Author: Rosemary

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ByRosemary October 23, 2011
Rosemary's Blessing:

May we know that we are loved,

And because of that love,

May we love ourselves,

Love our neighbor by giving unto them, and

Love our God by living life to the fullest.

J and R Creations

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: The Shaws, Lily & Scott
- For Serving: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Wine Cups: Sir Charlie & Jan
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Jon
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Beth & Richard
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: Mike Carrell, Jackie & Joan
Special Notice:  This Sunday, October 30, we will anticipate the celebration of All Saints & All Souls. Please bring pictures of those you would like to remember in a special way. We will put them on the stage like we usually do for this feast.

Birthdays: Cara Kless (3 today)*, Zoe (3), Patricia Jansky (13th), Debbie Braun, Chuck Pratt (73)

Anniversaries:

Ed & Christine Kless (7th today)*parents of Cara

Please Remember:

Bernadette Delgado's brother, Danny, & Gilberto's mom;    Chuck Pratt's recuperation; Judy Carrell's mom, Marie, 93; Jackie Ritter's good friend, Narges Akbari, with colon cancer; Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Warren & Barb's friend, Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Mike & Dee's daughter; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.



Picture 1:    The Shaws, Lily and

Picture 2:    Scott

Picture 3:    The Front Row

Picture 4:    Rosemary blessing

       Video:    Mass Beginning

Finances: October 23, 2011

Expenses:   $1730.00

Outreach:   $1125.00

Thanks for your Generosity

Have a Great Week, J.S (214-783-0443)

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Reminder for Sunday 10-30-11, 31st Ordinary Time & All Saints
ByRosemary October 20, 2011

Mass: Coffee & juice, pastries & specials on the House.

Time: 9:30; Stack celebrating

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



Readings:  Exodus 22, 20-26, I am compassionate; Psalm 18, I love you, Lord, my strength; 1 Thessalonians 1, 5-10; Matthew 22, 34-40, Love the Lord and love your neighbor.

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Community Bulletin Board:

1. Schedule of upcoming events:

       1. This Sunday, October 30, All Saints-All Souls anticipated. Bring pictures of people you would like to be remembered & place them on the stage, like usual.

       2. November 5: Mike Carrell will offer us a homily and we will baptize Brooklyn.

       3. November 12, Saturday, 8:00-1:00, Pizza & Paint Party, Rita's house, 1311 Brentwood.

       4. December 4, John Cade celebrates our Mass.

       5. December 10, Love for Kids Christmas Party in Flower Mound for handicapped kids. loveforkidsinc@yahoo.com

       6. December 11, Thanks Brunch in gratitude to our Boards and particularly to Ron Kovatis, Penny Morrow, & Cathy Goode, who are retiring. Special guest homilist, Jamie Rose.

2.   Directory will be available again this Sunday.

3.   Three openings on our board.  Welcome. Let one of us know if you would be willing to help out for a year or two.  One meeting every quarter.

What's going on in our Catholic World:

It is not widely known by Catholics in the pews, but on the first Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27, a new, more formal language for the Mass will be introduced in parishes in North America. The following articles explain.

1.   On the language change, Commonweal, June 30:   Download It doesn't sing, 10-11

2. On the language change, Huffington Post, August 30: Download New Mass Language 10-11



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True?

"The person who says it cannot be done

should not interrupt the person doing it"

   Video: Final Blessing

See you Sunday, October 30, All Saints

J.S. (214-783-0443)



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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

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Sunday Homily 10-16-11, 29th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary October 16, 2011
Readings: Isaiah 45, 1-6, Who is Cyrus?; Psalm 96, Give the Lord glory and honor; 1 Thessalonians 1, 1-5; Matthew 22, 15-21, Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.

Isaiah observations: This selection comes from what is considered Isaiah 2, the author of the Book of Consolations, written after the first 39 chapters and during the Babylonian captivity. Isaiah speaks from Yahweh's perspective and He is calling someone by name.

So, who is Cyrus? Cyrus the Great of Persia, modern Iran, built the first great empire, which extended as far as Athens in Greece. He was a benevolent emperor of his people and the people he conquered, for instance, the Israelites.

Isaiah 2 is championing Cyrus because he hears of Cyrus coming and hopes Cyrus will defeat the Babylonians and set the Israelites free to return to Jerusalem. This is exactly what Cyrus does. Where is Babylon? Try 50 miles south of Baghdad on the Euphrates River. What is left? Rubble.

