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ByRosemary March 12, 2017
Rosemary's Blessing of The Week, next week

Special Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings:
- For The Team: Buddy & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Ray & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda, David & Bethany
- For all who helped with Communion
Birthdays: John O’Donnell (Tuesday), Michael Kern (53, Thursday)

Azalias in full bloom everywhere. even the camellias are still in bloom.

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis; For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good; For Christine Drescher in hospital; For Dee; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Claire's mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Cliff & Jean; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons; Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

The typical scene Thanksgiving, just after the hurricane.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; 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, March 12, 2017

Expenses: $Next week

Outreach: $

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

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, February 12, 2nd Lent
ByRosemary March 8, 2017
Sez Cathy, "Welcome in, Everybody."

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

And welcome to you, Bill & Betty Jean from Martha's Vineyard, plus your buddies, Aggie & Allen.

Readings:

Genesis 12, 7-9; 3, 1-7,  I will make of you a great nation

Psalm 33,  Lord, let your merciful love be upon us, as we place our trust in you.

2 Timothy 1, 8-10,   Bear your share of hardship for the gospel.

Matthew 17, 1-9, The Transfiguration.

Can I trust these two behind my back??

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, March 10, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.  The Old Geezer will be out of town.

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

Love for the Kids, April 8, Welcome

Daylight Saving Time–This Sunday

What on earth do you two girls have there, Harper & Zoe? Could that be Jackie's pastry?

What is going on in Our Catholic World
1. Clergy abuse situation, National Catholic Reporter, 3-3-17, 850 words, Download CLERGY ABUSE 3-10-17
2. MN diocese goes bankrupt, National Catholic Reporter, 3-3-17, 234 words, Download MN DIOCESE BANKRUPT 3-10-17
Could it be that Bill bought that "like new" Studebaker from Sir Charlie and he is trying to sell it to these people?

True?

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

John Muir 1838-1914

Can you believe this? His own wife sleeping through the Mass!

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Sacrament of Healing, "Lord, that this foot may heal so that it may hike the trails of Matterhorn Canyon, Yosemite, this September."

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.
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Homilies

Sunday Homily, March 5, 2017, 1st Lent
ByRosemary March 5, 2017

Readings:

Genesis 2, 7-9; 3, 1-7,  Eating the apple.

Psalm 51,  Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned

Romans 5, 12-19   Then everyone will receive praise from God.

Matthew 4, 1-11, Temptation in the desert.

Say Ben & Cody, "Welcome in, everybody."

Introduction: In the creation story from Genesis, the serpent deceives Eve; and Adam brings sin into the world. In our gospel reading, Satan is also a deceiver. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, ‘We are all made righteous through Jesus Christ.

Let the celebration begin.

Homily:

Here is a Greek definition for the word ‘tempter.’ In Greek, it is dee-ah-bah-lahs. The tempter is diabolic, wicked.   In today’s gospel reading it is the world that is arrogant and wicked. It wants from Jesus Christ, the Son of God, a miracle or two, or three. The world receives Jesus’ answer. ‘I am not of the world. I bring to you the Father’s love; for he has sent me to redeem the world.’

Cole, our Candle Lighter of The Week.

The Lord doesn’t have miracles on his agenda, for a faith based on miracles is no faith at all! I propose to you that the Scribes and Pharisees are the devil in this reading. They are the ones who say to Jesus, ‘give us a miracle, so that we might believe in you.’

Mike, our Homilist of The Week.

Recall that it is the diabolic Pharisees and Scribes who want to trap Jesus by bringing to him, while he was teaching at the entrance of the temple, a woman caught in the act of adultery. ‘Moses said that we should stone her; what do you say.’

The Team.

The spirit that flows forth from the legalistic way the Pharisees and Scribes teach and live the Law ignore love. Their spirit is unclean. They are the hypocrites that put fear in the minds of others, instead of love.   They can be likened to a circus hustler, ‘Come see Jesus feed, with a loaf of bread and a few fish, the overflowing crowd in the Big Tent.’

