Good Sunday afternoon everybody (hoping you are healthy and peaceful),
Here is the link to the Mass this morning. It was a special service and one I hope will fill you with hope and appreciation. Hopefully, next week we can be live but we shall see. In the meantime have a healthy and peaceful week.
Dearest Community Members,
Happy Saturday Evening. I am disappointed to tell you that we have not been able to put together a live stream for tomorrow's Mass.
Becky has worked tirelessly on this project and Mike Moran has also put in many hours on the project. As of now we are hoping to get a You Tube presentation together of the Mass tomorrow at 9:30 at Legacy. If we succeed we will put it out on the Blog tomorrow and you should be able to click on the link and see a presentation of the Mass. We hope to put the link in around noon. You will not get an email about the Blog until Monday BUT if you go to www.johnstackministries.com about 1:00 it should be out there
In the meantime you have the readings and John Cade's excellent homily so that you can reflect as a family on what you read.
Have a peaceful and healthy week.
Betsy! Where you been? Missing you tons.
From our Dearest Becky:
Legacy Preparatory Charter Academy is now your drop off point for needed medical supplies such as gloves and masks. We are also combining this with a food pantry drive.
If you feel the need to help during this special time and can bring any or all of these needed medical supplies and/or food donations, Legacy will get them to the appropriate sites.
Hours are between 8 am and 4 pm Monday – Fridays. Week end hours by appointment only for large donations.
Location: 601 Accent Dr., Plano 75075
Please share share share !
Also from Becky:
Legacy has just spent the last week preparing to be closed for probably the year and yet still have school. We are fortunate that the Texas Education Agency and the Commissioner of Education has allowed educators to continue to be paid if we make an attempt to instruct children while they are home.
Not only at Legacy, but educators around the state have been doing just that. Many districts like us will be starting online school or giving out instructional packets on Monday. We also started our food program back early last week and on Tuesday handed out over 1000 meals in one day. Every Monday now families can come and receive 7 days worth of food for each child in the home. For many families, especially for the ones who has a parent or two who has been laid off, it’s making a tremendous difference.
I am proud of my leadership team and what they have accomplished in one week’s time. But you know what’s even better? Knowing that Legacy is not unique. You will continue to hear wonderful stories of what school districts around the state of Texas are doing to meet the needs of families through food support and low tech and high tech learning. It’s a great time to be proud of your public school system!
#ClosedNotClosed
#CheersforPubEd
Spread the priesthood around:
http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-modest-proposal-spread-priesthood-by.html
Please Remember these special people:
For all the medical personnel struggling to treat the tsunami sick people, in particular locally and Cindy's staff at Presby; For Joe Hogan with cancer, For Ryan, Rosemary's nephew, who had surgery; For Bill Hammond, For Sydney & her dear Husband, Hugh, who just moved to the Other Side, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; Shonda's mom; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: for Michelle; For a friend, a neighbor, & a doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free.; For Hue; For John O'Donnell; For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health; For Anthony & Sabrina; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;
How Pope Francis manages, http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-pope-francis-outflanks-his-foes.html
Remember….
Here is a link to Google Meet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ywOjB1c4Q#action=share
Take a look we may use this for our Mass on Sunday.
4th Sunday of Lent, March 22, 2020
What is your Blessing of The Week?
(See below for mine)
Please help me to make this form of the blog helpful while we go through this period. Too much material?
Please Remember these special people:
For Carrie Bieda's so, Chase in hospital in Austin (not for Corona) For Ryan, Rosemary's nephew, who had surgery; For Bill Hammond, For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; Shonda's mom; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: for Michelle; For a friend, a neighbor, & a doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free.; For Hue; For John O'Donnell; For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health; For Anthony & Sabrina; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;
A shout out to Joe Xerri of Gozo-Malta, a once young Jesuit guy I worked with in Tanzania & have just heard from for the first time in 35? years.. Thanks for the note, Joe. And thanks Mr. Blog for connecting us.
