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Announcements
ByRosemary January 15, 2012
Rosemary's Blessing

May we hear God’s loving whisper

and respond with “Here I am, Lord”.

May we be present to people also

to hear their pains, their joys, their needs and their thanks.

J & R Creations

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: John & Mary Jane
- For Serving: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison DeGenova
- For the Wine Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Beth & John
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: Patricia & Joan & Jackie
Special Note, an Eli Event: January 26, an old geezer's 72nd, plus a census of Plano homeless sponsored by City House. We would like to put together a couple of teams. Sign up or let me know. Download Volunteers needed, City House 1-1-12

Birthdays:   Robyn Pack (55 on Jan 1) & Erin Pack, Doug Kite, Bobby Jo Whitley



Please Remember:

Rosemary's Tuesday operation on her left elbow; Alison's health; Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer; Mike Moran's parents, especially his dad with ALS;    Barb & Warren's friend, Mike, fighting cancer; Jackie Urbanczyk's sister, Carol, with a back operation; Mike and Dee's daughter, Lisa; Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:    John reading 1 Samuel

Picture 2:    Mary Jane reading 1 Corinthians

Picture 3:    The Pastry Shoppe, Joan & Jerry

Picture 4:    Rosemary reading her blessing



       Video:    Mass Beginning  (2 min.)

Your Finances: January 15, 2012

Expenses:   $ 657.00

Outreach:   $ 303.00

Thanks for your Generosity

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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Reminders

Reminder for Sunday 1-15-12, 2nd Ordinary Time
ByRosemary January 12, 2012

Welcome: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

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

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side, Plano.

Readings:  Isaiah 60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem, your light has come!; Psalm 72, Lord, every nation on earth will adore you; Ephesians, 3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs; Matthew 2, 1-12, The Magi arrived from the east asking, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews?"

                                                                                                                                                                                           Picture Picture1:    The Delgados, Randolph, Michelle, Natalie, Zoe, Bernadette, and Buddy

Picture 2:    Bernadette with Torri

Picture 3:    Leo with his dad, Ray

Picture 4:    Bethany

Picture 5:    Jon



Community Bulletin Board

    1. Special Date: January 26, a Thursday.   Celebrate an old geezer's 72nd. Help City House census Plano homeless that evening. We will form teams, 3-4 per car.   Download Volunteers needed, City House 1-1-12

    2. Information on Rosemary. Yes, she fell crashed her bike Friday, Jan. 6 & broke off a piece of her elbow. Tuesday, January 17, it will be reattached. Her road rash needs to heal before operating.



What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.  Observations on new cardinals, National Catholic Reporter, January 6 , (words 675), Download Five observations on the new cardinals 1-13-12

2. Fr. McBrien on U.S. Bishops, National Catholic Reporter, January 9, (words 800), Download Fr. McBrien 1-13-12



True?

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself

Mark Twain.


Picture 6:    John Cade

Picture 7:    Sienna with her dad, Payton

Picture 8:    Brooklyn with Robyn, her grand mom

Picture 9:    Natalie & Georgie selling Girl Scout Cookies

Picture 10:   Grace & Sandra at the Pastry Shoppe

Video: Final Blessing & Hymn (1 Min.)



  See you Sunday,  January 15, 2012

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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Homilies

Sunday Homily 1-8-12, Epiphany
ByRosemary January 8, 2012

Readings:  Isaiah 60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem, your light has come!; Psalm 72, Lord, every nation on earth will adore you; Ephesians, 3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs; Matthew 2, 1-12, The Magi arrived from the east asking, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews?"

Isaiah, a review

Here is another of those passages which make me love Isaiah so much. I said this on the 3^rd Sunday of Advent, when we read Isaiah 61.

Today we have Isaiah III talking again to the Jews who have returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Captivity, about 550 years before Christ.

When he says Jerusalem or Zion, you may consider it a metaphor referring particularly to us, to you and to me.



Ephesians

Paul is directly talking Epiphany, that is God to Gentiles, to us.

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

Epiphany Every Day?

