Mass:  Coffee & donuts & treats on the house.  Welcome!

 

Place: Vines High School, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence, west of Central Expressway.

Time: 9:30,  Fr. Tony celebrating

 

Readings: Acts 5, 12-16; Psalm118; Revelation 1, 9-10; John 20, 19-31

 

 

 

Community Bulletin Board: 

 

An excellent program for Married Couples.  Will be led by John Cade & his wife, Lambrini.  Download A New Way to Love

Rosemary & I hope to attend this 5 week program.  Seeing as I am told the Jesuits never taught me nothing about marriage.

 

 

Save the Date: May 1, Saturday evening, 6:00, Heritage Farm, our neighbor (15th, just east of Custer on the south side), Community party and 5th Anniversary of Rosemary and hubby.  Covered dish, renewal of marriage vows, music & dancing a la Hue, hay rides with mules, indoors and outdoors.

 

 

 

Download Clericalism and the Liturgy - Check this lengthy but insightful article about where we are in the Catholic Church 45 years after Vatican II.  From the National Catholic Reporter.

 

Picture 1:  The Music Machine, Wendy, Shonda, Ray, & Celeste

Picture 2:   Mike & his girls

Picture 3:   Morgan with Alexandra looking on

Picture 4:   Hannah, Lilah, & Alaina, Tony & Gayle's grand kids

Picture 5:   Penny with Easter Egg Hunter

Picture 6:  Emma with her mommy, Beth

 

 

 

 See you Sunday, 4-11-10

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

 

Mass: Coffee & juice, pastries & specials on the House.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with Stack.  Welcome. 

 Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side, Plano.

Readings:   Ezekiel, 34, 11-17,  I will look after and tend my sheep; Psalm 23, The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall want; 1 Corinthians 15, 20-28, Christ has been raised from the dead; Matthew 25, 31-46, The last judgement, He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

                                                                                                                                                                                            Picture  Picture 1:    Wedding of Jack & Jackie Carleson, 11-11-11, 11:00 A.M.                                              

Picture 2:    Baptism of Josh                     

Picture 3:    Rita's house                     

Picture 4:    The Scrapers     

Picture 5:    Diane & Jenny                                                

 Community Bulletin Board:

  A.  Schedule of upcoming events:  In an attempt to make our Advent special this year, we invite the community to focus on one gift to the less fortunate each of the 4 Sundays.  We will include a special reconciliation rite the 4th Sunday, Dec. 18.  See the flier.  Download Advent 2011

    1.  November 27, 1st of Advent.  The gift: Food.  Network of Community Ministries with help from Cindy & Ken Cramer.    

    2.  December 4, 2nd Advent.  The gift: Toys for Collin County Child Advocacy Center with Beth helping.   John Cade celebrates our Mass.

         December 10, Saturday, Love for Kids Christmas Party in Flower Mound for handicapped kids.  loveforkidsinc@yahoo.com

       3.  December 11, 3rd Advent.  The gift:  Blankets to The Bridge Homeless Shelter.  Also, Thanks Brunch in gratitude to our Board and particularly to Ron Kovatis, Penny Morrow, & Cathy Goode, who are retiring.  Special guest homilist, Jamie Rose. 

       4.  December 18, 4th Advent.  The Gift: Men's Shoes for the Austin Street Shelter.  Also, a special rite of reconciliation during our Mass.  Mike Carrell will share his ideas during the homily.

      5.  Christmas Eve, 4:00, December 24, Saturday.      

  

 What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.  Thanksgiving observations from Fr. McBrien, National Catholic Reporter, November 7, Download What to be thankful for this Thanksgiving 11-18-11

Picture 6:    Jenny & Melissa       

Picture 7:    Beth preping the front door for paint     

Picture 8:    Painters, Fred & Jerry   

Picture 9:    Jim with his block & tackle for pulling out the dead holly bushes   

Picture 10:   Without the dead hollies

Picture 11:   Michelle watering the Texas Sage, supposedly more drought resistant  

                           
 
True?

Love recognizes no barriers.

It jumps hurdles, leaps fences,

penetrates walls to arrive at its destination,
full of hope.