One of the Biggest Blessings of my week.
Happy Birthday, Kaliope & Bill Poncik
Reading #1, 1 Samuel
The Lord said to Samuel: “Fill your flask with anointing oil and get going. I’m sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I’ve spotted the very king I want among Jesse’s sons.” When they arrived, Samuel took one look at the first son and thought, “Here he is! God’s anointed!” But God told Samuel, “Looks aren’t everything. Don’t be impressed with his looks and stature. I’ve already eliminated him. Jesse then called up son #2 and presented him to Samuel. Samuel said, “This man isn’t God’s choice either.” One by one Jesse presented all seven sons. Samuel was blunt. “God hasn’t chosen any of these; are there no more sons?” “Well, yes,” said Jesse, “there’s the runt. But he’s out tending the sheep.” “Go get him,” said Samuel. “We’re not moving from this spot until he’s here.” He was brought in, the very picture of health. God said to Samuel, “Up on your feet! Anoint him! This is the one.” So Samuel took his flask of oil and anointed him, with his brothers standing around watching. The Spirit of God entered David like a rush of wind, and God vitally empowered him for the rest of his life.
Our word for today.
Reading #2, Ephesians 5
Sisters and brothers: You groped your way through murkiness once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. No more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours.
Don’t waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It’s a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.
Wake up from your sleep,
Climb out of your coffins;
Christ will show you the light!
Our word for today.
A Reading from the Gospel of John 9
Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. He spat in the dust, made a clay paste with saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man’s eyes, and said, “Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “Sent”). The man went and washed—and saw. Soon the town was buzzing. His relatives and those who year after year had seen him as a blind man begging, were saying, “Why, isn’t this the man we knew, who sat here and begged?” Others said, “It’s him all right!” But others objected, “It’s not the same man at all. It just looks like him.” He said, “It’s me, the very one.”
They marched the man to the Pharisees. This day when Jesus made the paste and healed the blindness was the Sabbath. The Pharisees grilled the man again on how he had come to see. He said, “He put a clay paste on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.” Some of the Pharisees said, “Obviously, this man can’t be from God. He doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others countered, “How can a bad man do miraculous things like this?” There was a split in their ranks. They came back at the blind man, “You’re the expert. He opened your eyes. What do you say about him?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
They said, “You’re nothing but dirt! How dare you take that tone with us!” Then they threw him out in the street. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and went and found him. He asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” The man said, “Point him out to me, sir, so that I can believe in him. Jesus said, “You’re looking right at him. Don’t you recognize my voice?” “Master, I believe,” the man said, and worshiped him.
The Good News of John
The Gospel of Matthew and the Jewish Synagogue—Talk Three
We ended last week talking about how the growing number of Gentile converts to Jesus followers began to literalize the Jesus stories, a practice the original writers of the gospels could never have imagined. The original followers of Jesus had been relating him to the Hebrew Scriptures and incorporating his memory into Jewish liturgical practices in the synagogue. They were writing Jewish interpretations of the Jesus experience, not biographical accounts or historical tales. What Bishop Spong calls the heresy of Christian literalism, comes in both a Catholic and, since the 16th century Reformation begun by Martin Luther, also a Protestant form. Spong attributes this to a misunderstanding of the Jewish gospels’ message, the period of Christian history he calls the “Gentile captivity” began and held sway until the middle of the 20th century.
Bishop Spong’s thesis is that the same thing that organized the Jewish synagogue year, also organized the memory of Jesus and the writing of the three synoptic gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke) and even the gospel of John. The data supporting this conclusion are overwhelming. It was the synagogue, after all, where the words of Jesus and the narratives about Jesus were preserved before they came to be written down. By the time the written gospels appeared, Jesus had already been integrated into and wrapped inside the Hebrew Scriptures. These scriptures had been applied to him over and over and over, which could not have happened anywhere else except in the synagogue.