Leo and Genevieve, that little girl is crazy about her big brother.

Their ignorance misleads the crowd, for the bread and fish of the Gospel are the Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of Eucharist. There is no miracle here, only love.

When Jesus spiritually heals the sick and unclean in the Gospel; these are not miracles. Those who come to him desire to be forgiven; they are seeking to change their lives by welcoming and living his life-giving words.

Could it get any better than this? Zoe & Harper.

God’s plan for us is not easy, therefore, ‘in everything we are to give thanks,’ Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ is alive to us, in good times and bad. When we pray together each Sunday for our brothers and sisters who are physically sick or ill, we are praying for their care givers, their doctors, their nurses, their children, their parents, their friends.

The Offertory Team, Ron, Ray, Bill, Bernadette, and Barbara.

We pray that they all become stronger in faith. The physical illnesses experienced by those dear to us are so much easier to accept knowing that the Lord journeys with us and in us and through us as the Body of Christ in the world. We give thanks to Fr. John for keeping them in our hearts each week.’

Play station with Victoria and Zoe.

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Announcements
ByRosemary March 5, 2017
Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,

A Prayer For Growing Old Gracefully

Lord, Thou knowest better than I myself that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.

Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all; but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end.

Scott reading from Genesis.

Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on my aches and pains; they are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening cock-sureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

Keep me reasonably sweet, for a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people; and give, O Lord, the grace to tell them so.

Amen.

17^th Century Nun’s Prayer

Lily reading from Romans.

Special Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Scott & Lily
- For The Team: Kevin & Buddy & Georgie
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Ray & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda, David & Bethany
- For all who helped with Communion
Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Ash Wednesday: Thanks, Marlene, for hosting us.

Birthdays: Jackie Urbanczyk (Tuesday), Dee Miller (Friday), Ben (10, Friday)

Happy Birthday, Dee, and congratulations on walking up here on that new hip.

Please Remember these special people:

For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, who died this past Wednesday; For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis; For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good; For Christine Drescher in hospital; For Dee; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Claire's mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Cliff & Jean; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

Happy 10th Birthday, Ben, thanks for being such a neat guy.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 92; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons; Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Congratulations, Cole, You get better on those candles every week.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

The Best Music, Shonda, Bethany, Ray, & David.

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

The Team today, Kevin, Georgie, Buddy, & Mike

Your Finances, March 5, 2017

Expenses: $750.00

Outreach: $405.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Mike homilizing for us all.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Anybody in the community specialize in home deliveries? How many weeks overdue has it now been, Bethany? Good Karma to you.

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.

Our Dear Genevieve says, "have a Peaceful and Happy Lent, Everybody."
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Reminder for Sunday, March 5, 2017, 1st Lent
ByRosemary March 1, 2017
From Cindy & Ken, Bill & Cindy, "Welcome in, Everybody."

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack. & Mike homilizing

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

Hi, Vivian.

Readings:

Genesis 2, 7-9; 3, 1-7,  Eating the apple.

Psalm 51,  Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned

Romans 5, 12-19   Then everyone will receive praise from God.

Matthew 4, 1-11, Temptation in the desert.

The Girls, Patricia, Cathy, & Sandra.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, March 3, 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),

Juliet’s Luncheon Ladies will meet Friday, March 3 at 1:00 P.M. at Ocean Seafood and Grill. For all who have not been there the food is very good and reasonable. It is a BYOB. I thought this would be a good choice because it will be Lent and some of us do not eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Ocean is at 3829 W. Spring Creek Pkwy., Plano, behind Chic-Fil-A which is on Coit Rd. (Spring Creek and Coit). Please let me know if you can join us. They do have other choices besides seafood. Ron & Marilyn Ackerman [rmackerman5@gmail.com]

Love for the Kids, April 8, Welcome

Healing for Rob.

What is going on in Our Catholic World
1. Big Doctrine Divisions in Rome, The Tablet, 2/23, 747 words, Download DOCTRINE DIVISION 4-2-17
2. Big Loss for Abuse Commission in Rome, National Catholic Reporter, 3-1-17, 888 words, Download ABUSE COMMISSION LOSS 3-2-17
Our Father with Buddy.

