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ByRosemary September 30, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

May you live a long life full of gladness and health,
With a pocket full of gold as the least of your wealth.
May the dreams you hold dearest be those which come true,
The kindness you spread keep returning to you.
May the friendships you make be those which endure,
And all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure.
And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray,
May a song fill your heart every step of the way.

Grace E. Easley

Hue reading from Numbers.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings Hue & Cheryl
- For The Team: Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison & John
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
- For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Mike
- For the coffee and extras: Jackie & Becky & Tom
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ben & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
- And for the Fall Brunch, Everybody
Cheryl reading from James.

Special Note: No blogs the weekends of October 7 & 14.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

Birthdays: Leo (8, last Monday), Judy Carrell last Thursday), Beth Dugan (last Wednesday), Sophia (10 last Moday), & the Candle Lighter

Anniversaries:

Paul & Carrie (1^st, last Saturday)

Tom & Becky (39^th, last Wednesday)

Happy 8th Birthday and for being such a neat kid, Leo.

Remember these special people

For Meredith, cancer free; For Jerry Brophy, a high school classmate of mine For Tom Quinn’s brother,Tim; For Hue; For John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen; For Carol's recuperation; For Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Happy Birthday, Dearest Carol.

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay (at 90 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; or Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen;

Happy Birthday to you, too, Beth, and for being such a terrific mom with Emma.

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; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Happy 1st Anniversary, My Dear Paul & Carrie. Oh, what a memorable wedding it was a year ago, on the south rim of Grand Canyon.

Your Finances, September 30, 2018

Expenses: $950.00

Outreach: $215.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

Happy 39th Anniversary, My Dear Tom & Becky, and enormous gratitude to you for hosting us at Legacy.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Thanks, Dearest Victoria, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

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 The Great Luke, "Wake me up, Everybody, when that old geezer gets finished." Thanks, My Dearest Luke, for visiting us, for welcoming everybody, and for being such a cool kid. Come back.
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Reminder for Sunday, September 30, 2018, 26th, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 26, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Welcome back, David. You may feel flattered. I never get that open arms welcome when I come home!

NOTE 1: Fall brunch this Sunday Sept. 30. Let us celebrate the last day of September.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made, & Fall brunch

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

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

Welcome home Teresa & Tom from your two week cruise without your checked baggage.

Readings:

Numbers 11, 25-29, Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets.

Psalm 19,  The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

James 5, 1-6, Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.

Mark 9, 38-43,45, 47-48, If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out

To show you how much we love you, Tom, accept this classy, just broken in shirt & jeans ensemble. Beth will tell you how au courant are those jeans.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 28, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Almost 79 years old and still needing somebody to dress me! Thanks you, Hue.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),

PLEASE JOIN US FOR JULIET LUNCHEON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH AT 12;30. WE WILL BE GOING TO:

CAFE AMORE FINE ITALIAN DINING

600 N. COIT RD., RICHARDSON

THEY HAVE A LARGE LUNCH MENU, VERY REASONABLE, AND IT IS A BYOB. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THERE YOU ARE IN FOR A REAL TREAT.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHO WILL BE JOINING US. HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE. I WILL NEED TO MAKE RESERVATIONS.

THANK YOU, MARILYN

972-491-7068

Let us begin In the Name….

Note 2: That Jim Mahar is at it again. He has a place to stay because of an alumna of St. Bonaventure connection in Wilmington, NC.

Early October is the target time. Can we all help to fund him a bit?

I love you, Grandpa!

TRUE?

Anything happening in our Catholic World?
1. NJ priest says his complaints were dismissed by Boston bishop, Corpus, September 13, http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2018/09/retired-nj-priest-says-his-complaints.html
2. NJ parish split over charges against the pastor, National Catholic Reporter, September 20, https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/new-jersey-parish-divided-over-abuse-allegations-against-pastor?utm_source=SEPT_19_FEUERHERD&utm_campaign=cc&utm_medium=email
Our Father.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Communion for all, especially for you Little Ones.

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, Emma, and Peace, Everybody
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Homilies

Sunday Homily, September 23, 2018, 25thnd, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 23, 2018

Harper says, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

Wisdom 2, 12, 17-20, The wicked say.

Psalm 54,  The Lord upholds my life.

James 3, 16-4 3, Where jealousy & selfish ambition exist, there is disorder.