[See JEWISH LITURGICAL CALENDAR: MAJOR HOLY DAYS]
The author of Mark wrote the first Gospel. Matthew depended on Mark’s Jesus stories, copying ninety percent of them directly into his own Gospel. Mark was the first to use the liturgical calendar of the synagogue as the organizing guide for relating the story of Jesus. Mark, however, had Jesus stories for only 6 ½ months of the Jewish liturgical year. That lack of enough Jesus stories in Mark for the weekly Sabbath liturgies was considerable—from right after Passover to right before Rosh Hashanah. [See calendar above.]
The growing community of Christians in the synagogue wanted to have Jesus stories for the whole 12-months of Sabbath liturgies. To solve this, Matthew (and later Luke) front-end loaded Mark with new Jesus stories to cover the gap. Rather than being told in a chronological narrative, the Jesus stories were related to Jewish Scripture in line with the liturgical year of the synagogue, especially their six major Holy Days.
Here we go. The first great celebration in the Jewish liturgical year is Passover, which observes the beginning of the Jewish nation, the moment when the Jews came out of Egypt and began to fulfill their national destiny. Early Christians correlated the crucifixion of Jesus with the killing of the paschal lamb at Passover (story in Exodus). This had the effect of linking the final, climactic moment of the Christian story with the first great celebration of the Jewish liturgical year. So the end of the Christian story was told against the background of the first festival of the Jewish liturgical year. This dislocating fact has for centuries confused and hidden from Christian eyes how closely the gospels follow the synagogue’s liturgical pattern. Once we adjust to that, the Jewish year flows with integrity, and the Jesus story tracks the year magnificently.
Matthew’s Gospel had a double climax. The first climax was the crucifixion of Jesus, which he related to the Jewish Passover celebration (Matt. 26:20-27:66). The second climax was the Easter narrative, in which two Jesus appearance stories were told, one at the tomb in Jerusalem focused on the women (Matt. 28:1-15), and the other on a mountaintop in Galilee focused on the disciples (Matt. 28:16-20). Matthew placed these two Easter Jesus stories on the two Sabbaths after Passover.
The second great celebration of the Jewish year is called Pentecost, fifty days after Passover (“pente” means “fifty”). Its Jewish name is Shavuot, Hebrew for “weeks” (seven weeks after Pentecost). This celebration is the time when the Jews recalled Moses receiving the Law from God on Mt. Sinai (in our Gregorian calendar this is near the end of May or early June).
The third great liturgical celebration is called Rosh Hashanah or the Jewish New Year (in late September or early October). This is when the Jewish people thought about the end of history and prayed for the coming of the Messiah to inaugurate the kingdom of God on earth. Rosh Hashanah was actually the first of three observances held in quick succession in the same 7th month of the Jewish year.
Ten days after Rosh Hashanah comes the fourth great celebration, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which combined with Rosh Hashanah was called the High Holy Days.
Eight days after Yom Kippur came the fifth great celebration of Sukkoth, a kind of Jewish Thanksgiving Day which, at the time of Jesus was a highly anticipated and enjoyed festival (in our calendar it’s in November).
In the month of Kislev, roughly our December, comes the sixth great celebration called Dedication, its Jewish name is Hanukkah. It is a “festival of light” telling the story of how the light of “true worship” was restored to the Temple.
There were a couple of other minor observances not listed here. About three months then pass until the Jews were back to the first month of their year, Nisan, and the beginning of the new liturgical year (around March in our calendar). Spong’s concluded that Matthew organized Jesus stories around this liturgical year of the synagogue, organizing all 52 weeks of the year with stories for those great celebrations and for all the weeks between them.
