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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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Reminder for Sunday, September 9, 2018, 23rd, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 5, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

This kids sings!   Stay away from Shonda & Ben, please. I don't want to lose you to the choir.

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

Those twins are disturbing the peace again!

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.

What's up, Tori? Where are you racing off like to the First Prize? Somebody call your name or something?

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 7, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.

Wow!! Now we know. How did you know a cupcake was awaiting you?

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together), September 7,   Hi Everyone,

Hope you are having a good summer. We are in Rochester where it is cooler and having a great time.

I have set up our next Juliets Luncheon for Friday, September 7th at Ocean Seafood and Grill at 12:00 Noon. Please let me know who will be attending. I have called in a reservation for 18 already. It is a BYOB and the food very good and reasonable. This is always a favorite restaurant. Hope to see all of you then.

Don't have the exact address with me but it is on Spring Creek and Coit Road behind the Chic-fil-A in Plano.

See ya soon, Marilyn

Our Father.

TRUE?

Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

Healing touch, even for disturbers of the peace.

Anything happening in our Catholic World?
1. The Path to purification, National Catholic Reporter, August 30 https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-its-time-choose-painful-path-purification
Healing Touch for Meredith.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

She is taking over!

JSM Mission-Faith Statement:

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

Peace, Everybody.
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Sunday Homily, September 2, 2018, 22nd, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary September 2, 2018

Welcome in, Cody & Ben. So good to see you.

Readings:

Deuteronomy 4, 1-2, 6-8, Moses said to the people…

Psalm 15, The one who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.

James 1, 17-18, 21-22, 27, All good giving is from above.

Mark 7, 1-8, 14-15, 21-23, You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.

Welcome in, daughter & dad, Michelle & Gilbert. So good to see you, too.

Homily: Our gospel begins with Jesus being rather upset about the traditions of the elders and their legalism that disregards goodness, justice and compassion. Based on last Sunday’s story in the Dallas Morning News about abuse that still hasn’t been addressed by our hierarchy, our male leaders are not practicing love, or common sense.

Thanks, Tori, for being a super candle lighter.

The Church states a human tradition when it says a priest cannot be married, for this should not be so, for Peter was married in the Good News of Jesus Christ, and Paul’s Letter to Timothy is quite clear when it addresses the lifestyle of a bishop with these words: A bishop is to be blameless; the husband of one wife.

Thanks, Georgie, for reading The Blessing of the Candles

Likewise, the Church states a human tradition when it says that women can not be ordained, but this too is not so, for St. Paul identifies Phoebe in his letter to the Romans, as a deaconess that he works with, and the inspired writers of the Mark and John gospel both identify a servant whose ministry is that of a deaconess.

The Best music, Shonda & Ben.

With what can I compare today in the Church to the hundreds of minor legalistic, human traditions held by the Jewish elders that caused Jesus to be upset? Recently there is a law in the Church that the Easter Candle can’t be placed in front of or beside the altar unless it was 100 percent bee’s wax, and one of our most prominent cardinals has recently made a Church law that the most expensive and tasteful wine affordable should be used for the altar wine.

Team mates and Big Sister & Younger Brother, Georgie & Buddy.

Besides all of these human traditions, the theologians of the Church have added one of their own. In the Mark gospel there are only two references to Mary as a mother. In the first one she thought that Jesus was going out of his mind. His response to those who had surrounded him, was this, ‘Who is my mother, brother, and sister?’ Those who welcome and live my words.’

Mary is also referred to only twice in the John gospel, and again not by the name Mary, but only as mother.

Mike homilizing on the readings. Thanks for your ideas, Mike.

The Matthew and Luke gospels have what we call infancy narratives. In both, Mary gives birth to Jesus Christ. So far, so good and wonderful. However, in the John gospel we are taught that God is spirit, and from the very beginning [of everything] he, the Word, Jesus Christ, is spirit, in oneness with God the Father. We know that Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ; but how can this be since he is spirit?’   The answer is this: the inspired writers have made Mary a metaphor in the Matthew, Luke and John gospels. As the written expectation of the Law, Prophets, and Psalms for the coming of the Messiah, she gives birth to the written Good News of Jesus Christ, where he is present through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Offertory Team, Becky, Grace, & Tom.