Mark 9, 30-35, Whoever receives one child.

Our Candle Lighter of The Week, Victoria.

Wisdom observations:

What:One of the 14-15 books of the deutero-canonical books of the bible. Not OT nor NT, but in between and the subject of controversy over the centuries. The “in between books.” Were they really part of the bible or not? How do you know? Catholic church accepts the books.

Subject matter: the book makes use of traditional Jewish material, as well as ideas borrowed from Greek philosophy, in order to teach that God rewards those who are faithful to him.

Georgie reads the Blessing of the Autumn Candles.

Author: not Solomon, but a Jew living in Alexandria, Egypt who wrote and spoke excellent Greek. The book is sometimes called “The Wisdom of Solomon.”

Date: ca. 100-200 before Christ. How do we know these facts? Because of text analysis. For example, while the author wrote in Greek, he uses phrases and expressions that have a Hebrew flavor. Also, he mentions rulers and places that reveal date and locale.

Our Selection: what a wicked person thinks should be done with a good person–beat & kill. This links up with the suffering servant poem from 2 Isaiah last week. Jews think the good person getting beaten is the Jewish race/nation. Christians think the person is Christ.

James: presents a pretty negative image of people. What would be a compassionate image?

The Best Music, Ben at his Best.

Says the child, “Numero uno or last??”

This morning I would like to talk about receiving the child. In particular, I would like to focus on the inner child, the child inside all of us, even in old geezers like myself.

I also want to say a word about the notion of being first or last.

What did you do, Gil? You got Gene, Bern, and Loretta all laughing.

To exemplify the points, a story.    I have used the story before. It is too good to bury.   The story, the musical play Most Happy Fella.

The play is about a guy named Tony, middle aged Italian American, successful wine maker from Nappa Valley, and a bachelor.

He eats in a restaurant one evening in, say, Chicago. He likes the waitress and leaves her a note with his tip, despite his shyness.   They begin a long distance correspondence and start to get close. Both are looking for partners.

The Offertory Team (all characters!): Jan & Sir Charlie, Teresa & Tom (who lost all their checked luggage before they began their cruise.)

They decide to exchange photos. Tony, who has been taking a lot of risk because he is so shy, is afraid to show her his picture. He thinks he is too old & too ugly. So he sends her the photo of his handsome young farm foreman. The foreman has already told Tony he is planning on moving on anyway.

So Tony and his girl decide to wed at the farm. On the day of her arrival and the big wedding, Tony discovers that the foreman decided to hang around for the wedding & party. Tony loses it. He goes out, rolls his pickup, and almost kills himself.

Is this not a Full Service Community? Even to a play room.

Meanwhile, the girl arrives and thinks the nice foreman is the groom. In fact, they get rather enamored of each other. Then Tony is brought in on a stretcher. Guess what happens then. I’ll tell you at the end.

Let me make 2 observations about Tony.

A tremendous team when one has parkinsons.

First, Tony might have had ambitions about being numero uno, but he really thought he was the last, a loser, ugly, and old. His challenge: get away from thinking best or worst. Both are traps. Just accept Tony as okay.

Secondly, when Tony let himself leave the note for the waitress, he was letting his inner child out for a minute. In his correspondence he was letting that child play. The child wants to be loved and to play. Trouble was, the child was not used to getting out and was afraid.   So he tries the picture trick.

Happy Birthday to our Dearest Twins.

I can resemble Tony. Thinking I am first, numero uno in anything, or last, both are traps. I would propose it is irrelevant. I am okay just as I am.

Like Tony I have an inner child. Want to know what the child wants? Just watch our kids here. To be loved and to play. I think this is what I am doing when I ride my bike across Iowa or in the Hotter N' Hell Hundred, and when I hike around Yosemite. These are great times for my inner spirit, that is, my inner child.

Happy Birthday, Dearest Georgie. I remember when you were just a cute little girl. Now look how pretty you are. What happened?? Whatever happened, you are a terrific young girl.

So, two questions today:

First, where do you think of yourself, first, last, or just okay?

Secondly, how do you let your own inner child out to play?

What happened to Tony? He eventually became a most happily married fella.

Happy Birthday, Jackie, and thanks so much for all you do for the community.

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ByRosemary September 23, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

… May God bless you with enough foolishness
to believe that you can make a difference
in this world, in your neighborhood,
so that you will courageously try
what you don't think you can do, but,
in Jesus Christ you'll have all the strength necessary.