Thessalonians:
- Time written: ca. 50 A.D. Considered Paul's first letter, and, in fact, the earliest written document in the N.T.
- Place: Paul was writing in Corinth, Greece to the town in northern Greece, Thessalonica, at the northern corner of the Aegean Sea. He had founded a community there.
- Purpose of writing: to comfort and encourage the new Christians of Thessalonica, most of whom were Gentiles. He sent Timothy to see how things were going. The report Timothy brought back was largely favorable—hence the warm tone of the opening thanksgiving, which forms the main part of today’s reading. But there were also a few problems in Thessalonica; we will meet them on the thirty-second and thirty-third Sundays.
Resources: The New Interpreters Study Bible; St. Louis U. Liturgical @ Liturgical.slu.edu

Matthew observation: Render to Caesar

Matthew lifts this story right out of Mark. The story is a game that was popular among the intellectuals in Jesus time, like a game of verbal chess. The object was to confound your opponent so that choosing either one of two answers springs a trap.

Watch the smarmy language of the Pharisees and you can almost see them salivating at the impending kill.

The trap: do you think it lawful to pay the tax to Caesar or not? Jesus confounds them by choosing both. Jesus wins the game.

Why do Mark & Matthew use this story? To show how Jesus is superior. He is worthy of being followed and listened to.

Me, a Light in the World?

I want to talk about the alleluia verse, “Shine like lights in the world.”

After getting ordained at old St. Rita’s in June of 1971, I was sent to Miami to work as a chaplain in the big medical complex known as Jackson Memorial. It was like Parkland and Southwestern Medical.

The Jesuits of my southern province had a big parish right in the middle of downtown Miami, and part of the team worked the hospitals. I was a summer helper and loved it.

One day after I had been there about a week, a little blond girl of 10 or 11 was brought into the burn ward. Ever been in a burn ward, a children’s burn ward? Tough places. I spent a lot of time in these wards.

The girl, Anna, had been with her family on a sail boat. Somewhere along their trip the boat had passed under a bridge. Anna was standing on the edge of the boat with her back leaning against one of the guy wires.

As the boat went under the bridge, the mast touched an electrical line. The electricity went down the mast and the guy wire. Anna was electrocuted and burned. Fortunately, she was hurled into the cool water which helped to stop her burns.

However, her back and the insides of her thighs and legs were seriously burned. She would stay in Jackson for 2 to 3 months, even after I had to move on.

I got really close to Anna & her family. I visited her first & last every day and I was privileged to be allowed by the doctors to hold her hand when her bandages had to be changed. Her parents had to leave the room. You know how this is such a high tension time. It used to leave me shaken.

I talk about this because the alleluia verse tells us to be lights in the world. I think this is what it means. I was privileged to be with that little girl & her family in such a horrible experience. It is reciprocal: she was a light in my world.

The good news is that Anna finally did leave the hospital all healed up. I never had the opportunity to see the family again, but I corresponded for years with the mom. Somewhere during my time in Africa, the connection got broken. I know that maybe 15 years later her mom wrote me that Anna had married and had a little kid.

In whose world are you a light today?

Picture 1:    Mass Begins

Picture 2:    Bethany

Picture 3:    Miguel

Picture 4:    Delgado Corner with Fred

Picture 5:    Justin

Picture 6:    Emma
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ByRosemary October 16, 2011
Rosemary's Blessing:

May we shine like lights in the world

Never hiding the brightness under a basket

But rather spreading the glow of God’s love

To all we come in contact with.

J and R Creations

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: Jackie & Richard
- For Serving: Kevin on band competition
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Wine Cups: Alison
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Jon
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Rick & Richard
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: Mike Carrell, Jackie & Joan & Carol
- For the help from so many who helped clean up the glass after Rosemary fell down during Mass
Birthdays:  Amy Carey (22), D'Arcy Drescher, & Richard Eschelbrenner (today)

Anniversaries:

Richard & Sheila Baack (29th)

Please Remember:

Bernadette Delgado's brother, Danny, & Gilberto's mom;    Chuck Pratt's recuperation; Judy Carrell's mom, Marie, 93; Jackie Ritter's good friend, Narges Akbari, with colon cancer; Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Warren & Barb's friend, Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Mike & Dee's daughter; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.



