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Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, December 1, 2019 1st Advent
ByRosemary November 26, 2019

This cannot be. Mike 70! No way.

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

Special Blessing for John's daughter, Joey, and her two sons, John's grand kids.

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?)

Our Father.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 29, Day after Thanksgiving, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.



Communion for Zoe.

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.

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.

Communion for all.

True?

I believe, finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same.

John Dewey

Thanksgiving Peace for All.

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

Thousands of accused priests are where? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/11/11/catholic-sexual-abuse-accused-priests-arent-sex-offender-registry/4012206002/?for-guid=AFD3B713-3A4A-4BAA-8F15-3A9B5921F676&utm_campaign=baseline&utm_medium=email&utm_source=usatoday-Daily%20Briefing&utm_term=hero

The Peace of Thanksgiving.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

And more Peace for Father & Daughter.

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.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, November 24, 2019, Christ the King
ByRosemary November 24, 2019

Sez Shonda, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

2 Samuel 5, 1-3, David anointed king of Israel

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

Colossians 1, 12-20, Let us give thanks to the Father.

Luke 23, 35-43, This is the king of the Jews.

Likewise say Connie & John, "Come on in, Folks"

Homily by John Cade

Every Sunday we “do” the Mass. ‘Eucharist’ is the Greek word for “giving thanks”. Following the theme Stack and Mike and I set for these three weeks, I will share my gratitude for four of the many blessings I received this year.

Welcome Home, Gil. It has been a long recuperation and it is delightful to see you.

On Jan. 1 Lambrini retired. We are grateful together for her having this good job for 21 years, achieving many career goals, and, in the process, earning the respect of her coworkers. Of course, even a good job includes work stress—like its duties and demands and sometimes its environment. And you know, if your partner is stressed, you are stressed. Retirement is when we both get to say goodbye to those stresses, and catch up on our bucket list.

Thanks, Sophia, for lighting our candles.

In terms of health, Lambrini had severe A-fib symptoms; they were debilitating. A blessing I shared with her was her ablation surgery that reduced the worst of her A-fib symptoms, Alleluia! On my personal health blessings: I had an echocardiogram and a stress test this summer, after which my cardiologist said, “See you next year!”—always what we want to hear. My Urologist said the same just this past week.

Happy Thanksgiving, Brent. This $1000 check is for the Souls Harbor enterprise. I only wish it could be our $2000.

Another blessing was celebrating with Lambrini our 25^th wedding anniversary. It’s not just all these years together; it’s also deepening our devotion and gratitude for each other and working to better accept our differences. Speaking of weddings, I was blessed getting to preside over the wedding of a young couple. Doing weddings is a gift; they are such happy occasions, intimate and full of promise and fun.

Bill, even with chemo treatment, you still challenge our community to do more, like the Love for Kids Picnic coming up this month. Thanks.

Finally a big blessing, this year and every year, is being part of this community. An example of what a blessing this community is was how this community stood with Rich and Carol as they ‘walked their walk’ right in our midst. We got to see their steadfast loyalty and courage.

Says Marilyn, " Sign up for the Juliets Christmas luncheon coming up soon."

I give thanks for the loving support this community provides. We all experience losses. My gratitude is for the way this community helps me and all of us feel safe enough to share them, and courageous enough to accept them, and get on to the next step of our journey.

How will you remember and give thanks for the blessings of this year, individually and together?

Communion for All.

Read More Sunday Homily, November 24, 2019, Christ the King
Announcements

Announcements
ByRosemary November 24, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing:

A Thanksgiving prayer from a Dear Abbey column:



“Father and Mother of all:

We give thanks for food and remember the hungry,

We give thanks for health and remember the sick,

We give thanks for friends and remember the friendless,

We give thanks for freedom and remember the enslaved.

May our giving thanks stir us to service, that our blessings may be shared with others. Amen.”



Mary reading from 2 Samuel.


