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Announcements

ByRosemary October 11, 2015

Rosemary's Blessing:

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

May you walk gently through the world

and know its beauty

all the days of your life.

Apache Blessing

Patricia reading Wisdom.

Our Special Thanks:

For the Readings: Patricia & Jackie
For The Team: Kevin
For the Communion Bread: Claire
For the Wine & Cups: Jan
For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Marilyn & Mary
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Mary
For all who helped with communion

Jackie reading Hebrews.

Birthdays: Angela (today, Sunday), Bill Hammond (72, Tuesday), Celeste (Thursday in Serbia?), Rich Eshelbrenner, CC Reidel (9 Saturday, Occhipinti granddaughter)

On the Rhine River, the Viking ship Kara.

Special Announcement:

We have moved! To Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Viking Kara, about 190 passengers, going from Amsterdam to Basel, Switzerland, 7 days & nights.

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

Village with vineyards, some of which were begun by the Romans.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bernadette's mom; For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder; For Frank; For Rose Banzhaf's 8 year old niece, Madeline;; For Lisa Ackerman dealing with cancer; 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 Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

One castle among many along the Rhine.

Francis Vanderwall's friend, Joseph DeLaune; Mike & Dee Miller's daughter, Lisa, not doing well & their friend, Don Fox; for Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer; from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Guess what, guess where, guess what river. (The Eiffel Tower in Paris on the Seine River.)

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; for Mary Ellen; for 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.

Heard of Locks of Love? This seems to be where it began. A lock is secured to the chain link fence, the key is thrown in the river, and your relationship will never be broken.

Trouble was, the weight of the locks was breaking down the bridge, the Bridge of Art, Paris, over the Seine with the Louvre on the opposite side.

So, the locks had to come off and those red & white plywood panels were put up. Locks are only on the edges, like in the picture. The Locks of Love idea has spread everywhere in Europe.

Your Finances, October 11, 2015

Expenses: $1015.00

Outreach: $ 175.00

October 4, 2015

Expenses: $610.00

Outreach: $315.00

Donated today: nothing special

Hey, Mike, here is your new Uber Black.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Good Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Advantages: low or no gas mileage, fresh air, leading edge German technology (remember Mercedes & BMW), and can go between lanes on LBJ, the Bush, & Central during rush hours.

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, October 11, 28th Ordinary Time, B

ByRosemary October 7, 2015

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

Readings:

Wisdom 2, 7-11, I prayed and prudence was given to me.

Psalm 90, Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy.

Hebrews 4, 12-13, The word of God is living and effective.

Mark 10, 17-30, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom.

Community Activities:

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 2, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. The Old Geezer will be away.

2. LADIES' LUNCHEON, Friday, October 2, 12:30 P.M., Uni Sushi, 1410 Ave. K, # 1109B, Plano. Carol says, “Join us early if you can. They close at 2:00”

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested. If you let me know I will add their email to the list.

Carol

What is going on in our Catholic World

1. Francis' last message, National Catholic Reporter, September 27, 800 words, Download Francis' last message 10-8-15

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

True?

An idle mind is….the best way to relax.

Wisdom from a 1st grader

See you this Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

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, October 4, 2015, 27th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary October 4, 2015

Genesis Chap 1 “God spoke: Let us make human beings in our image.”

Genesis Chap 2 “And Man came alive—a living soul!”

Responsorial Psalm – May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.

Alleluia – If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is in us.

Mark 7:31-37 – “Children are at the very center of life in the kingdom.”

Introduction to the readings:

Genesis and the first 5 books of Bible, according to modern Scripture experts, were not written 10 or 20 thousand years ago after humans began to populate the earth and form tribes. Rather, they were probably written in 5^th or 6^th century before Jesus (probably during or right after Babylonian captivity 555).

They were written to give the Israelites a beginning and a common history. That made them a special people with noteworthy ancestors and their own extensive rules to live by. This set the Israelites apart and helped hold them together. (Remember the ten tribes of Judah weren’t able to stick together, and disappeared, absorbed into the DNA of their captors.)

And so we have the stories of Genesis and of the books that followed; such as the stories as story of Adam and Eve, of Cain and Abel and Seth (who replaced Abel), and later of Noah, and later still of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and later still of Moses and so on and on.

The first creation story in Ch 1 of Genesis has a more cosmic style, placing human beings at the pinnacle of creation to give everything a name, and to rule over and take care of the earth and of all living creatures.