    Almost every evening Rosemary & I take Aviana for a walk along our street. Usually we meet a variety of neighbors and neighbor dogs. It is a fun connection.

    This past week we were walking when we met a lady who lives across and down the street. She had tragedy hit her family. A daughter with 3 young kids died 18 months ago with cancer. It had been a lengthy fight and numerous neighbors had helped out.

    We asked her how she was doing. She waited a moment and then with a gulp she said, “Ollie has cancer.”

    Ollie is a 3 year old son of the mother who died. A week or so before Christmas the family noticed that Ollie had a lump on his forehead. They took him to get checked and discovered that he has a very rare and aggressive form of child cancer. Only about 350 cases occur a year in the States, hitting children between ages 1 and 5. Ollie is 3.

    The lump has been removed but a port has been put on Ollie’s chest for chemotherapy. He is expected to receive chemo from 6 to 11 months. Meanwhile, another small tumor I think in his lymph nodes grew about a centimeter in just about 10 days.

    Folks, this was an epiphany moment for me. I wanted to cry with our neighbor. My heart went out to Ollie, his dad, his brother & sister, and to my neighbor & her husband, to the whole family.

I would suggest that an epiphany is

    1. a God light breaking through, especially through & into those corners of myself where I don’t go,

    2. a deeper awareness of the fragility of the Gift, the Gift of life & health & control

    3. a deeper awareness of my normal insensitivity & ingratitude.

The Accident was an Epiphany. Check Rosemary.

    I suggest that there are large, small, and medium epiphanies. However, they occur daily. At home, at work, at Tom Thumb, on the roads, at the Bridge & Austin Street Shelter, at Vines.   In fact, we can be epiphanies for others.

Your last epiphany?

Picture 1:    Mass Begins

Picture 2:    Our Father

Picture 3:    Taylor & Zack

Picture 4:    Torri walks

Picture 5:    Sienna

Picture 6:    Cole

Read More Sunday Homily 1-8-12, Epiphany
Announcements

Announcements
ByRosemary January 8, 2012
Rosemary's Blessing

May you hear the voice of God

In the raging storm and in the quiet breeze,

In the loving whisper, and in the angry cry,

And may the God of invitations, surprises, and mysteries

Bless you and guide you always.

Andrew M. Greeley A Book of Irish American Blessings & Prayers

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: Lily & Scott
- For Serving: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison DeGenova
- For the Wine Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie
- For the Music: Ray & Jon & Bethany
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Beth & Richard
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: Patricia & Joan & Jackie
Special Note, an Epiphany Event: January 26, an old geezer's 72nd, plus a census of Plano homeless sponsored by City House. We would like to put together a couple of teams. Sign up or let me know. Download Volunteers needed, City House 1-1-12

Birthdays:   Jan Keszler, Ben Farmer (24), Cole Carey (19), Ben Kern, Bobby Ekes (52)

   Anniversaries: Jackie & Rick (11th)

Please Remember:

Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer; Mike Moran's parents, especially his dad with ALS;    Barb & Warren's friend, Mike, fighting cancer; Jackie Urbanczyk's sister, Carol, with a back operation; Mike and Dee's daughter, Lisa; Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:    Lily reading Isaiah 60

Picture 2:    Scott reading Ephesians

Picture 3:    Mary Ellen reading Rosemary's blessing because of Rosemary's Accident

Picture 4:    John Ernst from Collin Co. Adult Clinic

       Video:    Mass Beginning  (2 min.)



Your Finances: January 8, 2012

Expenses:   $ 920.00

Outreach:   $1195.00

Thanks for your Generosity

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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Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, 1-8-12, Epiphany
ByRosemary January 5, 2012

Mass: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

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

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side, Plano.

