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ByRosemary January 12, 2020
Rosemary's Blessing

Loving God,

As I journey into the unknown territory of a new year…

As I hurt in the process of loving those I dislike or find difficult…

As I learn to accept my strengths, weaknesses and mistakes…

As I keep searching for the truth in times of confusion, doubt and conflict…

As I try to be a voice for the voiceless and powerless…

As I strive to live and witness your inclusive love, compassion, forgiveness, justice and peace…

As I do the work of the Christmas message and make Christ visible to others…

Walk closely with me, my God.

Taken from A New Year’s Prayer by Sister Jean Amore CSJ, Principal, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, NY

Beth reads from The Great Prophet Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Beth & Rob
- For our team: Mike & John & John, Ben & David & Shonda, Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: John
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick & Mike
- For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
Rob reads from The Acts of the Apostles

Birthdays: Tom Fleming, 61, Jan, Becky Good, Doug Kite & the Quads, 12

Anniversaries:

Jackie & Rick, 19th

Happy 19th Anniversary, Jackie & Rick.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond, For John Simari's sister in law, who died in her sleep; For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; Shonda's mom; For my buddy since grade school at Christ the King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie who is spoiling Pete; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: for Michelle;

Happy 61st, Tom.

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;

Offering of the gifts with Bill, Connie & John, & Jim

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;

Hi, Dearest Betsy.

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.

Happy Birthday, Dearest Jan.

Your Finances, January 12, 2020

Expenses: $1020.00

Outreach: $ 295.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

Peace, Everybody.

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, January 12, 2020, The Baptism
ByRosemary January 7, 2020

Happy New Year & Happy Epiphany & Welcome 3 Kings from the East

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, 601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Leo leads the Community.

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Healing for Ray & Claire.

Readings:

Isaiah , 42, 1-4, 6-7,  Here is my chosen one.

Psalm 29, The Lord will bless his people with peace.

Acts of the Apostles 10, 34-38, I see that God shows no partiality

Matthew 3, 13-17, Jesus came to John to be baptized

The Our Father stretch.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 310, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Peace, Everybody

True?

First say to yourself what you would be,

and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Peace to all God's Critters.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church? Like…

Let priests marry (from Nairobi, Kenya, my old home office)tps://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/For-Chrissake–let-Catholics-ordain-women–priests-marry/440808-5386266-ssmvwy/index.html

Liberal Catholics & the Real Presence,http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2019/12/liberal-catholics-real-presence.html

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Happy Peaceful New Year, Everybody.

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.

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Sunday Homily, January 5, 2020, Epiphany
ByRosemary January 5, 2020
Sez our dear Harper "Welcome in, Everybody."

Isaiah, a review

Here is another of those passages which make me love Isaiah so much. I have mentioned this before. He is my favorite.

Today we have Isaiah III talking to the Jews who have returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Captivity, about 555 years before Christ. It helps to picture the mood of these people.

Away we go!

Are you a Cowboy Fan? How do you feel about this year? Multiply this by 10 and you have how the Jewish people felt after 50 years of slavery and their town destroyed like New Orleans or parts of Preston Hollow.

When he says Jerusalem or Zion, he is talking to these beaten down people. Later centuries church leaders began to make these words have two meanings, the city and we Christians. Jerusalem, then, applies to us.

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

Takes Zoe to really light a candle.

Readings:

Isaiah 60, 1-6, The glory of the Lord shines upon you. (nice)

Psalm 72, Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Ephesians 3, 2-3, 5-6, God's grace was given to me.

Matthew 2, 1-12, Where is the newborn king of the Jew?.

And to really get it lit, it takes Victoria.

The Epiphany, a Cornucopia of Symbols:

2 observations–

Where to begin, folks. There is so much symbolism in this liturgy, in Matthew, for sure, and in the combination of Matthew with Isaiah and Psalm 72. Matthew carefully crafted this story to appeal to both his fellow Jews and the Gentile population. I'll touch 2 points, each with 3 subdivisions..

And to really get it all right, it takes Buddy to read the Blessing of the Candles.

The Wise Men have a double & triple significance because they are
1. Gentiles
2. They come from the east, considered the source of wisdom in the world of that time. Where does the sun rise? Where do stars rise? A new son has been born and like the sun in the east or a star he will bring new light.
3. They are searchers & symbolize every man’s search for meaning in life. Remember Matthew speaks to two audiences, his fellow Israelites, whom he is chastising for not searching, and the Gentiles.
And then backing it all up is Leo singing.
1. The 3 gifts.
2. Gold is given because it signifies royalty.
3. Frankincense, or incense, signifies divinity.
4. Myrra signifies medicine. Myrra is for the human. It comes from a bush like tree that has a yellow, sticky sap on its bark. The sap was good for skin infections and acne, asthma, colds, and flu, and even herpes. It is found in Saudi Arabia & Somalia.
Bringing the gifts Bernadette, her daughter Michelle, and Grace.