"Troubadour: A Missionary Magazine," published by the Franciscan Missionary Society

Mary Jane reading from Wisdom.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings John & Mary Jane
- For The Team: Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
- For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Mike
- For the coffee and extras: Jackie & Becky & Tom
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ben
- For all who helped with communion
John reading from James.

Special note on our community brunch: Next Sunday, Sept.30

Note also: No blogs the weekends of October 7 & 14.

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Birthdays: Leo (8, Monday), Jackie (53, Tuesday), Tori & Buddie (8, Wednesday), Georgie (17, Friday),

Sandra (78, last Tuesday, a good age!), Wednesday), Mary Jane Stevenson (last Thursday) Tom & Teresa Quinn (last 3 Thursdays); Warren Wittek (Last week)

Tom & Teresa lost all their checked luggage on their flight to a two week cruise. The luggage has only been located a day or so ago. Tom, here are some trendy pants for you.

Anniversaries:

Paul & Carrie (1^st, Saturday)

Fred & Patricia (8^th, Tuesday)

Tom & Lynda (36th, Tuesday)

John Cade (57^th since ordination)

To take care of our friends we have donated jean pants and a jean shirt, well broken in and very haute de couture with holes in the knees. All part of our aim to be a caring community. Teresa you will be next.

Job openings in Lovejoy via Lynda Fleming: flemfam@tx.rr.com

Needed: special ed teacher & some educational aides.

Happy 8th Anniversary to Fred & you, My Dear, Crazy Patricia

Remember these special people

For Meredith, cancer free; For Jerry Brophy, a high school classmate of mine For Tom Quinn’s brother,Tim; For Hue; For John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen; For Carol's recuperation; For Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Congratulations, Lynda & Tom, on your 36th, and congratulations on the Berlin Marathon, to say nothing about the 6 marathons in 8 days & 6 northeastern states.

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; or Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen;

Congratulations to you John on the 57th Anniversary of your ordination.

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; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Happy special birthday to you, Mary Jane.

Your Finances, September 23, 2018

Expenses: $1110.00

Outreach: $730.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

And Happy Birthday to you, Warren.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday, to you, Teresa. And have no fear. We are collecting for you a wardrobe matching that of Tom's special.

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.

Say Beth & Emma, "See everybody next week, especially for the brunch."
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Reminder for Sunday, September 23, 2018, 25th, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 19, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

The Support Choir in action.

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

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

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

Better Watch out, Sir Charlie, she has her eye on you.

Readings:

Wisdom 2, 12, 17-20, The wicked say.

Psalm 54,  The Lord upholds my life.

James 3, 16-4 3, Where jealousy & selfish ambition exist, there is disorder.

Mark 9, 30-35, Whoever receives one child.

Could these people be laughing, at Me?

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 21, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together), October, TBA

NOTE 1: no brunch this Sunday, rather, the next Sunday, Sept. 30. Let us celebrate the last day of September.

Note 2: Meredith is cancer free!

Note 3: That Jim Mahar is at it again. He has a place to stay because of alumna connection in Wilmington, NC.

Early October is the target time. Can we all help to fund him a bit?

Healing Touch for Gita.

TRUE?

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Healing Touch for Bern, Carol, & Rich.

Anything happening in our Catholic World?
1. The detention of innocent children, National Catholic Reporter, September 13, https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/catholic-advocates-decry-proposed-new-rule-detaining-immigrant-children?utm_source=SEPT_13_BENEVENTO_DETENTION&utm_campaign=cc&utm_medium=email
2. Cannot move on from this sex crisis, Corpus, September 10, https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/signs-times/why-catholic-church-cant-move-sex-abuse-crisis
3. Climate Action, National Catholic Reporter, September 13, https://www.ncronline.org/news/environment/world-leaders-faith-groups-gather-global-climate-action-summit?utm_source=SEPT_+12_ROEWE+CLIMATE+SUMMIT&utm_campaign=cc_122017&utm_medium=email
Our Father.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

A Welcome Cupcake to Gita.

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.

Meet Hector the Hawk, the new security system for the Rectory, here patrolling the front yard & dining on squirrel. This guy has people stopping their cars to take pix. What a wing span!
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Sunday Homily, September 16, 2018, 24th, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 16, 2018

Leo says, "Welcome as long as you know the password" (e.g. You are The Best, Leo).

