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ByRosemary July 8, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

Looking behind I am filled with gratitude.

Looking forward I am filled with vision.

Looking upwards I am filled with strength.

Looking within I discover peace.

Quero Apache Prayer

Mary reading from the Prophet Ezekiel.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Mary & Frank
- For The Team: Georgie & Buddy
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Jan & Charlie
- For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
- For the coffee and extras: Mike & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Katie & David
- For all who helped with Communion
Frank reading from 2 Corinthians

Birthdays:    Paul Bieda (59, today), Cindy Cramer (79, Monday), Joe Gorham (83, Saturday), Caroline Grattifiori (54, Saturday)

Rosemary sharing the financial report and her Blessing of The Week.

Anniversaries

Ron & Marilyn (55^th, Friday)

Jan & Charlie (56^th, last Thursday)

Thanks, Dearest CC, for lighting our candles.

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.

Happy 7th Birthday, Harper, & congratulations on going to a week of summer camp. More than I could do when I was even a bit older than you.

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;

Happy 55th Anniversary, Dear Ron & Marilyn.

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, Dearest Caroline.

Your Finances, July 8, 2018

Expenses: $1100.00

Outreach: $ 435.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Many thanks to Jason's Deli for donating the coffee this week.

Happy 56th Anniversary, Dear Jan & Sir Charlie. How do you do it, Jan???

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Happy Birthday, Dear Joe.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

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

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

Happy Birthday, Dearest Cindy. You beat me to 79 by just a bit.
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Reminder for Sunday, July 8, 2018, 14th, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary July 4, 2018
Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Happy 4th of July, let the parade begin.

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

Happy 4th to you, Beth & Emma, and welcome in.

Readings:

Ezekiel 2, 2-5, Son of Man, I am sending you to the Israelites, rebels.

Psalm 123, Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy

2 Corinthians 12, 7-10, A thorn in the flesh was given to me.

Mark 6, 1-6, A prophet is not without honor except in his native place

Welcome, Atlas, to your first ever 4th of July Celebration. Your daddy, Brandon, will tell you all about it.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 6, 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

Congratulations again, Wendy & Brandon. What a wonderful little boy.

What is going on in Our Catholic World:
1. 5 things you can do to help the immigrants, America, , 7-5-18, Download FIVE THINGS 7-5-18
2. Soul searching in a difficult time, National Catholic Reporter, 7-5-18, Download SOUL-SEAECHING 7-5-18
Could this be a case of child kidnapping???

True?

Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked,

"How old was your husband?"

"98," she replied: "Two years older than me"

"So you're 96," the undertaker commented.

She responded, "Hardly worth going home, is it?"

I think so! Is that a funny man, Atlas?

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

The Healing Touch.

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

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

Our Father.

Peace, Everybody.
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Sunday Homily for July 1, 2018, 13th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary July 1, 2018

Here he is, Everybody, the baby we have been waiting eagerly to meet. Welcome in, Atlas, we are all so happy to meet you. You are marvelous, just like you mom & dad.

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.

Welcome back, Wendy & Brandon, and congratulations on a marvelous little boy.

Wisdom observations:

One of the 14-15 books of the deutero-canonical books of the bible. Not part of the orginal Jewish bible, not part of the OT nor the NT, but in between and the subject of controvercy over the cenuries. Were they really part of the bible or not? How do you know? Catholic church accepts the books.

Author: not Solomon, but a Jew living in Alexandria, Egypt, who spoke and wrote excellent Greek.

The Best Music with Wendy & Katie.

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

Sources: Catholic Encyclopedia on line

With Patricia reading the Blessing, Emma does her candle magic.

You can do it too

In the gospel today Jesus gives life to a little girl. I would like to propose that you can give life, too.

I have a story for you from my Dallas Morning News columnist friend, Steve Blow. I saw his touching story some years ago. In fact, Steve is retired & I miss his thoughts..

Offertory with Mary & Sydney & Hugh.

Ever hear of Fausta Twizerimana or Dolena Westergard? Well, 10-11 years ago Fausta flew into Dallas and arrived exhausted one evening at the East Dallas Grace United Methodist Church. She, her five siblings, and her parents were from a refugee camp in Tanzania, where I lived for about 10 years. Fausta was 4.

