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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

(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, September 20, 25th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 16, 2015

Welcome to sunrise over Frog Lake, East Yosemite, Matterhorn Canyon trail.

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

Would you trust your friend with these characters? The departure at Virginia Lakes trail head of Nicole, an Old Geezer, Beth, Rose, Andy, Mike, and Ray

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.

So where did all the trees go? You know you are above 10 thousand feet when the trees got more sense than to go that high. Beth, Nicole, & somebody

Community Activities:

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 18, 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

Talk about having more sense. Could that be Senor Mike swimming in Summit Lake, only 10 thousand feet cold?

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1. What should Francis do when he visits the U.S., National Catholic Reporter, August 27, 555 words, Download Goals for Francis in U.S. 9-17-15

2. Francis on Gays, Divorced, Abortion & other issues, a summary, Crux, September 2, 1875 words, Download Francis on Issues 9-17-15

3. New Annulment guide lines,National Catholic Reporter, September 8, 475 words, Download Annulment Changes 9-17-15

4. Nuns on the Bus, latest adventures, and immigration work, National Catholic Reporter, September 11, 950 words, Download Nuns on the Bus 9-17-15

Sienna, the Candle Lighter, at work.

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

Check the map: View this photo

Happiness is a cupcake, sez Jackie, especially when it is Harper's idea.

True?

Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

Communion for the big folks, Judy and Dick.

See you this Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

And communion for the little folks, Emma & Tori, Buddy & Zoe.

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.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 13, 24th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 13, 2015

Readings:

Isaiah 50, 4-9, I gave my back to those who beat me.

Psalm 116, I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the Living.

James 2, 1-5, 14-18, What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Mark 8, 27-35, Take up your cross.

Genevieve and her mom, Mary, say, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Isaiah: observations

What is it about: 1^st, 2^nd, & 3^rd Isaiah?

1^st Isaiah, Chapters 1-39: predict doom for the Hebrews because they have not been faithful to their one god.

2^nd Isaiah, Chapters 40-55: this & the remaining chapters are called The Book of Consolation. They try to assure the people who are now in exile that God will restore them to their former glory & peace. In fact, in chapter 45 the composer even mentions the name of Cyrus, the king of the Persians who defeats Babylon & sends the Hebrews back to Jerusalem. So the composer knew of Cyrus and a date can be narrowed down.

Sienna, too, and her dolly, welcome everybody.

This 2^nd Isaiah section presents 4 suffering servant songs, #3 being our selection today. Jews see the servant to be the Hebrew people/nation. Christians see the servant to be Christ.

Isaiah 2 is considered maybe the most influential O.T. book. On Isaiah 2 Mark built much of his gospel, especially the story of the crucifixion.

Handel's Messiah uses 2nd Isaiah for its lyrics.

3^rd Isaiah, Chapter 56-66: more assurances of a return to peace & glory.

Victoria would like everyone to know that she and her pet frog are also happy to see everybody.

Mark: observation

I do not like the line in Mark where he says we have to take up our cross. I have seen the negative result of this. Which is not to imply that we do not have to struggle to reach goals, like, say, 175 lbs.

Happiness is Victoria and her frog.

The 3 Beauties

This morning I would like to talk with you about 3 beauties I encountered the past ten days in Yosemite.

The first beauty has to do with the spectacular scenery we walk through, up, and down. We are ranging from, say, 7 thousand feet up to and beyond tree line, which is 10 thousand feet. The Lodgepole Pines, the grassy meadows, the streams, the vistas from three 10 thousand foot passes, all take my breath away.

Zoe says, "How about this Sigler, pretty nice."

This beauty is what brings me back time and again to the mountains, and especially to the Matterhorn Canyon trail that I discovered with the Jesuits maybe 20 years ago.

The second beauty is the memories I have of camping in the same places six, eight, or ten times in my life. At two places I was actually moved to tears.

Emma and Sienna are experts at nurturing little critters.

At the foot of Matterhorn Canyon there is a gorgeous campsite. You cross a shallow stream and on the left of the trail there is a pretty grove of trees and a grassy meadow in front of the grove.

I probably camped here 3-4 times, until we realized we wanted to get higher up the Canyon so we had less climbing to cross over Burrow Pass. I walked through the campsite with Mike and I could remember where I had put my tent one below freezing night. I could remember our fire ring and a tussle the group had once over one guy eating all the group’s peanut butter.

"Harper, it does not get prettier than this."

I remembered a night the first time I camped there with a Jesuit friend who taught at Berkeley. We had eaten dinner and were sitting around a campfire when a female deer came up behind me and put her head on my right shoulder. I was stunned, but not scared. Don Gelpi, my friend, had watched it all without saying a word. Don Gelpi is now dead and I missed him there.

