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ByRosemary October 13, 2013
Rosemary’s Blessing:

May God grant you

Blue skies with gentle breezes,

Green trees to climb and green grass to walk upon,

Lots of love and family and friends,

And the freedom to be as you are.

J and R Creations

Taylor, on her first home visit from OU, reads 2 Kings about Naaman and Elisha.

Our Special Thanks
- For Reading: Taylor (home from OU) and Zach
- For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & Claire
- For the Wine & Cups: Sir Charlie
- For the Pictures & Video: John & Connie, Mike & Rick
- For the coffee and pastries: Fred & Maureen, Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Shonda
Zach reading Timothy.

Birthdays: CC Reidel (Occhipinti, 7, Friday, coming next week), Rich Eshelbrenner (Tuesday), Celeste (Wednesday)

Kristin Urbanczyk and Josh Eddings, Friday evening.

Please Remember these special people:

John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli, who broke her hip/leg again just after the 3 of them returned from Greece; Irene Urbanczyk, Rick's mom in Buffalo, who is just about ready to move to the Other Side, that she do so peacefully; Jan's family members who are doing badly & Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; Chuck Pratt and his cancer;

Rick escorting his daughter Kristin on her entrance.

John Doherty's dad who is declining rapidly;  Dee's friend Cole, 17, facing brain surgery; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends, Mike & Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer,David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Alexander Occhipinti; Rita

Josh escorting Kristin's mom, Jackie on her entrance. That is not a Starbucks, but a mixture of dirt from 3 States for the unity tree.

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Video:  Entrance Hymn, All the Ends of the Earth, 2 minutes,

Your Finances: October 13, 2013

Expenses:   $555.00

Outreach: $480.00

The beautiful and lively Aven at repose, for maybe 2 seconds.

We donated this week:

1. Nothing special this week.

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

New Life.

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      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.

The Cotton Mill, McKinney, a fairly new wedding venue with lots of room for both wedding and reception.
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Reminder for Sunday, October 13, 2013, 28th Ordinary Time, C cycle
ByRosemary October 10, 2013

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the house served afterwards.

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

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence

Anybody know this beautiful girl? It's our Georgie.

Readings:

2 Kings 5, 14-17,  Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times.

Psalm 98,  The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

2 Timothy 2, 8-13, The word of God is not chained.

Luke 17, 11-19 Where are the other 9?

Cole, battered himself, bringing Emma up to get the Sacrament of the Sick.

  Community Events:

1.  ROMEO lunch Friday, October 11, 1:00. Welcome home, Wyndamites.
Welcome All.

2.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays, The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette.

Diane reading Habakkuk (what a name!).

3. Christmas Concert at the Meyerson:

We have the date: December 19; cost: $45 (cheaper than last year). Rosemary says that you may still sign up. Her contact, Blake, knows that we usually have a few additional people. Total so far, 29 people. Anybody know of a party bus?

Welcome, also, to the Rectory for wine & cheese and a ride through Highland Park to see the best lights.

Connected with this, a plan is developing to visit the Christmas lights in Highland Park on bikes one evening, a common event in that neighborhood. We have our guide, Chris Phipps, who lives there, and the old geezer can second, since this is his old neighborhood. Get your bike lights polished.

4. For those of you who heard, yes, Rosemary fell on her bike Thursday morning (on the path near the corner of East Lawther and Garland Road). The path was wet and she fell on a curve. No broken bones, but she hit the back of her helmet. She is being watched by our internist and me. She is also sore all over.

Fred reading Timothy.

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1. The Mass translation seen from Germany, National Catholic Reporter, October 3, 500 words,
Download Mass translation 10-11-13

2.    The G8 Meeting, the 8 cardinals and Francis, National Catholic Reporter, October 4, 1100 words,
Download Council of Cardinals 10-11-13

3.      The New York Times on Francis, October 4, 800 words,
Download Different Francis 10-11-13

Brunch, Richard, Patricia, and Fred with Kevin in the background.

True?

Whoever said diamonds are a girl's best friend, never owned a dog.

Brunch with Carol and Loretta, Gilberto and Bernadette, et moi.

See you Sunday, October 13, 2013, 28^th Ordinary Time, C cycle

J.S., 214-783-0443

Toy World with Leo in mask, Emma, CC, Kayla, and Cole, with Claire and Ray looking on.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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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.