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ByRosemary September 2, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars.
Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings.
Now, think.
What delight God gives to humankind
with all these things. . . .
All nature is at the disposal of humankind.

We are to work with it.

Hildegard of Bingen

Patricia reading from Deuteronomy.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Patricia & Richard
- 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: Becky & Tom & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ben & Shonda
- For all who helped with communion
Richard reading from James.

Birthdays: Marsha Farmer (61, last Tuessday), Marilyn Ackerman (last Tuesday), Teresa Quinn (last Thursday); Aggie Stryker (Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Kerry & Nina (31^st Wednesday)

David & Caroline (33^rd Thursday)

Rob & Beth (44^th Friday)

Dee & Mike (61^st Friday)

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;

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;

Happy Birthday, Aggie.

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; 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 61st Anniversary, Dee, to you and Mike. I feel his presence with us.

This week we donated $2,000.00 to Soul's Harbor.

Your Finances, September 2, 2018

Expenses: $ 855.00

Outreach: $ 245.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

This cupcake is for you, Buddy, for being such a neat kid and faithful helper.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Thanks, Tori, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week and a special girl.

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.

$2000 to you, Brent for the wonderful work that is Souls Harbor.

What makes me think you two are having too much fun back there!
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Reminder for Sunday, September 2, 2018, 22nd, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary August 29, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Anybody know who this crazy girl is?

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

After 56 years, Ken & Cindy.

Readings:

Deuteronomy 4, 1-2, 6-8, Moses said to the people…

Psalm 15, The one who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.

James 1, 17-18, 21-22, 27, All good giving is from above.

Mark 7, 1-8, 14-15, 21-23, You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.

Ye olde Candle Team.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 31, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. Even Mike is back!

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together), September 7,   Hi Everyone,

Hope you are having a good summer. We are in Rochester where it is cooler and having a great time.

I have set up our next Juliets Luncheon for Friday, September 7th at Ocean Seafood and Grill at 12:00 Noon. Please let me know who will be attending. I have called in a reservation for 18 already. It is a BYOB and the food very good and reasonable. This is always a favorite restaurant. Hope to see all of you then.

Don't have the exact address with me but it is on Spring Creek and Coit Road behind the Chic-fil-A in Plano.

See ya soon, Marilyn

The Healing Touch.

TRUE?

By whom? Guess.

This cupcake, Georgie, is from the community and says, "Thanks for being so special."

Anything happening in our Catholic World?
1. Who is this Cardinal Vigano?, National Catholic Reporter, August 28 https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/who-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano
2. I stood up in Mass and confronted, August 24, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/i-stood-up-in-mass-and-confronted-my-priest-you-should-too.htm , Also, from a good friend of mine, a personal story Download Stand up
Our Father.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace, Aggie.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement:

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

Peace, Everybody.
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Sunday Homily for August 26, 2018, 21st Ordinary Time, B cycle
ByRosemary August 26, 2018
"Welcome in, Everybody," says Zoe, and welcome to you, too, Dearest Zoe. Who is that peeking around the edge?!

Readings:

Joshua 24, 1-2, 15-17, 18, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord.

Psalm 34, Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. (Wow, 3rd week in a row, terrific)

Ephesians 5, 21-32, Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.   (Yipee, sounds good to me. Make sure Rosemary is listening to this!)

John 6:60-69,  This saying is hard; who can accept it.

And Welcome to you, too, Dearest Tori.

Joshua:

Who is Joshua and what is this booklet about:  Joshua was Moses' assistant, his lieutenant when the the Israelites wandered in the desert. The booklet is the story of the Israelite invasion of Canaan under Joshua's leadership.

Author: somewhat amusingly, the fundamentalists say that Joshua wrote most of the booklet. More scientific scholars say the work is a compilation of a number of sources.

Our Magic Candle Lighter of The Week at work.

Date of composition: again fundamentalists state that the booklet was composed 1400-1370, i.e., while Joshua lived. Scholars of a broader vision suggest that even if a Joshua existed the work was put together 800-700 BCE.

