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ByRosemary December 22, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing

The Christmas Story will always be the story of Emmanuel, of God-with-us, always and everywhere, in the everyday, in the chaos, in the flight into exile, in the love between a man and a woman and in the birth of a child. It is the story of God who heals, empowers and loves us just as we are – in our greatness and our foolishness. As we anticipate the joy, the love and the peace that are God's Christmas gifts to us, let us receive them with gratitude and be sure to unfold them and share them especially where they need to be more visible.

Sister Jean Amore, CSJ, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

John reading from Isaiah.

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

Birthdays: Allen Stryker, Ben, Meredith, & Connie Bresson

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond, For Sydney, & 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;

Happy Birthday, Ben.

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;

Hi, Betsy. So happy your operation went so well.

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;

Thanks for lighting the candles, Tori & Zoe.

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, Allen.

Your Finances, December 22, 2019

Expenses: $700.00

Outreach: $250.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

Merry Christmas and

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.

A Peace filled New Year.
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Reminder for Sunday, December 22, 2019, 4th Advent
ByRosemary December 18, 2019

Reconciliation.

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

Reconciliation, Please forgive me.

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Reconciliation: You are forgiven.

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.

Advent Reconciliation.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, December 20, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Reconciliation

True?

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucious

Our Bona Responders at Single Parents' Advocates.

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

Fallen Priests, hear their stories? https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/fallen-priests

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Our Volunteers at Single Parents.

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.

Advent Peace, Everybody.

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, December 15, 2019, 3rd Advent
ByRosemary December 15, 2019

Macy Grattafiori & her dad, John.

Readings:

Isaiah 25, 1-6, 10, Then will the eyes of the blind be opened.

Psalm 146, Lord, come and save us.

James 5, 7-10, The coming of the Lord is at hand.

Matthew 11, 2-11, The blind regain their sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

Macy & Nick.

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Main Altar at the venue in Watercolor, Florida, part of Santa Rosa Island. An excellent, rustic wedding venue.

Observation & Homily from John

Love for Kids: A few words about Love for Kids yesterday. Bill Hammond signed up a John Stack Ministries team for it. I met up with three others from our community—Rich, Cheryl, and Mike Carrell. We were assigned to help prepare lunches and manage the lunch line for about 900 kids and their adult guardians. Our team totaled ten volunteers plus the head honcho from Love for Kids. Some in our team were college students looking for a volunteer experience and they proved they were there to work. The team worked without a break for over two hours, and collaborated as a real team.

John preparing to share his homily ideas.

   Many of the kids expressed their gratitude. It was cute seeing their eyes scan the lunch boats for any differences, like some differences in cookie selection. Some kids said, “I don’t want chips; I want Cheetos” or “Where’s the drinks?” etc. I checked with our volunteers, and we all were highly honored to represent John Stack Ministries, loved our gig, and were happy to be able to stand strong for Bill.

Who is that man with the crazy hat?

Homily:

There are umpteen healing stories in the Bible (Old and New Testaments). Healing and forgiveness stories are at the core of the Gospel message. They’re mostly connected to forgiveness and reconciliation. They teach us to ‘watch’ for the blessings that come our way daily; how different this is from that Christmas song, you better ‘watch out’ cause Santa knows if you’re good or bad.

The sister act on candles, Georgie, Tori, & Zoe.

The Good News invites us to watch carefully for life-changing blessings, rather than watch fearfully for threat and punishment.

Recently I shared my family’s struggles over forgiving a family member for past mistakes. We suffer in a relationship of brokenness and distance.

Buddy reading & speaking from the heart the Candle Blessing of the Week

Another example from about 20 years ago gives me hope. It was when two of my sisters and I ganged up on another sister whom we thought needed to change how she related to the nursing home staff where our disabled older sister lived—basically to force her to do things our way.

Happy Birthday, Tom.

My sin was not being sensitive to how each of us is different, and so ‘gives’ in different ways. My blessing was to see on the long drive home how wrong I was in judging rather than accepting and forgiving. I returned the next weekend and asked forgiveness. In spite of her children’s advice to say no, she forgave me. Her gift of forgiveness and reconciliation was and is a great blessing in my life.

Happy 3rd Anniversary, Cody & Shonda.

