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Announcements

ByRosemary September 25, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

May you live a long life full of gladness and health,
With a pocket full of gold as the least of your wealth.

May the dreams you hold dearest be those which come true,
The kindness you spread keep returning to you.

May the friendships you make be those which endure,
And all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure.

And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray,
May a song fill your heart every step of the way.

Grace E. Easley

John reading from the minor Prophet, Amos.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: John & Connie
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Marlene
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie,
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Mary
For all who helped with communion

Connie reading from 1 Timothy.

Birthdays: Beth Dugan (45, Tuesday), Judy Carrell, Leo (6, Saturday), John Cade (55^th of ordination, Friday), Mary Jane Stephenson (Tuesday), and Tom & Lynda (34^th, last week)

Anniversaries:

Tom & Becky (37^th, Tuesday)

Rosemary inviting everyone to the Christmas concert at the Meyerson.

Please Remember these special people:

For Dee and for Mike, who just moved to the other side Thursday afternoon; For Carol’s treatment; For John Schanot's treatment; For Brent's mom; For Frank's treatment; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; for Zaile's mom in the hospital in the Philippines; For Rosemary's great nephew, Patrick who broke his leg amd is in a body cast (3 years old); For Claire's mom; For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Tom Good; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

Okay, Mike, that cupcake is for Judy on her birthday. Let's see if she gets a bite, Folks.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; 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; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; 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;

John, even though you have forgotten, it was 55 years ago that you were ordained a Carmelite priest. Congratulations.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler; Gilberto's mom and brother; 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 our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Happy 6th birthday, Leo. Better watch out behind you.

Your Finances, September 25, 2016

Expenses: $ 541.00

Outreach: $ 327.00

Donated today: $ 2,900.00 to Soul's Harbor

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

What could this little girl be looking for?

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.

Congratulations, Bethany. This is for you and the little one coming, so he knows what good things await him.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, September 25, 2016, 26th Ordinary Time C

ByRosemary September 21, 2016

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

Genevieve

Readings:

Amos 1, 1 4-7 , Woe to the complacent in Zion.

Psalm 146, Praise the Lord, My Soul.

1 Timothy 6, 11-16, You, man of God, pursue righteousness, faith, & devotion

Luke 16, 19-31, The Rich Man and Lazarus.

Leo the candle lighter

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 23, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. Come look at the back packers.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together): October 7, Friday, @ 1 pm, Angela's Crosswalk, 1010 E 15th St (K Avenue), Plano, TX 75074. RSVP to Marilyn (randmackerman@verizon.net).

Tori

and sister, Zoe

What is going on in Our Catholic World

National Catholic Reporter, Nothing special this week.

and sister, Georgie and brother, Buddy

True?

Hospitality is the art of making guests feel like they're at home

when you wish they were.

Shonda, Bethany, and Ray

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Rosemary and John

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.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 18, 2016, 25th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 18, 2016

Readings:

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

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

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

Luke 16, 1-13, The rich man and the dishonest steward.

The Campers enjoy a meal before going into the wilderness. Andy, Mike, Bill, Ray, Beth, Lynn, and John

Homily

A hint I’m taking from the Service of the Word is how do we, like Jesus, or like Mother Theresa, attend to the poor?

From the Responsorial we have the verse from Psalm 113, “He raises up the lowly from the dust; from the dunghill he lifts up the poor…”

From the Alleluia verse we heard, “Though Jesus was rich, he became poor for us.”

John, ready for Mass

I heard about a new book by Patrick Phillips (on NPR, Terri Gross or Diane Rheem): “Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America” by Patrick Phillips. It’s about how the entire Black community of Forsythe County, who were also poor at that time in the early 20^th century, were forced to leave that county in Georgia. The author moved there as a kid in the 50’s from outside Atlanta …..there were no Blacks at all….why….rape….lynchings, robbed of houses and land…

Kevin, Georgie and Buddy are ready.

Abbeville (Louisiana where I grew up)– how protected and insulated we were from the poor, how very little we knew about the poor and the Black members of our community.

Dallas – we still protect our image today. Remember a few weeks ago the city made the many poor of tent city under highway bridges just East of down town move out; now we’re talking about moving the poor out of their new tent cities that are even closer to Fair Park (near Haskell and I-30), with the State Fair about to open.

