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Announcements

ByRosemary February 7, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing

Good Morning!

This is God.

I will be handling all your problems today.

I do not need your help.

So have a good day!

Bern reading the Call of the Great Prophet Isaiah (1).

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Bernadette & Scott
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
For the Pictures: Rick & John & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & David & Shonda
For all who helped with communion

Scott reading the call of Paul in 1 Corinthians

Birthdays: Monday, Geri (63), Tuesday, Tom Quinn, Wednesday, Becky & Christine (22), Thursday, Scott Shaw, Hue Beavers, Dick Thompson, John Bresson.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week

Ash Wednesday:

Place: Marlene Ekes', 2017 Keystone Drive, 75075, Plano

Time: 6:30

Come and get your ashes!

David deserving of a Cupcake of The Week for the loss of one of his little Yorkies to a bobcat who jumped the fence and came into the back yard.

Harville Hendrix Seminar, John Cade announces a free seminar on safe family conversation, Saturday, Feb. 13, Fair Park, Free, sign up, Download Harville Hendrix Seminar

Happy Birthday, Tom.

Please Remember these special people:

For Jerry who moved to the other side Saturday night, and for all the Gleason family; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom who fell recently; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Frank; 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 Stacey McKinley recovering from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Happy Birthday to our marvelous sound man, Hue.

For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; 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; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Happy Birthday, Scott, and to Lily not feeling well.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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 Birthday, John, who with Connie, his wife, they throw the best parties.

Your Finances, February 7, 2016

Expenses: $835.00

Outreach: $385.00

Donated today: $300 to Plano Homes

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Thanks to you and Leo, Cole, for lighting the candles.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Watch out, Folks, she is about to take off.

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 7, 2016, 5th Ordinary

ByRosemary February 3, 2016

Guess who says hello.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass

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

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

The Offertory Team, Meredith & Brent, Cheryl & Caroline.

Readings:

Isaiah 6, 1-8, “Here I am,” I said, “send me. (The call of Isaiah.)

Psalm 138, In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. (one of my favorites)

1 Corinthians 15, 1 – 11, I am the least of the apostles.

Luke 5, 1-11, The big catch of fish.

Wow! What do I see on that table?

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, February 5, 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), Thursday, February 5, 1:00 P.M., Cafe Amore. 600 N. Coit, Richardson, (Italian & BYOB), Please RSVP to Marilyn Ackerman, rmackerman5@gmail.com

Oh, that looks so good. I wonder if anybody is watching.

What is going on in our Catholic World

Currents in American Christianity, Corpus, December 29, 920 words, Download American Christianity 2-4-16

Donor Receipts for your 2015 donations have been emailed out. If you have not received yours, please let John or Rosemary know. Thank you for your generosity.

Me? Eat one of those cookies? Never! But…may I?

True?

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

CAMILLE PISSARRO

The Gang, Gil & Bernadette, "Sir" Charlie & Jan

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

The Sacrament of Healing and Life.

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.

For Victoria and Zoe, too.

Communion, too, bread & grape juice.

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Sunday Homily, January 31, 2016, 4th Ordinary Time, C

ByRosemary January 31, 2016

Readings:

Jeremiah 1, 4-5, 17-19, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. (The Call)

Psalm 71, I will sing of your salvation.

1 Corinthians 12, 31 – 13, 4-13, If I do not have love, I am nothing. (Excellent)

Luke 4, 21-30, They wanted to throw him over the cliff.

Leo says, "Welcome in, Everybody. It's fun here."

Jeremiah observations:

Who: One of the Big 3 and my second favorite behind Isaiah, whom we will hear from next Sunday. Why a favorite: because he shares his feelings with gusto.

When: you can guess it, before and during the Babylonian Captivity. Notice how much prophetic energy is concentrated around this one event? Shows how big it was in Jewish history. Keep 555 before Christ as the beacon date.

Harper, also, says, "Hi, Folks, Come in."

What: you can guess this, too. Criticism of behavior, warning of punishment from God, and eventually a better day.

What today: Jeremiah’s call by God to be his man, really Everyperson’s call to be God’s special. This call theme carries through our next 2 readings, especially the next one, The Big One.

Candle Lighters of The Week, Buddy & Tori.

Love is patient, Love is kind

I confess, I used to get 1 Corinthians 13 fatigue, I heard it so often at weddings. Lately, however, I have changed. Now as I listen I feel it calling me to step up. I want to be more patient and more kind. I hear Francis inviting me to be a peacemaker.

