Reminders

 

All Saints 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

All Saints.
 

 

Readings:

Wisdom 6 12-16,   Resplendent and unfading is wisdom.

Psalm 63,  My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Thessalonians 4, 13-18 ,  The Lord will come down from heaven.

Matthew 25, 1-13,  The kingdom of heaven will be like the 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

 

 

 

 

 

All Saints' Team, Sandra, Karen, Geri, & Denni.

 

Reminder: Central Expressway will be shut down at Plano Parkway on Saturday and Sunday.

                                                                                                                 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 10, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  December Lunch TBA

 

 

 

 

Healing for Joe, Brent, & Meredith.

 

 

Love for Kids picnic:  December 9

Dickenson Trip:  February, more TBA

 

 

 

 

Healing & Fullness of Life for Tori & Zoe.

 

 

Jackie & Rick: have a nice bedroom they would like to put up for rent, $500 per month.   Location: Garland, near a DART  train station.

.

 

 

Our Father.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

1.  Trump vs Constitution, National Catholic Reporter,  November 6, 1400 Words,        Download TRUMP VS CONSTITUTION 11-9-17

       2.   Notre Dame & contraceptives, National Catholic Reporter,  November 7,  200 Words,     Download N D ON CONTRACEPTIVES 11-7-17

 

 

Communion for Richard and Carol at home.

 

 

True?

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Plato

 

 

 

Communion for All God's Critters.

 

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.

 

 

 

Peace, Everybody.

 

 

Welcome back, Dearest Tori, so nice to see you.

 

 

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

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

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

 

REMINDER: Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend.

 

 

 

He is coming!

 

Readings:

Malachi 1, 14-2, 2, 8-10,   A great king am I, says the Lord

Psalm 131,  In you, O Lord, I have found my Peace

Thessalonians 2, 7-9, 13 ,  We were gentle with you.

Matthew 23, 1-12,  Do not be like the Pharisees.

 

 

Healing for Sandra.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 3, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  

 

 

Healing for John.

 

 

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  November Lunch 

GREETINGS JULIET LADIES

Our event for November will be held on Friday November 3 at 1:00 p.m.

Please join us for a fun time in the private dining room of

 Palio's  Pizza Café in Richardson, the southeast corner of Campbell and Coit   ( to the right of Sprouts and Dress Barn)

• You can BYOB of wine if you like. 
• They are giving us a 20% discount
• Lots of Parking right in front
• Great Pasta, Pizza, Salads, etc.
• Very reasonable prices
• Plenty of room for everyone
•  

Please email me if you have any questions and/or to let me know you are able to join us.  It can be our early Thanksgiving Party.

Sandra Pratt

prattquest@yahoo.com 

972-235-6622

 Hope you can join in the fun time we always have.

 

 

 

Our Father

 

Love for Kids picnic:  December 9

 

Jackie & Rick: have a nice bedroom they would like to put up for rent, $500 per month.   Location: Garland, near a DART  train station.

.

 

 

Our Father.

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

    1.  NCR editorial on where we are at, National Catholic Reporter,  November 1, 727 Words,       Download NCR EDITORIAL 10-1-17

 

 

 

 

Clapping?   For ME??

 

True?

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

-Phyllis Diller
 

 

 

Not for Me?   No, huh, Buddy?  No!!

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

Finally, the favorite part of our celebration.

 

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.

 

 

What is that critter?  Could that be a Tori?

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

Reminder, All Saints coming up.

 

Readings:

Exodus  22, 20-26,  You shall not molest or oppress an alien.

Psalm 18,  I love you, Lord, my strength

Thessalonians 1, 5-10,  You know what sort of people we were among you.

Matthew 22, 34-40,  Which commandment is the greatest.

 

 

 

Duck Crossing.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 27, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  

 JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  November Lunch 

GREETINGS JULIET LADIES

Our event for November will be held on Friday November 3 at 1:00 p.m.

Please join us for a fun time in the private dining room of

 Palio's  Pizza Café in Richardson, the southeast corner of Campbell and Coit   ( to the right of Sprouts and Dress Barn)

• You can BYOB of wine if you like. 
• They are giving us a 20% discount
• Lots of Parking right in front
• Great Pasta, Pizza, Salads, etc.
• Very reasonable prices
• Plenty of room for everyone
•  

Please email me if you have any questions and/or to let me know you are able to join us.  It can be our early Thanksgiving Party.

Sandra Pratt

prattquest@yahoo.com 

972-235-6622

 

 

What a team!  Listen up, guys.  Good story coming.

 

 

 Love for Kids picnic:  December 9

 

Jackie & Rick: have a nice bedroom they would like to put up for rent, $500 per month.   Location: Garland, near a DART  train station.

 

Reminder: Book Exchange this Sunday.

 

 

Wow!   Am I that bad??  I am crushed!!

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

     Nothing this week.

 

 

 

Our Father.

 

True?

What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it?