Joe, Meredith, and Brent help with The Offertory

Ways this community has opened itself to the needs of the poor:

Love for the children with Bill Hammond’s group—before Christmas is for disadvantaged kids, kids from poor families, to have a fun day and receive clothes and other presents
Habitat for Humanity with Tom Fleming helping people build their homes, those who would probably no have a home otherwise
Helping fix up and paint houses and do yard work for those needing this help
Tornado damaged areas in Texas, in Oklahoma and beyond with Bill and Bona Responds
I remember this community helping with the census of the homeless in Plano area of Collin Co.
The generosity of community in providing financial outreach to Soul’s Harbor, and also giving items for their thrift stores.

Shonda getting ready to sing

This list of examples of your generosity of spirit is amazing. You are not slackers; you consistently attend to and care for the poor and needy. We respond to the poor among us as a community and also as individuals. E.g., Thursday evening on Abrams going to DARCC (Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center) event, car stopped, guy behind car with gas can…. Or greeting a new neighbor.

Genevieve enjoying herself

Today’s question: How do you challenge yourself to see the poor, and care for the poor? Maybe you have other ideas for this community helping the poor? Will you pass on your ideas?

Tori and Zoe working hard

Announcements

ByRosemary September 18, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

… May God bless you with enough foolishness
to believe that you can make a difference
in this world, in your neighborhood,
so that you will courageously try
what you don't think you can do, but,
in Jesus Christ you'll have all the strength necessary.

"Troubadour: A Missionary Magazine," published by the Franciscan Missionary Society

Jackie reading from Amos

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Jackie & Patricia
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Marlene
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie,
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Shonda
For all who helped with communion

Patricia reading from the 1st Letter to Timothy

Birthdays: Sandra (today), Claire Zurchin (31, Monday), Mary Jane Stephenson (Tuesday), Bethany (Friday), Holly Kern (23, Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Lynda & Tom, (34^th Sunday, today)

Mary Ellen, Judy, Carol, and Mary

Please Remember these special people:

For Dee and for Mike, who just moved to the other side Thursday afternoon; For Carol’s treatment; For John Schanot's treatment; For Brent's mom; For Frank's treatment; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; for Zaile's mom in the hospital in the Philippines; For Rosemary's great nephew, Patrick who broke his leg amd is in a body cast (3 years old); For Claire's mom; For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Tom Good; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;

Happy Birthday Sandra

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; 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; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; 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 Warren (a week late)

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler; Gilberto's mom and brother; 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 our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Bethany has a birthday too

Your Finances, September 18, 2016

Expenses: $ 1,475.00

Outreach: $ 611.00

Donated today: Nothing special today.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

… and Leo, the candle lighter gets a cupcake

A Reminder: Thursday, 9/22/16 is North Texas Giving Day

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.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, September 18, 2016, 25th Ordinary Time C

ByRosemary September 14, 2016

Says Brandon, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in."

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

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

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

Okay, Everybody, just sing along with me.

Readings:

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

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

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

Luke 16, 1-13, The rich man and the dishonest steward.

Leo and Brandon hanging out.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 9, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. Maybe take a week off.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together): October 7, Friday, @ 1 pm, Location to be announced.

So, who is this elephant? Guess. Look at the previous picture.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

What fills Catholic Churches, National Catholic Reporter,

The New Musician.

True?

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in

mind to blame.

MM

Healing for Tom.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Hi, Stacie

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, Everyone.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 11, 2016, 24th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 11, 2016

Readings:

Exodus 32, 7-11, 13-14, So the Lord relented in the punishment he had threatened.

Psalm 951, I will rise and go to my father.

1 Timothy, 1, 12-17, I am grateful to him who has strengthened me.

Luke 15, 1-32, The Great Parable & story of the Prodigal Son. (A superb story.)

Says Genevieve, "Wellll, Everybody, just come on in."

Exodus observations :

What : a story, a long parable. It has 2 parts, the exodus or exit from Egypt and the years wandering in the desert.

Who: the work is all about Moses, but he did not compose it. Rather, it was put together by a committee during the Babylonian Captivity, 555 before Christ.