The second creation story in Ch 2 of Genesis is used in today’s Mass as the back-story for the Gospel reading from Mark about Jesus expanding the ideal of marriage and his recognizing the beginnings of the equality of men and women in marriage.

In Jesus’ time men could, on a whim, just fill out a certificate of dismissal to divorce his wife. A woman had no such right. Unbelievable at that time, Jesus mentioned that women could also divorce their husbands. He also raised the ideal, explaining that a husband and wife have like responsibilities to each other.

Jesus gave marriage the higher ideal of ‘lasting fidelity and lasting connection.’ The Church, though allowing ‘catholic divorce’ or annulment, has traditionally interpreted the words in the Gospel literally—and has not acknowledged divorce or remarriage, if the Church doesn’t have a hand in it through the annulment process.

Bishops and others are being called to Rome this very month by Pope Francis to make pastoral decisions concerning family issues. Many say this update may acknowledge Christian Marriage as a Christian ideal, while acknowledging that we imperfect humans are often unable to achieve the ideal. From a pastoral perspective this could allow for Catholic communities to accept and welcome people who are divorced or remarried (as we do in this community without reservation).

Readings 1, 2, and Gospel

HOMILY:

I want to say just a few words about simplicity in children. First, I am thankful that Stack and this community stand strong for welcoming and accepting children.

This gives us a unique opportunity to observe what Jesus meant by accepting the kingdom, “in the simplicity of a child”, and we can continue to watch and learn how to live that in that simplicity. What I associate with the simplicity of a child, if they are allowed their natural, instinctive inclinations, are: they tend to be more into connecting than making distance, more accepting than rejecting, more curious than judgmental, more naturally free than fearful, more open than defensive, and more giving than withholding.

Examples of Pope Francis in visit to our country: Seeks/welcomes children to hold/touch; simplicity of dress; little Fiat; words & gestures…Our children: say what think/feel; open; natural freedom; share; give…

Ask yourself: How do I live in the simplicity of a child in my life and relationships?

Announcements

ByRosemary October 4, 2015

Rosemary's Blessing:

None this week.

Our Special Thanks:

For the Readings:
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Claire
For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie and Jan
For the Pictures: Rick & Beth & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Mary
For all who helped with communion

Birthdays: Frank Reyes (Today, Sunday), Erin McClurg (Tuesday), Sabrina (20, Saturday in Chicago), & Leo (5, from last Thursday),

Anniversaries:

Richard and Sheila Baack (33^rd, Friday)

Special Announcement:

We have moved! To Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

Please Remember these special people:

For Bernadette's mom; For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder; For Rose Banzhaf's 8 year old niece, Madeline;; For Lisa Ackerman dealing with cancer; 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 Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

Francis Vanderwall's friend, Joseph DeLaune; Mike & Dee Miller's daughter, Lisa, not doing well & their friend, Don Fox; for Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer; from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up; For a little friend, Heather;

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; for Mary Ellen; for 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, October 4, 2015

Expenses: $

Outreach: $

Donated today: nothing special

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Good 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, October 4, 27th Ordinary

ByRosemary September 30, 2015

From Mary & Frank, Nina & Kerry, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

"Happy Birthday, Tori."

Readings:

Genesis 2, 18-24, God creates woman.

Psalm 128, May the Lord Bless us all the days of our lives.

Hebrews 2, 9-11, He is not ashamed to call them brothers.

Mark 10, 2-16, Let the children come to me.

"Happy Birthday, Buddy."

Community Activities:

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 2, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. The Old Geezer will be away.

2. LADIES' LUNCHEON, Friday, October 2, 12:30 P.M., Uni Sushi, 1410 Ave. K, # 1109B, Plano. Carol says, “Join us early if you can. They close at 2:00”

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested. If you let me know I will add their email to the list.

Carol

The Team

What is going on in our Catholic World

1. Francis & John Kerry, Daily Kos, September 25, 200 words, Download Francis and John Kerry 10-1-15

2. Hillary on Francis, National Catholic Reporter, September 25, 375 words, Download Hillary on Francis 10-8-15

3. Philadelphia Homeless, National Catholic Reporter, September 26, 305 words, Download Philadelphia homeless kicked out 10-1-15

4. Francis meets victims, National Catholic Reporter, September 27, 620 words, Download Francis meets victims 10-1-15

The Music Team with Mary, Wendy, & Ray

Special Announcement: We have moved to Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

Cupcakes of The Week to Patricia & Denni

True?