A post script. People in Europe used to write an inscription over their doors, e.g. 20+C+M+B+17. The numbers are our year. The letters are Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, supposedly the kings' names. Christians made it say, “Christ & you 3 kings bless our house or Maison the year listed."

And trouble with Richard, Cody, & Ben.

Another post script. In New Orleans Epiphany starts Carnival season, which leads up to Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. The parades start, folks. Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler.

Sources: Reginal Fuller, St. Louis U. Liturgy; Biblical & Theological Resources, the Voice Institute, on line; Wikipedia; and other sources.

The communion team with Patricia, Claire, Geri, Grace, & Denni. Thanks, You All.

An Epiphany Story

Rosemary & I once went to the exposition of some paintings of about six or eight artists. Among the artists and the reason we were there was my childhood buddy, Ed Lamberty, who gave the homily here on alcoholism & AA some years ago. He was presenting some of his works.

As we were wandering around we ran into another couple who are old friends. We ask what brought them to this exposition. They pointed across the room to a middle aged, middle class, blondish woman who was standing by some of her works.

Hi, Marlene, Mabel, & Cindy. So good to see you.

Here is the story the wife told me.

The couple we know are both academics on the university level. Some years ago the wife had been teaching and came to know one of her students. The student was a mother with a son about 8 years old. At some point in time the father had abandoned them and left them with nothing. They were living in the mother’s car.

Thanks, Rick, for all the good pictures.

My friend says to me that this so shocked her and she thought this cannot continue. An Epiphany moment. She described the situation to her husband and two sons who were about 10 & 12. Guess what they did.

They invited the mother & son to live with them until they got on their feet. The two sons moved into one bedroom and the mother & her son took the other. Here they lived for almost a year until the husband found the woman a job.

Peace, Everybody.

The woman now is successful and is developing as an artist, selling her works for big sums. The son graduated from Jesuit, graduated from college, and now is married with a couple of his own kids.

Obvious from the fact that they were at the art exposition, my friends are still quite close with the mother & her son.

Peace for 2020.

I would propose that this is what epiphany is, a light shines on a presence. The presence is a challenge and, perhaps, involves care for others. The presence may be the example of another person.

Who is an epiphany for you?

For whom are you an epiphany?
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ByRosemary January 5, 2020
Rosemary's Blessing

Lord of all,

Bless our families.

Be they formed by blood or by circumstance,

Make them holy.

May we find you

In our relationships.

In our marriages, in our families, in our households, in our communities, in our global humanity.

May we look across all that divides us

And see family, and embrace as a family does, and love as a family ought to.

For where two or three gather in your name. There are you.

Amen.

A Family Blessing from CRS (Catholic Relief Services)

Jackie reading from the Great Prophet Isaiah

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Patricia & Jackie
- For our team: John & John, Ben & David
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick
- For the coffee and extras: Mike
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David
- For all who helped with communion
Patricia reading from Ephesians.

Birthdays: Tom Fleming, 61, Cheryl O'Hagan

Anniversaries:

Tom & Teresa Quinn, 52nd

Eshelbrenners, 44th

Mabel & Curtis, 60th

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond, For John Simari's sister in law, who died in her sleep; For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; Shonda's mom; For my buddy since grade school at Christ the King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie who is spoiling Pete; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement; For Michelle;

Happy Birthday, Dear Cheryl.

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 Anniversary, Dear Mabel. Wish Curtis were here to help celebrate.

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;

$2000 a month is our goal for Souls Harbor, Brent, and we reached it this month, yeah!

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.

Thanks for the help with the candles, Zoe & Tori.

Your Finances, January 5, 2020

Expenses: $490.00

Outreach: $190.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

Happy 45th Anniversary, Richard.

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.

Thanks, Claire, for reading the Nativity Narrative so beautifully.
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Reminder for Sunday, January 5, 2030, Epiphany
ByRosemary January 1, 2020

Happy New Year, Everybody‍‍ ‍‍

"And all shall be well and

All manner of thing shall be well ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍

When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire

And the fire and the rose are one."

T.S. Eliot

"Welcome in, Everybody," says Jan.

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, 601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Welcome in, John & Karen

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Wake up, John.