True?

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
- Victor Hugo
Our Father with Hugh, Tom, Becky, and John.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Communion for Buddy.

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.
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Homilies

Sunday Homily, February 26, 2017, 8th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary February 26, 2017

Readings:

Isaiah 49, 14-15,  I will never forget you.

Psalm 62,  Rest in God alone, my soul.

1 Corinthians 4, 1-5,   Then everyone will receive praise from God.

Matthew 6, 24-34, Do not worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself.

"Happy Mardi Gras, Everybody," say Cathy and Harper.

Isaiah observations and reminders—

Who, This is 2^nd Isaiah.

When, This is during the Captivity in Babylon, ca. 555 before Christ.

Subject, The writer, the prophet, is trying to lift the spirits of his fellow slaves. He gives them exquisite news, using God’s words, “I will never forget you.” A short but touching cameo of consolation and hope.

And from Kevin, "Welcome in, Folks."

Have a Happy Lent

I admit that Lent is my least favorite seasons of the year, mostly because of the emphasis on penance I encountered as a kid and during my early years as a Jesuit. We did penance in those days. I don’t think it was spiritually and psychologically healthy.

Therefore, I would like to talk about how to have a Happy Lent. A no dread zone. And, I would add, a belief that God cares not a whit for us doing all sorts of penance.

Tori, too, says, "Hi, Everybody."

Consequently, I have two points based on being people fully alive. The first point focuses on self nurture and has two suggestions.

First, treat yourself each week of Lent. Like take a special day off, go out to eat, like join us at Romeos or Juliettes, have some ice cream, and go for a drive (if possible with the traffic congestion). In fact, because we have not had a day off since Thanksgiving, Rosemary, I, and Aviana are going to visit her sister in Hilton Head for a week.

Hi, Vivian. It is so nice to have you with us this morning.

Secondly, spend some quiet time in contemplation, especially with a focus on gratitude. I just read about a guy who survived the Burma death camps. He said he was never a prisoner, meaning he always focused on what he was grateful for whatever torment was going on around him.

The second half of this you will maybe hate me for bringing up. But, here I go, exercise. I want to keep you people alive, fully alive until you are ready to check out. This really involves only 2-3 hours per week, 30 minutes a day for six days. There are two types of exercise, cardio and strength.

The Candle Man of The Week, Cole, at work.

Cardio involves walking, riding a bike, and running. A 30 minute walk around the neighborhood has amazingly positive effects.

I can certainly vouch for how good I feel after I have done a spin class at the Jewish Community Center in the morning. I do this Monday through Friday and it is marvelous.

Delivery day is here,  TODAY. Do we have a doctor in the house?

Strength is for muscle and bone, and involves things like yoga, Tai Chi, and weights. It also includes doing things like gardening (even mowing the grass?), taking the stairs, walking from the outer edge of the parking lot, dancing, and house work (like vacuuming).

The goal in all of this is to be fully alive and happy until we arrive home.

Offertory team, John & Connie, Scott & Lily

So, how are you going to have a Happy Lent?

Good article on exercise, Download EXERCISE FOR LENT 2-

Bethany, when is my new play mate coming to visit me?

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ByRosemary February 26, 2017
Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,

May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others.

May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content with yourself just the way you are.

Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

Saint Terese of Liseaux

Rob reading from the Great Prophet Isaiah

Special Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Rob & Beth
- For The Team: Kevin & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Mary
- For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie & Mike & John & Michelle
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Bethany
- For all who helped with Communion
Beth reading from 1 Corinthians.

Ash Wednesday: 7:00, Marlene's house, 2017 Keystone, Plano

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Birthdays: Anthony DeGenova (today, Sunday), Diane McClurg Mondah), Michelle Brown (Thursday)

Can we trust Alison and John to give their son, Anthony, his 18th birthday cupcake??

