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Sunday Homily, July 28, 2019, 17th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary July 28, 2019

+Says Louis, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

Genesis 18, 20-32, Sodom! Good story.

Psalm 138, Lord, on the day I cried for help you answered me. (a terrific psalm)

Colossians 2, 12-14, You were buried with him in baptism.

Luke 11, 1-13, "Ask & you will receive."

The Great Candle Team in action.

Intro to the readings:

1. Another nice story about Abraham's relationship with God. We can all place ourselves in Abraham's' shoes.

2. The Gospel reading gives us an idealized version of how the Our Father came about. With all these stories, you probably would not be far off if you suspected a ghost composer rather than Jesus.

It ends with an encouragement from Jesus to ask for what you want with persistence, "ask & you will receive." Reminds me of my mom & her 8 day novenas. One of those novenas was, I bet, that I would leave the Jesuits quickly and go to college like a normal kid.

3. Psalm 139. As much as I like parts of the readings, it is Psalm 139 that really touches me and has touched me for decades. I would like to spend a couple of minutes explaining why & how it has played a role in my life. All 4 stanzas move me. The first line of the first stanza sums it up, "I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my heart."

Leo joins the Music Machine.

I will give you thanks, O Lord, with all my heart

This event took place 20 years ago or more. Do you remember one Spring afternoon (think it was Spring), when Hillary Clinton came to Dallas? I know not the reason, but come she did. There was an ordinary motorcade somewhere in the Dallas area. All was peaceful until one of the motorcycle policemen had an accident. The policeman was killed in the accident.

We probably really don't want to know what is going on over there.

The man was a member of St. Marks Catholic Church, where I was saying every Sunday the 9:00 & 10:30 Masses. I always said the English Mass in the cafetorium at 10:30, and the 9:30 was either English in the main church or Spanish in the cafetorium. Seeing as the policeman was hispanic I probably knew him from the Spanish Mass.

The funeral which was huge was held at Restland on Greenvile Ave. & Forest Lane. I went to the viewing to offer my condolences, but decided to skip the funeral, it being so huge.

Watch out, Sydney, for that Rosemary.

The family has 4 or 5 kids and the kids were in individual rooms. I chose to visit with one of the daughters because I knew her probably the best. She was around 13 and was seated with her girl friend at the back of a room and people were lined up to visit her moving clockwise through the room.

I got in line which started in the hall. When I got in, the girl got up and ran over to me and we hugged. I stayed in line and when I got to the girl she told her friend that I was her priest and that when she made her first confession, a process which I don't like, I gave her for her penance two Hershey Kisses.

Elevation Time.

I give Thanks to you O Lord with all my heart.

I give thanks because that little girl got my message. The message: that "your kindness, O Lord, endures forever." (Stanza 4,line 3) This was why I gave out Hershey Kisses instead of penances and even hugs to every kid despite the warning about "don't touch the kids." I grew up without enough hugs.

"The Lord is gracious and merciful, never gets angry and is abounding in Love." Psalm 145 & other locations. Another of my favorites.

Can you believe that?

Who let that Shropshire in here?

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ByRosemary July 28, 2019
Cheryl reads the neat story from Genesis.

Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Mary reads from Colossians.

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Mary & Cheryl
- For The Team: Buddy & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & Ben
- For all who helped with communion
Rosemary shares her Blessing of The Week.

Birthdays: Caroline, Cindy Ekes

Thanks, Zoe, for help with our Candles of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; For Gilberto who had a gall bladder operation: Claire Mazzei's knee replacement operation Tuesday; For Sydney; For Sandra's brother; For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder recuperation; For a friend & neighbor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free; For Hue; For John O'Donnell; For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;

Thanks, Harper, for being such a Terrific Girl.

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom; for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; for Steve Barrett,Rose, & Katie; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Thanks, Leo, for joining your mom & Ben to lead the singing.

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues, especially Mark Pelton; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Seeing a vision, Linda?

Your Finances, July 28, 2019

Expenses: $ 625.00

Outreach: $ 305.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

So you just landed at DFW this morning.