Readings:  Isaiah 60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem, your light has come!; Psalm 72, Lord, every nation on earth will adore you; Ephesians, 3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs; Matthew 2, 1-12, The Magi arrived from the east asking, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews?"
                                                                                                                                                                                           Picture Picture 1:    Getting ready

Picture 2:    Bethany & Shonda

Community Bulletin Board

    1. Special Date: January 26, a Thursday.   Celebrate an old geezer's 72nd. Help City House census Plano homeless that evening. We will form teams, 3-4 per car.   Download Volunteers needed, City House 1-1-12




What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.  Catholic of the Year, National Catholic Reporter, December 30, (words 1,000), Download Catholic of the Year 1-6-12

2. Bishop Ponders Losses, National Catholic Reporter, January 2, (words 800), Download Bishop ponders reasons Americans leave 1-6-12

3.  Chicago Cardinal's remarks, National Catholic Reporter,  January 2, (words 485),  Download Cardinal 1-6-12

4. LA Bishop resigns, National Catholic Reporter, January 4 (words 360), Download Bishop resigns 1-6-12



True?

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.    (or trees that you plant!)

Robert Louis Stevenson



Video: Final Blessing & Hymn (1 Min.)



  See you Sunday,  January 8, 2012

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

Read More Reminder for Sunday, 1-8-12, Epiphany
Homilies

Sunday Homily, New Year’s Day, 1-1-12
ByRosemary January 1, 2012

Readings:  Numbers 6, 22-27, The Lord Bless You and Keep You; Psalm 67, May God bless us in his new mercy; Galatians 4, 4-7, So you are no longer a slave; Luke, 2, 16-21, The Shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem.

The book of Numbers:

        1. What: the 4^th book of the first 5 books of the Bible, the Pentateuch or Torah.

        2. Date of composition: around 5 centuries before Christ, but was a compilation of years.

        3. Theme: The people are "numbered" or counted at Mt. Sinai and preparations are made for resuming their march through the desert. The Israelites begin the journey, but immediately they "murmur" & complain at the hardships along the way. They arrive at the borders of Canaan and send spies into the land, but on hearing the spies' report the Israelites refuse to take possession of Canaan and God condemns them to death in the wilderness until a new generation can grow up and carry out the task. The book ends with the new generation of Israelites in the plain of Moab ready for the crossing of the Jordan River.

        4. Our selection: God tells Moses to have Aaron & his sons bless the people using this special blessing.

References: Good News Bible, Wikipedia

What Kind of a Shepherd am I?

    Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to help serve the evening meal at The Bridge in downtown Dallas. The Bridge is a marvelous facility. Basically it is the homeless shelter for the greater Dallas area.

    It has space for approximately 250 overnighters. That was the number of people whom we served dinner for the Friday night I was there. For breakfast & lunch up to 800 people are served.

    Three things struck me.

    First, the spirit of the people I was serving. There are about twenty round tables with, say, 8 places. I was serving water along with about 6 other guys. These people were bundled up because it was cold outside. Everyone I served was super grateful. I joked and played with lots of the people, men & women. They had an amazingly up-beat spirit.

    Secondly, I was struck by three folks, two women & one guy. They presented themselves as more middle class. They had a more refined way of speaking, they seemed peaceful. Except the guy. He was nice looking with black hair & slender. But he was more to himself. He was younger than the two women, probably in his 30’s while the women were maybe in their late 50’s or early 60’s. They were not together, but at different tables. The women were talking with people at their tables, but the guy was not.

    What is their story? What events brought them to The Bridge?

    The three are still vivid in my memory.

    The third thing that struck me was how I got to The Bridge that Friday night. I got there because the 16 year old girl who lives next door to Rosemary & me invited me.



    I knew Sydney volunteered at The Bridge and I told her I would go as her adult whenever her dad or mom could not accompany her. She invited me.

    This was the last day of school before the Christmas break and I am sure lots of kids were out having fun. Sydney might have done so later, but from 6:00 to 7:00 that night she spent time helping the homeless. She was like one of those shepherds in Luke story.

    What kind of a shepherd are you?

     I am going to help you answer that at the end of our Mass. Just you wait!

Picture 1:    Mass Begins

Picture 2:    Celeste & Nina

Picture 3:    Bethany, Shonda, & Ray

Picture 4:    Ray & Jon

Picture 5:    Jan, John, Patricia, & Rich

Picture 6:    John, Mary Jane, & Jan, all communion helpers.