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis; For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good; For Christine Drescher in hopital; For Dee; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Claire's mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Cliff & Jean; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

A grandmother, grandson team here. Thanks, Cole, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week. And to you, Diane, happy birthday.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 90; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons; Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Happy birthday, Michelle. Never did I see a mother so popular with her daughters. I wonder why??

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

Happy Birthday to you, Ray, only a week late.

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

Thanks so much, Buddy, for helping us this morning. This is your first time to go solo without Georgie. I am happy we got you two donut holes for your reward.

Your Finances, February 26, 2017

Expenses: $2165.00

Outreach: $ 980.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Poor Brent. You keep coming up and not getting a cupcake. We'll have to rectify that next month, cupcake instead of check. Sound good? Seriously, it is a pleasure & honor to be able to help you help Souls Harbor, $2000 this month.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

See you next week, Everybody," says Zoe.

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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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Reminder for Sunday, February 26, 2017, 8th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary February 22, 2017
Hi, Leo!

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

If you misbehave, Folks, you will get put in time out with that lady in the red hat. Having too much fun.

Readings:

Isaiah 49, 14-15,  I will never forget you.

Psalm 62,  Rest in God alone, my soul.

1 Corinthians 4, 1-5,   Then everyone will receive praise from God.

Matthew 6, 24-34, Do not worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself.

Special Healing and Life for Victoria.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, February 24, 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),

Juliet’s Luncheon Ladies will meet Friday, March 3 at 1:00 P.M. at Ocean Seafood and Grill. For all who have not been there the food is very good and reasonable. It is a BYOB. I thought this would be a good choice because it will be Lent and some of us do not eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Ocean is at 3829 W. Spring Creek Pkwy., Plano, behind Chic-Fil-A which is on Coit Rd. (Spring Creek and Coit). Please let me know if you can join us. They do have other choices besides seafood. Ron & Marilyn Ackerman [rmackerman5@gmail.com]

Love for the Kids, April 8, Welcome

Special Healing and Life for Zoe.

What is going on in Our Catholic World
1. Disruption, National Catholic Reporter, 2/19, 750 words, Download BE DISRUPTORS 2-23-17
What are those two conspiring??

True?

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Johannesburg

"You know that '63 Studebaker I offered Rob at a great price? Beth would not let him buy it. Please don't fight over this, but I give you a good, once in a life time price. Runs like new, original radio, original white walls, a classic," sez Sr. Charlie.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Our Father, Mary, Sydney & Hugh, John & Karen.

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, father & son.

Peace, Everyone.
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Homilies

Sunday Homily, February 19, 2017, 7th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary February 19, 2017
Readings:

Leviticus 19, 1-2,  17-18, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Psalm 103,  The Lord is kind and merciful. (Stanza 2, one of the best)

1 Corinthians 3, 16-23,   You are the temple of God.

Matthew 5, 38-48, Love your enemies.

"Welcome in, Everybody," say Olivia and her dad, Cory.

Observations on Leviticus

What :  the 3rd book of the Bible and one of the 5 books of the Torah.

Who: a compilation of sayings accumulated over centuries, not Moses, as was thought for some years.

Date: sometime after the Exile in Babylon, ca. 555 before Christ.

"Don't forget me," says Tori, "Come in, Folks."

Subject:  rules about how to live, how to worship, and the penalties for transgressing. This is based upon 2 beliefs:
1. The world has been created good, but is vulnerable to sin.
2. Enactment of proper ritual makes God present and ignoring proper ritual compromises the harmony between God & people.
Some unique rules:
1. Cursing, death. 24.14
2. Unkempt hair, God will smite you. 10.1
3. You will not tatoo yourself, 19.28
4. Trimming your beard. 19.27
5. Cutting the hair on the sides of your head. 19.27
Today’s Subject: the best line in the whole work, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 19.18

Sources: Good News Bible, Wikipedia

The Offertory Team, Bill, Ray, Bernadette, and Richard.

I want to help people. That’s what I’m for.