Thanks, Everybody

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Sir Charlie, "John do I have a deal for you!"

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Reminder for Sunday, July 28, 2019, 17th Ordinary Time (C cycle)
ByRosemary July 24, 2019

Welcome in, Rick. Despite needing a kidney, you really look good.

Welcome this Sunday: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, 601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Welcome in to you, too, Harper. You are looking as pretty as always.

Readings:

Genesis 18, 20-32, Sodom! Good story.

Psalm 138, Lord, on the day I cried for help you answered me. (a terrific psalm)

Colossians 2, 12-14, You were buried with him in baptism.

Luke 11, 1-13, "Ask & you will receive."

Everybody's favorite time of the Mass, Cupcake of The Week Time.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, July 26, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Juliets, August-September, TBA

The Welcome Table all ready.

TRUE?

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child’s soul through the dirt.

George Bernard Shaw

Hi, Mike & Judy & Claire & Mary.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church? Like…

EWTN?, https://www.nchttps://www.ncronline.org/news/media/how-mother-angelicas-miracle-god-became-global-media-empire?clickSource=email

Today's Offertory with Hue, Patricia, & Mary.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Today's Communion Team, Cheryl, Patricia, Mike, & Claire.

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 from Carrie & Paul.

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Sunday Homily, July 21, 2019, 16th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary July 21, 2019

With the exception of John, in Jennings, LA to visit his sister, the whole gang is back, yeah.

Readings:

Genesis 18, 1-10, Sarah will have a son (at 90!)

Psalm 15, He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord

Colossians 1, 24-28, I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake.

Luke 10, 38-42, "Lord, do you not care that my sister…

A great sister act.

Observation on Genesis:

I would laugh at the editor who selected this passage about Abraham and Sarah, his wife. He leaves out the punch line, a most relevant fact coloring this passage. Namely, Sarah is 90 and Abraham 100. Why was this not mentioned?

Genesis, by the way is the first book of the bible and a fun read, especially if you can appreciate it as fable & not factual history. Don't go looking for the Ark, like you read about periodically.

Buddy reading the Summer Blessing of the Candles.

Observation on Paul writing to the Colossians:

This version of Paul makes me want to pull out the violins and weep for the poor man. Which, I guess, is the intention Paul is working with. A poor me presentation. The goal: get the readers to get up off their behind and get to work, like Paul is doing.

Shonda & Ben, The Best, minus David riding RAGBRAI with Dana, his daughter.

Ragbrai Spirit : People are Good

It’s Ragbrai (Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) week, Folks. At this moment bikers (including David & Dana) are arriving at Council Bluffs on the MO River prepared to set out this morning, heading ultimately next Saturday to Keokuk, where Mike & Judy grew up on the MS River. I should be there.

What kind of trouble are these 4 up to??

Along the way the bikers will walk (too crowded to ride) through achingly beautiful little towns with glorious Victorian houses, tree lined streets, delightful town parks, and welcoming people. Plus a gazillion vendors.

Let me give you two vignettes that reflect the spirit of Ragbrai.

One early afternoon I am riding over some medium level hills. They were a work out. At one point starting to climb I run up behind a tricycle, one wheel in front of two & a bench. Seated on the bench was an elderly guy and a young woman. The woman is pumping them up the hill.

I think to myself, This hill is going to really discourage that woman. So I ride to the top, drop my bike, and run back down to find two other young guys with the same idea . We all three joined in and pushed that woman and her father right up to the top.

Cody, I have not seen Ben in a couple of summer months and when he came in this morning I did not recognize him. He's grown a foot.

I hopped on my bike and as I went down the hill I realized another hill was coming up. To this day I can only hope other people stopped to push that lady & her dad up what turned out to be a series of serious hills. I would expect they did help.

I have already mentioned here that my most favorite vendor was the home made pie & ice cream stop, always on the right hand shoulder, always in the afternoon (at least for me). I mentioned how once when I forgot my money, Hanc, a good kid I would see every year, he served me anyway.

On another occasion I was in line at the pie selections tables when a lady behind me realized she did not have enough. Naturally I staked her and told her to forget it.