Enclosed is the link to City House. Help an old geezer celebrate his 72nd birthday, January 26. Volunteer to help take a census of the Plano homeless. We aim at a couple of teams: Download Volunteers needed, City House 1-1-12

Read More Sunday Homily, New Year’s Day, 1-1-12
Announcements

Announcements
ByRosemary January 1, 2012
Rosemary's Blessing

    "A new year is unfolding—like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.

    Lord, let this year be filled with the things that are truly good—with the comfort of warmth in our relationships, with the strength to help those who need our hel, and the humility and openness to accept help from others.

    As we make our resolutions for the year ahead, let us go forward with great hope that all things can be possible—with Your help and guidance."

To Start a New Year, Anonymous

Special Thanks:
- For Reading: Jackie & Bernadette
- For Serving: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Alison DeGenova
- For the Wine Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Jon & Bethany
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Cindy & John
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: Jackie
Birthdays:   George Elwell, Tom Fleming

  Anniversaries: Rich & Carol Eshelbrenner (36th)

Please Remember:

Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer; Mike Moran's parents, especially his dad with ALS;    Barb & Warren's friend, Mike, fighting cancer; Jackie Urbanczyk's sister, Carol, with a back operation; Mike and Dee's daughter, Lisa; Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:    Jackie reading Numbers

Picture 2:    Bernadette reading Galatians

Picture 3:    Ryan with his mom & dad, Michelle & Jim.



       Video:    Mass Beginning  (1 min.)



Your Finances: January 1, 2012

Expenses:   $905.00

Outreach:   $680.00

Thanks for your Generosity

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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Reminders

Reminder for New Year’s Day, January 1, Sunday
ByRosemary December 29, 2011

Mass: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with The Community & Stack. Welcome.

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side, Plano.

Readings:  Numbers 6, 22-27, The Lord Bless You and Keep You; Psalm 67, May God bless us in his new mercy; Galatians 4, 4-7, So you are no longer a slave; Luke, 2, 16-21, The Shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem.

Video: Alexandra reads Isaiah 9 (1 min.)



                                                                                                                                                                                            Picture Picture 1:    Angel passing, Sienna & Jenny in background

Picture 2:    Angels

Picture 3:    The shepherd Cole ready



Video: Morgan reading Titus (1 min.)




Community Bulletin Board:

    1. Thanks to all of you who helped to make our Christmas Eve Celebration tremendous.

    2. A note from Jean Atwood with the Collin Co. Adult Clinic:

I wrote you a heart felt thank you for all you do for the clinic. I am with Missy for the holiday or I would love to tell the St. Vine congregation myself. Because of you and all you have touched we are serving 100 patients per week, which now includes Dr. visits, lab work, and medication.

I am so proud to be a part of a enormous endeavor to make a difference in our community.

     3. Save the night of January 26. More later.

Picture 4:    Georgie

Picture 5:    Sienna

Picture 6:    Claire reading Luke

Picture 7:    Santa's helper, John

Picture 8:    Santa & Brooklyn

Picture 9:    The Christmas Crowd



What's going on in our Catholic World:

     1.  More on the new Mass translations,  Fr. McBrien, National Catholic Reporter, December 26, Download Mass Translation 12-30-11

True?

It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Video: Santa pays a visit (10 min.)



  See you Sunday,  January 1, 2012

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



Read More Reminder for New Year’s Day, January 1, Sunday
Homilies

Christmas Eve Homily, 12-24-11
ByRosemary December 25, 2011

Readings: Isaiah 9, 1-6, The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Psalm 96, Today is born our Savior, Christ the Lord; Titus, 1, 11-14, The Grace of God has appeared; Luke 2, 1-14, In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. Terrific Readings!

Isaiah, a quick review.

This beautiful passage is just one of many reasons why I love the Work of Isaiah.

Yes, this is Isaiah I, who composed before the Babylonian Captivity around 600 before Christ. In fact, he wrote even before Assyria destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, around 750 before Christ. He saw it coming.