Picture 1:    Jackie

Picture 2:    Richard

Picture 3:    Leo & Alison

Picture 4:    Buddy

       Video:    Mass Beginning



Finances: October 16, 2011

Expenses:   $830.00

Outreach:   $500.00

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Thanks for your Generosity

Have a Great Week, J.S (214-783-0443)

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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Reminder for Sunday 10-16-11, 29th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary October 13, 2011

Mass: Coffee, pastries, & specials on the House.

Time: 9:30; Stack celebrating

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



Readings:  Isaiah 45, 1-6, Who is Cyrus?; Psalm 96, Give the Lord glory and honor; 1 Thessalonians 1, 1-5; Matthew 22, 15-21, Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.

                                                                                                                                                                                               Picture Picture 1:   The music team

Picture 2:    Wendy

Picture 3:    Emma & Beth

Picture 4:    Emma

Picture 5:    Leo & Alison

Picture 6:    Cole



Community Bulletin Board:

1.   November 5: Mike will homilize and we will baptize Brooklyn,

2.   Survey report this Sunday.

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.   Fr. McBrien on Rosary history, National Catholic Reporter, October 3: Download The Rosary 10-14-11

2. Fr. McBrien on the "Irish Spring," National Catholic Reporter, October 10: Download Irish Spring 10-14-11

3. Eugene Kennedy on the Reform of the Reform, National Catholic Reporter, October 7: Download Reform of the Reform 10-14-11



Picture 7:    Brooklyn & Erin

Picture 8:    Sienna

Picture 9:    Lacee & Lorynne

Picture 10:  Cruz & Carlos

Picture 11:   Cruz & baptism tree

True?

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

JANIS JOPLIN

   Video: Final Blessing & Wendy's Bon Voyage (10 min.)



See you Sunday, October 16

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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Sunday Homily 10-9-11, 28th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary October 9, 2011

Readings:  Isaiah 25, 6-10 (fun reading about the next life); Psalm 23, I shall live in the House of the Lord all the days of my life (Psalm of consolation); Philippians 4, 12-20; Matthew 22, 1-14, The king throws a wedding feast.

Isaiah: This is Isaiah I, a great reading.

Psalm 23:

Number of Psalms: There are 150 psalms, which are religious songs.

Authorship: Jews, Muslims and Christians for centuries considered King David to be the author. 73 psalms use his name. Today, however, scripture scholars know numerous authors composed the psalms and they were passed down ca. 500 years in an oral, sung form before they began to be written down ca. 600 B.C.E. King David lived ca. 1000 B.C.E.

Life is a Banquet

I had a Jesuit friend named Tom Barbarito who was in the class behind me. Italian. About 5 feet 5, like 5 by 5. Quite rotund in his early years. No way athletic. In fact would shudder at the prospect of exercise or physical work. Intelligent and very amusing mostly at his own expense. He was pastor of St. Rita for many years.

Our selection from Isaiah 1 about the banquet was his favorite reading of all time. He loved to eat. We used to have what were called first class feasts in the early years of my Jesuit life. These were special meals on Christmas, Easter, and church holidays. The meals were excellent Cajun cuisine put together by our cajun cooks from southwest LA, Opelousas & Lafayette. And Tom was from New Orleans, as were many in the classes those days. We got to talk in the refectory on the occasion of these meals, all 150 of us.

I can still picture Tom squaring off for one of these meals, his white cloth napkin tucked into the collar of his cassock European style, getting elbow room, and proclaiming that he was ready. He used to declare that he could not wait for the heavenly banquet referred to here in Isaiah.  Today Tom is enjoying that banquet because he died maybe ten years ago with a brain tumor. And he died skinny, so he now may eat all his favorite foods without guilt.

I think of Tom whenever this reading comes up. Our readings today are so Tom Barbarito, eating, feasting, enjoying the cup running over. Besides that, we got the king throwing a wedding banquet and getting mad because the invited did not come. Then one guy gets kicked out for not having a wedding garment on. What is going on?   Three observations.

First, remember for whom Matthew is writing. He has an agenda when he puts parables into his work. Initially he writes to warn the Jewish people about how they are losing it in not recognizing Jesus. But equally he is addressing the Gentiles, letting them know that Jesus welcomes them also.

As in all parables, check out the symbolism of the gospel. Obviously the king is Yahweh. Who else? Who are the invited to the wedding feast? The Jews? Who are the good & bad street people?