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others live up to it.

THE BUDDHA

Rosemary doing her special blessing.

See you this Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Guess who says, "See you next week, Everybody."

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, September 27, 26th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 27, 2015

Readings:

Numbers 11, 25-29, Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets.

Psalm 19, The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

James 5, 1-6, Come now, You Rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.

Mark 9, 38-48, If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.

Says Harper, "Hi Folks, Welcome in."

Numbers: observation

In this reading, from the Torah, the Book of Moses, we are given a wonderful example of the expectation of the OT for the coming of the Messiah. It will be fulfilled by Christ, upon whom the Spirit rests, when he and his Father bestow the gift of the Spirit upon all who welcome, live, and proclaim the good news.

Genevieve, too, says, "Good Morning, Everybody, Welcome in."

Homily by Mike

In our gospel reading, John and other of the disciples had been building a barrier between themselves and the flock without realizing it, for they assumed that the Spirit was only going to rest upon them to bring forgiveness to others. Jesus corrects them.

All have a responsibility to sow the seed of the good news by word and example. Jesus continually taught those who were following him not to form barriers that would keep them from being one body.

Cole, The Candle Man of the Week, at work.

Recall Paul’s letter to the Galatian church, ‘There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female for all are one in Christ Jesus. Recall that in Advent and Lent we, each of us, live out our gift and responsibility to bring forgiveness to one another; for we are the body of Christ.

The Jewish dietary laws were a barrier between Jew and gentile. It kept them from eating together. So Jesus said to the Jews, ‘Its not what goes into the mouth that defiles; it’s what comes out of the mouth that defiles. In so doing he made all food clean. When does he tear down this barrier in the Gospel? Right before he invites both Jew and gentile to eat together at the table of the Lord.

Say the twins, Buddy & Victoria, "Happiness is a cupcake on my birthday, yippee."

All the early followers of Christ were Jews, and they did not even talk to Samaritans. Early in the John gospel Jesus’ disciples go into town for food and leave him at a well in Samaria. There is a barrier between Jews and Samaritans. They didn’t talk to one another.

When the disciples return, they see him sharing his good news to a Samaritan woman. Jesus lives the truth that God has no favorites. Jesus simply says to his disciples that they must be about sowing the seed of his word and reaping where he has already sown. Immediately the Samaritan woman begins to give witness in the town that Jesus is a prophet. And, maybe, he is the Messiah.

Cupcakes of the Week to Cole and Brent for special services.

Recall the tax collector who climbs the tree in his interest to see Jesus come into Jericho. Jesus looks up and invites Zacchaeus to come down so that he can eat at his house that day. The seed sown during lunch brought another into the flock.

Jesus’ disciples were Jews who saw the Romans as beasts. There are several stories in the Gospel about Jesus befriending a Roman Centurion. In each of them, Jesus tore down the barriers between them by sowing kindness, and goodness and forgiveness.

Georgie helping out.

Recall the story about the man who had committed serious sin in the Mark gospel. So much so, that the Jews would not forgive him, rather they expel him from their community. He comes to Jesus saying, ‘If you want to, you can make me clean.’ Jesus took his hand and replied, ‘Of course I want to, be made clean.” He again tears down barriers; and he expects us to do the same.

The Team at the elevation.

Whenever we isolate ourselves from others, we deny them the opportunity to become one with us. Take the opportunity this week to welcome or become closer to your neighbors this week, especially the newer ones. They were meant to be your brothers and sisters.

Says Genevieve, "May I have that mike, I would like to talk."

Announcements

ByRosemary September 27, 2015

Rosemary's Blessing:

Gracious God,

help us to work with You

to make the world

Alive with Your Spirit,

and to build on earth

a city of Justice, Love, and Peace.

Author Unknown

Jackie reading from Numbers.

Our Special Thanks:

For the Readings: Patricia & Jackie
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Claire
For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie and Jan
For the Pictures: Rick & Beth & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Mary
For all who helped with communion

Patricia reading from James.

Birthdays: Judy Carrell (today, Sunday), John Cade (54^th of ordination, Wednesday), Leo (5, Thursday), Jackie (50, Friday), Tori & Buddy ( 5, Saturday).