Readings:

Isaiah 50, 4-9, The Lord opens my ear that I may hear.

Psalm 116,  I will walk before, in the land of the Living

James 2, 14-18, What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Mark 8, 27-35, Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself

Special Welcome to Barbara's sister from Germany, Gita.

Isaiah: observations

What is it about: 1^st, 2^nd, & 3^rd Isaiah?

1^st Isaiah, Chapters 1-39: predict doom for the Hebrews because they have not been faithful to their one god.

2^nd Isaiah, Chapters 40-55: this & the remaining chapters are called The Book of Consolation. They try to assure the people who are now in exile that God will restore them to their former glory & peace. In fact, in chapter 45 the composer even mentions the name of Cyrus, the king of the Persians who defeats Babylon & sends the Hebrews back to Jerusalem. So the composer knew of Cyrus and a date can be narrowed down.

Emma at work on here specialty, Lighting the Candles.

This 2^nd Isaiah section presents 4 suffering servant songs, #2 being our selection today. Jews see the servant to be the Hebrew people/nation. Christians see the servant to be Christ.

Isaiah 2 is considered maybe the most influential O.T. book. On Isaiah 2 Mark built much of his gospel, especially the story of the crucifixion.

Handel's Messiah uses 2nd Isaiah for its lyrics.

3^rd Isaiah, Chapter 56-66: more assurances of a return to peace & glory.

Georgie backing up the Candle Lighting ritual with The Blessing.

Mark: observation

I do not like the line in Mark where he says we have to take up our cross. I have seen the negative result of this. Which is not to imply that we do not have to struggle to reach goals, like, say, 175 lbs.

Welcome in, Ron. Thanks for bringing Gita.

Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead

This morning I would like to pick up on the line, faith without works is dead.

First of all, to me the statement is simplistic & silly. I know people who are unable to do anything for others, but they have faith, maybe in God, maybe in people, or in themselves.

Actually, we, I can look around and have greater faith in people because I see so many doing so many good things for others. Actually, talking about this subject I feel like a fraud and that I am preaching to the choir, I see you people in our community doing so much. Let me give you about 8 examples of people who inspire me.

A high level meeting of The Board. A Brunch or not next week.

1^st, ever hear of the Cajun Navy? Or the Baptist Men? They are both over in the Carolinas doing rescue & recovery work right now. On NPR yesterday morning, I heard the “Cajun Admiral” or “Captain” say he expected 1000 volunteers by Saturday afternoon. They come with their fishing boats. They were everywhere in Houston last year this time.

I’ve worked with the Baptist Men in Galveston and they come prepared with generators, a big kitchen, and showers installed in 18 wheelers. I slept with about 20 of them in a dormitory in a church. I wish I could be there. Just have not got the stamina any more.

Georgie & Buddy, The Board has voted too double your stipends.

How could I ever forget Jim Mahar of St. Bonaventure, one of my patron saints, along with his local buddy, Bill Hammond. The two of them have gotten me into so many projects. It must even be close to the time Bill will be putting his sign up sheet out for the Love of the Kids Fall picnic.

Fifth, I am reminded that these first weekends of October are the weekends we used to plant trees. How many did we have for our last big plant at Plano Senior High?, I don’t know. I do know, however, that we planted in an hour 400 trees. Go see.

And another high level board meeting, this with dad & daughter.

Then, closer to home & me there is Brent with his marvelous work as director of Souls Harbor. There is Hue. Do you realize that from 2005, when we started, Hue has been our sound man, Sunday after Sunday. Then there is Jan, our faithful hostess.

And finally the picture takers like Rick, Connie, Mike, and even Rosemary on occasion. Without everybody’s patience our blog without pictures would be pretty boring.

So, Leo, you are telling me that all these people knew today's password.

So, even if you are like me and cannot do all the works you would like, who gives you inspiration and faith in the goodness of others?

Welcome back home, Dearest Harper. It has been no fun without you while you were sick

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ByRosemary September 16, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

May God give you…
For every storm, a rainbow,
For every tear, a smile,
For every care, a promise,
And a blessing in each trial.
For every problem life sends,
A faithful friend to share,
For every sigh, a sweet song,
And an answer for each prayer.

An Irish Prayer

Cody reading from The Great Prophet Isaiah (2).