Second observation, we are invited.   There is a banquet out there, a feast on a mountain top, a feast of rich food and choice wine. Tex Mex & Blue Bell? We are invited, despite the fact that we are the street people. In fact, I would propose that we are all street people, bad and good, Gentile and Jew.

The third observation is that the banquet on the mountain top, the marriage feast is taking place today. I can be tempted to think the feast takes place in the next life. In fact, I think a lot of poor people and slaves were fed this nonsense so they would not try to fight back against oppression. Everyday is a banquet.

A final post script: what about the poor guy without the wedding garment? He gets treated pretty harshly, especially so after the king invites all the street people in, both good and bad.

To attempt an understanding, I think we go back to the symbolism which is the currency of parables. What could he symbolize?  What is the wedding garment symbolizing? Gratitude? Or cynicism? Maybe he was not grateful, but was critical and cynical, thinking he was entitled to all this, the attitude that seems to be so prevalent in our contemporary culture. Consequently, the man was not thrown out. His ingratitude never allows him in. We can be the man without the wedding garment.

My friend Tom Barberito I am sure is enjoying his wedding banquet in the next life. We are invited to enjoy the banquet today with gratitude.

On the 1 to 10 scale, where is your gratitude, where is your cynicism?

Picture 1:    Mass begins

Picture 2:    Lorynne & Lacee with their grandmother, Marilyn

Picture 3:    Sienna

Picture 4:    Robyn & Erin

Picture 5:    Wendy

Picture 6:    Jean & Jack, Wendy's parents



Read More Sunday Homily 10-9-11, 28th Ordinary Time
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ByRosemary October 9, 2011
Rosemary's Blessing:

I thank you God

for this most amazing day,

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and

for a blue true dream of sky; and

for everything which is natural

which is infinite

which is yes.

e.e.cummings

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: Richard & Bernadette
- For Serving: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Wine Cups: Beth & Rob
- For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Jon
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Beth & John
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Leon Campise
- For the coffee & specials: Maureen & Fred, Jackie & Joan & Robyn
Birthdays:  Nancy Kovatis, Angela Kemp, Bill Hammond, Lisa Ackerman & Lacee Ackerman, & Sabrina (16)

Anniversaries:

Richard & Sheila Baack (29th)

Please Remember:

Bernadette Delgado's brother, Danny, & Gilberto's mom;    Chuck Pratt's recuperation; Judy Carrell's mom, Marie, 93; Jackie Ritter's good friend, Narges Akbari, with colon cancer; Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Warren & Barb's friend, Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Mike & Dee's daughter; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.




Picture 1:    Richard

Picture 2:    Bernadette

Picture 3:    Cruz & his family

Picture 4:    Baptism of Cruz

       Video:    Mass Beginning

Finances: October 9, 2011

Expenses:   $1295.00

Outreach:   $ 740.00

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 10-9-11, 28th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary October 6, 2011

Mass: Coffee, pastries, & specials on the House.

Time: 9:30; Stack celebrating

Readings: Isaiah 25, 6-10 (a fun vision of the next life); Psalm 23 , I shall live in the House of the Lord all the days of my life (great psalm of consolation); Philippians 4, 12-20; Matthew 22, 1-14

Picture Picture 1: Delgado Corner

Picture 2: C.C. & Kayla

Picture 3: Claire with Sienna & Kayla

Picture 4: Buddy with his grandmom, Bernadette

Picture 5: Georgie

Picture 6: Torri with with granddad Gil

Community Bulletin Board:

1. CCAC Volunteers: Download CCAC Volunteers 10-7-11

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1. Reflections on Autumn, Eugene Kennedy, National Catholic Reporter, September 30: Download The liturgical season of autumn 10-7-11

2. The Pope visits Germany, National Catholic Reporter, September 30: Download Pope visits Germany 10-7-11

3. Catholicism & the Death Penalty, National Catholic Reporter, September 30: Download Death Penalty 10-7-11

Picture 7: Rosemary gathering communion helpers

Picture 8: Claire & Andrew

True?