One small example.

A few months ago Rosemary and I were heading out one Sunday morning to celebrate Mass at Vines. It must have been 8:30, the time we usually depart. The streets were practically deserted.

The Candle Lighters at work.

We were going east on Royal Lane. We got to Central and stopped for the light. When it changed we moved forward and planned to take a left to go up the ramp to north bound Central.

I noticed behind me at the light was a silver Mercedes. As I moved forward it was practically touching the back of our van. I turned left and started up the ramp. It stayed right behind us.

Happy Birthday, Mary.

As I got onto Central and moved into the first lane on the left, this person, a guy, floored his Mercedes, leaned on the horn, and raced by us on the right showering us with nice little hand gestures.

Rosemary says I drive too slowly some times, but this was Sunday morning, folks. Almost no other cars but this guy and us.

Happy Birthday, Rick (the man behind many of the pictures you see)

So what would you do? Well, I did nothing, of course. I can recognize serious road rage and I was just hoping the guy would not stick a gun out his window and start blasting away. Let him go away, which he did.

However, does being patient and kind apply here? Yep, I think so.

Candle Lighters deserve their rewards. How did you get in there, Zoe?

As a priest and psychotherapist for years I have heard the life stories of people who have done pretty bad things. I get to know them and I find out what was behind their actions. Who knows about this guy on an early Sunday morning. Maybe he was heading to a hospital. His wife or child was dying. Maybe his wife just divorced him. Maybe on Friday he was fired for his anger. There is always a story and a reason.

So when I hear Corinthians on patience and kindness, I think, ‘Stack, cool off.’

Happy Birthday, Gil. It looks like you have someone eager to help you with that cupcake.

And Cornthians has a reverse value. Say I had reacted to his anger. Then later I would feel guilty and ashamed. The patience and kindness is for me, too. I usually don’t have road rage fortunately, but I can get mad, I can criticize, I can get passive aggressive, and then get remorseful. Can’t we all?

Any of you all drive a silver Mercedes? Do you have road rage? Are you patient and kind?

How are you going to be a more loving and peace-making person after hearing this passage this morning?

Does Music get any better than this, Shonda & Bethany, Ray & David.

Announcements

ByRosemary January 31, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing

May you be blessed with the gifts

of compassion to comfort those who mourn and hunger and thirst,

of strength to seek righteousness and peace,

and of joy to rejoice and be glad in the love of God.

Mary Jane reads the Great Prophet Jeremiah.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Mary Jane and John
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & David & Shonda
For all who helped with communion

John reading the Magnificent 1 Corinthians 13 on Love.

Birthdays: Monday, Jessica Good (28), Mike Carroll, Randolph; Tuesday, Rick & Megan Ekes; Wednesday Kevin Bresson (27); Thursday, Candy Kern & Gilberto; Friday, Natalie Gorman (14), Lisa Anderlick (30), and Kayla (7); and Mary Hall from last week.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Jerry who moved to the other side Saturday night, and for all the Gleason family; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom who fell recently; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Barb Wittek's new grandbaby; For Frank; 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 Stacey McKinley recovering from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Brent, you have a simple choice here, a little check or a delightful cupcake.

For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; 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; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Yes, this is hard to believe, Folks. Brent chose the check. Some people have no taste.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Te rri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; 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.

Wow, where did this little critter come from and who is she?

Your Finances, January 31, 2016

Expenses: $675.00

Outreach: $280.00

Donated today: $2000 to Souls Harbor (Brent)

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Whoever she is, she really gets around.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

That little critter seems to want to sing .

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.

Ugh, oh, that little girl is Genevieve and she is walking.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, January 31, 2016, 4th Ordinary

ByRosemary January 27, 2016

Genevieve says, "Welcome, Everybody."

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass

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

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

Card for Jerry's family from the Community.

Readings:

Jeremiah 1, 4-5, 17-19, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.

Psalm 71, I will sing of your salvation.

1 Corinthians 12, 31 – 13, 4-13, If I do not have love, I am nothing. (Excellent)

Luke 4, 21-30, They wanted to throw him over the cliff.