Ever hear of a guy named Clarence Griffith? I read about him in the Dallas Morning News recently. Three things are unique about him.
1. He was born in 1913. Know anybody that old? 104 years.
2. When he was 94 he received triple heart bypass at Baylor, Dallas.
3. Ever since his recuperation he regularly goes to console and help people in the Baylor cardiac waiting room. He gets them coffee, food, and offers them support, praying with them or just letting them talk. He says, “That’s what I’m for. I want to help people.”
Leo, our Candle Lighter of The Week.

For me, Clarence Griffith has accepted that, “The Lord is gracious and merciful, never gets angry and is abounding in love.” Moreover, he is making himself live that image.

Last week we looked at infinite demand that was followed up with promises of hell. A fear based program.

This week we look at a different infinite demand equally challenging. The demand is to get rid of fear in our relationship with God using that description, and to help others to do so.

The Team.

This is one of the biggest reasons I have been and am a priest, and even a psychotherapist, to help others get rid of fear in our relationship with God.

Which leads me to three demands presented by Matthew. If you reflect upon it, these three are a result of knowing that our God is gracious and merciful, never gets angry and is abounding in love.

The Wedding, Patricia and John.

First, Matthew says, using his favorite little figure of speech, ‘You have heard it said, but I say to you…’, when someone hits the left side of your face, offer the right and don’t resist the person who is evil.

Is this insanity or what? Has it ever been tried? Yes, you say, by dead people.   Impossible. This is the message of the pacifist, a person mostly ridiculed by the rest of us. Know any? Sure, John Dear, once a Jesuit, Roy Bourgeois, once a Maryknoll.

I wonder what would happen if we really did this. I confess I have not been able to get there.

Congratulations, John, I am so happy when I am not the only one with tears up here. Must be because you come from Australia. Double congratulations.

Secondly, give to the person who asks from you. Another tough one. How do you feel passing the men & women begging at stop lights? I, for one, feel horrible, even though I know they have a number of shelters, like The Bridge and Austin St. Shelter.   I can work in those places and know that we as a community help them, but I still feel horrible passing those people on the corner.

Thirdly, love my enemy. I really don’t have any serious enemies that I know of.

"I, Patricia, take you, John in marriage. I promise to be true to you in good times and bad, in sickness and in health. I will love and cherish you all the days of my life."

Despite failure to live up to these demands, which are infinite, our God is still infinitely accepting, specifically gracious and merciful, never get angry and is abounding in love.   Moreover, relevant to our weakness, he says in the following line, “Not according to our sins does he deal with us.”

104 year old Clarence Griffith is showing people this image of God in the Baylor hospital waiting room.

Who shows this image to you?

To whom do you show the image?

The Kiss.
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ByRosemary February 19, 2017
Rosemary's Blessing of The Week,

The Lord said to Moses:

“… You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord”

May you

Give generously,

Forgive unceasingly,

And Love perfectly.

Cheryl reading from Leviticus.

Special Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Cheryl & Patricia
- For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Mary
- For the Pictures: Rick & Mike & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany
- For all who helped with Communion
Patricia reading from 1 Corinthians.

Birthdays: Drew (Sunday), Ray (Wednesday), Rosemary (20th), Leighton Elizabeth Wittek (4, Friday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week? No way. Receiving a cupcake? Yes, for a 20th anniversary. No smoking.

Please Remember these special people:

For Ron Ackerman with cellulitis; For Carol's recuperation; For Tom Good; For Christine Drescher in hopital; For Dee; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Claire's mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Cliff & Jean; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

Would you trust this woman with your cupcake? Even if she is your mom? We are putting our trust in you, Caroline, you and David. Trouble is, folks, Drew, their son, is at A&M.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 90; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons; Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

Thanks, Leo, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week, and, also, for being such a neat kid.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala plus her baby, and Stephanie, and Barbara; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler & Kaitlen;

Happy Birth Day, Bethany. She says one more week, only!!

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

Guess what everybody is trying to get in on. Only 4 today??

Your Finances, February 19, 2017

Expenses: $520.00

Outreach: $265.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Blessed be The Lord.

Have a Great Week, J.S

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