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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???
Read More Sunday Homily for August 26, 2018, 21st Ordinary Time, B cycle
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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.

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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Reminder for Sunday, August 26, 2018, 21st, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary August 22, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Harper says, "Welcome in, Everybody." Welcome to you, too, Harper.

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

Who has been into the coffee? Sir Charlie, that one one for me??

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.

Offertory Parade of Bressons, John, Jessica, Renee, & Connie. Missing only Kevin.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 24, 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), September,   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?

A SIGN IN A SHOE REPAIR STORE IN VANCOUVER READS:

o     We will heel you

o     We will save your sole

o     We will even dye for you.

The Ladies.

Anything happening in our Catholic World?
1. The Sex Abuse Explosion, National Catholic Reporter, August 15, Download SEX EXPOSE' 8-30-18
2. Demands for S. Bishops to resign, National Catholic Reporter, August 23, Download BISHOPS RESIGN 8-23-18
Hey, Charlie, thanks for the coffee. That is for me, yes? Want to kiss my first class relic?

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Says Leo, "See you next week, Everybody"

JSM Mission-Faith Statement:

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

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.
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Sunday Homily for August 19, 2018, 20th Ordinary Time, B cycle
ByRosemary August 19, 2018

Hi, Tori, Welcome back, you look beautiful.

Readings:

Proverbs 9, 1-6, Wisdom ha built her house.

Psalm 34, Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. (Wow, 2^nd week in a row, terrific)

Ephesians 5, 15-20, Watch carefully how you live.

John 6: 51-58,  I am the living bread.

Hi, Leo, Welcome back to you, too. You also look beautiful.

Proverbs:

What are they: a collection of moral & religious teachings in the form of pithy sayings. For example: "Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than to have a banquet in a house full of trouble" (17, 1); "Being cheerful always keeps you healthy" (17, 22).

Some a bit tough: "Don't hesitate to discipline a child. A good beating won't kill him" (23, 12).

Some amusing: "A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip" (27, 15); "Better to live on the roof than to share the house with a nagging wife" (25, 24).

Author: Maybe Solomon is behind chapters 1-29. Most likely a compilation.

Date: Ca. 300 BCE is considered a possibility with material coming from as far back as 900, during the time of Solomon.

Great job, Zoe. You, too, are a Super Candle Lighter.

Taste & See the Goodness of the Lord, part 2, or

Pet Delights, the inspirational column of Steve Blow, which I shared in the blog Thursday

Sorry, Folks, but I am going to do it again, namely, push the belief that we can taste and see the goodness of the Lord, every day.

This week for me it has been the White Rock Creek trail running from Royal & Greenville to White Rock Lake. It had rained last weekend, so the whole creek edge was a beautiful green. The lawn mower guys were out and where they had passed the rows & patterns made it super special.

Georgie reads our Blessing of the Candles. I hope you know, Dearest Georgie, how terrific I think you are.

We tunnel under 5 or six bridges on this trail. One for me is breath taking. Going north I come out of the Skillman tunnel, cross over a quaint steel & wooden bridge, look ahead for about ½ a mile, and see the trail meandering along often with other bikers, see a blue sky framed by a V of large green trees, and take in wilderness on my right and left. This cannot be Dallas. It takes my breath away.

Taste & See the Goodness of the Lord.

Another biking blessing came this week Friday, when I actually had enough stamina to keep up with Rosemary, who this year leaves me in the dust. It should be humiliating. I’m actually quite proud of her, remembering that Sunday when she crashed and ended up with 9 screws in her left elbow. As I tell her, the good professor is the one who sees his student do better than the old professor.

Sisters act, Jessica and Renee. Welcome home, Jessica, from Boston, and congratulations, Renee, upon becoming an officially licensed architect.

Then there is Jim Mahar, the professor at St. Bonaventure who set up Bona Responds. A great person always, but especially when he phones me about a story that touched him.

The scene: Sierra Leone. Jim has worked there and has organized a bit. One of his local teams was planning a talent show for kids to earn money. They had prizes for the winners. Until they were all stolen.

The police catch a guy. Jim’s man, who has been even accused of stealing the awards, goes to see the guy and explains what all the gifts are for. Jim even talks with the guy by phone.   He finally admits that he stole the awards and wants to give them all back.