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Cody & Bill
- For The Team: Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
- For the Pictures: Rick & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & Cody
- For the Music: Ben & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
Special note on brunch: Will let everybody know in the Thursday blog. We need to get permission from Legacy & Becky.

Bill reading from James.

Birthdays: Sandra (78, Tuesday, a good age!), Claire Zurchin (33, Wednesday), Mary Jane Stevenson (Thursday) Tom & Teresa Quinn (last 2Thursdays); Warren Wittek (Last week)

Anniversaries:

David & Caroline (33^rd last Thursday)

Tom & Lynda (36th, Tuesday)

Mike & Geri (43^rd last Wednesday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week.

Remember these special people

For Bruno, Ray and Claire's son-in-law with a heart attack; For Tom Quinn’s brother,Tim, For Hue; For John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen; For Carol's recuperation; For Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Happy 33rd Anniversary, Caroline & David.

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; or Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen;

Happy 43rd, Mike & Geri. How do you do it, Geri, asks Rosemary.

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; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Thanks, Dearest, Emma, for being Our Candle Lighter of The Week.

Your Finances, September 16, 2018

Expenses: $1060.00

Outreach: $365.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

Thanks, Dear Gita, for flying  all the way from Germany to grace us with your presence.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Thanks, Dearest Buddy, for being The Best.

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.

Should we trust our precious bread & grape juice with these characters?
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Reminder for Sunday, September 16, 2018, 24th, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 12, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Says our pretty Victoria, "Welcome in Everybody."

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

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

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

Victoria's pretty sister, Zoe, earns a cupcake for lighting our candles this week.

Readings:

Isaiah 50, 4-9, The Lord opens my ear that I may hear.

Psalm 116,  I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the Living

James 2, 14-18, What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Mark 8, 27-35, Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself

Yes, The Best Team.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 14, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together), October, TBA

NOTE: no brunch this Sunday.

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Thanks for coming to visit us, Jim & Natalie. Come back again.

TRUE?

Love thy neighbor, even when he plays the trombone.

Jewish proverb

Who let these two out in public?

Anything happening in our Catholic World?
1. Interesting background on Cardinal Vigano's role in Nienstedt case, National Catholic Reporter, September 6, https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/vigan-s-role-nienstedt-case-scrutinized-anew-bishops-statement?utm_source=SEPT_6_ROEWE_VIGANO+MN&utm_campaign=cc&utm_medium=email
2. Time is up for Francis on pedophilia, Corpus, September 6, http://corpus-blog.blogspot.com/2018/09/editorial-times-up-on-pope-francis-and.html

Can anyone believe that these two characters have been married more than 40 years!

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Hue receiving The Community Blessing for his operation Wednesday.

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.

So, is Cody trying to join the choir by being buddy with Ben?
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Sunday Homily for September 9, 2018, 23rd Ordinary Time, B cycle
ByRosemary September 9, 2018

Thanks for bringing up our gifts this morning, Carrie & Paul & Mike.

Readings:

Isaiah 35, 4-7, Be strong, Fear not.  (Isaiah at his best!)

Psalm 146, Praise the Lord, My Soul.

James 2, 1-5, Did not God choose those who are poor?

Mark 7, 31-37, His speech impediment was removed.

Thanks, Dearest Zoe, for lighting our candles this Sunday morning.

Isaiah observations

This selection is from Isaiah 1. It is a time when Judah, the southern kingdom, is threatened by a powerful neighbor, Assyria (ever hear of this place today?) Isaiah saw that the real threat to the life of Judah was not simply the might of Assyria, but the Kingdom's own evil ways. Guess what is coming, the Babylonian Captivity.

Today's passage is much more on the hopeful side.

Thanks for reading our Blessing of The Candles this morning, My Dearest Georgie.

Be Strong, Fear not. He comes to save You.

I want to talk this morning about fearing not and being strong, because he comes to save us.

The summer of 1970 was the summer before I got ordained here in Dallas. I had two more years of theology study in Toronto. That summer of 1970 I was interning as a chaplain at Boston City Hospital in a Pastoral Counseling program run by Andover-Newton Theologate.

Welcome in, Natalie & Jim.

I lived in the Jesuit residence in Dorchester. There were about 4 of us Jesuits. Because a great Jesuit of the house worked with the kids of the neighborhood our house was a total safe zone. The younger kids would look through the windows of the dining room & living room during meals and when we had guests. We told them your car will not be touched if you park here and they know you are friends.

