• Reminder for Sunday, July 1, 2018, 13th Ordinary Time

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    Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

     

     

     

    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

     

     

    Mike

     

     

    So, Mike, would you be saying that this church,  St. Monica in Cincinnati, is for sale?

     

     

    Readings:  

     Wisdom 1, 13-15, 2, 23-24, God did not make death; God formed man to be imperishable

     Psalm 30,   I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

     2 Corinthians 8, 7, 9, 13-15,  As you excel in every respect

    Mark 5, 21-43, Daughter, your faith has saved you.  Go in peace. 

     

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    The Best of Teams. 

     

     

    Community Activities:  

    ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 29, 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), July, TBA

     

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    Only 2 birthdays this last week of June??

     

     

    What is going on in Our Catholic World:

     Where is your voice, Catholic Bishops?,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-22-18,     Download BISHOPS 6-28-18

     

     

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    The picture gallery of contemporary significant people in America.

     

     

    True?

    A man needs a little madness or else he never dares to cut the rope and be free.

    Nikos Kazantzakis

    Zorba the Greek

     

     

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    The pictures are painted by the 5th grade kids.

     

     

    See you Sunday.

    J.S., 214-783-0443

     

     

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    Suit up time.

     

     

    JSM Mission-Faith Statement: 

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

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

     

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    A meeting of The Board of Directors.

     

  • Sunday Homily for June 24, 2018, Birth of John the Baptist, B cycle

     

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    Welcome in, Tori, so nice to see you.

     

    Readings:  

     Isaiah 49, 1-6, The Lord called me from birth.  (good ole Isaiah)

     Psalm 139,   I praise you for I am wonderfully made. (beautiful)

     Acts 13,22-26  To us this word of salvation has been sent.

    Like 1 57-66 80,   When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. 

     

     

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    Welcome, Everyone.  What a team!
     

     

    Isaiah observations:

    What:  The passage is another from Isaiah 2, the best of the 3 parts

    Our selection:  Another beautiful passage about a bright future.

     

     

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    Emma at work as our special candle lighter of the week.

     

     

    Happy 50th Anniversary, Bill Hammond

     

    Because it is Bill Hammond’s 50th Anniversary with Patty and because Bill is one of my best friends, I get to talk about him this morning.

    I do not even remember when it was that I began to hang out with Bill.  It seems like ages ago.  I do remember clearly, however, an event that changed my life.  The HHH, Hotter ‘N Hell Hundred.  The infamous bike ride out of & around the area of Wichita Falls, the last Saturday of August.

     

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    Georgie reading The Blessing of the Candles.

     

     

    I remember Bill calling and inviting me.  I told him I would think about it.  He said that he had everything I would need, even a bike.  I informed Rosemary, which was a mistake.  “You have been thinking about this for years.  Go!!”

    So we end up sleeping on our air mattresses on the grass around a big pavilion at Midwestern State U., where Kevin goes to school right now.   My only memory of that night: there was a bar across the RV parking lot and street.  It played loud music all night long.

     

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    Welcome back, Katie, so nice to hear your beautiful voice again.  Even with Ben.

     

     

    Then the fun began.  I got Bill’s extra bike, helmet, and special padded pants.  The now famous part: in the dim light of the parking lot I put the pants on backward and rode 20 miles before I turned them around in a port-a-potty.

    This even took place probably about 5 years before my hips in 2010.  And he is still my friend.

     

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    Hi, Zoe, it is so nice to see you and Emma playing again this week.

     

     

    A second reason why I love Bill is that he is a pest.  Just when I think I have a Saturday free from weddings, which I love to do, Bill says, “Hey, John, it is time for Love for Kids.” 

    Or I get introduced to Bona Responds and Jim Mahar, the service to others mad man.  This takes me to Galveston to help after the hurricane and, later, to Little Ax near OK City after the tornado up there.  I grieved that I could not go with the team to Dickinson, TX  these  past weeks.

    I always come home from these events a richer person.

     

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    The Offertory Team, Ken & Warren, Barbara & Cindy.  Thanks, you all.

     

     

    Finally, as I have already hinted at, Bill is over the edge generous.  The bike & equipment, the rides to recovery sites,   & the invitation to stay at his condo in Pagosa Springs for camping trips.