Reggie loading our stuff into the Soul's Harbor truck.

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, October 6, 2013, 26th Ordinary Time C
ByRosemary October 6, 2013

Readings:

Habakkuk 1, 2-3, 2, 2-4,   I cry for help but you do not listen.

Psalm 95,  If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

2 Timothy 1, 6-8, 13-14, Take as your norm the sound words that you heard from me..

Luke 17, 5-10, We are unprofitable servants.

Emma comes to visit the front area again.

Habakkuk (What a
Name!), Observations:

Author:
Habakkuk, one of the 12 minor prophets (small book, only 3
chapters). Less known about Habakkuk than any other scripture writer.

Date:
Probably right before the great Babylonian Captivity, i.e., around
600.

Subject:
The Babylonians are coming. Get ready for bad times, because
you Jewish people have been bad. Like all prophets, prophesy of doom and
disaster for sin, followed by peace after purification by Yahweh. There
is an imaginary dialogue between Yahweh & Habakkuk.

Sources:
Good News Bible, The New Interpreter’s
Study Bible, Wikipedia.

CC, Kayla, and Claire.

Unprofitable Servant?

I
would like to talk this morning about the idea of being an unprofitable
servant. But first, a story to exemplify my thinking.

I have
this self image of being a hot bike mechanic.
  It is true I love working on
bikes, fixing flats, cleaning and lubricating, adjusting the gears. To me
a light-weight road bike is a work of art.

Emma and Cole, who got that face scratch in a sports event.

The
true self image I have, however, is, as they say in French, a faux image. Ask Rosemary, ask Claire Ochipinti, whose
gears I tried to adjust to no avail.

It
is the marvelous gears that are my regular downfall. This past week I ate some true humble pie
with Rosemary’s bike. I adjusted the
gears after Rosemary had problems. I did
not get it right.

The Gang, Marlene, Tom, Cindy, Barb, and Teresa.

So
I took the bike to REI near us. I know
two really good mechanics, who actually offered to hire me in the shop. One of the guys, Chad, worked on the bike. The next day Rosemary still had gear
trouble. I tried again to adjust the
gears to no avail.

So
this time, Friday, after ROMEO’s, I visited Rick Guerney’s Plano Cycling. I have two more favorite mechanics there, Aaron and
a girl named Lorenda. If Plano Cycling
were not so friendly when I walk in, I would not always head there when I really
need help.

Emma checking out the cooler.

I
meet both Aaron and Lorenda. She
immediately takes my bike, puts it on a repair pole, asks me the problem, and
fixes it in, of course, a couple of minutes.
I am humbled.

I
am doubly humbled because she gives the bike a quick overall check out and
finds that Rosemary’s brakes are squishy.
She even installs a new rear brake cable. I am embarrassed because I try to keep
Rosemary’s bike 100% safe. And Lorenda
finds the brakes squishy, wow.

Bethany and Ray.

I
remember this event when Luke tells me I am nothing but an unprofitable
servant.   After all the humble pie of
the week, I can believe him.    First I
think I am a hot bike mechanic. Then I
find out I not only can’t fix the gears, but I neglected Rosemary’s brakes, the
most elemental thing. Yes, I am pretty unprofitable.

Toy World with Kayla, Cole, Emma, and CC, plus Claire and Beth.

From the psychological perspective, I see a trap in considering myself simply as an
unprofitable creature, in other words, fairly useless. Could this not end up being a description of a low self image?

From a relationship perspective, I also see a trap. Have we not begun to focus on the passages in Scripture where God and we have a special relationship? Servant and master is not where we are at.

Harper & Cathy near one of The Favorite Deserts, Banana Pudding.

I
would propose two thoughts:

1.
Let me change from master & servant to Giver and
Gifted. The Lord gives all this to us and we are gifted.

2.
Secondly, we are givers to others. We are both.    And want to know when we are specially gifted? When we are giving, not as unprofitable and
useless servants, but as people in a special relationship.

So how do you see yourself as gifted and how do you see yourself as giving to others?

Brunch with Rosemary, Sir Charlie, Gilberto, and John.

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ByRosemary October 6, 2013
Rosemary’s Blessing:

May you be blessed with

warmth in your home,

love in your heart,

peace in your soul

and joy in your life.