When: it appears that the purpose of the work was to encourage the people during the Babylonian Captivity. It is not history and borrows stories from other cultures. For instance, the parting of the Red Sea comes from a Mesopotamian creation myth and the 10 Commandments resemble the Code of Hammurabi.

Our Subject: The people have been bad, God is mad at them, and Moses defends the people.

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

Kevin, too, says, "Grab a seat, Folks, we are ready to start."

The Prodigal Son: A Work of Art

I want to talk about my favorite parable of the whole Bible. Two special notes to start with:

The author has carefully crafted a work of literary art. Not history, not reality, but parable, story.
Purpose: to show that God loves us unconditionally, not conditionally.

Let me give you three observations about the son, three about the father, and an extra three to show you how astounding this story is.

The final question: can you believe in an unconditionally loving God?

Begin In the Name of the Father…

First, the younger son:

He has no right to ask for inheritance. None. By asking he is saying he wishes the father and the older son dead. A symbolic murder. Father can kill him for this.
He works feeding pigs instead of asking for help from the temple. This means he rejects the religious tradition and is considered a traitor not only to the family, but to the religion.
So, as a horrible failure as a son of the family and a son of the religious tradition, he decides to return. A conversion, not quite. He makes up his little speech and heads home. He is hungry to the point of dying. Do this, he calculates, or die. Many listening Jews would say, Die.

Offertory with Tom, Teresa, and Tim Quinn.

The Father: he actually commits as many crimes and sins as the son.

He runs down the road to the son when he sees him coming. A very undignified action. Outrageous. People who emphasize conditional love point out that the son at least came back. Despite this point, all the other elements of the parable point to a father with unconditional love.
He embraced and kissed the son. Huge violation of Jewish religious custom and law. By doing this the father positions himself outside of the religious & cultural community. He is a reject like the son.
He cuts the son’s speech off before he can finish, eliminating the last sentence, “treat me as you would one of your hired workers.” And to make it worse, he orders the servants to bring the finest robe, ring, and sandals.

Daddy, I think it is time I start playing this guitar.

The robe, the ring, and the sandals:

The robe: restores the son’s dignity.
The ring: gives authority to the son, even equal to the father and certainly more than before he left.
The sandals: gives the son freedom. Slaves were not given sandals so they would not run away. The father is doubling the message he gave when he cut the son’s speech off before he could say the third part about being treated as a servant.

Thanks, Georgie, for being such a great help to Buddy.

A word about the older son, because we so often identify with him. Two additional and final points.

That he tells his father how he feels. Great. In those days, it meant the father can kill him. Today: communication.
What is his challenge: acceptance of his brother, his father, and himself; focus on gratitude for all he has; move from trying to be a good boy to loving? Any one of these? Or all? All.

Zoe, we got to get you up to light the candles again some time.

I apologize for so much data. There is even more. The point is that the story is a carefully crafted literary work of art that attempts to describe how totally unconditionally loving our God is.

I had once a lengthy discussion with another priest who insisted that the father's love was conditional, conditional on the son choosing to return. I still believe that the love was unconditional. I am influenced by the two previous parables, the lost sheep & the lost coin. Luke is an artist. It is no coincidence that the two little parables both emphasize the Hound of Heaven concept.

Tori at the play station.

How does this image of God reflect your image of God? Can you believe that our God loves you and me unconditionally?

Source: The Liberating Stories of Jesus, Francis Vanderwall

Peace!

Announcements

ByRosemary September 11, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

May the Lord grant you

A tolerance for those who don’t agree with you,

A refusal to judge others,

A willingness to forgive,

A calm and hopeful spirit in the midst of anxieties,

And a holy anger for injustice in the world

From Seven Sacred Pauses by Macrina Wiedwrkehr

Cheryl reading from the book of Exodus.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Cheryl and Grace
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Marlene
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie, Mike & Beth
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Shonda
For all who helped with communion

Grace reading from 1 Timothy.