Question: How are you sometimes not sensitive to how other’s differences can lead to you judging others and distancing yourselves? I invite you to participate in our forgiveness and reconciliation rite today.

Amen.

Thanks, David & Caroline for driving Rosemary & me all over Santa Rosa Island for the wedding.

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ByRosemary December 15, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing of the Week:

May an abundance of gratitude burst forth in our minds and hearts as we remember all the blessings in our life.

May we slow our hurried pace these days so we can be aware of, and enjoy, what we can too easily take for granted.

May we always be open, willing and ready to share our blessings with others and never forget the God who loves us lavishly and unconditionally.

And may we remember that our thanksgiving is incomplete until we pay it forward by doing for others what they cannot do for themselves.

Amen.

From a prayer by Sr. Jean Amore CSJ, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

Cody reading from the beautiful selection from Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Cody & Richard
- For our team: John & John & Mike & Ben & David & Shonda
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Jan
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick
- For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & David & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
Richard reading from James

Birthdays: Tom Good, Allen Stryker, & Ben

Anniversaries:

Shonda & Cody, 3rd (next week)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Bill Hammond, For Cindy Cramer; For Sydney, & 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;

Thanks for the best music Shonda & Ben & David.

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;

Thanks for bringing up the gifts Geri, Sandra, & Cheryl.

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;

2 Zois, Zoi A & Zoi B

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.



Reconciliation for Buddy & Georgie

Your Finances, December 15, 2019

Expenses: $1175.00

Outreach: $ 365.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

Reconciliation Service.

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      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.

The Peace of Advent.
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Reminder for Sunday, December 15, 2019, 3rd Advent
ByRosemary December 11, 2019

Ray, I think you just socked poor Mike in the eye!

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

Healing for Donna.

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Betsy, it is obvious, you know The Secret: Red Velvet always tastes better when smeared on your cheeks and fed to you by your big sister, Harper.

Readings:

Isaiah 25, 1-6, 10, Then will the eyes of the blind be opened.

Psalm 146, Lord, come and save us.

James 5, 7-10, The coming of the Lord is at hand.

Matthew 11, 2-11, The blind regain their sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

Becky, who does your Christmas decorating at this school, Legacy? I want to hire this person.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, December 13, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. I will be doing a wedding in Florida.

Donna's hand made jewelry on display for Christmas.

True?

For all that has been….thanks.

For all that is yet to come….YES!

Dag Hammarskjold

Chip, it is so good to see you & Cathy here. Your mom is glowing.

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

The failed leadership of the U.S. bishops,https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/editorial-failed-leadership-us-bishops-clear?clickSource=email

Our Father.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Peace of Advent be with you.

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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.

Advent Peace to All.

I asked Bill if he would share with community some Excellent News he had just received. His response—

Friends:

This is my first try at a group e-mail so I hope this will work and bring you up to date on my current status. As many of you know I was diagnosed Oct 17th with stage 4 lung cancer which had spread to a spot on my liver and my adrenal glands. After multiple scans and tests they started me on Infusion Chemo Therapy on Nov 21st still awaiting the genomic findings which arrived Nov 29th.

Yesterday my Oncologist, Dr Hughes told me that the kind of cancer (non-smokers adenocarcinoma) and the genomic test which showed BRAF- v600E was very treatable with two drugs taken in pill form and the infusion could be eliminated for now. Great news for me as it appears to be a form of cancer that will respond to treatment very well.

I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers that have come my way and I can tell you it is very uplifting.

I'll keep you posted on my progress, Thanks again for all the prayers.

Bill Hammond

Advent Peace again, Everybody

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, December 8, 2019, 2nd Advent
ByRosemary December 8, 2019

Having a vision, Aggie?

Readings:

Isaiah 11, 1-10, The wolf shall be a guest of the lamb…(beautiful, poetic?)

Psalm 72, Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever.

Romans 15, 4-9 Let us throw off the works of darkness

Matthew 3, 1-12, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert (Fear based spirituality?)

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Welcome in, Chip & Cathy.

Curtis Jenkins, December 15

This morning I have my first Christmas homily of the season. I want to introduce you to Curtis Jenkins, a school bus driver for about 70 kids from Lake Highlands Elementary, Richardson West Junior High, and J.J. Peace Senior High. Jenkins is a 46 year old black guy who married his 8^th grade girl friend. They have 3 daughters all in their 20’s.