An Irish Blessing

Courtney and Russell beginning their new life.

Our Special Thanks
- For Reading: Diane and Fred
- For The Team: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & Claire
- For the Wine & Cups: Alison and John
- For the Pictures & Video: John & Connie, Mike, Beth & Rick
- For the coffee and pastries: Fred & Maureen
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany
Exchange of vows.

Birthdays: Angela (Saturday), Erin McClurg (Sunday, today)

The Wedding, Thistle Springs Ranch, Cleburne.

Please Remember these special people:

Wally Banzhaf's continued recuperation from his hip operation last
Monday; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli, who broke her hip/leg again just after the 3 of them returned from Greece; Dawn Schultz at home with double pneumonia; D'Arcy Drescher diagnosed with Lupus; Irene Urbanczyk, Rick's mom in Buffalo, who is just about ready to move to the Other Side, that she do so peacefully; Monica's recent medical deal; Jan's family members who are doing badly & Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; Chuck Pratt and his cancer;

The wedding begins and in the background a large storm was approaching from the north Saturday evening. The storm eventually blackened the sky and it rained during the reception.

JohnDoherty's dad who is declining rapidly;  Dee's friend Cole, 17, facing brain surgery; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends, Mike & Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer,David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Alexander Occhipinti; Rita

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Video: Exit Hymn, Only a Shadow, 2 minutes,



Your Finances: October 6, 2013

Expenses:   $1250.00

Outreach: $ 655.00

We donated this week:

1. Items to the Soul's Harbor truck

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

      Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People,
provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.

      Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world
we live in a better place to live.
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Reminder for Sunday, October 6, 2013, 27th Ordinary Time, Cycle C
ByRosemary October 3, 2013

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the
house served afterwards.

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

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence

Harper to her grandmother, Cathy, "Where are those pastries?"

Readings:

Habakkuk 1, 2-3, 2, 2-4,   I
cry for help but you do not listen.

Psalm
95,  If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.

2
Timothy 1, 6-8, 13-14, Take as your norm the
sound words that you heard from me..

Luke 17, 5-10, We are unprofitable
servants.

Cathy and Mike.

Community
Events:

1. This Sunday: Brunch and the truck from Soul's Harbor to pick up whatever you need to clean out from garage, house, and closet.

2.  ROMEO lunch Friday, October 4,
1:00. We are home.

Welcome All.

3.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays, The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound
service road.    For more info
talk with Carol or Bernadette.

Celeste and Erin with Chuck being allowed to watch.

4. Christmas Concert at the Meyerson:

We have the date: December 19; cost:
$45 (cheaper than last year). Rosemary says that you may still sign
up. Her contact, Blake, knows that we usually have a few additional
people.

Welcome, also, to the Rectory for wine &
cheese and a ride through Highland Park to see the best lights.

Connected with this, a plan
is developing to visit the Christmas lights in Highland Park on bikes one
evening, a common event. We have our guide, Chris Phipps, who lives
there, and the old geezer can second, since this is his old neighborhood.
Get your bike lights polished.

Cupcake of The Week to Beth, Emma's mom.

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1. Francis' new car,
Download Pope's Renault 10-4-13

2.    Women the Key?, Boston Glove & Corpus, October 3, 750 words,
Download Women are key 10-4-13

Angie and Geri.

True?

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

OTTO
VON BISMARCK

Communion with Mary, Jean, and John receiving from Patricia.

See you
Sunday, October 6, 2013, 27^th Ordinary Time, C cycle

J.S., 214-783-0443

Communion with Judy and John receiving from Patricia and Jackie.

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.

Francis and Gloria with Patricia.

Francis at his best.

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Sunday Homily, September 29, 2013, 26th Ordinary Time C
ByRosemary September 29, 2013
Readings:

Amos 6, 1, 4-7, Woe to the complacent.

Psalm 146, Praise the Lord, my sould.

1 Timothy 6, 11-16, Pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love.

Luke 16, 19-31, The rich man and Lazarus.

Francis and Gloria Vanderwall.

Amos observations : (from last week's Mass)

What : One of the 12 minor prophets, only 9 chapters.

Who:
the book presents the thoughts and observations of Amos, who was a sheep herder
and a fig farmer. He was born in the southern kingdom of Judah in a
little town south of Jerusalem, but he is condemning the people, especially the
rich, of the northern kingdom, Israel.