The charges are all dropped and the guy even asks if he can join the group which is trying to help others with this talent show.

Welcome to Dallas, My Dear Paul. The last time we met up was at your wedding with Lori in Ashville, NC. Wish Lori had come with you.

When did you last Taste and See the Goodness of the Lord?

Communion with Jan on bread and Lynda on grape juice.

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ByRosemary August 19, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

As a dog runs, barks, jumps, and dances

when its happy;

Oh God …

Help us to remember that

You run, bark, jump, and dance for love of us every day.

Denni reading from Proverbs.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Denni & Tom
- 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
- For the Music: Ben & Shonda & David
- For all who helped with communion
Tom reading from Ephesians.

Birthdays: Lynda Fleming (last Wednesday, 58),

Anniversaries:

Bernadette & Gil (53rd, Tuesday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Remember these special people

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.

Happy Birthday, Dear Lynda.

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;

Happy 53rd Anniversary, My Dear Bernadette & Gilbert.

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.

Thanks, Dearest Zoe, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week. You are looking beautiful.

Your Finances, August 19, 2018

Expenses: $930.00

Outreach: $335.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

After all the pictures you take week after week, thanks, Rick, for letting us all have a picture of you.


Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

The Best, Shonda, Ben & David.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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

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

Good Karma to you, Kevin, on your next year of college. It has been delightful having you around this summer.
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Reminder for Sunday, August 19, 2018, 20th, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary August 15, 2018

Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Jan, The Most Welcoming Person, says, "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

Here, Buddy, let me get that bug out of your ear.

Readings:

Proverbs 9, 1-6, Wisdom has built her house.

Psalm 34, Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. (Wow, 2^nd week in a row, terrific)

Ephesians 5, 15-20, Watch carefully how you live.

John 6: 51-58,  I am the living bread.

Sir Charlie, I am scared with you standing there so close to me.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 17, 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), September, TBA



Wake up, Joe. Just because Marsha is not here you think you can sleep during my homily.

TRUE?

I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair.

He turned to me and asked, "Are you having it catered?"

And that, my friend, is the sad definition of "OLD".

You are lucky, John. When I was supposedly growing up in Christ the King parish, they had ushers who knocked sleepers on the head when they got caught sleeping during the sermons of old Monsignor Bender. How come we got so many sleepers this morning, John?

Anything happening in our Catholic World?

1. Why not report clerical sexual harassment, America, 8-1-18,   Download SEXUAL SECRECY 8-16-18

2. Steve Blow used to write column for the Dallas Morning News. On at least two occasions, one of which was our wedding, Steve wrote me up & we became friends. John Cade came across this article, which I had never seen. It is a homily subject. It will make your day. Enjoy.   Download PET DELIGHTS 8-15-18

Donna, Bernadette, and Dana, I don't even want to ask what is going on there. You even got Cody and Ben watching.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace, Everybody.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement:

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

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

And even more Peace, Everybody.

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Sunday Homily for August 12, 2018, 19th Ordinary Time, B cycle
ByRosemary August 12, 2018

Welcome, Everybody.

Readings:

1 Kings 19:4-8, Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert.

Psalm 34, Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:30-5,2, Be kind to one another

John 6: 41-51, I am the bread of life

Emma doing her Candle Magic.

Kings: a review–

Subject: The kings of Israel. The Big 3 kings were Saul, David, & his son Solomon. The 2 Books of kings follows the 2 Books of Samuel, which describe the lives of the the kings up to the death of the Great King David, my favorite. 1 & 2 Kings takes up the life of Solomon, David's son, his building of the temple, his death, and the fate of the kingdom following his death, that is, it divides and is conquered.

Time Period:  from ca. 900 – 555 before Christ, or from Solomon to Nebuchadnezzar & Cyrus.

Hue reading our Blessing of the Summer Candles.

Authors: a compilation of many sources that was put together at the end of the Babylonian Captivity, ca. 555 before Christ.

Our Selection: focus is on one man, the prophet Elijah. The kingdom has already been split. Our story takes place in the northern state, Israel. Time of severe drought. The king is Ahab; his queen, the famous Jezebel. The prophet Elijah has scolded them for turning to false gods to end the drought.