Remember the Plow Shares 5 and the draft board burnings that Summer? One of the guys lived with us.

I got The Best Team.

Every morning I would get up and walk to the hospital through the somewhat famous Roxbury area of Boston. I never had a problem. They knew who I was.

My day consisted of visiting patients, typing up interviews verbatim, and taking part in rather confrontational group sessions of 5 or 6 with a supervisor. I think I came close to getting kicked out for refusing to redo one of my verbatims.

My most favorite part of the day was visiting the patients. I loved this dynamic. There were some powerful sessions.

And we got The Best Music.

I remember especially one old tough white Bostonian, a former Catholic. I asked him what became my favorite question, How do you feel about dying?

For a day or so he said, No problem. Another day he tells me I’m going to hell when I die, but so be it.

You know why.   He and his first wife had divorced years ago. He married his recently deceased wife and had kids and a 25 year happy marriage.

For Hue our Total Community Blessing on your operation this Wednesday.

I could not believe it. This may have been my first with this phenomenon. I had already concluded that hell was a gimmick of the writers of the time and did not exist. It was good for keeping in line the people of the tribe.

Would you have sent that guy to hell, for ever?

What about you? Where you going?

I think the old guy died peacefully.

Okay, Joe, can we trust you to get that birthday cupcake home to Marsha.

On The Light Side: (A little old, but still good)

On their way to the church to get married, a young Catholic couple
were involved in a fatal car accident.

Being good Catholics the young couple find themselves sitting outside
the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven.

While waiting, they begin to wonder: could they possibly get married
in Heaven?

When St. Peter finally showed up, they asked him.

St Peter said "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked.
Let me go find out" and he leaves them sitting at the Gate.

After three months, St Peter finally returns, looking somewhat
bedraggled. "Yes" he informs the couple " I can get you married in
Heaven".

"Great!" said the couple "But we were just wondering, what if things
don't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?"

"You must be joking" says St. Peter, red-faced with
frustration, slamming his clipboard on the ground.

"What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple".

"OH, COME ON!" St. Peter shouted "It took me three months to find a
priest up here …..Do you have any idea how long it'll take me to find
a lawyer?"

Blame Ken Cramer for this, not Me!

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ByRosemary September 9, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

Loving God…

Give us hearts
where all may enter in,
ears to hear your call,
hands to do your will,
voices to sing your praise
and soul enough
to recognize You
in everything we do.

Taken from The Prayer for Those Who Dwell In A Monastery of the Heart by Joan Chittister

Connie reading from Isaiah

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Connie & John
- For The Team: Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
- For the Pictures: Rick & Connie
- For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue & Shonda & Cody
- For the Music: Ben & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
John reading from James.

Birthdays: Marsha Farmer (61, last Tuessday), Marilyn Ackerman (last Tuesday), Teresa Quinn (last Thursday); Warren Wittek

Anniversaries:

Kerry & Nina (31^st last Wednesday)

David & Caroline (33^rd last Thursday)

Mike & Geri (43^rd Wednesday)

Rob & Beth (44^th last Friday)

Aggie & Allen (51^st Today, Sunday!)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Remember these special people

For Bruno, Ray and Claire's son-in-law with a heart attack; For Tom Quinn’s brother,Tim, For Hue; For John O'Donnell & Mary Ellen; For Carol's recuperation; For Joe Mazzei's sister, Nina with cancer; For Dee and her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued recuperation; For a young man who is suffering from depression; For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry; For Rosemary's niece, Beth and her partner, Sarah with cancer; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;

Happy 31st, Nina & Kerry. You cannot be so old. They still card you?

For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom; or Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; for Frank’s brother with advanced Parkinsons; For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;  Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents; Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's Annie & Kaitlen;

Rob & Beth, you are not old enough to be celebrating The Big 44!

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; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

Alan, Aggie being up here is getting to be a routine. Next week?

Your Finances, September 9, 2018

Expenses: $ 1,215.00

Outreach: $ 490.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

Happy Birthday, Marilyn. I saved your cupcake from last week (& from Rosemary).

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Jim & Natalie, you deserve a cupcake for just trying to help John grow up. Sadly, you failed. He still acts like a kid.

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.

Thank you, Dearest Zoe, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week and for looking so pretty when you do it.
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