    This last camping trip he loaned me his extra back pack and tent because mine are worn out.  What do I do to show my appreciation?  I stuff his back pack so full I rip the fabric right down the middle.

     

     

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    That hand should not be able to be sticking through that back pack.

     

     

    Thanks, Bill, for being such a good friend, a pest, and so generous.

     

     

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    Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

     

    Prayer of Gratitude

     

    O Creator,

    Awaken my heart

        to the miracle of life that surrounds me;

        the beauty of friendship, family, and community;

        and the knowledge that I am forever held in your love.

    May I always remember to seek your grace in unexpected places,

    filling me with joy and gratitude for your abundant blessings,

    as I open myself to the Charity of Christ.

    Amen

     

    Sisters of Charity Center, Bronx, New York

     

     

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    Marsha reading from The Great Prophet, Isaiah (2).

     

     

    Thanks to these special people:  

    •    For  the Readings:   Marsha & Joe 
    •    For The Team:   Georgie, Buddy, & John
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
    •    For the Special Communion Cups: Cindy & Ken
    •    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Connie 
    •    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom  &  Jackie
    •    For the altar & sound:  Jackie  & Hue
    •    For the Music:     Ben  &  Katie
    •    For all who helped with Communion

     

     

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    Joe reading from Acts.

     

     

    Birthdays:    Harper (7, Tuesday), Camille Porter (Wednesday)

     

    Anniversaries

    Sandra & Chuck (57th, last Friday)

     

     

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    Rosemary reading her Blessing of the Week. 

     

     

     

    Remember these special people

    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 Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a  young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart problem.

     

     

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    Welcome back home, Hue, our beloved sound man.

     

    For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;   For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;   For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    For 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;

     

     

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    Welcome back, Angela, so nice to see you at our new venue.   And doubly nice to see you with your daughter, Julie.
     

     

     

    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.

     

     

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    That cupcake, Ben, is for your wife, Camille, not for you.  Can we trust you???

     

     

    Your Finances, June 24, 2018

    Expenses:    $1015.00

    Outreach:    $250.00

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

     

     

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    Happy 57th Anniversary, Sandra.

     

     

    Have a Great Week, J.S.

    (214-783-0443)

     

     

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    Thanks, Emma, 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.

     

     

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    Thanks, Brent, for the great work you do as director of Souls Harbor.  Sorry that the check is for $1500 instead of my hope to make it $2000 every month.   Collections are a bit down this summer

  • Reminder for Sunday, June 24, 2018, Nativity of John the Baptist

     

     

     

     

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    Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

     

    Fire danger

     

    This makes for a change of plans.

     

     

    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

     

     

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    On The Top, Ray, Rob, Bill, Stack, Rose, & Beth on the camera.

     

     

    Readings:  

     Isaiah 49, 1-6, The Lord called me from birth.  (good ole Isaiah)

     Psalm 139,   I praise you for I am wonderfully made. (beautiful)

     Acts 13,22-26  To us this word of salvation has been sent.

    Like 1 57-66 80,   When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. 

     

     

    Stream crossing

     

     

    Stream crossing at about 11 thousand feet.

     

     

    Community Activities:  

    ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 29, 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), July, TBA

     

     

    M.E.

     

     

    Welcome Home, Mary Ellen.

     

     

    What is going on in Our Catholic World:

     Check a good article on Immigrants & the Catholic Church,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-6-18,   click on the link:

     

    http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/CatholicReporter/default.aspx?href=NCR/2018/06/15&page=1 

     

     

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    Father's Day Blessing.

     

     

    True?

    Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

    Theodore Rubin

     

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    Anniversaries come with the Age: 60 years since entering the Jesuits, August 15, 1958;  47 years since ordination, June 12, 1971.

     

     

    See you Sunday.

    J.S., 214-783-0443

     

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    Peace, Paul.  Peace, Mike.

     

     

    JSM Mission-Faith Statement: 

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

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

     

     

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    Peace, Everybody.

  • Sunday Homily for June 11th, 2018, Ordinary Time

     

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    Welcome, Everybody!