The work combines a number of traditions about battles & destruction of cities to create a nationalistic narrative that justifies the Israelites' taking another peoples' land for their own.

So from where did we get this group of characters to bring up the bread and grape juice.

Ethical Question: genocide.  This is a bloody book. Yahweh commands that the Israelites exterminate every breathing thing, including women & children & livestock.

The battle of Jericho is characteristic. For 6 days the Israelites marched around the city, blowing horns and menacing the people. On day 7 they marched around 7 times and the walls came tumbling down, as in the spiritual. Then every person except one woman & her family were slaughtered. Lots of debate and rationalization over these events.

Our Selection: The last chapter of the booklet. Joshua, who is dying, calls the people together at a place called Sechem and puts it to them. Stick with Yahweh who has done all these things for you (which are mentioned in the text but are long & tedious) or choose another path of your own.

Sources: Good News Bible, Got Questions.org, Wikipedia

Play Station Number 1. Sir Charlie, how come you are not here also?

Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord

Sounds good to me, Folks.   However, when I bring this up to Rosemary, what do I get? “Want to start sleeping in the back yard dog kennel tonight? Even my mom was not impressed with this little statement of Paul. Just ask my poor dad.

And guess what: I married my mom. So much for the joy of being a married priest.

The Best Team.

Some years ago while I was waiting in a line to ride the roller coaster at 6 Flags I overheard a husband telling his wife to obey him because of this passage, he was the head of the house and the Bible says it. I almost dropped my teeth.

The family, mom, dad, and two young girls were trying to decide something. Finally, even the wife says to the girls that they have to obey the man. He is the head.

So, how do we handle this, especially when we are repelled by the idea.

The Best Music with Ben & David.

Perspective!   Traditionally there are three types of family relationships. This is fairly simple.
1. Matriarchal: the woman/wife is the head of the family. Culturally this has been established occasionally and in some places.
2. Patriarchal: the husband is the head.
3. .Equality: both are partners, husband and wife.
Shall we dance?

Paul's place: guess which paradigm Paul comes from? Paul lives in a culture which considered women & children little more than domestic animals. In Tanzania I found the same paradigm among the ordinary people. This paradigm has been followed more probably because men are physically stronger and don’t hesitate to maintain control with physical violence.

Even though today Paul can sound wako & chauvanistic, what he says about husbands loving their wives as they love their own bodies, this was pretty radical.

Yes, I would love to dance.

Today: all three of the paradigms are valid. Among most educated people, however, equality between husband & wife, men & women is the more healthy. Besides, as we know, women just won’t let us guys get away with it.

Certainly with education for both men and women, there is equality.

So, again, beware of taking the Bible literally. Like beating your kids.

The Terrible Ekes, Cindy, Marlene, Mabel, Billy, & especially Mabel.

What paradigm do you prefer???
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ByRosemary August 26, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

May the day never burden.

May dawn find hope in your heart,

Approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities, and promises.

May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.

And may you go into the night blessed, sheltered, and protected.

To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue

Mary Jane reads from Joshua.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Mary Jane & John
- 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: Becky & Tom & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Ben & David
- For all who helped with communion
John reads the great passage from Ephesians (Mary Jane refused, if you can believe it!).

Birthdays: Marsha Farmer (61, Tuessday), Marilyn Ackerman (Tuesday), Teresa Quinn (Thursday)

Anniversaries:

Ken & Cindy (56^th, Saturday)

Rosemary reads her Blessing of the Week.

Remember these special people

For Bruno, Ray and Claire's son-in-law; 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; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Margie McKeon.

After 56 years and still going. Happy Anniversary, Ken & Cindy.

For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 35, sick & don't know why; 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;

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

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; 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.

If you have to go to L.A. to find your dream job, Darbi Ann, this cupcake will hold you over until you get back. They don't have cupcakes like these in L.A.

Your Finances, August 26, 2018

Expenses: $ 2,237.00

Outreach: $ 244.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

Georgie, this cupcake comes to you with the love of the community and their appreciation of all you do week after week. You are The Best, Dearest Georgie.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Peace, Everybody, especially from Patricia & Jackie.

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      Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world we live in a better place to live.
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