Another campsite, my most favorite of all my campsites in the world, Piute Creek, just after coming over the Burrow Pass. It has the required creek. But it is spacious and off the trail enough so that people cannot even see the spot. It is grassy and shady.

Brandon and Leo at serious attention.

I camped in the same place where 6 years ago Tom & Lynda Fleming put up their tent, with Daniel’s tent just in front. I remembered all sorts of people there, Poncik, Gene Cooley, Larry Pigeon, Beth & Rob, Ryan Malphurs, Paul Fulce, and Ron Kovatis, as well as the Jesuits. I could see Fulce and Kovatis smoking cigars in a natural pool in the stream. These memories touch me to tears.

Music at Sigler Elementary, beautiful as ever.

The third beauty: the people I was with. You may find it hard to see beauty in people like Ray and Mike, but Beth was there. The beauty was the consideration each person showed for others. Ray was always up first in the morning ca. 6:00. He would fire up our little camp stove and heat water for coffee and oat meal. Many a morning I got up, got my cup, my Starbuck’s instant coffee, and my MooMoo milks, and had my first cup of coffee of the day. Ray also called the time for happy hour and cooked the evening meal prepared ahead of time by Rose Banzhaf.

Genevieve, "Is that old geezer finished talking yet?"

As an aside, we ate exceptionally well. Rose fixes casseroles and cobblers, freeze dries them, puts them in sealed packages, and we break out one set each evening. Plus, I must confess, we have a half pound of cheese, maybe a piece of dark chocolate, and a pint of Jack Daniels.

Mike & Andy, because they both have nimble feet, often helped me across slippery streams. No way do I want to fall and mess up one of my special hips.

"Emma, please tell me that you too are not sleeping when I talk."

Three priceless beauties, nature, memories, and companions.

Your priceless beauties?

Announcements

ByRosemary September 13, 2015

Rosemary's Blessing:

… May God bless you with enough foolishness
to believe that you can make a difference
in this world, in your neighborhood,
so that you will courageously try
what you don't think you can do, but,
in Jesus Christ you'll have all the strength necessary.

"Troubadour: A Missionary Magazine," published by the Franciscan Missionary Society

Mike reading Isaiah 50, Isaiah #2.

Our Special Thanks:

For the Readings: Mike & Geri
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

Geri reading James.

Birthdays: Warren Wittek (today), Donna Pitri (Thursday), Sandra Pratt (75, Friday), Daniel Fleming (27, Saturday), Taylor Read (21, Saturday at OU), Claire Zurchin (30, Saturday)

Welcome to Matterhorn Canyon, eastern Yosemite National Park. The Canyon is reached by a long series of descending switch backs. Then we proceed up the Canyon as it angles to the left. This leads to Burrow Pass, over 10 thousand feet high.

Anniversaries:

Mark Anderlick & Julie (3^rd, Tuesday)

Doug & Teresa Read (26^th, Tuesday)

Bill & Julie Carey (32^nd, Sunday, today)

Lynda & Tom (34^th, Friday)

Mike & Geri (40^th, Sunday, today)

Welcome to a high altitude Yosemite lake. Cold water and it gets cold at night, like freezing.

Special Announcement:

We have moved! To Sigler Elementary on Janwood.

Check the map: View this photo

Home Sweet Home. Of the 9 days we spend, 2 are rest days, one near the beginning, one near the end. Thus, we spend 2 nights in one campsite on 2 occasions. Very relaxing.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bernadette's mom; For Lily's Dad; 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;

Our campsite at Miller Lake.

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;

Beth has just arrived at one of the 3 passes, top of the world.

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.

Rose even cooks our dinner, despite the fact that she has made 8 casseroles & cobblers, freeze dried them, and packaged them. We eat better than at most restaurants thanks to Rose.

Your Finances, September 13, 2015

Expenses: $1475.00

Outreach: $ 380.00

Donated today: nothing today.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Nicole has just arrived at the Top of The World.

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.

Can it get better than this! Home Sweet Home, our last night in the wilderness of Yosemite.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, September 13, 24th Ordinary

ByRosemary September 9, 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

Kevin

Readings:

Isaiah 50, 4-9, I gave my back to those who beat me.

Psalm 116, I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the Living.

James 2, 1-5, 14-18, What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Mark 8, 27-35, Take up your cross.

John and Kevin

Community Activities:

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 11, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Yosemite will home. Prepare yourselves.