An example of how Matthew juxtaposed Jesus stories on the Sabbath weeks of and between the Jewish Holy Days goes like this. There were fifty days or 7 weeks between Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost). Matthew used the first two Sabbaths of those 7 weeks to tell his story of Easter, concluding the story of Jesus’ life. Approaching Shavuot he filled the next 5 Sabbaths with Jesus stories laying the groundwork for his entire gospel and introducing Jesus with his birth, baptism, temptation, and the start of his public ministry. As the Shavuot celebration recalls the moment God delivered God’s Law to Moses, Matthew introduces Jesus (the new Moses), who will bring the world a new God’s Law.
Those 5 Jesus stories are: The genealogy and birth of Jesus (Matt. 1); the wise men and Herod (Matt. 2); John the Baptist and Jesus’ baptism (Matt. 3); the story of the temptation (Matt. 4); concluding with the beginning of Jesus’ ministry (Matt. 4).
Rosemary's Blessing:
In this time of COVID-19, we pray:
Loving God, when we aren’t sure, help us be calm;
when information comes from all sides, correct and not, help us discern;
help us reach out with our hearts when we can’t reach out with our hands;
help us be socially connected when we have to be socially distant;
help us love as perfectly as we can knowing that “perfect love casts out fear.”
For the doctors, nurses, technicians, aides, caregivers and janitors, we pray.
For the researchers and theorists, epidemiologists and investigators, we pray.
For those who are sick, grieving and all affected around the world, we pray.
For safety, health and wholeness, we pray.
May we feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, house those without homes;
may we walk with those who feel they are alone, and may we do all we can to heal the sick –
in spite of the pandemic, in spite of the fear.
Help us, O God, that we may help each other.
In the love of the Creator, in the name of the Healer, in the life of the Holy Spirit that is in all and with all, we pray. Amen.
From A Reflection and Prayer by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, adapted from Right Rev. Richard Bott, originally posted on Facebook by United Church of Canada
No Mass Celebration again this Sunday, March 22, 2020
Sorry Everybody.
Please pass the word to anyone you think of.
I will miss you all, John
During this time, you will receive the blog on Saturday (instead of Monday). It will include the three readings for the Mass, plus John's Homily #3 on Matthew.
We thought by doing this you could celebrate The Word together as a family on Sunday mornings. John will also leave you with a question to ponder on.
Any other ideas, please let us know.
I miss you girls, Harper & Betsy.
On the lighter side:
People have asked about their donations to the Community during this time. Should you like to make a donation at this time, you can send a check to the house (6107 Tulip Ln., Dallas 75230). Thanks and John will send you a "thank you" note.
Dearest Community Members,
Rosemary, even Aviana, & I have really, really so missed all of you. We hope and pray that you are all healthy and safe.
Should you need anything from the stores and cannot or feel hesitant about going out, please let me & Rosemary know. People from the community have already volunteered to shop for any of you.
We will keep you posted about next Sunday. Live stream the celebration (Mike)? Let John present his Matthew studies?
Thanks to all you members of the board who unanimously voted to take this Sunday off, even though I was looking for a loop hole.
Here is why we go to Oaxaca. The view outside our second floor window. A paradise of tropical flowers.
No Mass Celebration this Sunday, March 15, 2020
Sorry Everybody. This is a total board decision. Prevent contagion with Corona virus.
Please pass the word to anyone you think of.
I will miss you all, John
Okay, Everybody, we are here. You may start.
Welcome, Everybody.
Welcome this Sunday: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.
Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade, Mike Carrell, & Stack, Georgie & Buddy, Ben & Shonda.
Place: Legacy Charter School, 601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075
Note: we need a coordinator for the Easter Egg hunt. Please check with Bernadette for instructions & guidance.
Sez Betsy, "Yes, you may begin. I am."
We have heard that people discover that the Blog has stopped coming. Typepad tends to drop people for no reason. So if this happens to you, just sign up again by going to www.johnstackministries.com
Le Patisserie is now open! Welcome!
Readings:
Exodus 17, 3-7, The people grumbled against Moses.
Psalm 95, If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Romans 5, 1-2, 5-8, We have peace with God
John 4, 5-44, The Samaritan woman at the well.