Candle lighters, Zoe & Cole.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 29, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. The Old Geezer will miss you guys.
JULIETS’ DINNER, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together) , Thursday, February 4, 6:00 P.M., Cafe Amore. 600 N. Coit, Richardson, (Italian & BYOB), Please RSVP to Marilyn Ackerman, rmackerman5@gmail.com

Offertory, Nina & Kerry, Sydney & Hugh, & Judy.

What is going on in our Catholic World

Francis Obsession, National Catholic Reporter, January 18, 1000 words, Download Francis-obsession-1-28-16 (1)
St. Mary Parish, National Catholic Reporter, January 22, 1200 words, Download St Mary's Parish 1-28-16

Cole says, "Welcome to a great brunch, Everybody."

True?

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement . . . get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal. . . . To be spiritual is to be amazed.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Yes, Cole, a Great Brunch.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Nobody left out of this brunch.

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.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, January 24, 2016, 3rd Ordinary Time, C

ByRosemary January 24, 2016

Readings:

Nehemiah 8, 2-10, Do not be sad and do not weep.

Psalm 19, Your words, Lord, are spirit and life.

1 Corinthians 12, 12-30, A body is one though it has many parts.

Luke 1, 1-4; 4, 14-21, He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives.

Victoria says, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in. We got a brunch today."

Introduction

Our first reading is from Nehemiah, Ezra, a scribe and priest, reads and teaches from the written Torah in Jerusalem, brought back by those returning from the Babylon Exile. The Torah, of course, begins with the Book of Genesis and the creation story.

Later the NT and then, Sufi Islam would make known that we are made in the image and likeness of God. A bond begins! Our second reading from 1 Corinthians follows last Sunday’s teaching on the spiritual gifts. Today’s reading describes how we are one in the Spirit as the body of Christ in the world.

Harper, too, says, "Hi, Folks, Come in."

Homily by Mike

Remember the story about the tax collector and the Pharisee who went to the temple to pray. The Pharisee praised himself and ended his prayer by saying, ‘I am glad that I’m not like the tax collector standing over there. The tax collector however was beating his breast saying, ‘Have mercy on me a sinner.’ The Pharisee was self-righteous instead of being humble. He chose to look down upon others as if they were morally inferior. He committed the sin of pride, the first of the deadly sins and he, too, like the tax collector, should have been seeking forgiveness.

Hi, Cathy, Welcome in to you, too. Thanks for bringing Harper.

Don’t be surprised when Pope Francis formally asks the Jews to forgive us for being self-righteous toward them for so many centuries prior to World War II. Unfortunately we had a part in the Holocaust for our prior teaching that the Jews could not be saved unless they became Christians.

Sez Genevieve, "I want to sing, too." Watch out, Folks, she can almost walk.

Francis has been calling us to recognize the bond that exists between Jews and Christians; it’s called the Spirit, blows were it wills, and is present within the inspired writings of both Jew and Christian. Jesus was a Jew. Most of the NT was written by inspired Jews who believed that the Messiah had come. Francis is encouraging us to visual this graphic relationship: within every Christian there is a Jew.

Buddies, Leo & Genevieve.

Today’s gospel is about what happened when Jesus entered the Sabbath synagogue service. The reading for that day, as you have heard, were the words spoken by the prophet Isaiah, ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me….’ The one who gave the reading would then give a teaching on why and to whom Isaiah had said these words.

The entrance, Here they come, Folks.

For example, Isaiah could have been referring to the Jews to whom Ezra was reading and explaining the newly written Torah that had been brought back from Babylon after the exiles had been set free by Cyrus the Great. Instead the inspired writers have Jesus fulfilling Isaiah’s words using them as an expectation for the coming of the Messiah. In doing so, the structure of the Christian Liturgy of the Word would forever be identified: the words of Christ would fulfill the expectation of the reading from the Law and/or Prophets for the coming of the Messiah.

Mike, sharing The Idea.

What Jesus said, of course, was, ‘This day these words are fulfilled in your hearing.’ Those in the synagogue who were receiving the good news, then, were the poor in spirit, the captive being set free, and the blind being given the opportunity to see.

Does it get any better?

So there is an intended spiritual harmony between OT and NT, between the Sabbath synagogue service and the Christian Liturgy of the Word, and between Jew and Christian. Within every Christian there is a Jew. Let us open our hearts to the words of our creed today that addresses all who seek to be led by the Spirit.

Buddies, Michelle & Georgie.