And the same with your pretty daughter Olivia. She has so grown up this Summer.

A day or two later I am sitting on a park bench in a beautiful park. I am looking at a band stand, the bikers’ road, and a gorgeous river. Behind me is the whole rest of the park with bikers everywhere. Everybody is just enjoying the beauty.

Suddenly a tap on my shoulder. The lady from the Amish pie & ice cream stand hands me the money I loaned or really gave her. She said thanks and disappeared in the throng of people lying around. To say the least I was stunned and touched, and reminded again of how good people are.

This year I will not join the 20 to 30 thousand riders doing the 500 more or less miles. The people spirit stays with me.

Today' Communion team, Cheryl, Patricia, Mike, & Claire.

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ByRosemary July 21, 2019
John reading the delightful story from Genesis.

Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Mary Jane reading from Colossians

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: John & Mary Jane
- For The Team: Buddy & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Mike Carrell & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & Ben
- For all who helped with communion
Rosemary reading her Special Blessing of The Week.

Birthdays: Caroline, Brent (63, celebration delayed two weeks, July 14), John Schanot , Paul Bieda & Bieda Anniversary (63, last Monday)

Thanks, Zoe & Tori, for lighting our Summer Candles and for being such neat girls

Anniversaries:

Paul & Carrie

David & Donna (32nd)

Happy 61st, Dear Paul.

Please Remember these special people:

For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; For Sandra's brother; For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder replacement; For a friend & neighbor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free; For Hue; For John O'Donnell; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;

Happy Birthday, Dear Brent, and thanks for inviting us to help with Souls Harbor.

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay (at 90 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; for Steve Barrett,Rose, & Katie; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Dear Tom, You and Teresa deserve a cupcake for going through the ordeal of getting a new left shoulder. Congratulations.

For Ray & Claire's son in Law, Ken, Christi's husband recuperating from a serious back surgery; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues, especially Mark Pelton; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Your Finances, July 21, 2019

Expenses: $815.00

Outreach: $300.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy Birthday, John, and thanks again for reading.

Thanks, Everybody

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   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, July 21, 2019, 16th Ordinary Time (C cycle)
ByRosemary July 18, 2019

Welcome back home, Buddy. You are reading as well as ever.

Welcome this Sunday: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, 601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Says our beautiful Cheryl, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

Genesis 18, 1-10, Sarah will have a son (at 90!)

Psalm 15, He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord

Colossians 1, 24-28, I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake.

Luke 10, 38-42, "Lord, do you not care that my sister…

Watch out, Shonda. Leo is going to be taller than you before you know it.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, July 19, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Juliets, August-September, TBA

What plot is being hatched here? What is that hand looking for?

TRUE?

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Barbara Kingsolver

Part of today's communion team.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church? Like…

Bishops, Where are you?, https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/editorial-our-children-are-dying-border-bishops-where-are-you

Your purse, Patricia??

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Hard Work deserves a break.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement:

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

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

"Peace, Everybody," from Mike & Judy.

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Sunday Homily, July 14, 2019, 15th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary July 14, 2019

THE CUPCAKE!!   Here I thought I would get to raz John & Connie for eating the cupcake I entrusted to them to take on the plane to visit Bill Hammond in Pagosa Springs. I knew they would waste no time in eating it. Wrong. I got snookered!

Readings:

Deuteronomy 30, 10-14, If only you would heed the voice of the Lord.

Psalm 69, Turn to the Lord in your need and you will live

Colossians 1, 15-20, Christ is the first born of all creation.

Luke 10, 27-37, What must I do to inherit eternal life

Welcome home from teaching in Beirut, Lebanon, Our Dearest Celeste. Nice to have your daughter home, Filipita.

The Good Samaritan

This morning I would like to talk about two subjects, being a good Samaritan and and an old Red Sox fan who thought he was going to hell.

When Rosemary & I return to Northwood Park from riding the White Rock Creek trail, we get on west bound Royal Lane and usually catch the red light at Central. Almost always, summer or winter, at the base of the light is a guy & sometimes a woman, frequently young, holding a sign asking for help. I find this uncomfortable, especially is they come over to my window, me in air conditioned comfort.