     

     

    Readings:  

     Ezekiel   17, 22-24,   All the trees of the field will know…

     Psalm 130,   Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.

     2 Corinthians —  A special reading

     Mark 4, 26-34,   This is how  it is with the kingdom of God.  

     

     

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    Welcome to our Fathers' Day Special.

     

     

    Homily by John Cade:  

    Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is here all around us and, yes, it is miraculous, like the mustard seed or pine nut are miraculous. To Jesus’ listeners the gifts of nature, like the growth of plants, were a mystery, how they start out so little and somehow grow so big. This is how God’s Spirit works. From inside we are moved to grow, to mature, to share, to help create God’s kingdom. 

     

     

     

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    Emma sharing one of  her special gift, lighting our candles.

     

     

    Examples of people building the kingdom abound. We see each week this wall of portraits of people who were like us, regular people, and who also dared to love their neighbors however they met them: Like Mahatma Gandhi in India, standing for non-violent civil disobedience and for self-government for the Indian people; like Martin Luther King Jr. in the U.S., standing for racial equality and against unjust war; like Mother Teresa in India, serving the poor and outcast; like Oscar Romero in El Salvador, standing for his people against political tyranny and abuse; like Nelson Mandela in South Africa, standing for his native people of color against apartheid; like Cesar Chavez and Harriet Tubman in the U.S., Cesar standing against the unjust treatment of migrant workers and for the right to unionize, and Harriet standing for the freeing of slaves and risking her life supporting the ‘underground railroad’; and so forth with the others.

     

     

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    The Team.

     

     

    These people were, like us, born as regular people. They had eyes like us to see, and ears like us to hear, and they, each in their own way, imagined how they could help build up the kingdom of God in their time. We tend to make our heroes seem other-worldly, bigger than life. We put them on a pedestal, just out of our reach, just a bit too super to imitate. But this is an overly idealized view. Most people who actively build up the kingdom of God don’t get known as super heroes, don’t get their portrait on a wall.

     

     

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    The Doughertys, Connie, John, & home from college, Kevin.

     

     

    Like my sister-in-law who raised 2 children while working full time as a teacher and when her husband developed a brain tumor, being a caring partner in his journey. She now divides her time between helping her grown daughter, a single mom who has MS and a 3 year old son, and helping her 95 year old father, who is in failing health, to remain in his own home. 

     

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    The Best, Shonda, Ben, & David.

     

     

     

    Or like two young men and fathers I know who, though their marriages did not succeed, stay true to their mission to be fathers to their sons, participating wholeheartedly in their growth and development.

     

     

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    The Bresson Offertory Procession, Kevin, John, & Connie.

     

     

    These good people are builders of the kingdom of God visualized by Jesus. Look around. See all the ways people you know are building up the kingdom. How you help make the kingdom come in your time is limited only by the unlimited ways you can imagine it. It’s not how big a splash you make. It’s the love and courage and persistence of your choices and behaviors that make God’s kingdom come in our world in our time.

     

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    Welcome Home, Mary Ellen.  So nice to see you here with us all.

     

     

    Who have you seen building up God’s kingdom, and you can imagine their portrait on the wall? And when did you last imagine how you could build up this kingdom in your lifetime?

     

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    Thanks for being special to us all, My Dearest Emma.

     

     

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    Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

     

    Humankind, full of all creative possibilities,

    is God’s work.

    Humankind alone is called to assist God.

    Humankind is called to co-create.

    With nature’s help,

    humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life-sustaining.

     

    Hildegard of Bingen

     

     


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    Thanks to these special people:

    •    For  the Readings:   Patricia & John
    •    For The Team:   George, Buddy, & John
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
    •    For the Special Communion Cups:  John Cade
    •    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Connie & Barb
    •    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom  &  Jackie
    •    For the altar & sound:  Jackie 
    •    For the Music:     Ben & David & Shonda
    •    For all who helped with Communion
    •    For the Mass John

     

     

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    John reading John Cade's special 2nd reading from Michael Morewood.