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

Birthdays: Diane McMahon, Frank Esparza, Ron Ackerman, Mike Moran-70, David Grattifiori,  John Cade 85

Anniversaries:

Barb & Ron Center, 48th

Frank & Mary Esparza,

John & Michelle Simari, 34th

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 last Tuesday; For Michelle; 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;

Happy 85th Birthday, John. Your grandson loves you!

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;

Mike, you cannot be 70 years old. You are supposed to be my young buddy.

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 Anniversary, Mary & Frank and thanks for excellent reading.

Your Finances, November 24, 2019

Expenses: $1240.00

Outreach: $ 645.00

Thanks, Everybody

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Happy Birthday, David.

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 Birthday, Ron.

And to you too, Cody, Happy Birthday.
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Reminder for Sunday, 2019, Christ the King
ByRosemary November 20, 2019

"Welcome in, " says Geri.

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 John.

Readings:

2 Samuel 5, 1-3, David anointed king of Israel

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

Colossians 1, 12-20, Let us give thanks to the Father.

Luke 23, 35-43, This is the king of the Jews.

Healing for teammates.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 29, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

         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.

Break Time.

True?

The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Wolf

Our Father.

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

How has the sex abuse crisis effected the Catholic Church: https://www.ncronline.org/authors/thomas-p-doyle

Our Father.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Peace! Be not afraid, she is benign.

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.

Happy Anniversary & Congratulations, John. 39 years since you decided to quit smoking!

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, November 17, 2019, 33rd Ordinary Time
ByRosemary November 17, 2019

Two of The Best, Cindy & Dee.

Readings:

2 Malachi 3, 19-20, Lo, the day is coming that will set them on fire.

Psalm 98, The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

2 Thessalonians 3, 7-12, Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

Luke 21, 5-19,  The days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another.

The best of Teams.

Thanksgiving, 2019-11-15

Guess what, Everybody. Two Sundays and we celebrate my most favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. To get us into the spirit I want to describe my three biggest blessings of the year.

The Candle Lighting Ritual.

Blessing 1 is my health. My whole life I simply assumed that I would always be healthy.

Trouble started last Thanksgiving when Rosemary, Aviana, & I made our annual visit to Rosemary’s sister’s in Hilton Head. I could hardly walk, even with a cane. My routine doctor sent me to an orthopedist. I’ll never forget the visit.   He pointed to his computer screen, said, “I can fix this.” He even said he had one opening before the New Year. Did I want it?

Wow, did I want it! I had lumbar stenosis, a pinched nerve in my lower back.

Buddy reading The Blessing of the Candles (not memorized yet).

While I was dealing with this my parkinson decided to get more active. My neurologist said exercise, box, work out on ellipticals, anything to get my arms swinging. He gave me a pill to take 3 times a day.

We had a May cruise in the North Atlantic & I was pretty nervous, even just with the trans-Atlantic flight. I took a cane. I never used it. Everything improved. No dizziness, better coordination of my legs and arms.

Which brings me to today and Thanksgiving. I am grateful.

The Offertory with Tom & Susan & Bill.

Second blessing of the year: you people, our community.   The generous spirit of everyone, the eagerness to support & pray for our people who need special care, and the way everyone pitches in. Buddy & Georgie, John & Mike, Ben & David & Shonda, Jackie & Connie, all plus many others who make our Sunday celebrations so touching. I am humbled and blessed by all of you people.

The Communion Team.

The final blessing of 2019: Rosemary, my blessing for 15 years & more.

Your blessings of 2019?

Twins?? The Best.

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Announcements
ByRosemary November 17, 2019
Rosemary's Blessing:

Rob reading from Malachi

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Rob & Beth
- For out team: Buddy & Georgie & John & Mike, Ben & David
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Mike & Judy
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick & Mike
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & David & Hue
- For all who helped with communion
Beth reading from Thessalonians.