They are home, Folks, Buddy, Tori, Zoe, and Georgie. It is so much more fun when you all are here.

The problem is that I know they can get aid, food, and shelter at numerous places in downtown Dallas, especially like The Bridge. In the company of a girl from Hockaday, a next door neighbor I have served dinner at the Bridge numerous times.   And you know what I am told often? Don’t give handouts to those begging at stop lights. I know, the word is that some don’t like sleeping in dormitories.

Patricia, too, says Welcome Home!

So how do I handle m discomfort? First, I can help at The Bridge and I was donating platelets at Carter Blood once a month until I got rejected for low iron. But equally important for me is the support I give and our community gives to the Food Pantry and, the best of all, Souls Harbor. Brent & his team are doing it, not just with food and shelter, but also with guidance, education, and AA programs. Souls Harbor is a harbor for me & my guilt.

Thanks, Connie, for your pix.

The summer of 69 or 70 I spent 3 months working as an intern priest chaplain. I loved it. One afternoon I walked into a room of a Red Sox fan. Despite that he was a really good guy,probably younger than I am now, like in his early 70”s. He had the Boston lingo. And I teased him about it.

After a visit or two the old guy let me know that he knew he was dying, it was coming fairly soon, and he was okay about it. Kids? None. Wife? Yep. Still alive? Nope. Next, I do not know how it happened. Maybe I said, “Well you will see your wife pretty soon.”   His response was that he was going to hell.

What?? I almost croaked.

Says Sir Charlie, "John, see this note? It is a special message, John, from the Pope to you.

Turns out he married once when he was like 19. It lasted a while, then they separated. A few years later he met his second wife and they had a happy 40 or more years together, until she died fairly recently.

You know what doubly blew me away. He was peaceful about his imagined fate. He loved his real wife.

Leo, you are growing up to be one great Kid.

Well, you know what I said to him. Even 30 or more years ago I knew that there was no hell. It was a concept created by the Jewish elders to keep the troops in line. And we inherited it.

Can you believe it? There is no hell, no conditional love.

The Best Music with Shonda, Ben, & David.

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ByRosemary July 14, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

Good Morning!

This is God.

I will be handling all your problems today.

I do not need your help.

So have a good day!

Unknown

Denni reading from Deuteronomy.

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Tom & Denni
- For The Team: John & Buddy & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Mike Carrell & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & David & Ben
- For all who helped with communion
Tom reading from Colossians.

Birthdays: Caroline, Brent (63, celebration to be delayed two weeks, July 14), John Schanot (Save until July 21), Kim, Cindy Cramer (80 Tuesday), Paul Bieda (63, Monday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week, while hiding her bike wreck wounds.

Please Remember these special people:

For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; For Sandra's brother; For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder replacement; For a friend & neighbor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free; For Hue; For John O'Donnell; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;

Happy 8th Birthday, Dearest Harper.

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay (at 90 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; for Steve Barrett,Rose, & Katie; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Happy 80th, Dearest Cindy. I'm right behind you.

For Ray & Claire's son in Law, Ken, Christi's husband recuperating from a serious back surgery; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues, especially Mark Pelton; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Happy 57th Anniversary, Dearest Jan & Crazy Sir Charlie.

Your Finances, July 14, 2019

Expenses: $ 1415.00

Outreach: $ 450.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Welcome back, Dearest Luke.

Thanks, Everybody

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Offertory Team of the Week, Bill, Cindy, & Marlene, all of the Ekes Clan.

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.

Yep, John & Connie, you snookered me by taking that cupcake to Bill. Now I cannot pick on you.
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ByRosemary July 10, 2019

The Great Candle Team at work, Marilyn & Ron.

Welcome this Sunday: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, 601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Happy 56th, My Dear Marilyn & Ron.

Readings:

Deuteronomy 30, 10-14, If only you would heed the voice of the Lord.

Psalm 69, Turn to the Lord in your need and you will live

Colossians 1, 15-20, Christ is the first born of all creation.