 

 

Our Father contined.

 

 See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

Peace, Everybody.

 

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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

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

 

 

Peace??    Scary!!

 

Welcome in, Dearest Zoe. 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

The Best Music, Shonda & Ben.

 

Readings:

Isaiah 45, 1, 4-6,  I am the Lord, there is no other.

Psalm 96,  Give the Lord glory & honor.

Thessalonians 1, 1-5,  We give thanks to God for all of you

Matthew 22, 15-21,  Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?

 

A good one for perspective adjustment (like for mine):

 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Hzgzim5m7oU&vq=medium>

 

 

 

Long time friends meet up, Mike & Christine.

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 20, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  

 JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  November Lunch TBA

 

 

 

Kerry, this large communion is for you and Nina.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1.  San Diego bishop celebrates Mass for LGBT's,  October 10, 2017,  644 words,  Download MASS FOR LGBT'S 10-19-17
2.  Guns, National Catholic Reporter,  October 14, 2017, 321 words,   Download MORE GUNS 10-19-17

 

 

 

Does not every married couple begin their married life by hiking "Rim to Rim?   That is, going all the way down the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim to the river in the bottom of the Canyon, then climbing all the way up to the North Rim, maybe 14 thousand feet total, in one day.

 

True?

No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy telephone, you answer it.

 

 

 

Could there be a "crazy gene" in their families.  All hiking "Rim to Rim."

 

 See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

Want to know what is the best part of  of our Sunday celebration?   

 

 

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.

 

 

Momma, want part of my cupcake?  Sharing!

 

 

Peace, Everyone!

 

 

Welcome, Carrie, to a New Life.

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

Exchange of Vows.
 

 

Readings:

Isaiah 25,, 6-10,  On this mountain  the Lord will provide for all peoples.

Psalm 23,  I shall live iin the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

Phlippians 4, 12-14, 19-20,  I know how to llive in humble circumstances.

Matthew 22, 1-14,  The king throws a wedding feast for his son. 

 

 

Exchange of Rings.  Just on the Canyon side of us is a stone table that can be used as an altar, which we did. 

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 13, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Sorry, this old geezer will be in Grand Canyon for a wedding. 

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  November Lunch TBA

 

 

Some who attended the Wedding.  Just above and beyond the rock ledge is a major path.  A number of passer-by joined in the celebration

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1.  Pope Francis totally supports Vat II liturgy Download FRANCIS AND LITURGY 10-12-17,  America, August 28, 2017, 876 words  

 

 

 

Feel, Paul & Carrie, that you are on Top of The World?

 

True?

There ain’t no answer.  There ain’t gonna be an answer.  There never has been an answer.  There’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

 

 

 

Ladies only.  Sorry guys.

 

 See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

Wake up, Emma, it is Cupcake Time!

 

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.

 

 

Communion for All God's Creatures.

 

 

Who Dat ??   Happy Halloween.

 

 

 

Hi, Tori, who's your little friend?

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

Says Zoe, "Welcome in, Everybody."

 

Readings:

Isaiah 5, 1-7,  The fruitless vineyard

Psalm 80,  The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.

Phlippians 4, 6-9,  Have no anxiety at all

Matthew 21, 33-43,  The vineyard owner & the unfaithful tenants. 

 

 

 

 

Seth, you are the best sleeper I know.  

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 6, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Sorry, this old geezer will be in Grand Canyon for a wedding. 

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October 6th at 1:00 at Apollonia's Italian Kitchen, 3610 Shire Blvd., Richardson.   Download Juliet Letterhead

 

 

 

The Best Team.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1.  St. Augustine creates the idea of original sin, The New Yorker Magazine, June 19, 2017 18, Words, lots, but worth it.   Download ST. AUGUSTINE  

 

 

 

Who is that  boy behind those glasses?

 

True?

Free Tummy Rubs with Exams.  Sorry, Pets only.

St. Joe Center Veterinary Hospital 

 

And The Best Music.

 

 See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

See you next week, Everybody.

 

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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

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

 

 

 

My Dearest Harper, I will really miss you this upcoming month because your grandmother Cathy is taking a trip.  Have a fun month and we will rejoice to see you at the end of the month.

 

The Our Father.

 

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

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

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

 

 

Leo, John, Georgie and Buddy.

 

Readings:

Sirach 27, 30-28, 7,  Remember death & decay, and ease from sin.

Psalm 103,   The Lord is kind and merciful, never gets angry, and is rich in compassion  (one of the Great Lines)

Roman s 14, 7-9,  None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.

Matthew 18, 21-35,  The king and the debtors  

 

 Caroline and Judy.

 

Charlie and Richard.

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.   

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

 

 

The Community reading the Prayer of St. Francis.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Nothing this week.

 

Beth and Emma.

 

True?

The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble…

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

Zoe, Michelle and Tori. 

 

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.

 

 

 

They finally caught her.
 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

The Girls.  Again.