Birthdays: Diane McMahon, Frank Esparza, Ron Ackerman, Cliff & Jean Wright, John Cade stopped smoking 39 years ago

Rosemary with 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, Pete Wacks; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement last Tuesday; For Michelle; 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;

A cupcake for the candle lighter girls.

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;

Bill, our prayers are with you and this cupcake has been known to be good medicine for cancer

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.

Bern, this cupcake is for Gilbert because it tells him we know he is getting lazy.

Your Finances, November 24, 2019

Expenses: $805.00

Outreach: $290.00

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.

Kansas City to our rescue. Post tornado neighborhood clean up has been really helped with a number of these gigantic trucks which say on their doors, Kansas City Tree Care. One of these trucks even tipped over on our street when it must have gotten overloaded. Nevertheless, still a terrific help.
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Reminder for Sunday, November 17, 2019, 33rd Ordinary Time
ByRosemary November 13, 2019

It has been a rough Fall and a lot of our personally planted trees have been destroyed. Others live on and greet us as we pass by, saying have a Peaceful remaining Fall and upcoming Thanksgiving.

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

How come so many people showed up Sunday? Here is the reason.

Readings:

2 Malachi 3, 19-20, lo, the day is coming that will set them on fire.

Psalm 98, The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

2 Thessalonians 3, 7-12, Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

Luke 21, 5-19,  The days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another. (tough readings!)

Cathy in period attire reminds us of our historical roots.

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

JULIETS, December TBA

         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.

What a Team!

True?

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Communion 1.

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

What ideas came out of the Amazon Synod: https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/signs-times/what-us-bishops-can-learn-amazon-synod

Communion 2.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

What a team!

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.

Friday Romeos, the Real Party.

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Homilies

Sunday Homily, November 10, 2019, 31st Ordinary Time
ByRosemary November 10, 2019

Karen reading from 2 Maccabees.

Readings:

2 Maccabees 7, 1-2, 9-14, It happened that 7 brothers with their their mother were arrested

Psalm 17, Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

2 Thessalonians 2, 16-3, 5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God

Luke 20, 27-38, If someones brother dies leaving a wife but no child…

Connie reading from Thessalonians.

Our homily for today, Cathy and her presentation of The Mayflower Compact. complete with period attire.

Cathy's helper and granddaughter, Harper.

A great lesson in Democracy, The Mayflower Compact. Excellent.

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Announcements
ByRosemary November 10, 2019
75??!! You got to be kidding

Rosemary's Blessing:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Taken from IN FLANDERS FIELDS
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

Juliets know how to party!!

Our Special Thanks
- For the Readings: Karen & Connie
- For out team: Buddy & Georgie & John & Mike
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Wine & Cups: Mike & Judy
- For the Pictures: Jackie & Rick & Mike & Connie & others
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & David & Hue
- For all who helped with communion
This is how you celebrate 75!!

Birthdays: Rosemary (75!) & John Anderlick,

Anniversaries:

John & Connie Bresson, 33rd

Happy 33rd, John & Connie

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, Pete Wacks; For Gilberto recuperating from his gall bladder operation: Claire Mazzei's (Rosemary's sister in Hilton Head) knee replacement last Tuesday; For Michelle; 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;

Happy Birthday, John.

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;

The Team.

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, Tori & Zoe, for today's candles.

Your Finances, November 3, 2019

Expenses: $ 770.00

Outreach: $ 375.00

Thanks, Everybody

(214-783-0443)

6107 Tulip Lane with a cleaner yard.

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.

For sale. Notice Rosemary's wreath on the door. The bay window just to the left was blown in, but the wreath was only turned around on its cord.
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Reminder for Sunday, November 10, 2019, 32nd Ordinary Time
ByRosemary November 4, 2019

YIPPEE, WE GOT THE INTERNET!