Birthdays: Warren Wittek (Tuesday)

Anniversaries:

Mark Anderlick & Julie (4^th, Thursday)

Mike & Geri (41^st, Tuesday) (to celebrate in Idaho)

Special: Please don't forget Anthony's Legos.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Dee and for Mike, who just moved to the other side Thursday afternoon; For Carol’s treatment; For John Schanot's treatment; For Brent's mom; For Frank's treatment; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; for Zaile's mom in the hospital in the Philippines; For Rosemary's great nephew, Patrick who broke his leg amd is in a body cast (3 years old); For Claire's mom; For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Tom Good; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Betty Peck hit by a car in San Francisco

Welcome, Tim, Good to have you with us.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; 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; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; 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, Buddy, for all the help you give.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler; Gilberto's mom and brother; 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 our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Happy 29th Anniversary, Nina and Kerry

Your Finances, September 11, 2016

Expenses: $1095.00

Outreach: $ 355.00

Donated today: Nothing special today.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy Birthday, Teresa.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Happy 41st Anniversary, Geri. Where is that Mike? He's already in Idaho ready for the back packing trip Monday.

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.

Harper says, "Have a good week everybody."

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, September 11, 2016, 234th Ordinary Time

ByRosemary September 7, 2016

Says Harper, "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

Thanks for all you do, Kevin, and all you have done for years.

Readings:

Exodus 32, 7-11, 13-14, So the Lord relented in the punishment he had threatened.

Psalm 951, I will rise and go to my father.

1 Timothy, 1, 12-17, I am grateful to him who has strengthened me.

Luke 15, 1-32, The Great Parable & story of the Prodigal Son. (A superb story.)

Starbuck's a la JSMinistries. Better get a move on, Mike. Rob looks hungry & thirsty.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 9, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. Last chance for 2 weeks probably.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together): October 7, Friday, @ 1 pm, Location to be announced.

This from Anthony DeGenova:

Dear Father Stack,

Thank you very much for being my sponsor for my LEGO Drive, as part of my Eagle Scout project.

I would appreciate it, if you would please post the attached message to your blog.

I really value all of the support from you and the Stack Community.

Thanks, Anthony DeGenova

Dear Stack Ministry,

Hello, my name is Anthony DeGenova. I am 17 years old, and am working on my Boy Scouts Eagle Project. My mission is to donate LEGO blocks to under-privileged children. This project includes the collection, cleaning, sterilizing, sorting, packaging, and delivery of the LEGO blocks to a few charities that cater to children. I plan to donate all of mine, and would like very much to collect as many as possible from friends and neighbors like you, who wouldn’t mind giving theirs up for needy children. I am accepting both used and new LEGO blocks. Please bring the LEGO blocks to church and my parents will pick them up. Alternatively, I will gladly pick them up from your house, at your convenience.

If you have any questions, please contact me at:

Telephone: 972-495-3639

Email Address: anthonydegenova@outlook.com

I look forward to your support, and hope to make this drive and my Eagle project a success. Thank you very much for your help,

Anthony DeGenova
3021 North Spring Court
Garland TX 75044

Beware! A tough neighborhood this one.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

What fills Catholic Churches, National Catholic Reporter, August 25, 900 words, Download Filled Churches 9-8-16

What do you think? I think Caroline and David are looking for a cupcake or two. Happy Anniversary.

True?

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright, comedian

Healing for John D.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Healing also for John S.

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.

Our Father.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 4, 23rd Sunday Ordinary, C

ByRosemary September 4, 2016

Readings:

Wisdom 9, 13-18, Who can know God’s counsel?

Psalm 90, In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

Philemon 1, 9-10, 12-17, If you regard me as a partner, welcome Onesimus as you would me.

Luke 14, 25-33, If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, he cannot be my disciple. (Another awful Luke message. A good one maybe for teens. Wait for next week, a really good one.)

Harper says, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in."

Observations on the book of Wisdom:

What: Exploration of the meaning and value of wisdom. The author is the first to express a hope for immortality, a Greek concept.

Who: A Greek Jew who wrote probably in Alexandria, Egypt.

Kevin, too, says, "Hi, Folks, Welcome."

Hate my Father and Mother?

I remember one Saturday morning in the summer of 1960. I was 20 years old and in my second year as a Jesuit intern-novice. I was also in a pirogue floating down the Calcasieu River in SW LA with one of my best fellow Jesuit novice buddies, Jerry McCaffery from New Orleans.