Teamwork.

Jenkins has been driving the school bus for 7 years. Initially he gave up his career as an electrician/ plumber so he could be more present to his mother, who is not well.

What is special about Curtis is taking place right now, this very week All the 70 kids who ride his school bus may make a request for a Christmas present. Last year apparently when Curtis had bought, wrapped, and loaded all the gifts into his bus, there was hardly room for the kids. He does this every year.

Candle lighting with Tori.

Plus, during the year he gives birthday gifts (Sound familiar? Maybe cupcakes?). As the kids prepare to disembark, Curtis gives them a little pep talk, like a hope talk. Maybe a quickie homily or final blessing? He even develops community responsibility by creating clean up teams, safety teams (like bigger kids helping smaller kids, and helper kids (like for gift distribution). Parents say their kids wake up eager and excited that they get to ride Curtis school bus.

He's got it memorized, Folks.

Curtis was featured in the April 20, 2019 edition of the Dallas Morning News.

You know what this makes me want to do? Pick up on Cathy’s idea last Sunday where we would give a Christmas gift to every kid in this school. Are these not our kids? A possibility? How many kids are here?

Juliets' Christmas luncheon. Table 1 of many.

All these ladies do is have parties!

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ByRosemary December 8, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing:

This Advent, let us believe and trust in the broader meaning of the season.

Deep faith is a creative energy that opens us to participate in what God wants to do for us in our personal lives and through us in our broken world and fragile Earth.

The weeks of Advent give us the time to ask: What are the dark places in my life that need God's wisdom, uplifting and light?

What's not OK in me?

What's preventing me from feeling the love, unity and peace I want and God desires for me?

Where do I fall short of witnessing God's inclusive love, mercy and justice?

To each of these questions, we say: Come, Lord Jesus, come!

Taken from an Advent Reflection by S. Jean Amore, CSJ, VP for Mission and Academics, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, N.Y.

Denni reading from Isaiah.

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

Birthdays: Fred Jansky, 72, Patricia last smoke, 2010, Tom Good (next week)

Anniversaries:

Shonda & Cody, 3rd (next week)

Tom & Denni, 44th

John & Michelle Simari, 34th

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Please Remember these special people:

For Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family; For Bill Hammond, For Cindy Cramer; For Sydney, & 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 last Tuesday; For Michelle;

Despite struggling with a health issue, Bill still heads us off to two Saturday charity events. Bona Responds.

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 & her dad, Joe; 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;

Offertory team Warren & Barb, Teresa & Tom.

For 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, Betsy, so good to see you.

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 44 years, Tom & Denni.

Your Finances, December 8, 2019

Expenses: $4795.00

Outreach: $ 280.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

Happy 34th Anniversary to you, John, and Michelle.

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.

Happy anniversary of no smoking, My Dear Patricia and Happy Birthday to Fred.

Advent Peace, Everybody.
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Reminder for Sunday, December 8, 2019, 2nd Advent
ByRosemary December 4, 2019

Hi, Kevin, and welcome home from college.

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

The Board Meet with Cody & Rich.

Readings:

Isaiah 11, 1-10, The wolf shall be a guest of the lamb…(beautiful, poetic? What a Dream of Peace.)

Psalm 72, Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever.

Romans 15, 4-9 Let us throw off the works of darkness

Matthew 3, 1-12, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert (Fear based spirituality?)

Too many Board Meets. Must be a Revolt.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, December 6, Day after Thanksgiving, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Hi, Dearest Betsy, so nice to see you.

Juliet’s Christmas Luncheon

Please join us for Juliet’s Christmas Party; and afternoon of Christmas Cheer.

Date/Time:   Friday, December 6th at 12:00 Noon.

Place: Ye Shire Tavern, 3600 Shire Blvd., Richardson, TX 75082

          972-881-7570

To add to the Christmas Spirit we will have an ornament exchange; $10.00 limit. Please bring a wrapped ornament.

Please let me know if you will be joining us.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday, December 6th.

Marilyn Ackerman,  972-491-7068

If you have already signed up at Rosemary’s birthday party, I have you down as coming.