Hi, Harper.
Activities:
ROMEO MEET: Friday, March 13, 2020, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.
Mike healing for John O'Donald.
True?
The Trinity were planning a holiday. The Spirit, manifesting the creative part of the divine nature, was coming up with the ideas. "Let's go to New York," he suggested.
"No, no, no," said the Father, "They're all so liberated, they'll spend the whole time calling me 'Mother' and it will just do my head in."
So the Spirit sat back and thought. "I know, what about Jerusalem?" he said. "It's beautiful and then there's the history and everything."
"No way!" the Son declared. "After what happened the last time, I'm never going there again!"
At this point, the Spirit got annoyed and went off in a huff. Sometime later he returned and found that the Father and Son had had a idea they both thought was excellent:
"Why don't we go to Rome?" said the Son.
"Perfect!" cried the Holy Spirit. "I've never been there before!"
Healing for John Simari.
What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church? Like…
Spread the priesthood? https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/modest-proposal-spread-priesthood-eliminating-clergy
Remember Fr. Ernesto Cardinal: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/03/04/remembering-revolutionary-priest-and-poet-ernesto-cardenal
A spiritual seance?
See you Sunday, J.S.
214-783-0443
Communion for All God's People.
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.
I'm outa here!
Sez Betsy, "Hi, Everybody. Welcome in!"
Readings
Genesis 12, 1-4, I will make of you a great nation.
Psalm 33, Lord, let your mercy be upon us, as we put our trust in you.
2 Timothy 1-10, Bear your hardship.
Matthew 17, 1-9, The transfiguration.
Fist bumps for a healthy welcome.
Homily by John Cade The Gospel of Matthew and the Jewish Synagogue—Talk Two
Last week we talked about how, as Jewish, the disciples and followers of Jesus continued as members and participants in the life of the synagogue and the Sabbath liturgy. Also, how these followers of Jesus remembered him in the synagogue, and preserved the stories of his life, teachings and deeds. An example of the general pattern of worship on the Sabbath is in Acts 13.
What a team!
It says, “On the Sabbath Paul went to the synagogue. After the reading of the Scriptures—God’s Law and the Prophets—the head of the meeting asked Paul, Friend, do you have anything you want to say? Paul stood up and said, Fellow Israelites and friends of God, listen.” Then he told how God led their ancestors out of Egypt and gave them their own land. He traced their history through King David, and how, from David’s descendants, God sent a Savior for Israel. And that this was the gospel, the good news, they were bringing: that what God promised their fathers has come true for their children—for them.
Our Super, All Girls, Sisters Candle Lighting Team.
This passage in Acts provides the basic pattern of synagogue worship on the Sabbath: mainly lots of long scripture readings.
First, a reading from the Law of Moses (the Torah, first 5 books of Jewish Scripture) in 1-yr cycle. Then readings from the Prophets, in three parts: The “former prophets” (stories of Israel before and after the death of Moses, their greatest prophet—7 books of Joshua thru II Kings) in 1-yr cycle. Then more reading from what they called the “latter prophets” (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel—what we call the major prophets) in 1-yr cycle. Then more reading from the ‘Book of the Twelve’—the last 12 books of Hebrew Scripture, that we call the minor prophets (Hosea to Malachi) in 4-yr cycle. [We use abbreviated 3-yr cycle]
Buddy, our special reader of the Candle Blessing
The psalms were read or chanted between the readings, sometimes for specific feasts of the liturgical year, but also to break things up with so many long readings, (and maybe to wake people up).
I counted, and the weekly Sabbath readings averaged over 16 pages every week, using this type print. After all the readings, the leader of the synagogue would preach on those scriptures or he might ask a visiting preacher to do so, as in the example of Paul. This is how the story of Jesus was passed on and preserved in the synagogue, for 55 years after Jesus’ death.
John reading his homily explaining the milieu of Matthew's Gospel.