Time:
Amos was active around 755 before Christ, but his words and message were
revised and edited down through the years, especially during the Babylonian
Captivity, around 555 before Christ. He lives just before the Syrians
destroy the northern kingdom of Israel, around 700 before Christ.

Francis speaking to the people at Open Window's Saturday seminar.

Message:
Prayer and sacrifice don’t make up for social injustice and oppression of the
poor by the rich.

Today:
God will punish you rich and prosperous for your abuse of the poor. Amos
may have seen the threat coming from the Syrians.

Sources: Good News Bible, New Interpreter’s Study
Bible, Wikipedia

Cupcakes of The Week to Patricia and Fred (3 years), John (52 years ordained), Torri and Buddy (3 years).

Some of Francis’ points in his homily this morning:
1. The first sin
  of the rich man is that he is blind. He
  came and went every day and did not even see Lazarus at his doorstep. Wealth can blind us, too.
2. The second sin of the rich man is that even in Hades
  he still thinks he is significant enough to tell Abraham to order Lazarus to
  warn his 5 brothers. His self image is
  inflated and blinds him to this character flaw. Entitlement?
3. The rich man is condemned not because of his wealth in
  itself, but that because of it he feels self righteous. The trap of wealth, I am better than that one.
4. There may be a parallel in Luke’s mind between Lazarus
  and Jesus, which comes out in the talk between the rich man and Abraham. Jesus was poor, died, and returned to
  life. Were Lazarus to die and return to
  life, neither would he be believed, any more than Jesus was believed.
5. There is a play on words with Lazarus. In ancient languages the name Lazarus could
  be equivalent to Abraham. Therefore,
  Luke rubs it in: Lazarus may be a personification of Abraham himself, lying on the
  doorstep of the rich man who never sees him.
The lesson: Who is the Lazarus, who is the poor
person at your own doorstep?

Source: The Liberating Stories of Jesus, Francis Vanderwall

Emma with her mom, Beth, another Cupcake winner.
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Announcements

Announcements
ByRosemary September 29, 2013
Rosemary’s Blessing:

Oh, God who is love,

Help me to love others as You love them

And as You love me.

Help me to see in those who love me most,

Hints of you and your love.

Edited and adapted from a blessing by Fr. Andrew M. Greeley

Denni reading Amos.

Our Special Thanks
- For Reading: Denni and Tom
- For The Team: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & Claire
- For the Wine & Cups: Alison and John
- For the Pictures & Video: John & Connie, Mike, Beth & Rick
- For the coffee and pastries: Jackie & Beth Dugan
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany
- For the visit and homily of Francis
Tom reading Timothy.

Birthdays:   Georgie (12, Saturday), Frank Reyes (55, Friday),

Torri & Buddy (3, Thursday), Jackie (48, Wednesday), Leo (3, Tuesday), John Cade (52 years ordained, Monday)

Anniversaries:

Claire and Andrew (2^nd, Tuesday)

Erin and Payton (3^rd, Wednesday)

Patricia and Fred (3^rd, Wednesday)

Bethany and Ray on tune.

Please Remember these special people:

Wally Banzhaf's continued recuperation from his hip operation last
Monday; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli, who broke her hip/leg again just after the 3 of them returned from Greece; Dawn Schultz at home with double pneumonia; D'Arcy Drescher diagnosed with Lupus; Irene Urbanczyk, Rick's mom in Buffalo, who is just about ready to move to the Other Side, that she do so peacefully; Monica's recent medical deal; Jan's family members who are doing badly & Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; Chuck Pratt and his cancer;

Rick, speaking for the Board and Community, offers Brent of Soul's Harbor $2000.

JohnDoherty's dad who is declining rapidly;  Dee's friend Cole, 17, facing
brain surgery; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their
friends, Mike & Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer,
David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Alexander Occhipinti; Rita

Offertory, Mary, Bill, Judy and Mike.

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Video: Entrance Hymn, Whom Shall I Send, 2 minutes,

Your Finances: September 29, 2013

Expenses:   $2705.00

Outreach: $ 275.00

We donated this week:

1. $2000 to Soul's Harbor

2. $300 to Plano Community Homes

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Through Him, with Him.

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.
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Reminder for Sunday, September 29, 2013, 26th Ordinary Time, C cycle
ByRosemary September 26, 2013August 28, 2025

Our Father.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the
house served afterwards.

