birthday Party?

WOW! Yum, yum, my favorite breakfast, fruit & a chocolate covered donut.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

Our tasks as Catholics the next 4 years, National Catholic Reporter, 1-26-17, 888 words, Download CATHOLICS THE NEXT 4 YEARS 1-26-17

Our Father

True?

If you have to choose between drinking wine everyday and being skinny, which would you choose?

Red or White?

Johannesburg

Hey, Rob, How would you like to buy my 1963 Studebaker? Shiny, almost brand new, all four wheels turn, it stops traffic. Cheap, My Good Friend, deal?

Special notice from our bar tender:

The coffee bar will be open before mass

for those who arrive early…

( closes promptly at 0930 until after the service :-)

-mike

Would somebody please be nice and volunteer to go and sit with Sir Charlie, please?

Jan, you are too nice. How do you do it?

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace, Bernadette, Peace, Buddy, Peace, Sir Charlie (maybe).

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 January 22, 2017, 3rd Ordinary Time

ByRosemary January 22, 2017

Readings:

Isaiah 8, 23 – 9, 3, The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.

Psalm 27, The Lord is my light and my salvation.

1 Corinthians 1, 01-13, 17, I urge you that there be no divisions among you.

Matthew 4, 12-23, Come after me and I will make you fishers of others.

Welcome in, Everybody!

Isaiah reminders, again—

Author: This is Isaiah #1, the composer of chapters 1-39. Even though Isaiah #1 lives before the Babylonian Captivity, he still sees that a great, bright day will come to the Jewish people, despite Babylon.

Date: Ca. 555 before Christ, the composition. The Jewish people of Jerusalem are about to be defeated and carried off into slavery.

Welcome in from me, too," sez Genevieve.

Subject: A great day will come for you Jews. A special leader will be born. You will be a beacon to others, glorious, and a light to nations everywhere. You might easily recognize parts of this reading. From where? The Nativity readings and Handel's Messiah, a favorite of mine.

This is the last week we will have these Isaiah readings which I love. I will miss them. Until next Advent.

Welcome to you, Jean, and especially to you, Marge, all the way here from Vermont.

The people who have lived in darkness have seen a great light

I would like to talk again this morning on the same theme we touched upon last week, being a light. I have a story, some of which you might have heard. Here we go.

When I was in the 6^th grade at Christ the King, I joined the Boy Scouts in the Spring. Because my birthday comes in late January, I suddenly became eligible. So I start going to weekly meetings in the evening.

There is a rumor around here that somebody is 77 and it looks like a party, for sure.

I was kind of interested in camping out, but nothing was scheduled that Spring. Turns out that the first outing was to a Scout camp at Lake Texoma. For a whole week. Now I had never been away from home and Texoma seemed like another country. Certainly the road there was not like today’s Central Expressway. It was more like taking Tulip Lane to Texoma.

About 3-4 of my classmates had joined up because they became old enough. So, off we went.

Says Donna, "Happy Birthday to whomever that old geezer is."

It was not just my classmates on this trip, but also 7^th & 8^th grade guys. We get there and, probably because I was bigger than my classmates, I was informed quietly that I was going to be initiated into the Scout troop in a special way.

My self confidence in 6^th grade was pretty weak, so the threats of these 8^th grade boys scared the pooh out of me. So, what did I do? I faked being sick and was back home in Dallas Monday afternoon.

Yippee, I love birthday parties!

Success, Yes? Nope, I was ashamed, humiliated, and my self confidence totally vanished.

At this point two lights came into my life. First, my dad seemed to intuit that I needed extra care. Secondly, a new coach, teacher, and Scout Master was hired by Christ the King. This guy, Frank Hart, was especially non-judgmental and positive.

"So when does the party start?, says Harper.

Slowly during the year and being coached and encouraged by Frank, I got enough self-confidence to go to the next summer’s Scout camp at Texoma, not for the whole week, but from about Tuesday night on.

Why Tuesday night? My dad had volunteered to be an adult extra for Frank at the camp and I went with my dad. I can still remember walking into the camp that Tuesday evening. It was dark, Coleman lanterns were on, and Frank and my classmates all seemed delighted to see me.

Harper, Just this music alone is a party, and it is every week.

Frank is still alive. He lives in a retirement house on the corner of Hillcrest and Northhaven. He is mostly in bed all the time and may not even recognize me when I visit him each Friday after Romeos.

How did he help me? He just seemed to appreciate me as I was. He was a light of acceptance. I felt accepted and that acceptance helped me build self-confidence.

And the Offertory Team, Judy and Karen, John and Dick.

My dad helped me. Frank was a special light in my life.

Who is a light in your life?

For whom are you a light?

Announcements

ByRosemary January 22, 2017

Rosemary's Blessing of The Week, Next week, replaced by Jackie & Rick's vow renewal.

Geri reading from The Great Isaiah I.

Our Special Thanks

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

Mike reading from 1 Corinthians.

Birthdays: Kevin (20, Tuesday), Sienna (7, Monday), Chloe (11, Tuesday), The Old Geezer (77, Thursday), Sir Charlie (Saturday), Becky Good (last Wednesday).

Anniversaries:

Ray & Claire (46^th, Monday)

Stay awake, Buddy, party time is coming.

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol's recuperation; 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 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;

Memorial for Nina's brother, Aaron, St. Paul's Richardson, Saturday.

For 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;

Happy Birthday, Becky.

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 & Kaitlen; 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.

Happy Birthday, Sir Charlie. You would not be spoofing me, would you, just to get a cupcake?

Your Finances, January 22, 2017

Expenses: $1585.00

Outreach: $ 770.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy 16th Anniversary, Jackie & Rick, and thanks for renewing your wedding vows with our community.

Have a Great Week, J.S

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