So the written gospels are deeply Jewish books, capable of being understood only by those who lived and shared the Jewish mindset. If Jesus’ followers ever moved out of the Jewish world in which they was born, and if their gospels ever came to be read entirely or primarily by those who didn’t understand the Jewish authors’ meaning, they would be misread or misunderstood. That is exactly what seems to have happened. Step out of the Jewish world into the Greek and Roman world around the Mediterranean; the gospels would most likely be assumed by non-Jewish readers to be a literal account of what Jesus said and did.
Presenting the Gifts, Hue, Patricia, and Linda.
A growing number of Jesus’ followers were beginning to be from urban centers around the Mediterranean—like Corinth, Thessalonica, Galatia, Rome—where they interacted with non-Jewish people and culture. As the Jewish followers of Jesus became more cosmopolitan, they began to attract the non-Jewish Gentiles, and early Christianity became more and more a Gentile movement. Near the end of the 1st century CE, in the year 88CE, a split occurred between the synagogue and the followers of Jesus. Orthodox Jews came to think of Jesus’ followers as “revisionists” and excommunicated them from the synagogue. So, by the middle of the second century (about 150 CE), there were practically no Jews left in the Christian movement. Missing that Jewish context, Gentile Christians began to literalize the words and miracle stories, a practice the original Jewish gospel writers could never have imagined. For 55 years the Jewish people had been relating Jesus to the Hebrew Scriptures and incorporating his memory into Jewish liturgical practices.
Minor Elevation time.
The followers of Jesus, including the authors of the gospels, had been speaking, then writing down, Jewish interpretations of the ‘Jesus experience’, not biographical accounts or historical stories. As Gentiles throughout the Roman Empire gradually became a Christian majority, Christian literalism or fundamentalism was born. This way of reading the gospels is the result of misunderstanding their Jewish context and meaning. E.g., we read Jesus being referred to as “the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” First-century Jews would have known this was a reference straight out of the Yom Kippur liturgy, not a literal reality. They would never have imagined that these very familiar Jewish liturgical words could ever be so distorted.
Next Sunday we dive into Spong’s basic thesis: the Gospels, Matthew in particular, were written explicitly for the Sabbath liturgy, and followed the synagogue’s annual liturgical calendar.
Amen.
Who dat peeking in the door?
Rosemary's Blessing
Love changes everything and everyone, and when we love, “love never lets us be the same.” With every thought and act of love we change ourselves and others.
As we learn from Jesus, love is a people thing. It’s personal, individual and unique. No one can do the work of love for me. There’s no app, website or program. We just have to do it. With each loving thought, word and deed, we bring about the Realm of God right here and right now. Sometimes it’s sweet and patient; sometimes it takes us out of our comfort zone, takes courage and can be exhausting.
From A Lenten Reflection by Sister Jean Amore, CSJ
Mary Jane reading from Genesis.
Special Thanks:
John reading from 2 Timothy.
Birthdays: Dee Miller, Ben (Cody's son), & John O'Donnell
Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.
Please Remember these special people:
For Ryan, Rosemary's nephew, who will have surgery this week; For Bill Hammond, For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; Shonda's mom; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: for Michelle; For a friend, a neighbor, & a doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free.; For Hue; For John O'Donnell; For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health; For Anthony & Sabrina; For a young man who is suffering from depression; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini;
Happy Birthday, Dearest Dee.
John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario; For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom; for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; for Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Laura's sister Claudia;
And to you, Dearest John, Happy 86th.
Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla; plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues, especially Mark Terain; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.
When it comes to lighting candles, My Dearest Victoria, you & your sisters are the best.
Your Finances, October 8, 2020
Expenses: $605.00
Outreach: $290.00
Thanks, Everybody
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I saw you, My Dearest Harper, peeking in the door.
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.
Sez Our Dearest Betsy, "Thanks for coming to see me and see you here next week."