Readings:

Isaiah 60, 1-6, The glory of the Lord shines upon you. (nice)

Psalm 72, Lord,every nation on earth will adore you.

Ephesians 3, 2-3, 5-6, God's grace was given to me.

Matthew 2, 1-12, Where is the newborn king of the Jew?.

Welcome Back, Dee.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 3, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

All 4 candles, Victoria.

True?

Life isn't about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Mike comes with healing.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church? Like…

Parishioners angry over the firings…https://www.ncronline.org/news/parish/parishioners-object-firings-laicized-priest-and-inactive-priest

Elevation.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Peace!

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.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Have a Beautiful & Peace Filled New Year!

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Sunday Homily for December 29, 2019, Holy Family
ByRosemary December 29, 2019

Trouble on the back bench!

Readings:

Sirach 3, 2-6, 12-14, My son, take care of your father when he is old

Psalm 128, Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways (fear the Lord?)

Colossians 3, 12-21, Put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness , and patience.

Matthew 1, 18-24, This how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.

Meeting of the board.

A second Christmas Homily

This morning I have another Christmas story.

For many years I have had a really good friend who is an Ursuline nun. Just thinking about Sr. Mary gives me fond memories of celebrating the early morning community Mass in the sisters' quiet chapel in the residence.

Ben & David with David's daughter, Darbi Anna.

It also reminds me that I have a rare special relationship with the Ursulines. I went to Christ the King grade school when the Ursulines staffed it. I am educated by the Ursulines.

Today there are no sisters living in the old convent with the beautiful little chapel. Sr. Mary says she now lives along with 5 or 6 other Ursuline sisters at a retirement home that was popularly known at Tremont. It is located on Harvest Hill Drive just across the Dallas Tollway from Jesuit and St. Rita's' Catholic Church.

The Girls' candle lighting team with Zoe, Tori, and big sister, Georgie.

I know it well because my mom lived there and died there. She passed through all the 3 levels, individual apartment, partial care, and full care.

There is sister who still works at Ursuline Academy, you guessed it, Sr. Mary. Every morning she gets up, spends the day at her school office. Then drives back to Tremont.

Buddy reading the Blessing of the candles. He has not memorized the blessing on this the first day.

Last summer she decided it was time for her to give up driving and sell her little car. A difficult decision. She would use Huber.

One morning around Labor Day she could not get Huber. So she decided to use the app. Lyft. A guy came, picked her up at Tremont and took her to Ursuline. During the trip she probably explained to the driver what she did at the school.

The Whole Team.

She exits his car, asks how much, and is told "No Charge." She explains that she will still need a ride home in the afternoon. Plus, she will make the trip every weekday.

"How much?" "No Charge!"

The offertory team with Bill, Tom, & Denni

The man, a Nigerian, has come every work day, September, through December, No Charge.

Who is the Sr. Mary in your life?

Communion Helpers, Lynda, Tom and Claire.

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ByRosemary December 29, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing

This Christmas

let us make visible God's love,

forgiveness, compassion and generosity

in our thoughts, words and actions.

Like the Shepherds and Kings,

let us be courageous and find God in the different and the stranger.

Let us let go of grudges and hurts. Let us be strong yet gentle.

Let us give thanks for God’s gifts of love we find in our family, friends and earth, our common home.

Today, in the New year, and in all the days of our lives

Reflection by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, Principal, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, NY

Mary reading from Sirach.

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Mary & Frank
- For our team: John & Mike & John, Ben & David & Darbi Anna
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick
- For the coffee and extras: Mike
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David
- For all who helped with communion
Frank reading from Colossians.

Birthdays:

Anniversaries:

Tom & Teresa Quinn, 52nd

Eshelbrenners, 44th

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond, For John Simari's sister in law, who died in her sleep; For Sydney, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; Shonda's mom; For my buddy since grade school at Christ the King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie who is spoiling Pete; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement; For Michelle;

Our dear candle girls, Tori & Zoe.

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;

That cupcake, Celeste, is to hold you over this year while you are teaching in China

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;

Rosemary's Christmas candles.

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.

Kids' Communion.

Your Finances, December 24 & 29, 2019

Expenses: $1035 – 615.00

Outreach: $ 635 – 200

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

May you have Peace this New Year.

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.

Just in case you wondered.
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Christmas Eve Homily, December 24, 2019
ByRosemary December 26, 2019

"Welcome, Everybody, to Christmas Eve." sez Our Dearest Betsy.

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 2, 11-14, The Grace of God has appeared

Luke 2, 1-14, The Nativity: In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus.

Welcome Back, Sir Charlie! What a Christmas Gift!