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

Emma

3. Ray and Shonda have some new Mass responses (Mass of Glory) that they would like for us to practice for a few weeks before Mass before we sing it during the Mass proper. You can check out these utube sites to hear them:

http://youtu.be/mGlpu6_c3gQ

http://youtu.be/wYAikjow24E

http://youtu.be/k6Qjsxq8dU4

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1. Let Priests marry, Corpus, August 12, 380 words,

2. Traditionalists vs Lefties, Commonweal & Corpus, August 18, 370 words,

Harper

Special Announcement: We have moved to Sigler

After celebrating week after week for 10 years, PISD is asking us to move over to Sigler on Janwood. Apparently it is quite expensive to A/C the large cafetorium at Vines. Sigler will be more economical.

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Shonda, Leo, and Ray

True?

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Robert Quillen

Genevieve

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, September 6, 23rd Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 6, 2015

Readings:

Isaiah 35, 4-7, The eyes of the blind will be opened.

Psalm 146, Praise the Lord, my soul.

James 2, 1-5, 21-22, 27, Show no partiality

Mark 7, 31-37, Jesus heals the deaf & mute man.

John sharing his homily.

Homily:

Last Sunday Stack reminded us about how Moses told the people of Israel that they would have their own land promised by Yahweh. And how after Moses’ death Joshua and others wiped out the Cannanite tribes who resided there, and just moved in.

Leo

The theme today is that of healing. During the week I was touched by two visuals of a lack of healing for people. The first was the visual of a dead child lying on a beach in Turkey, whose family were trying to get from Syria to safety in Europe. His family was one of thousands escaping from war torn Syria, escaping death by the King’s military, or by the rebel fighters, or by ISIS jihadists. Newspeople often refer to them as ‘immigrants’–-yet their country is in civil war and there is hardly a safe place for anyone on any side. They are refugees. They leave everything behind. They cross the Mediterranean in rubberized boats or rafts. Many don’t even make it to the first stop in Turkey. These thousands of refugees are leaving their homes, leaving their land, in search of a safe place for their families, for their children.

Allison and Genevieve

The second visual that struck me this week was from a series of articles in the National Catholic Reporter on the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ and its impact on people over centuries. The ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ is found in papal bulls beginning in 1436; that’s almost 600 years ago. One example is a papal bull from 1493, after Columbus’ ‘discovery’ of the Americas. This papal bull gave Ferdinand and Isabella “full and free power, authority and jurisdiction of every kind” over almost all of the Americas, except for part of modern-day Brazil and a few islands. Some say this was the beginning of international law as each succeeding papal bull would quote or reference those that came before. When, in the late 1400’s discoverers were finding lands far away from Christian Europe, they found these lands occupied with non-Christian peoples, tribes and civilizations. The papal bulls gave Christian discoverers full power and authority over all non-Christian peoples in these lands. This meant the land could be claimed by the Christian discoverer (like for Spain or for France, etc.) and the non-Christian people could be enslaved, made to become Christian, even killed if they resisted.

Shonda and Ray

Fast forward to 1823. This Doctrine of Discovery was legitimized in a ruling by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. His ruling maintained that Native Americans had the right to ‘occupy’ land, but not have full ownership, and that tribes were dependent on the federal government.

Emma and her friend

So the two visuals that touched me this week were the thousands of refugees fleeing Syria, especially the little boy lying dead on the beach; and the millions of peoples in the Americas, Africa, the Pacific islands, etc., dispossessed of their lands, culture and religion, to a large extent due to a series of papal bulls and the Doctrine of Discovery.

The Offertory. Warren, Barbara, Mary, and Frank

What would healing look like for the people of Syria fleeing war and devastation? What would healing look like for the offspring of the indigenous peoples of North and South America? of Africa? of the pacific islands?

Harper

And how do I individually, or as a member of this Christian community, promote healing in my own world?

Announcements

ByRosemary September 6, 2015

Rosemary's Blessing:

May all peoples of the earth become as brothers and sisters,

and may the most longed-for peace

blossom forth and reign always among men and women.

Pacem in Terris, Pope John XXIII, 4/11/63

John reading Isaiah

Our Special Thanks:

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

Jean reading James

Birthdays: Jean Wright (9/10/15); Wendy (9/10/15); Teresa Read (9/11/15)

Anniversaries: Dee & Mike Miller 58 years (9/7/15); Caroline & David Grattafiori (9/6/15) ; Rob & Beth Robinson 41 years (10/7/15)

Caroline and David celebrating their Anniversary

Special Announcement:

After celebrating week after week for 10 years, PISD is asking us to move over to Sigler on Janwood. Apparently it is quite expensive to A/C the large cafetorium at Vines. Sigler will be more economical. September 6 we begin our new adventure.

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Agnes and Allen celebrating their Anniversary and Agnes' Birthday

Please Remember these special people:

For Bernadette's mom; For Lily's Dad; 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;

Harper

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, September 6, 2015

Expenses: $ 660.00

Outreach: $ 147.00

Donated today: $300 to Plano Homes.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Warren gets a cupcake

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.