Luke 10, 27-37, What must I do to inherit eternal life.

Consult time with Allen.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, July 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Juliets, July, TBA

Communion Team with Patricia & Mike, Lynda & Tom.

TRUE?

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius, ancient Chinese philosopher

Our Father.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church? Like…

Bishops, Where are you?, http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2019/07/editorial-our-children-are-dying-at.html

Break Time.

See you Sunday,

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace!

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.

Somebody please help poor Ben.

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Sunday Homily, July 7, 2019, 14th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary July 7, 2019

Says John, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

Isaiah 66, 10-14, As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you. (Isaiah at his best)

Psalm 66, Let all the earth cry out to God with joy

Galatians 6, 14-18, Peace and mercy be to all.

Luke 10, 1-12, 17020, Peace to this household.

Marilyn lights our Summer Candles.

Isaiah observations:

The scene: the people are now back in Jerusalem, a destroyed Jerusalem. Isaiah is attempting to put a positive spin on everything. After all that took place in the Babylonian captivity, Cyrus has defeated the Babylonians and released the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem.

This chapter 66 is the last of the whole book and the work of the third Isaiah.

The Psalm. Can this be true? The Psalm is also 66. It is beautiful and positive. Can religion be better?

Ron reads our Blessing of the Summer Candles.

Why I am still proud to be an American

This morning in honor of July 4, I want to share why I am still proud to be an American. I have 4 little vignettes.

The first took place when I was in Tanzania giving a retreat or seminar to a small group of delightful Dutch religious sisters. We were at a mission on the outskirts of a little town called Morogoro. A thief got into my room, which was a fixed up shipping container on the edge of the compound, while I was having breakfast. I lost my passport & a few small things.

Who let in that funny man with the hat?

So, I had to go to the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam, the capitol. The staff did not hassle me, but treated me like a fellow traveler. I remember feeling, first, a sense of security and, secondly, a sense of being proud to be connected with a country which was a dream country to so many Tanzanians.

Happy 57th Anniversary, Marilyn & Ron.

Secondly, Iowa and the marvelous week long 500 mile bike ride the end of this month. 30k people riding from the MO River to the MS River. The atmosphere is so friendly and fun.

Amid all the camaraderie, the event that always touches me the most is the Amish concession. Not just because I can buy a piece of pie (about 5 varieties) for 3-4 $$’s and a huge spoonful of vanilla ice cream being made right there under the tent for another 2-4 $$’s, It is the fact that in America a group like the Amish can live and thrive.

My Dearest Carrie, I remember you as a sweet, pretty little girl from our days at St. Marks. Now look at you, a pretty girl and a doctor. I'm impressed and delighted for you.

I will miss seeing my buddy Henry, the pie vendor, a guy about 24 years old and very friendly. I will miss renewing our friendship. He even loaned me the money once when I forgot my money.

I ride Iowa’s Ragbrai, I am proud to be a crazy American like all the crazies around me.

Aggie, this is fortification for the rework of your knee. May it be successful and bring you peace.

Thirdly, our neighborhood picnic and parade. So many kids, so many families, so many dogs, so many families of color. Rosemary is the refreshment czar and hosts the most popular concession on the campus of the Preston Hollow Elementary, where the disk jockey rides, where the fire truck begins the parade, and where face painting and animal petting all can be found.

Want to know how popular Rosemary is?   I was instructed to pick up 24 dozen donut holes to go with chocolate chip cookies from Costco and grapes in plastic cups.   How many donut holes left over? Zip, zero, nada.

A dozen times during the morning I am touched to be there. I am proud to be part of America and I am proud of Rosemary.

Listen everyone. Connie & John are going to visit Bill in Pagosa Springs. Therefore, what a better way to show Bill our appreciation for his hospitality for Rosemary & me. Enjoy it, Bill.

Finally, remember the Mays when Rosemary & I would join her delightful family to do the Ride New York? While there we would take the marvelous Staten Island Ferry (still FREE!), and pass by the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French.

On that statue is the following sonnet:

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teaming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me.

I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door.

It takes a team. Especially because we are color coordinated.

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