The Church welcomes refugees and this particular evening Dolena Westergard was there. Dolena met the family and picked up Fausta. She fell in love. '

They are moving in, Folks, Beth & Rob, Sir Charlie & John

The family continued to attend the church and fitted into the fabric of the community. Dolena watched Fausta and noticed that the girl had a gift for dancing. She was always doing it.

After four years of watching the girl dance, Dolena, who was now really a god mother to the kids, enrolled Fausta in the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Fausta, now 8, fell in love, too. Never did she miss a session for the next four years.

Wendy & Katie, you have been missed around here.

Then, along comes 2015 and a notice goes up that the Dance Theatre of Harlem was coming to Dallas to audition for positions in their summer workshop.

Fausta has been dancing now for 4 years, is 12, and Dolena thinks it would help the girl just to learn how to audition. No expectations.

You guessed it, Fausta gets selected.

It is cupcake of the week time, 3 cupackes and 1 Bellvita.

Fine, but who is going to buy plane tickets for Fausta and a chaperon, plus about $3,000 in expenses? This is New York, after all.

You guessed it again, Grace United Methodist. That night Fausta sat in a Broadway theatre to watch an African story, The Lion King.

Grace United Methodist gave life to Fausta, and, in particular, Dolena gave life to Fausta.   I even read that Prestonwood Baptist is giving life to the kids in the detention centers.

Congratulations again, Brandon, on such a marvelous kid.

This week families & people all over the country are trying to give life to the kids separated from their mothers and fathers.

Just like Jesus gave life to that little girl and to the woman who touched him.

To whom do you give life?

Wake up, Brandon, it is homily time, yeah.

Source: Dallas Morning News, Steve Blow, Metro section, circa July 1, 2015

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ByRosemary July 1, 2018
Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week

Lord

May we never take our freedom for granted

and help us to strive so that this same freedom

may be experienced by everyone in our country,

especially the poor and the oppressed,

and eventually by all humankind.

Andrew Greeley A Book of Irish American Blessings and Prayers

Tom reading from Wisdom.

Thanks to these special people:
- For the Readings: Tom & John
- For The Team: Vacation time
- For the Communion Bread: Alison
- For the Special Communion Cups: Cindy & Ken
- For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth
- For the coffee and extras: John Cade & Jackie
- For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
- For the Music: Katie & Wendy
- For all who helped with Communion
John reading from 2 Coronthians

Birthdays: Brent (62, Wednesday), Carol Eshelbrenner (Thursday), Kim (Saturday)

Anniversaries

Jan & Charlie (56^th, Thursday)

Rosemary reading the financial statement and 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.

Thanks, Emma, for always being willing to be our Candle Lighter of The Week.

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;

Happy 62nd Birthday, Brent, and thanks especially for giving Life to so many men in recovery.

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, Carol, and thanks for being such a gracious and courageous women for all of us.

Your Finances, July 1, 2018

Expenses: $870.00

Outreach: $615.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

Financial Report for Q1 2018:

Expenses Download Blog Operations Q1 2018

Outreach Download Blog Outreach Q1 2018

My Dearest Atlas, you have two marvelous parents.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

Watch out, Folks, she is back, Cathy with Judy.

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.

Peace, Everybody from Mike & Carol.
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Reminder for Sunday, July 1, 2018, 13th Ordinary Time
ByRosemary June 27, 2018

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

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.

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

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

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

The pictures are painted by the 5th grade kids.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

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.

A meeting of The Board of Directors.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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ByRosemary June 24, 2018
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

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
Joe reading from Acts.

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

Anniversaries

Sandra & Chuck (57^{th, last} Friday)

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.

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;

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.

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

Happy 57th Anniversary, Sandra.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

(214-783-0443)

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.

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
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Reminder for Sunday, June 24, 2018, Nativity of John the Baptist
ByRosemary June 20, 2018

Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

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

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 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

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

Father's Day Blessing.

True?

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

Theodore Rubin

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

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.

Peace, Everybody.

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Sunday Homily for June 11th, 2018, Ordinary Time
ByRosemary June 17, 2018

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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ByRosemary June 17, 2018
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

Patricia reads from the Prophet Ezekiel

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
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 (39^th, Saturday)

Sandra & Chuck (57^th Friday)

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.

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;

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.

Happy 39th, Warren & Barb.

Your Finances, June 17, 2018

Expenses: $640.00

Outreach: $175.00

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody

Special Blessing for all Fathers, actual & virtual.

Have a Great Week, J.S.

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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.

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