A Christmas Story

I have a Christmas story for you this evening. The event took place a week of two before this past Thanksgiving and about 3-4 weeks after October 20, the Sunday night when the tornado crashed through our neighborhood at 10 P.M.

The afternoon about which I want to talk was mild and sunny, a delightful afternoon. I had left the front door of our house open. I was in the back den working at my computer desk.

They are back together, Folks. Wendy returns to share singing with Shonda. Welcome Home, Wendy.

There was a knock at the screen door, maybe even the door bell rang. Whatever, I remember thinking, “Yuk, another guy wanting to replace our roof, replace the bay window that had been blown in, or help with the pile of tree limbs that once were my trophy trees.

Wendy with her husband, Brandon, and their son Atlas.

So, I go to the door and see a young, tall, nice looking, familiar boy from the neighborhood. I think he is the younger brother of the boy who is a senior at St. Marks Boys School. The older boy has red hair on top of about a 6/1 height. I know the red headed boy’s name., Jack. I’d heard it often from Rosemary.

Welcome back home, Ryan. So good to see you and how you have grown. Last time I saw you you were half this size.

The family lives 3 doors down, both boys go to St. Marks, and they have a little girl named Lucy. The boy does not appear stressed, so I assume everything is okay, though cynically I confess I thought he was probably selling tickets to a raffle.

So, I just start out the usual way, “Hey, Man, how you doing? What’s up? Everything okay?

We have the prettiest candles and the prettiest candle lighters.

His response. “I was passing by, saw your door open, and decided I wanted to tell you and your wife that I have noticed and appreciate what good neighbors you are.”

His name is George.

Never miss an opportunity to extend kindness or a positive stroke.

It can change a person’s life.

Welcome to communion, Everybody

Jack, this is amazing. Last time I saw you you were half this size and running all over the place. You have grown so much I did not recognize you and now you are playing the bass for our celebration

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ByRosemary December 26, 2019
Mary Jane reads from Titus.

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: John & Mary Jane & Claire
- Our team: John & John & Mike, Ben & David & Shonda & Wendy & Jack & Bernadette with the Nativity drama
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick
- For the coffee and extras: none this evening
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David & Shonda & Wendy & Jack on the bass
- For all who helped with communion
John reads from The Great Prophet Isaiah.

Birthdays: Next week

Claire reads the Nativity story from Luke.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond, For Sydney, For John Simari's sister-in-law, who just died in her sleep, & For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery; For my buddy since grade school at Christ the King, Pete Wacks & his dearest Marjie who is spoiling Pete; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement; For Michelle;

And there were shepherds in that region living in the fields…

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;

And the glory of the Lord shone around them..

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;

The angel of the Lord appeared to them..

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.

And who might this be?

Your Finances, December 24, 2019

Expenses: $ 1,035.00

Outreach: $ 610.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

Do not be afraid, for behold, I proclaim to good news of a great joy….

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.

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace…

Special Christmas Meals on Wheels loading up.

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Sunday Homily for December 22, 2019, 4th Advent
ByRosemary December 22, 2019

A new community member? Almost like former times.

Readings:

Isaiah 7, 10-14, Ask for a sign from the Lord.

Psalm 24, Let the Lord enter, he is king of glory

Romans 1, 1-7, Grace to you and peace.

Matthew 1, 18-24, This how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.

Buddy reading The Candle Blessing for the 4th Sunday.

Homily for December 22 by Mike

The Matthew and Luke gospels begin with what Biblical scholars call infancy narratives because the child Jesus is in both of them. You might remember from earlier homilies that the shepherds, who lived in the fields and who took turns watching over their flocks during the night, were a metaphor for the Lord’s apostles. The angel of the Lord, Mary, the manger, the flocks, the swaddling clothes, the birth place of Bethlehem, all these and many others are metaphors.

Our Sister Act lighting the 4 candles for the 4th week of Advent

It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that Mary has given birth in both the Matthew and Luke gospels; but not to a child. She has given birth to the written Good News of Jesus Christ. It is there that Mary’s wildest dreams are fulfilled…and ours, too.

Mike sharing his homily ideas.

The Prophet Isaiah has been in anticipation of the written Good news all through Advent. Today he identifies Christ as Emmanuel, “God is with us.” Recall that in the Luke gospel Isaiah identifies the Lord’s journey with us this way: The spirit of the Lord has anointed us to take the Good News to the poor, to proclaim liberty to the captive, to give sight to the blind, to set the downtrodden free, and to proclaim this year to be the Lord’s year of favor.

Thanks to all of you.

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