Meyerson Christmas show, December 6, Friday, 7:30. Let Rosemary know if you want to join the gang. $35 per ticket.

Who is that funny man, My Dear Betsy?

From Jim McCabe: This Sunday donate your gently worn, used & new shoes to Sachse High School, DECA. Men's, Womens' childrens', & baby shoes all welcome.

Marilyn, our favorite party setter upper.

True?

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.

Cathy Allen

Got enough cupcakes, lots of birthdays & anniversaries.

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

German Cardinal Schonborn lectures on how vast is clerical abuse, https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/12246/sch-nborn-spells-out-shocking-reality-of-clerical-sex-abuse

What a good candle lighter you are, Bill.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Peace, 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.

And more Advent Peace.

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Homilies

Sunday Homily for December 1, 2019, 1st Advent
ByRosemary December 1, 2019

Sez Betsy, "Hi, Everybody, welcome in."

Readings:

Isaiah 2, 1-5, They shall beat their swords into plowshares (Peace based spirituality?)

Psalm 122, Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord

Romans 13, 11-14 Let us throw off the works of darkness

Matthew 24, 37-44, Stay awake! You do not know on which day the Lord will come. (Fear based spirituality?)

Wake up, John!

Homily by Deacon Mike

I think that John Stack has challenged all of us this Thanksgiving to visualize the abundance of the blessings that each of us have received. Today it’s my turn to share such a blessing that I received; it was a gift to me some time ago, but not forgotten.

What a Team!

But first, I am going to begin by having us recall the blessing that the Samaritan man had received in our gospel reading today. After he realized that his sins had been forgiven, he returned to give glory to God. Jesus then praises his faith, raises him up to newness of life, and gives him, and us, an invitation to follow him. A blessing doesn’t get any better than that!

Bill, from now on you will be called "Candle Bill."

If you think about it; when we came through those doors this morning, each of us received an abundance of blessings; a smile, a welcome, a hug, or kiss. Some times those blessings are unexpected, and we smile and allow them to linger in our hearts.

In the spirit still of Thanksgiving, Mike homilizes an event he takes gratitude in being a part of.

45 years ago, one morning, when I was still in a discernment process to become a deacon; I was driving south down Greenville, and had just passed over LBJ. Immediately I realized that on this particular day the stop and go lights were not working. It was then that I saw three young school boys, looking back and forth unprepared. I pulled off to the right, rolled up my windows and ran ahead down to where they were standing. When I got a chance I held up my arms to the traffic coming both ways, and then led them arm in arm to the other side.

Offertory time with Rich, Cody, Tom, and Denni.

The slightly older boy said, ‘Thank you!’ And, they stayed there until I got back to the other side, then they shouted again, “Thank you!” When I finally got back to my car, it took me a while to ease back into the traffic. When I finally got back to where I had led the boys across, to my surprise they were standing beside each other eagerly waiting for me to drive by. I read their lips as they shouted, for the third time, ‘Thank you!’ I had been blind-sided by the unexpected gift; the boys had taken my breath away.

Happy Thanksgiving, John & Connie.

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Announcements
ByRosemary December 1, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing:

Next week for sure.

Karen reading our first reading.



Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Karen & Connie
- For our team: John & John & Mike, Ben & Shonda
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Cindy & Ken
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Hue & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
Rosemary reminding everybody about the Meyerson Christmas concert this Friday evening.

Birthdays:  Cathy B., Grace LeBlanc,

Anniversaries:

Shonda & Cody, 3rd

Brent & Meredith, 7th

Tom & Denni, 44th

Barb & Ron Center, 48th

John & Michelle Simari, 34th

Happy 7th Anniversary, Meredith and Brent. So good to see you Cancer free, Meredith.

Please Remember these special people:

For Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family; For Bill Hammond, For Cindy Cramer; For Sydney, & 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 last Tuesday; For Michelle;

Happy Birthday, Dear Grace.

For a friend & neighbor & doctor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free & her dad, Joe; 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;

Betsy, Please tell your dear grandmother Happy Birthday from all of us.

For 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;

Happy 48th Anniversary, Barbara & Ron.

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.

Your Finances, December 1, 2019

Expenses: $1385.00

Outreach: $ 350.00

Thanks, Everybody

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Advent Peace this first week of Advent, Everybody.

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