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

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence

Sacrament of the sick for Beth.

Readings:

Amos 6, 1, 4-7, Woe to the complacent.

Psalm 146,  Praise the Lord, my
sould.

1
Timothy 6, 11-16, Pursue
righteousness, devotion, faith, love.

Luke 16, 19-31, The rich man and Lazarus.

Offertory, Sydney and Hugh.

Community Events:

1. Highly
recommended: This Saturday, The Open Window of Dallas is
bringing to Dallas Francis Vanderwall, a biblical scholar and great
presenter. He is a long time friend and former Jesuit.

He will join us for Mass on Sunday, Sept. 29, but will
share his insights

into the Bible on Saturday, the 28th. You will
find it a fascinating and

amusing Saturday. Don’t judge him badly because
he is my long time friend. Welcome.
  Download Fall Conference 9-13-13

2.  ROMEO lunch Friday, September 27,
1:00. We are home.

Welcome All.

3.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays begins
again, this time at The Olive Garden, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service
road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette.

Two Freds, a Martha, and a Maureen equals fun.

4. Christmas Concert at the Meyerson:

We have the date:
December 19; cost:$45 (cheaper than last year). Rosemary says that you may still sign
up. Her contact, Blake, knows that we
usually have a few additional people.

Welcome, also, to the Rectory for wine
& cheese and a ride through Highland Park to see the best lights.

Connected
with this, a plan is developing to visit the Christmas lights in Highland
Park on bikes one evening, a common event. We have our guide, Chris Phipps,
who lives there, and the old geezer can second, since this is his old
neighborhood. Get your bike lights polished.

Bernadette, Alison, and John.

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.      Curse of Institutional Religions, The Observer and Corpus, September 15, 700 words, Download Institutional Religion 9-27-13

2.    Age of Change
Ahead, Bloomberg
News, September 22, 675 words,
Download Bloomberg 9-27-13

3.    Francis’ real test, The Great Hans Kung, National
Catholic Reporter, September
23, 1200 words,
Download The real test of Francis 9-27-13

4.       The
big Meeting, the 8 cardinals and Francis, October 1, National Catholic Reporter, September 25, 1300 words,
Download G8 Meeting 9-27-13

Bill receiving communion from Mike.

True?

Finish each day and
be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities
have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall
begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curtis and the girls, Megan, Cindy, Mabel, and Debbie.

See you
Sunday, September 29, 2013, 26^thOrdinary Time, C cycle

J.S., 214-783-0443

John and Mary Jane, John and Jean.

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.

Kevin a la Patisserie.

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 22, 2013, 25th Ordinary Time C
ByRosemary September 22, 2013

Readings:

Amos 8, 4-7, Never will I forget a thing they have done!

Psalm 113,  Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.

1 Timothy 2, 1-8, I ask that supplications be offered for everyone.

Luke 16, 1-13, A rich man had a steward who was reported for squandering his property.

Line forms at the rear for Free Hugs from Georgina and Zoe.

Amos observations :

What :
One of the 12 minor prophets, only 9 chapters.

Who: the book
presents the thoughts and observations of Amos, who was a sheep herder and a
fig farmer. He was born in the southern
kingdom of Judah in a little town south of Jerusalem, but he is condemning the
people, especially the rich, of the northern kingdom, Israel.

Time: Amos was
active around 755 before Christ, but his words and message were revised and
edited down through the years, especially during the Babylonian Captivity,
around 555 before Christ. He lives just
before the Syrians destroy the northern kingdom of Israel, around 700 before Christ.

Message: prayer and
sacrifice don’t make up for social injustice and oppression of the poor by the
rich.

Today: God will
punish you rich and prosperous for your abuse of the poor. Amos may have seen the threat coming from the
Syrians.

Sources: Good News Bible, New Interpreter’s Study Bible,
Wikipedia

Cowboy Cole ready for business.

The Wiley
Steward

Anybody get any rain Thursday night?   We got 3 whole inches, an amazing gift. We also got a surprise.

It was just time for the sun to come up Friday morning. I wanted to take my first cup of coffee on
the back porch where I could watch that special rain. I go out and sit down with Aviana beside me.

James arriving.