Every summer for the 4 years I spent at Grand Coteau we Jesuit interns got to spend 2 weeks at a river camp near the village of Kinder. For me it was paradise, swimming, boating, living in the two story screened in pavilion, beds on the second floor, dining room and activities on the first. We were about 50 plus guys.

Offertory with Bernadette, Richard, and Gil.

As Jerry & I floated down the river that Saturday morning, Jerry told me that at that very moment in New Orleans his brother was getting married. He could not go. That was policy.

We were instructed that when we entered the Jesuits we entered a new family and left behind our former family. So we never went back home, for anything, weddings, funerals, Christmas, Thanksgiving. The idea was that we were becoming companions of Jesus in a family devoted to that goal.

The Best Music Team, Shonda, Bethany, and Ray.

This was how the Jesuits put into practice the message today about hating one’s father and mother. We were not instructed to hate, just refocus our allegiance. Today I am embarrassed to admit that I bought this message. The Jesuit training has certainly mellowed since Vatican II. However, there are still rigid groups & religious orders that take this literally.

I would propose that this story exemplifies the negative approach to these ideas. Is there a positive? I would say ‘yes,’ if you make the father and mother symbols. Symbols of things that hold me back from being truly alive, truly healthy, and truly spiritual.

Welcome back, John and Mary Jane, so good to see you with us.

Also the word hate may be taken as hyperbole or exaggeration.

Therefore, what about these symbols standing for unhealthy eating, excessive drinking, over work, being lazy, or materialism?

Certainly, if I had listened to my high school buddies, and even my mom, I confess, I would never have joined the Jesuits.

The Wedding of Lynn and Roger begins.

Likewise, I got a lot of push back about going to East Africa.

And certainly when it came to getting married, did I not get a lot of push back and even condemnation from my dear Jesuits and from the Catholic Church?

Look at the sports page on Saturday morning. What takes up many of the pages? High school boys playing football. How many of these kids had to fight back against their natural tendency to stay in bed and skip practice in the heat?

I, Roger, take you, Lynn, in marriage

So, there can be healthy ways to listen to today’s readings. No need to take ‘hate’ literally. No need to take father & mother literally.

How do you push back against those voices that encourage you to live ultimately less healthily, less spiritually, & less psychologically alive?

Unity Candle. The wedding took place Saturday at the Little Chapel in The Woods at TWU, Texas Womens' University in Denton. A delightful and hospitable venue for weddings.

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ByRosemary September 4, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

May all peoples of the earth become as brothers and sisters,

and may the most longed-for peace

blossom forth and reign always among men and women."

Pacem in Terris, Pope John XXIII, 4/11/63

Mary reading from the book of Wisdom.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Mary & Sandra
For The Team: Kevin
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Special Communion Cups: Alison
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie, Mike & Beth
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Geri & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & Shonda
For all who helped with communion

Sandra reading from Philemon.

Birthdays: Aggie Stryker (Thursday), Wendy Boyce (36, Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Richard & Monica Froebe (29^th, Monday)

Nina & Kerry (29^th, Monday)

David & Caroline (31^st, Tuesday)

Rob & Beth (42^nd, Wednesday)

Aggie & Allen (49^th, Friday)

Mike & Dee (59^th, Wednesday)

Special: Please don't forget Anthony's Legos.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol’s treatment; For John Schanot's treatment; For Brent's mom; For Frank's treatment; For Nadia's recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; for Zaile's mom in the hospital in the Philippines; For Claire's mom; For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ; For Dee and Mike; For Tom Good; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Betty Peck hit by a car in San Francisco

Happy 49th, Allen and Aggie & Happy Birthday, Aggie.

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; 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; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; 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 42nd, Beth & Rob. If you cannot eat that cupcake, Beth, save it and we will share it in Idaho.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler; Gilberto's mom and brother; 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 our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Happy 31st Caroline and David and one for The Kid.

Your Finances, September 4, 2016

Expenses: $1005.00

Outreach: $ 490.00

Donated today: Nothing special today.

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy continued recuperation, Frank.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

And happy continued recuperation to you, too, John.

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.

And from our 3 Crazy Girls, "See you next week, Everybody."