Maya Angelou

 
 
     

   Video: Final  Blessing

    

See you Sunday, November 20

J.S. (214-783-0443)

  

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

 

  

Amos 6:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!
1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
 Luke 16:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

 

Nothing we manage to amass here can change the value of what we really are underneath it all. “Why, snatch at wealth, and hoard and stock it?” Betty Paoli writes. “Your shroud, you know, will have no pocket.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

 

Another Reminder for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 2025

Here are the links for Sunday:
For Zoom   ( the video conference)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528744737?pwd=Te3cub31Q6XpNvUfzutHMgQ8JGqd42.1

Meeting ID: 885 2874 4737
Passcode: 412993

John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at 9:30 at
The ArtCentre of Plano,
902 E. 16th St, Plano, Texas.

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.

 

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice & specials on the house served afterwards.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack. Again, Welcome.

Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence.

Our Angels

 Readings:

Isaiah  60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem,  Your light has come.

Psalm 72,  Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Ephesians  3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs.

Matthew 2, 1-12, Magi from the east arrived.

 For those who don’t have a decent Bible or a book of the readings, here are two links that I use, The Bible at Your Fingertips and USCCB, The New American Bible. 

The difference?  The second is officially Catholic and has the 12 little books in between the O.T. & N.T., called Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha. 

Both are good translations.  I use the first more often because it has fewer doors to pass through to get to the text.  Thanks, Gerald, for this idea.  I will include the link from now on.

 

 Community Bulletin Board:

1.  This Sunday: Celebrate the First Sunday of The Year 2013.

2.  January 24, Thursday night, 8:00, Collin County Homeless Coalition is having their annual census of homeless.  We will have a sign up sheet at Mass.  Last year we had two teams of about 5 each. 

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.    5 Things to do to make a better 2013, America and Corpus, December 31, 1000 words,   Download AMERICA 1-4-13 

 

 

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you stronger; the other weakens you.

The Teachings of Don Juan Carolos Castañeda

 See you Sunday, January 6, 2013, First of The Year

J.S., 214-783-0443

  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.

 

 

 

True?

 
Mass:   Coffee, pastries, & specials on the house.  

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating, Ed Lamberty speaking

 Place:  Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side

Readings: Genesis 12, 1-4; Psalm 33, Lord, let you Mercy be on Us, as we place our Trust in You; 2 Timothy 1, 8-10; Matthew 17, 1-9

 

 
       
 

Picture 1:   Wendy, Shonda, Ray, & Jon                       

Picture 2:   Chuck & Rick

    

      

Community Bulletin Board:

1.   "All Kids Count" day from Bob McGrath, Download Bona Responds Flyer March 2011

 2.   We are donating $1000 to the Japan disaster via American Red Cross. 

 3.  Save the Date & Welcome: Our Annual Anniversary Party (6th), May 7, Saturday evening, 6:00, Heritage Farm, like last year. 

 

Church Happenings:

 1. Another Disaster, Philadelphia, National Catholic Reporter, 3-10-11, Download Philadelphia 3-18-11

2.   Why Philadelphia, National Catholic Reporter, 3-14-11, Download Philadelphia fallout 3-18-11

3.  New leader of the Bishops' Conference & why, Fr. McBrien, National Catholic Reporter, 3-16-11, Download Catholic Bishops' Conference 3-18-11 

Video:   Rosemary's Blessing

  

 
 True?

 It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the
 second one is up to you and no one else.  For example:

 

Now THIS Is A Great Commercial

          

 See you Sunday, March 20, 2011

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

   

 

 

 
Mass:   Coffee, donuts, & specials on the house.  

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating 

Place:  Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence, south side

 
 
 
  
 
Readings: Isaiah 7 10-14; Psalm 24, Let the Lord enter, He is King of Glory; Romans 1, 1-7; Matthew 1, 18-24 

 

 
 

Community Bulletin Board: 

Christmas Eve Mass: 4:00, Friday  

 
 
    

Need a Taxi during the holidays:  our man, Rick Turner, the best, Jackie Johnson's husband, 214-707-6536

  
  

Picture 1:   Wendy, Shonda, & Ben

Picture 2:   Community

Picture 3:    Sebastian with his grandparents, Carol & Richard

Picture 4:    Sienna & Robyn

Picture 5:     Dillon, Hunter, Audrey, & Granddad, Tony

Picture 6:     Taylor with her mom, Teresa

Picture 7:      Wendy in the brunch line

Picture 8:      Gilberto, Bernadette, Mike, & Geri

  
   

What's going on in The Church:

  1.  Christmas traditions and their origins, researched by Jim Swayze, Download Christmas traditions 12-17-10

 
 
 
 Picture 9:    John & Jean, John & Mary Jane, & Nina

Picture 10:   Warren & Barb & Diane .

 

True?  

 There is nothing on this earth
more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

 

 

See you Sunday, December 19