Announcements

ByRosemary January 24, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing

Oh God of humor enable us to laugh at your mischievous plans.

Life can become serious during these cold winter months, and our hearts can become heavy and burdened with responsibilities, decisions and trying to keep everyone happy.

Let us look for the funny things that happen, the unexpected surprise that catches us off-guard, along with the incongruences that we encounter.

Smile, snicker, giggle, give a belly laugh, and spontaneously guffaw.

You will be amazed at how God works through laughter.

Sr. Mary Elizabeth Schweiger

Mary reading Nehemiah.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Mary & Patricia
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Mike & Judy, Jackie, & Claire
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Bethany & David
For all who helped with communion

Patricia reading 1 Corinthians.

Birthdays: Kevin, 19, & Chloe, 10 (both today, Sunday), David Ekes (55, Tuesday), Sir Charlie (Thursday), & Betty Myrick (Friday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Jerry who moved to the other side Saturday night, and for all the Gleason family; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom who fell Saturday; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder & new grandbaby; For Frank; 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 Stacey McKinley recovering from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Happy 19th Birthday, Kevin, & thanks for all you do for us.

For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; 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; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Really your birthday, Sir Charlie? Or are you just spoofing us to get a cupcake?

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Te rri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; 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.

Zoe, thanks for doing such a good job lighting those candles.

Your Finances, January 24, 2016

Expenses: $1776.00

Outreach: $ 685.00

Donated today:

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Mike, Thanks for your special help this morning.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Want to see a picture of Pure Winter Joy?:

https://www.facebook.com/nationalzoo/videos/10153837445042902/?fref=nf

Welcome to a terrific brunch.

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.

Genevieve says (as she prepares to take off), "See you next week, Everybody."

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, January 24, 2016, 3rd Ordinary

ByRosemary January 20, 2016

Want to start your week off on a beautiful note?

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass. Also, A Birthday Brunch and Memorial for Jerry.

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

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

The Cafe' – Pattisserie will also help make for a sweet start.

Readings:

Nehemiah 8, 2-10, Do not be sad and do not weep.

Psalm 19, Your words, Lord, are spirit and life.

1 Corinthians 12, 12-30, A body is one though it has many parts.

Luke 1, 1-4; 4, 14-21, He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives.

The Girls.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 22, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in,
JULIETS’ LUNCHEON (aka., just us ladies into eating together) , Friday, February 5, 1:00, Place undetermined yet. Please RSVP to Jeanne Vogel [pickincotton26@verizon.net] or Geri Moran at GeriinTX@gmail.com. Thanks, Jeanne, for organizing the outing.

3. Informaton on Jerry:

Visitation is at Aria from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Tuesday, Jan. 26.

Mass Will be Wednesday January 27th at 11:00 a.m. at Elisabeth Seton.

Cards may be sent to Jerry's house at 2609 Timbercreek Dr. Plano, Texas 75075. Sean lives there.

4. Brunch this Sunday: honoring Jerry and an old geezer's birthday.

Kayla, how did you end up with those 2 cupcakes?

What is going on in our Catholic World

Francis vs Trump, National Catholic Reporter, January 16, 910 words, Download Francis vs Trump 1-21-16

The Offertory with the Wyndhams, Bill, Ray & Claire & Kayla, and Barb & Ron.

True?

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family,

in another city.

George Burns

Carrie & Paul, Believe not a word Occhipinti is telling you.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Welcome to the Sigler Community.

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.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, January 17, 2016, 2nd Ordinary Time

ByRosemary January 17, 2016

Readings:

Isaiah 62, 1-5, The Lord delights in you. (another excellent reading, this time from Isaiah III)

Psalm 96, Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

1 Corinthians 12, 4-11, There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same spirit, different forms of service, but the same Lord. (a good selection)

John 2, 1-11, There was a wedding at Cana. ( a good story)

Harper says, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in. It is so nice to be back after a long absence."

Isaiah observations:

When you see that today's selection is from the 62nd chapter, you may pretty easily guess that this is Isaiah III. The last 10 chapters of the work are from Isaiah III, that is, chapters 56-66.

Remember that Isaiah III talks consolation and comfort for the people, most of whom have now returned from the Babylonian Captivity to a destroyed Jerusalem.

"Yep, Welcome Back, Cathy."

What is your gift?