Anniversaries:

Claire and Andrew, (4^th, Thursday, celebrating also with Nora)

Patricia & Fred (5^th, Friday)

Mike homilizing.

Special Announcement:

We have moved! To Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

Grace reading the financial report. (see below)

Please Remember these special people:

For Bernadette's mom; For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder; For Rose Banzhaf's 8 year old niece, Madeline;; For Lisa Ackerman dealing with cancer; 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 Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

"Hey, Harper, you seen that gorilla around here?"

Francis Vanderwall's friend, Joseph DeLaune; Mike & Dee Miller's daughter, Lisa, not doing well & their friend, Don Fox; for Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer; from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up; For a little friend, Heather;

"Watch out, Harper, there he is, all dressed for winter a bit early."

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; for Mary Ellen; for 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.

Cupcake of The Week to Judy for her birthday.

Your Finances, September 27, 2015

Expenses: $ 780.00

Outreach: $ 480.00

Donated today:

$2000 to Souls Harbor

$300 to Plano Homes

Financial report for second quarter: Download Financials Blog Q2

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Good Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

"All this talk about money has worn me out."

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, September 27, 26th Ordinary Time, B

ByRosemary September 23, 2015

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack & Mike homilizing.

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

Says Zoe, "Hi, Everybody."

Readings:

Numbers 11, 25-29, Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets.

Psalm 19, The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

James 5, 1-6, Come now, You Rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.

Mark 9, 38-48, If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.

Cupcake of The Week to Mary Jane

Community Activities:

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 25, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Mike will be searched on the way out.

2. LADIES' LUNCHEON, October ?, Thursday, 1:00 P.M.,

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested. If you let me know I will add their email to the list.

Carol

Offertory with Paul & Carrie, Alison & John (just retired)

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1. Is this the end of Francis' honeymoon?, Religious News Service, September 3, 950 words, Download Francis' honeymoon over 9-24-15

2. What kind of Catholic are you?, Religious News Service, September 17, 767 words, Download What kind of Catholic 9-24-15

3. San Francisco priest sanctioned, National Catholic Reporter, September 22, 540 words, Download Priest sanctioned 9-24-15

The Team, Kevin & Georgie

Special Announcement: We have moved to Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

Zoe, The Candle Lighter

True?

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Ben Franklin

"Good Work, Zoe, thanks."

See you this Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Rosemary reads her final blessing.

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.

Genevieve says, "See you next week, Folks."

Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 20, 25th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 20, 2015

Readings:

Wisdom 2, 12, 17-20, Let us condemn him to a shameful death.

Psalm 54, The Lord upholds my life.

James 3, 16-4, 3, Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder.

Mark 9, 30-37, Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me.

Victoria and her dear little friend say, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in.

Wisdom observations:

What:One of the 14-15 books of the deutero-canonical books of the bible. Not OT nor NT, but in between and the subject of controversy over the centuries. The “in between books.” Were they really part of the bible or not? How do you know? Catholic church accepts the books.

Subject matter: the book makes use of traditional Jewish material, as well as ideas borrowed from Greek philosophy, in order to teach that God rewards those who are faithful to him.

Emma, joining her pal Tori, also says, "Hi, Everybody."

Author: not Solomon, but a Jew living in Alexandria, Egypt who wrote and spoke excellent Greek. The book is sometimes called “The Wisdom of Solomon.”

Date: ca. 100-200 before Christ. How do we know these facts? Because of text analysis. For example, while the author wrote in Greek, he uses phrases and expressions that have a Hebrew flavor. Also, he mentions rulers and places that reveal date and locale.

Our Selection: what a wicked person thinks should be done with a good person–beat & kill. This links up with the suffering servant poem from 2 Isaiah last week. Jews think the good person getting beaten is the Jewish race/nation. Christians think the person is Christ.

James: presents a pretty negative image of people. What would be a compassionate image?

And of course, Genevieve, not wanting to be left behind, says, "Welcome, Folks. It's fun here."

Says the child, “Numero uno or last??”

This morning I would like to talk about receiving the child. In particular, I would like to focus on the inner child, the child inside all of us, even in old geezers like myself.

I also want to say a word about the notion of being first or last.

To exemplify the points, a story. I have used the story before. It is too good to bury. The story, the musical play Most Happy Fella.

Zoe, the beautiful candle lighter, at work.

The play is about a guy named Tony, middle aged Italian American, successful wine maker from Nappa Valley, and a bachelor.