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

Video: Final Blessing

See you Sunday, October 9

J.S. (214-783-0443)

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

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Sunday Homily 10-2-11, 27th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary October 2, 2011
Readings: Isaiah 5, 1-7; Psalm 80, The Vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel; Philippians 4, 6-9; Matthew 21, 33-43

Isaiah:
- The biggest of the big 3 prophets not only because of the book's volume, 66 chapters, but because of the beauty of some passages. The book is my favorite.
- Time written: before the Babylonian Captivity (ca. 590) chapters 1-39 seem to have been composed by the prophet. After the Captivity (ca. 540) at least two followers seem to have composed chapters 40-66.
- Today's selection: talks about a vineyard worker who labors carefully to bring forth good grapes, but gets only weeds. What does he do with the vines? This story matches up with Matthew's parable.
The Crazy Landowner

Every week when I read the Sunday readings for the first time, I have one of three reactions. Once in a while I know exactly what I would like to say. Other times I have not a clue. And then there are the in betweens. Today’s reading about the landowner with the vineyard is an in between for me.

There are all sorts of handles to grab onto. Like what each component of the parable is a symbol for. Obviously, the landowner symbolizes God, the son symbolizes Jesus, and the tenants could be the Jews or clergy or rabbis.

Remember, too, Matthew is writing for both Jews and Gentiles. He may be warning the Jews that they are going to lose it.

I want to focus on the landowner and make two points.

The first point is that when you think he is crazy, you are right. The landowner never gives up on his tenant people even to the point of being crazy. Which means: our God never gives up on us and always accepts us so much so that we think our God must be crazy.

The second point. To understand this it helps me to remember a story I connect with this parable and have told before. Hang on. This is it.

When I first started planting trees seriously in Dallas I started on the Jesuit campus in ’87 & ’88. I planted 88 trees the first year and among those trees, I planted most of the trees along Inwood Road and along Willow, the small street on the south side by the playing field.

A month or so after the planting, one of my trees was pulled out and thrown in the Willow creek ditch. I was especially disturbed because the tree was exactly the first tree on Willow and would one day shade the bus stop. So, I planted another. This is like February. Guess what. It was pulled out and thrown in the ditch.

What to do? I did nothing all that spring and summer. When October returned, I decided I would plant a special tree, a 10 gallon container tree, two times bigger than my normal trees. People told me I was crazy. And I agreed. I planted the tree.

What happened? Go by today and look. You will see a gigantic, beautiful red oak shading the bus stop.

The second point of this parable: we are challenged to imitate the landowner, meaning we accept and help our neighbor and our people even to a point where others are saying, “That person is nuts, is crazy.”

Hopefully, we all have the same success I had with the red oak. Whether yes or no, we know, firstly, our God accepts me to a point of looking crazy. And secondly, we are challenged to do the same.

Who is your challenge?

Picture 1:    Sacrament of the Sick

Picture 2:    Shonda, Bethany, & Ray

Picture 3:    CC

Picture 4:    Sienna & her sister

Picture 5:    Brooklyn
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ByRosemary October 2, 2011
Rosemary's Blessing:

May we be always mindful of God’s wondrous love for us

And in accepting this love

May we go the extra mile

And be equally crazy in our acceptance of others.

J and R Creations

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: Noah & Mike
- For Serving: Kevin on school project
- For the Communion Bread: Alison &
- For the Wine Cups: John DeGenova
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda, Bethany & Jon
- For the Pictures & Video: Rick & Richard & Beth
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: Tony & Jo, Jackie & Joan
Birthdays:  Don Mattingly, Erin McClurg, Georgie Brown (10), & my Aunt Kitty in Midland (105); Jackie Johnson (today), Leo (1); Buddy & Torri (1)

Anniversaries:

Patricia Jansky & Fred (1st year)

Claire & Andrew (1st day)

Payton & Erin (1st year)

Greetings to the Community from the Detroit Lions for whom I celebrated a 6:30 A.M. Sunday Team Mass.



Please Remember:

Bernadette Delgado's brother, Danny, & Gilberto's mom;    Chuck Pratt's recuperation; Judy Carrell's mom, Marie, 93; Jackie Ritter's good friend, Narges Akbari, with colon cancer; Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Warren & Barb's friend, Mike, fighting cancer & Barb's dad with hip surgery; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Mike & Dee's daughter; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.



Picture 1:    Noah

Picture 2:    Mike

Picture 3:    Claire & Andrew & Chloe

Picture 4:    Georgie with her grandmother, Bernadette

       Video:    Mass Beginning



Finances: October 2, 2011

Expenses:   $600.00

Outreach:   $260.00

Thanks for the 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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