Incarnations

    Folks, it happened two weeks ago, that beautiful Saturday, December 10. Rosemary & I were volunteers at a picnic in Flower Mound for underprivileged kids. We were specifically employed at crowd control in front of a photo shop in a large pavilion where all kinds of things were going on, lunches, dances on a stage, face paintings, and so on. Horses for riding were outside.

    Then there were tons of kids, about 3000 according to one count. 60 school buses, 850 volunteers, and 4500 hot dogs which were totally gone in a nano-second. We had about 35 members of our own little community.

    A whole bunch of events touched me, but three stand out.

    The first person who touched me was Joey, a cute little black girl about 6 years old. I chatted up everyone in the line, but seemed to spend more time with Joey, which is how I came to know her name. She just told me.

    At one point in our conversations she handed me a small trinket she had glued onto her blouse. She said, “That’s yours. I made it.” I was so touched. Then she got her picture taken and was gone, happy as could be.

    Another time I was watching a black woman chaperon or bus driver. She was rounding up her kids and had them all sitting on the cement floor just beyond my line for the photo shop. When I talked with her she was up to 45 in counting her kids and had more to go.   Her care for all those kids knocked me over.

  Then there was a little black girl who was afraid. She, too, was about 6 and was with about five other girls a bit older and an adult lady. In the line ahead of her was a black man who was totally dressed as a clown, face painted white, and everything.

    I’m standing next to her and she whispers to me, “I’m scared of him.” I was touched that she told me. So we talked. Eventually I moved into her sight line so she could not see him, because it was like she was obsessing about the guy.

    She told the others and they scoffed at her. However, I was able to let her know that fear was okay and that here she was safe. I would not let the clown hurt her. That seemed to calm her; she got her picture, and went happily on her way.



    These were incarnation events for me, the spirit of God right there in this crowd of kids on a picnic. I suggest that these sightings take place daily, in people like the ones I mention, in people who make up my daily life, and in events, to say nothing about nature.

    What was your last incarnation event?

Picture 1:    The Team

Picture 2:    Emma as angel

Picture 3:    The Nativity Drama

Picture 4:    The Nativity Drama

Picture 5:    The Nativity Drama

      Video:     The Nativity

Read More Christmas Eve Homily, 12-24-11
Announcements

Announcements
ByRosemary December 25, 2011
Special Thanks:
- For Reading: Alexandra & Morgan
- For Serving: Kevin
- For the Communion Bread: Nina Waldron
- For the Wine Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie
- For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Jon
- For the Pictures & Video: Jan & Dean & John
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the coffee & specials: none this week
- For all of you who contributed to the food drive & the toy drive & the blanket drive & the shoe drive
- For Cindy & Ken Cramer who coordinated the food drive and Beth & Rob Robinson who coordinated the toy drive and George Price who did the blankets and Rosemary who handled the shoes
- For all, finally, who volunteered at the big picnic for the underprivileged kids, Love for Kids, Dec. 10
Birthdays:   Amanda Baack (22), Connie Bresson, Diane Holcomb, George Elwell (65 & Medicaire), Tom Gleason & T.J. Gleason

Anniversaries: Tom & Teresa Quinn (44th)

Please Remember:

Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer; Mike Moran's parents, especially his dad with ALS;     Barb Wittek's mom who died recently, plus Barb & Warren's friend, Mike, fighting cancer; Jackie Urbanczyk's sister, Carol, with a back operation; Mike and Dee's daughter, Lisa; Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's brother, Dick, recuperating from a back operation;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins; Charlie Sawtelle's buddy, Moe, with cancer; Jack Carlson's brother, Bob, with a stroke; Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad moving into assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad; Theresa Quinn's dad; Rita Dore; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick; Fred's friend John with cancer; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Picture 1:    Alexandra reading Isaiah 9

Picture 2:    Morgan reading Titus

Picture 3:    Santa has arrived



Picture 4:    Santa with Chloe

Picture 5:    Santa



       Video:    Mass Beginning & Candle Lighting (9 min.)



Your Finances: December 24, 2011

Expenses:   $2530.00

Outreach:   $1455.00

Thanks for your Generosity

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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