He eats in a restaurant one evening in, say, Chicago. He likes the waitress and leaves her a note with his tip, despite his shyness. They begin a long distance correspondence and start to get close. Both are looking for partners.

"Zoe, what is everybody laughing at?"

They decide to exchange photos. Tony, who has been taking a lot of risk because he is so shy, is afraid to show her his picture. He thinks he is too old & too ugly. So he sends her the photo of his handsome young farm foreman. The foreman has already told Tony he is planning on moving on anyway.

So Tony and his girl decide to wed at the farm. On the day of her arrival and the big wedding, Tony discovers that the foreman decided to hang around for the wedding & party. Tony loses it. He goes out, rolls his pickup, and almost kills himself.

Leo and Kevin welcoming a new member to the community. How many elementary schools have a gorilla just outside of the cafeteria?

Meanwhile, girl arrives and thinks the nice foreman is the groom. In fact, they get rather enamored of each other. Then Tony is brought in on a stretcher. Guess what happens then. I’ll tell you at the end.

Let me make 2 observations about Tony.

Two Greats, Shonda & Mike.

First, Tony might have had ambitions about being numero uno, but he really thought he was the last, a loser, ugly, and old. His challenge: get away from thinking best or worst. Both are traps. Just accept Tony as okay.

Secondly, when Tony let himself leave the note for the waitress, he was letting his inner child out for a minute. In his correspondence he was letting that child play. The child wants to be loved and to play. Trouble was, the child was not used to getting out and was afraid. So he tries the picture trick.

"Don't shoot me, Leo, shoot that gorilla."

I can resemble Tony. Thinking I am first, numero uno in anything, or last, both are traps. I would propose it is irrelevant. I am okay just as I am.

Like Tony I have an inner child. Want to know what the child wants? Just watch our kids here. To be loved and to play. I think this is what I am doing when I ride my bike across Iowa or in the Hotter N' Hell Hundred, and when I hike around Yosemite. These are great times for my inner spirit, that is, my inner child.

The Team

So, two questions today:

First, where do you think of yourself, first, last, or just okay?

Secondly, how do you let your own inner child out to play?

What happened to Tony? He eventually became a most happily married fella.

Secrets.

Announcements

ByRosemary September 20, 2015

Rosemary's Blessing:

May the Lord grant you

A tolerance for those who don’t agree with you,

A refusal to judge others,

A willingness to forgive,

A calm and hopeful spirit in the midst of anxieties,

And a holy anger for injustice in the world.

From Seven Sacred Pauses by Macrina Wiederkehr

John Reading from the book of Wisdom

Our Special Thanks:

For the Readings: Mary Jane and John
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Claire
For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie and Jan
For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy, Jackie & Beth
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany
For all who helped with communion

Mary Jane reading from James

Birthdays: Mary Jane Stevenson (today, Sunday), Patty Hammond & Bethany (Wednesday), Holly Kern (22, Thursday at UT), Beth Dugan (44, Saturday)

Harper and Emma at the Patisserie

Special Announcement:

We have moved! To Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Special Announcement #2:

From Carol Eshelbrenner about being a math tutor:

If interested in helping to tutor math on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30 pm, at Harrington Library you can find out more about the program at: http://www.intellichoice.org/ You will work with kids from grade 1 to grade 12. Materials provided. I have helped out for about 5 years. The program is wonderful and the kids at Harrington are great.

Call Corina Sadler or Robin Popik at City of Plano, (972) 941-7617, to volunteer and apply for a background check. Since we work with children a background check is required. Carol Eshelbrenner 972-423-0069

Cupcake of The Week to Teresa & Doug on their anniversary.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bernadette's mom; For Rose Banzhaf's 8 year old niece, Madeline;; For Lisa Ackerman dealing with cancer; 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 Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

Guess who is celebrating her birthday this week.

Francis Vanderwall's friend, Joseph DeLaune; Mike & Dee Miller's daughter, Lisa, not doing well & their friend, Don Fox; for Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer; from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up; For a little friend, Heather;

Would you trust this guy with his wife's cupcake for her birthday? Did not think so.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; for Mary Ellen; for 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.

"Harper, you cannot really be falling asleep."

Your Finances, September 20, 2015

Expenses: $1780.00

Outreach: $ 895.00

Donated today: nothing today.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

"Has that Old Geezer not finished talking yet!"

Have a Good Week, J.S

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