 

Readings:

Ezekiel  33, 7-9,    You have been appointed watchman for the house of Israel

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

Roman s 13, 8-10,  Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another

Matthew 18, 15-20,  Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am.  

 

 

 

Does that not look like a takeover!

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Most of us will be gone to Yosemite until the 14^th.  Take a break for a week?

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

 

 

The Community.

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Jean Vanier, The Tablet & Corpus, August 18  800 words (a hero of mine from my years in Toronto),   Download VANIER 7-31-17

 

 

 

The Best Team.

 

True?    (from Patricia)

Author Anne Lamott recently turned 61. So she’s compiled the following list of “every single true thing I know.” A brief recap:

1. All truth is a paradox. “Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift, and it is impossible here,” she says. Life is “filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.”
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2. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.” That includes you.
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3. Nothing outside of you will help you in any real, lasting way. Radical self-care is the only thing that will get you through. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true, and it works the other way around too. “If it is someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the solution,” she says.
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4. “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared. Everyone, even the people who seem to have it most together.” So don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides, she warns.
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5. “Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food. Its best use is as bait in snake traps or to balance the legs on wobbly chairs.”
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6. Every writer puts down terrible first drafts. The trick is that they commit to sticking with it. They take it Bird by Bird, her father’s advice that became the heart of her bestselling book. “Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better,” she says. “You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
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7. Creative success are “something you have to recover from. They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine.” And that brings us back to #1, because creative success is also amazing. “It is a miracle to get your work published,” she says. “Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes inside you. It can’t. It won’t.”
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8. Families are both astonishing and hard. Again reference #1. “Earth is forgiveness school,” she says. “It begins with forgiving yourself — then you might as well start at the dinner table.”
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9. Speaking of food: try to do a little better. “I think you know what I mean.”
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10. Grace is a powerful thing. “Grace is Spiritual WD-40 or water wings,” she says. “The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild.” Grace doesn’t always come in the forms you expect. Lamott sees it most in laughter. “Laughter really is carbonated holiness,” she says. “It helps us breathe again and again, and gives us back to ourselves.”
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11. God isn’t that scary. Rather than getting trapped in the mundanity of our own lives, she tells us to “go look up.” Now. “My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don’t look up,” she says. “If they did, they could fly to freedom. Instead, they walk around bitterly, bumping into glass walls.”
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12. Death is incredibly hard to bear, and you don’t get over losing people you love. “We Christians like to think death is a major change of address,” she says. “But the person will live again fully in your heart, at some point, if you don’t seal it off.” Memories of the people you love will make you smile at inappropriate times, but their absence will also be “a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.” Again, see #1.

She takes a deep breath. “Okay, I think that’s it. But if I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.”

 

 

Healing for Cindy.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

A footnote:  We are donating  as a Community

$1000 to the special fund established by the mayor of Houston,

$1000 to the 1st Baptist Church of Rockport

 

 

 

Healing and Life for Zoe.

 

 

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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

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

 

 

Communion for everyone.

 

 

 

 

Our Dear Hostess of Hospitality says, "Welcome in, everybody."

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

Our Specialty, Sign Language.

 

Readings:

Jeremiah  20, 7-9,    You duped me, Lord, and I let myself be duped

Psalm 63,   My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Roman s 12, 1-2,  Do not conform yourselves to this age.

Matthew 16, 21-27,  Whoever wishes to come after me, must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.  

 

 

Hi, Stella.

 

Community Activities:  

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

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   September 1, Friday

 Hi Everyone,

Maybe it will be a little cooler when we get together for Lunch Friday, September 1^st at 12:30 at YE Shire Tavern 3600 Shire Blvd. Richardson.  Hope everybody can join us for a lot of fun and laughs as we share our summer.  Please let me know if you can make it.
 

Thanks,

Marilyn

972-491-7068    

 

 

 

"Pastry Shoppe is Open!," say Stella and Ulysses.

 

To My Dear Fellow Community Members: 

 

I am thinking about Our Community donating to the Hurricane recovery $2000.   We can afford the donation and the board has approved of the move.  What do you think?

 We are in the process of selecting a trustworthy partner and one where the executives are not receiving inflated salaries.   At the moment we are considering smaller, more local groups like The Houston Mayor's special recovery fund just set up and the Houston Food Bank

 We can talk about this Sunday or you may text me or Rosemary, or send an email.

 

Thanks, John

 

 

Beware, That Man, Sir Charlie, is back.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Priests' Children,   Boston Globe & National Catholic Reporter, August 21, 1400 words,     Download CHILDREN OF PRIESTS 8-8-17

 

 

 

Stella and her favorite aunt.

 

True?

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.

 
-Phyllis Diller
 

 

 

Not again, no cupcake!

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

Says who?  Priests don't need help, even getting dressed. 

 

 

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.

 

 

So who let those parakeets in here?

 

 

Peace, Everybody.