     

     

    Birthdays:    Bill Ekes (62, last Monday),  Mary Esparza (last Thursday),   Bernadette

     

    Anniversaries

    Barb & Warren (39th, Saturday)

    Sandra & Chuck (57th Friday)

     

     

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    Rosemary reading her special blessing for Fathers' Day.

     

     

    Remember these special people

     

    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 Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a  young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart problem.

     

     

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    Happy Birthday, Bill.

     

     

    For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;   For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;   For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    For 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;

     

     

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    Happy Birthday, Bernadette.  Good as Viking?  At least!

     

     

    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.

     

     

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    Happy 39th, Warren & Barb.

     

     

    Your Finances, June 17, 2018

    Expenses:    $640.00

    Outreach:    $175.00

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

     

     

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    Special Blessing for all Fathers, actual & virtual.

     

     

    Have a Great Week, J.S.

    (214-783-0443)

     

     

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    John leads the Community Blessing.

     

     

    JSM Mission-Faith Statement  

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

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

     

     

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    The Special Blessing continues with everybody sharing in the act of blessing.

  • Reminder for Sunday, June 17, 2018, 11th Ordinary Time, B cycle

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    Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

     

     

     

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

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

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

     

     

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    Suit up time.

     

     

    Readings:  

     Ezekiel   17, 22-24,   All the trees of the field will know…

     Psalm 130,   Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.

     2 Corinthians 5, 6-10,  We are always courageous

     Mark 4, 26-34,   This is how  it is with the kingdom of God.   

     

     

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

     

     

    Community Activities:  

    ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 22, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.  Note: let’s skip this Friday.  We are all out of town.

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

     

     

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    CC's best helper and sister, Kayla.

     

     

    What is going on in Our Catholic World:

     5 Loves of Francis,  National Catholic Reporter via Corpus, 6-6-18,   Download FRANCIS' FIVE LOVES 9-14-18     


     

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    Happy Birthday, My Dearest Alison.

     

     

    True?

     

    How to survive a knife attack (very seriously helpful!)
     

      Download 2018-04-12-VIDEO-00000008

     

     

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    Happy 40th Anniversary of you being ordained a deacon, Dearest Mike.

     

     

    See you Sunday.

    J.S., 214-783-0443

     

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    John, this will give you a little something solid to go along with that rumored gin & tonic in your cast.   Congratulations on getting it done.

     

     

    JSM Mission-Faith Statement: 

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

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

     

     

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    Dana this is medicine guaranteed to help recuperation from a bike fall.

     

     

  • Sunday Homily for June 10, 2018, 10th Ordinary Time, B cycle

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    Hooray, The Team is back from vacation!

     

     

    Readings:  

     Genesis 3, 9-15,   The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—she gave me fruit from the tree.

     Psalm 130,   With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption

     2 Corinthians 4, 13-5, 1,  We have a building from God

     Mark 3, 20-35,   Who are my mother and my brothers? 

     

     

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    Tori says, "Welcome back, Everybody."   And we say to you, Tori, "Welcome home from your vacation.   It is more fun when you are here."

     

     

    Homily:  When Jesus Christ ascended to heaven in glory, we were not left as orphans.  The Father, through his Son, bestowed upon us his very Spirit to enable us to be Christ in the world.  Each of us has a different spiritual gift, and a different story.  But each of us has been graced, to grace others, for the glory of God.

     

     

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    While CC lights the candles, Georgie reads the Blessing of The Summer Candles.
     

     

     

    When John and Ro, and Judy and I ate lunch or dinner with others on our cruise, we came to the table with an expectation to listen to a feast of interesting stories.  And, we were not disappointed.  In reflection, I think that the four of us were gracious and good listeners, treating each story teller with compassion.

    Some evenings, and most lunches, one or more of us sat at a table with a couple that we hadn’t met before.  One lunch I sat across from two ladies who shared with me their story on how, why, and they met.  A softer voice came from the African American woman.  Both had become flight attendents for the same airline and had traveled the skys together for a couple of decades through good times and bad, those years when inappropriate language had been directed toward her best friend.  Both married years later; but every year they would find a time, such as this cruise, to be with one another.   Grace at work for the glory of God.