I look toward the street and I see a huge tree branch lying half way
across the street, Camellia, and half in our parkway. I immediately look at the front yard of my
neighbor, hoping to see where it came from his red oak. Nope.
It did not come from there. Oh,
Lord, it must be from one of our trees.
And in fact it is a pecan branch.
We have three large pecan trees on that side of our yard. It is our branch.

Kara, James' big sister.

What to do? It is still raining seriously. I decide that I will wait until the rain
stops, even though cars are having to negotiate around the branch.

I must then have gone in for a minute.
When I come out I see a boy from St. Mark’s School a block away out
in the rain, trying to lift the trunk of the branch out of the street and pull
it into our parkway. I am embarrassed
that I am still on the porch while he is working in the rain.

Mabel with Debbie.

He can only barely move the trunk to the edge of the street, although
many branches are still lying in the street.
At one point he looks over at me and I thank him, saying I am planning
to tackle the branch when the rain stops.

The Girls, Marlene, Megan, and Cindy.

He finishes up what he can do, looks back, I thank him again, and I tell
him he did great work. He says, “Sure,
it is really heavy, have a nice day,” and takes off for St. Mark’s. I could not see whether he was on foot or got
back in a car. He had no rain gear
on. So I sent a note to St. Mark’s,
complimenting the boy and them for helping to train a kid like that.

Cupcakes of The Week to Judy and Bethany on birthdays.

Moral of the story: we got lots of good kids out there, and good people,
too.

I tell this story as a bit of a contrast to our parable today, the
parable of the wiley steward. It is
quite coincidental, but this parable is also explained by Francis Vanderwall in
one of his books.

Cupcake of The Week to Mary Jane for her birthday.

The steward was in charge of collecting promissory notes from the owner
of the farm. Here is where the customs
and culture of the times open it all up.

The steward made his living by adding a little sur-charge, a commission
on each transaction.   The charge went to
the steward. Francis points out that all
the steward did was call the debtors in and cancel his commission. Granted, he was also cheating a bit, and
cheating the farmer.

And to Georgie on 12 years.

There are some other crazy statements at the end of the story, but I
will leave them to Francis to explain.
Watch out for that either/or stuff at the end, either God or mammon,
hate one master/love the other. Life is
not either/or, it is both.

The moral of the two stories? Not
either/ or, but sometimes you got to use your wits like the wiley steward, and
other times you just pitch in and help some poor guy (like me!).

When did you last pitch in and help?

Source: The Liberating Stories of Jesus, Francis
Vanderwall

Leo and Cowboy Cole at work.

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ByRosemary September 22, 2013
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 Amos.

Our Special Thanks
- For Reading: John & Jean O'Donnell
- For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
- For the
  Communion Bread: Alison & Claire
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures & Video: John & Mike, Beth & Rick
- For the coffee and pastries: Jackie & Carol & Jerry
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Shonda
Jean reading Timothy.

Birthdays:   Judy Carrell (Friday), Beth Dugan (42, Thursday),
Hunter Whitley (11, Tuesday), Holly Kern (20, today, Sunday, at UT), and
Bethany (tomorrow)

The Tree Limb after being pushed out of the street, looking north to Royal Lane.

Please Remember these special people:

Wally Banzhaf's hip operation tomorrow morning, Monday; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli, who broke her hip/leg again just after the 3 of them returned from Greece at 9:00 last night; Dawn Schultz at home with double pneumonia; D'Arcy Drescher diagnosed with Lupus; Irene Urbanczyk, Rick's mom in Buffalo, who is just about ready to move to the Other Side, that she do so peacefully; Monica's recent medical deal; Jan's family members who are doing badly & Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Jean O'Donnell's brother, Louis; Chuck Pratt and his cancer;

The Tree Limb after Dallas Emergency has cleared about 1/3 of the big logs, looking south toward St. Mark's Boys' School.

JohnDoherty's dad who is declining rapidly;  Dee's friend Cole, 17, facing
brain surgery; Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri. Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their
friends, Mike & Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson with cancer, David and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;   Alexander Occhipinti; Rita

Torri and Zoe arriving.

Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Video: Entrance Hymn, Sing a New Song, 2 minutes,

Your Finances: September 22, 2013

Expenses:   $1530.00

Outreach: $ 855.00

We donated this week:

1. Nothing special this week.

Thanks for your Generosity.

Have a Great Week, J.S

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