Welcome this Sunday: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade & Stack

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

6107 Tulip Lane & helpers. Early morning.

Readings:

2 Maccabees 7, 1-2, 9-14, It happened that 7 brothers with their mother were arrested

Psalm 17, Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

2 Thessalonians 2, 16-3, 5  May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God

Luke 20, 27-38,  If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child…

Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 8, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

JULIETS, November 8, 12;30, Amoretto's Italian, Suite 734, 101 W. Spring Creek Pkwy, (& Central).

Reserve with Marilyn, 972-809-6049

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

True?

An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

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

Catholic Money https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-money-shapes-us-catholic-narrative!, NCR,

Like a war zone.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Tom, Mike, & John, our community to the rescue

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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.

Mike, the tree surgeon.

Mike Carrell's Homily.

Readings: Our first reading from Sirach includes the social doctrine of the Church; however, it is yet to be put into practice: ‘The Lord is a God of justice who has no favorites!’   In our reading from Second Timothy Paul gives glory to God for allowing him to bring Christ to the Gentiles.

Homily: Our Mass began today with the lighting of the candles by Tori and Zoe [maybe Leo, too]. It was accompanied with a reading given by Buddy from Matthew, who reminds each of us to become a Light of the World; like a city built on a hill top.

We then joined together, in a penitential rite, following the example of the humble man in the gospel who asks the Lord to shown him mercy.

Recall that the Liturgy of the Word today placed us in a synagogue with two men; the one who was arrogant spent his time bragging to God about how holy he was. This Pharisee journeyed home empty.

The humble tax collector chose to open his heart to receive the power of the Holy Spirit; he left the synagogue filled with grace.

As we begin our Liturgy of the Eucharist, we celebrate another tradition. It is an anointing with blessed oil for the sick and the elderly and for those, filled with grace, who prayerfully, journey with them.

John's brief description of The Sunday Night.

It started at 15 minutes before 10:00 P.M. Sunday night. Aviana & I were already asleep. Ro woke us up, saying a big storm was coming , and, in fact, that the wind had already smashed in the bay window in the living room.

We put on our bike helmets, Ro & Aviana scooted into the hall closet. I was standing with my right hand on the closet door handle, planning to squeeze in, when suddenly CRASH! Then, quiet.

Neighboring House.

People began coming out of their houses & checking on their neighbors. Rosemary especially went yelling for Joyce Scott, our 91 year old neighbor just across the street. Her daughter from San Antonio was in the house with her, along with the daughter’s husband, just out of the hospital.

Joyce’s house was almost demolished and no response was coming out. The cops were all over, so she told one. He found them alive and shaken in their hall closet.   They could not get out, so the cop got them out.

It began to pour, a neighbor couple begged a place to spend the night, and we all went to sleep after putting out about 20 containers to catch ceiling drips.

Then began one of the most touching & humbling days I’ve had in a while.

Our friend Chris Phipps was walking Tulip Lane toward our house when two young dads about 35, plus their 3 sons each yelled to Chris, “Know anybody who really needs help?” “Yes, that house on the corner,” said Chris.

Those dads & their sons, along with others who just walked up, pitched in and worked like beavers. Into the afternoon. All our trophy trees were stripped of their branches.   They ended up piled all around the house.

About 9:00 John Bresson & Doug LeBlanc with two of his buddies all showed up with a chain saw. And did they go to work! Slowly the branches got pulled away from the house, cut up, and piled on the edge of the property.

Gym, St. Mark's Boys School

All of our trophies have been stripped of their branches and look naked. They will all have to come down. The house now is covered with a few enormous blue tarps held down with 1 by 4’s nailed down.

People continue to come looking to help. Kids walk the streets handing out water, sandwiches, and cookies. Central Market, which got hammered, has supplied free breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for all workers and home owners from food wagons.

The goodness & generosity of people has again touched my spirit.

Tons of branches, trees, & refuse created tunnels.

Read More Reminder for Sunday, November 10, 2019, 32nd Ordinary Time