     

     

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    One evening we introduced ourselves to a man and woman traveling together who revealed that they had been good friends since grade school, but were not married. He had never married; her husband had passed a few years before.  Recently they had sought out one another and decided to take this cruise together. You couldn’t help but feel very happy for them.

    There was a woman who we invited to join us for dinner three evenings in a row.   Her husband began the trip sick and he would not leave their room until he felt well.  We daily cheered her up and on the fourth day she sat with us with her smiling husband who thanked us for watching over her.

     

     

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    Welcome back, John, and congratulations on finally getting your arm operated upon after the bike accident.   Is that a tazer or a weapon sticking out with the two straws?   Rumor has it there is gin & tonic in there, like pain med.

     

     

    One evening the four of us sat at a table with a young man and his mother.  She was probably the happiest woman in the cruise.  She had been asked by her son to spend a week with him on this cruise. She was so happy seeing and listening to him tell stories, some about her. Tears were often in her eyes as she smiled and quietly spoke to us.   I was struck with the question, ‘Why hadn’t I taken the opportunity to take my mother, just the two of us, on a trip?’

     

     

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    It has been tough doing the elevations without you kids to help me out. 

     

     

  • Announcements

    Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week 

     

    May we be blessed with the gift of contemplation

    of the blessings we have received

    and then put this appreciation into action to help others.

    And may there always be someone on our life’s journey

    to help us on your way.  

     

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    Thanks to these special people:

    •    For  the Readings:   Mary Jane & John
    •    For The Team:   George, Buddy, & Mike
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
    •    For the Special Communion Cups:  John Cade
    •    For the Pictures:   Rick  & Connie & Becky
    •    For the coffee and extras: Becky & Tom & Jackie
    •    For the altar & sound:  Jackie 
    •    For the Music:     Ben & David 
    •    For all who helped with Communion
    •    For the homily, Mike

     

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    John reading from 2 Corinthians. 

     

     

    Birthdays:    Bill Ekes (62, Monday), Alison (57, Thursday), Mary Esparza (Thursday), Deacon Mike ordained deacon 40 years ago today!

     

    Anniversaries

    Kent & Diane McClurg (46th, Today!)

     

     

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    Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week. 

     

     

    Remember these special people

    For Beth & 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 Rose's daughter in law Jamie; For a  young father of two & married, Paul Day, struggling with a heart problem.

     

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    Hi, Rookie, so nice to see you back, & you, too, Paul & Carrie.

     

     

    For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;   For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;   For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela & her mom;    For 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;

     

     

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     The Best Music, Ben & David.

     

     

    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.

     

     

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    Offertory time with John & Jim, Tom & Denni.

     

     

    Your Finances, June 10, 2018

    Expenses:    $565.00

    Outreach:    $220.00

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody 

     

     

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    Hi, Tori and Harper.  So nice to see you dear girls

     

     

    Have a Great Week, J.S.

    (214-783-0443)

     

     

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    Welcome to Legacy Charter School.  They even bought new chairs.

     

     

    JSM Mission-Faith Statement  

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

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

     

     

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    Says Zoe, "See everybody next week."

  • Reminder for Sunday, Jun 10, 2018, 10th Ordinary Time

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    Note: this Sunday we are meeting at Legacy Academy.

     

     

     

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

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

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

     

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    Going back packing, Colorado.

     

     

    Readings:  

     Genesis 3, 9-15,   The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—she gave me fruit from the tree.

     Psalm 130,   With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption

     2 Corinthians 4, 13-5, 1,  We have a building from God

     Mark 3, 20-35,   Who are my mother and my brothers?   

     

     

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    Want to join us?
     

     

    Community Activities:  

    ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 8, 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), July, TBA

     

     

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    Hurry up and get to Durango, our rendez vous, Monday morning.

     

     

    What is going on in Our Catholic World:

     Catholic position oon illegals,,  National Catholic Reporter, 5-22-18     Download CATHOLICS VS ILLEGALS 6-7-18


     

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    This Monday to Friday, a quickie this time.

     

     

    True?

    Know how to prevent sagging?

    Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.


     

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    Our new venue again, Legacy Charter School, K-12 

     

     

    See you Sunday.

    J.S., 214-783-0443

     

     

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    Do we have a secret here?

     

    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.