Welcome, Dear Sandra.

There has been a contest in chapter 18: Elijah vs the 450 prophets of Baal, ultimately to see which side would be more effective in bringing rain. 2 bulls were slaughtered. Naturally, Elijah wins when Yahweh answers his prayer, sends down fire, and consumes the bull Elijah has slaughtered. When he wins, he slaughters the 450 prophets of Baal.

We enter at a point where Jezebel is furious with Elijah for killing her favorite prophets and aims to kill Elijah. He is going to run away all depressed.

What a Team! It don't get no better.

Taste & See the Goodness of the Lord

I want to talk this morning about one of my favorite themes, namely that we can see, hear, and be touched by the presence of the Lord every day. As the Psalm says & I believe, we can taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Two examples.

Our Special Ekes' Offertory Team, Cindy, Bill, & Marlene.

As you all know Rosemary with her buddy, Barbara, delivers Meals on Wheels every Thursday. They visit 15 to 20 clients every week in the general area of Spring Valley east of Coit. Among their clients, whom they love, is a elderly Vietnamese.

While the apartment complex in which he lives is somewhat worn down, he is scrupulously neat and clean. He has planted flowers and grass outside his door. In fact, he trims the grass with scissors.

Elevation time.

The man heard about rental bikes and thought it would make his trips to the grocery store much easier. A good idea until he discovered that a credit card was needed.

There must be a Vietnamese radio station in town. So he calls up to voice his disappointment.

Thursday when Rosemary & Barbara bring him his food for the day, what do they find in the living room? A new bike, complete with a lock, an air pump, and bike stuff all from some family that was listening to the radio station.

Taste and See the Goodness of the Lord.

Play Station #1.

One final story from this year’s Ragbrai. This story comes from David.

On Monday, the second day of riding, we rode from the overnight town of Dennison to Jefferson, a ride of 70 miles or so. Along the route there are always vendors, both in the lovely little towns we pass through and just on the shoulder of the road or in a big field. My favorite, of course, is the Amish site with ice cream & pie.

Another favorite, as you may imagine, is the craft beer garden. There will be 3-4 scattered along the road and the crowds are enormous. You have to be really careful riding by because of all the off going and in coming bikers.

Play Station #1 revisited.

Somewhere along the road to Jefferson David stops. He gets a beer and is talking to a couple of guys from Grinnell College, just east of Des Moines (French for monks). One of the guys is looking for a potty seat for his kid.

Why a potty seat on a bike ride of 70 miles. From David: " Both guys had their families riding. One of the families had a 2-3 year old girl who rode in a compartment on her mom's handle bar. The little girl was potty training and the parents did not want to confuse her and loose ground. They had a potty seat but it had gotten lost in their sag wagon pick up truck." (Homily by committee.)

Our Special Welcoming Committee: Jan can do it all.

So they go on down the road and end up at the Catholic Church in Jefferson, our overnight town.   Guess why. Lasagna! I stopped, too, but later.

One of the Church volunteers, a guy, hears that the Grinnell guy is looking for a potty seat. He has one & it is not being used. He can go get it. “Be back in an hour & a half,” he says. He lives 35 miles away.

When did you last Taste & See the Goodness of the Lord?

Our Beloved Music Team, Shonda, Ben, & David.

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ByRosemary August 12, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

Lord

Enlighten what’s dark in me,

Strengthen what’s weak in me,

Mend what’s broken in me,

Bind what’s bruised in me,

Heal what’s sick in me,

And lastly,

Revive whatever peace and love

Has died in me.

Amen.

Author Unknown.

Jean reading 2 Kings

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

Birthdays: Lynda Fleming (last Wednesday, 58), Marlene Ekes, & Carrie ( from last week)

Anniversaries:

John & Jean O’Donnell (60^th, Thursday)

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Remember these special people

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.

Happy Marvelous 60th Anniversary, John & Jean

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;

Happy Birthday, Marlene, to a Great Hostess.

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 Birthday, Carrie, and thanks for the delightful party last Sunday.

Your Finances, August 12, 2018

Expenses: $965.00

Outreach: $630.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

This cupcake is to help you, Harper, celebrate your mom & dad's wedding anniversary, a wedding I am pretty sure I performed.



Have a Great Week, J.S.

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