Want to take a trip to East Africa this morning, to my beloved Tanzania? I want to talk a moment about our gifts and forms of service like are mentioned in 1 Corinthians. To exemplify my thinking, I want to tell you a Christmas story that took place ca. 1980. I was tempted to tell you about a wedding I did on the slope of Kilimanjaro, but this is just as good and we have only finished with Christmas a few weeks back.

So, buckle your seat belts and let’s take off.

"Hi, Victoria, Hi, Buddy."

There is a town smack in the middle of Tanzania called Tabora. It was on the east west railroad from Dar es Salaam, the capital, to Lake Tanganyika. The Jesuits staffed a church in Tabora, not large, but with lots of people. It also had about 20 spokes out from the main church, outstation churches built when more expatriate priests were around to man them.

I was at one of these outstations for Advent and Christmas around 1980 to work on my Swahili. Two Maltese Jesuits interns were with me (from the island of Malta, off the island of Sicily). They were what were called scholastics, i.e., learning to be Jesuit priests. Good guys, Joe Xerri and Joe Pulicino.

Want to hear The Best? Shonda, Bethany, Ray, & David.

Later I visited Xerri at his home, not on Malta itself, but the island of Gozo, just off of Malta. He eventually left the Jesuits. Pulicino, got ordained, returned to TZ, worked with refugees, got captured by some Sudanese, and eventually was released.

So we three Jesuits are at this outstation, which was a fairly large, cinder block, rectangular building with a bell, a bell tower, and a corrugated tin roof. I often thought about the priests who built the church and then had to leave it empty somewhere along the way. It must have hurt.

Zoe & Cole at work on our major life problems.

The little town where this church was situated was tiny, just a few houses with tin roofs, maybe even mud walls. The church itself had an outstation, another little village even smaller. I did a funeral in this tiny village and fell into the grave. That scared everybody really good.

The people around the main church had not had a Christmas Mass in ages. They wanted a midnight Mass and we offered to put together a Nativity pageant. They jumped at it and we had a cast of dozens.

And More Problems being solved.

So the night comes. You got to picture the scene. No electricity. We had a few of the old kerosene lanterns. I spent many an evening with those kerosene lanterns. There was no heat other than campfires. Christmas in TZ comes in the middle of the warm & dry season, just opposite to us in the northern regions.

We rang the bell. People were literally camped out all over the place because many had walked for miles. The church filled up. There was plenty of music, basically drumming and shakers, and, of course, great rhythm.

A Cupcake of The Week to Georgie for being a Great Helper.

The one thing I never expected was the wave of June bugs. The church walls were not totally closed, but had sections where cinder blocks with holes were used. With the light in the church in the totally dark night, bugs came from everywhere. Nobody seemed to be bothered in the least.

The Mass lasted probably 2 hours. The Nativity pageant was super. Nobody wanted it to end.

Happy Birthday, Becky.

Why talk about this? Gifts. We had a gift and we shared it with everybody. They had gifts of music and excitement and gratitude. The kids pitched in with the pageant.

You can say that Jesus had a gift and he shared it. Mary, too, had a gift and she shared it, her son.

What gift do you have and how do you share it?

Cupcake of The Week to Cole for being The Candle Lighter of The Week.

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ByRosemary January 17, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours,

Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s

compassion is to look out to the world,

Yours are the feet with which Christ is to

go about doing good,

Yours are the hands, with which Christ is to

bless all people now.

From a prayer by Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

Cheryl reading the Great Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah III)

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Cheryl & Claire
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Charlie
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
For the coffee and extras: John Cade, Jackie, & Claire
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Shonda, Bethany & David
For all who helped with communion

Claire reading 1 Corinthians on gifts.

Birthdays: Becky Good (58, Monday), Erin Pack (Wednesday) & Sienna (6, Saturday)

Anniversary: Ray & Claire (45^th, Saturday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Jerry who moved to the other side Saturday night, and for all the Gleason family; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom who fell Saturday; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder & new grandbaby; For Frank; 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 Stacey McKinley recovering from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; 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 Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Kevin helping to run everything smoothly.

For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; 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; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

The Wyndham Gang, Bill, Claire, Kayla, Ray, Ron, & Barb

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Te rri. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; 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; 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.

Cole, our professional candle lighter at work.

Your Finances, January 17, 2016

Expenses: $1110.00

Outreach: $ 585.00

Donated today:

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Diane and her Candle Lighter.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Georgie says, "See you next week, Everybody."

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