Reminder for Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2nd Advent, A Cycle

 

 

Bernadette & Michelle, mother & daughter, say, "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: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

Hi, Sophia, so nice to have you back, you and your dad.

 

Readings:

Exodus  34, 4-6, 8-9,  A God merciful and gracious, never gets angry, rich in kindness and fidelity.

Psalm, Daniel 3, Glory and praise for ever.  

2  Corinthians 13, 11-13, Live in peace and the God of love and peace will be with you.

 John 3, 16-18,   Peace be with you; receive the Holy Spirit. 

 

 

The Best, Emma.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 9, 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), For June,   Hi Everybody

Please Save the Date: Thursday Evening June 8th

Marcus Cafe, 2701 Custer Rd. Richardson

6:00 P.M.

We would like to change to Thursday Evening in June so all the working gals can be included.  We will be eating on their lovely patio. The food is very good and we can enjoy some great music while we sip and dine.  More information to follow.

Marilyn

 

Eric & Dana, whatever Cathy says about me, do not believe a word.

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Knights’ Money,   National Catholic Reporter,  May 26,  May 31, 1100 words,   Download KNIGHTS' MONEY 6-8

 

 

 

A meeting of the board, Teresa & Tom, Warren & Barb.

 

True?

 Q.  What’s the difference between a copilot and a jet engine?                                          

 A.   The jet engine stops whining when the plane shuts down.

 

 

Our Father.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

Rob & John, What's in that coffee?

 

 

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.

 

Healing for John.

 

 

My Dearest Seth, this blessing is for you to have a peaceful & happy life.  It will also help you get to sleep, just in case you need help.

 

 

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with Stack, Mike Carrell who will speak, and Brooklyn who will be baptized.  Welcome 

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

Readings:  Wisdom 6, 12-16, Resplendent and unfading is wisdom; Psalm 63, My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord My God; 1 Thessalonians 4, 13-18, Console one another; Matthew 25, 1-13, The 10 virgins at the wedding. 

  

                                                                                                                                                                                            Picture  Picture 1:    A work of Art, All Souls                                      

Picture 2:    Denni & Tom creating             

Picture 3:    Communion beginning             

Picture 4:    John & Patricia                                           

 Community Bulletin Board:

  A.  Schedule of upcoming events:       

       1.  November 6: Mike Carrell will offer us a homily and we will baptize Brooklyn.

       2.  November 12, Saturday, 8:00-1:00, Pizza & Paint Party, Rita's house, 1311 Brentwood.

       3.  December 4, Sunday, John Cade celebrates our Mass.

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

       5.  December 11, Sunday, Thanks Brunch in gratitude to our Board and particularly to Ron Kovatis, Penny Morrow, & Cathy Goode, who are retiring.  Special guest homilist, Jamie Rose. 

Also, as soon as LifeNet gives us the date of the Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless, I will let everyone know.

B.   Directory will be available one more time this Sunday.  

 

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.  A Maryknoll, National Catholic Reporter, October 17, Download Maryknoll 11-4-11

  2.  More results of Catholic Survey, National Catholic Reporter, October 24, Download Survey of Commitment 11-4-11

3.  What did Bishop Finn do to get indicted, National Catholic Reporter, October 28, Download What is the sin of Bishop Finn 11-11-11

Picture 5:    Ryan with dad & mom, Jim & Michelle

Picture 6:    Sienna
                            
 
True?

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. 

ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

   Video: Final  Blessing

 

 

See you Sunday, November 6

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Readings:   Malachi 1, 14-2, 8-10, Why do we break faith with each other?; Psalm 131, In you, Lord, I have found my Peace; 1 Thessalonians 2, 7-13, We were gentle among you; Matthew 23, 1-12, Whoever exalts himself will be humbled.

 

 

 

 

They finally caught her.
 

 

 

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

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

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

 

The Girls.  Again.

 

Readings:

Ezekiel  33, 7-9,    You have been appointed watchman for the house of Israel

Psalm 95,   If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts

Roman s 13, 8-10,  Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another

Matthew 18, 15-20,  Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am.  

 

 

 

Does that not look like a takeover!

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Most of us will be gone to Yosemite until the 14^th.  Take a break for a week?

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

 

 

The Community.

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Jean Vanier, The Tablet & Corpus, August 18  800 words (a hero of mine from my years in Toronto),   Download VANIER 7-31-17

 

 

 

The Best Team.

 

True?    (from Patricia)

Author Anne Lamott recently turned 61. So she’s compiled the following list of “every single true thing I know.” A brief recap:

1. All truth is a paradox. “Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift, and it is impossible here,” she says. Life is “filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.”
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2. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.” That includes you.
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3. Nothing outside of you will help you in any real, lasting way. Radical self-care is the only thing that will get you through. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true, and it works the other way around too. “If it is someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the solution,” she says.
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4. “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared. Everyone, even the people who seem to have it most together.” So don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides, she warns.
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5. “Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food. Its best use is as bait in snake traps or to balance the legs on wobbly chairs.”
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6. Every writer puts down terrible first drafts. The trick is that they commit to sticking with it. They take it Bird by Bird, her father’s advice that became the heart of her bestselling book. “Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better,” she says. “You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
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7. Creative success are “something you have to recover from. They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine.” And that brings us back to #1, because creative success is also amazing. “It is a miracle to get your work published,” she says. “Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes inside you. It can’t. It won’t.”
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8. Families are both astonishing and hard. Again reference #1. “Earth is forgiveness school,” she says. “It begins with forgiving yourself — then you might as well start at the dinner table.”
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9. Speaking of food: try to do a little better. “I think you know what I mean.”
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10. Grace is a powerful thing. “Grace is Spiritual WD-40 or water wings,” she says. “The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild.” Grace doesn’t always come in the forms you expect. Lamott sees it most in laughter. “Laughter really is carbonated holiness,” she says. “It helps us breathe again and again, and gives us back to ourselves.”
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11. God isn’t that scary. Rather than getting trapped in the mundanity of our own lives, she tells us to “go look up.” Now. “My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don’t look up,” she says. “If they did, they could fly to freedom. Instead, they walk around bitterly, bumping into glass walls.”
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12. Death is incredibly hard to bear, and you don’t get over losing people you love. “We Christians like to think death is a major change of address,” she says. “But the person will live again fully in your heart, at some point, if you don’t seal it off.” Memories of the people you love will make you smile at inappropriate times, but their absence will also be “a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.” Again, see #1.

She takes a deep breath. “Okay, I think that’s it. But if I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.”

 

 

Healing for Cindy.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

A footnote:  We are donating  as a Community

$1000 to the special fund established by the mayor of Houston,

$1000 to the 1st Baptist Church of Rockport

 

 

 

Healing and Life for Zoe.

 

 

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.

 

 

Communion for everyone.

 

 

 

 

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

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

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

 

Wake up, Everybody, time for another unforgetable homily.
 

 

 

Readings:

Samuel 3, 3-10, 19,   The call of Samuel by Yahweh.

Psalm402,  Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will.

1 Corinthians 6, 13-15, 17-20,  Your bodies are members of Christ.

John 1, 35-42,  What are you looking for?    

 

 

 

Wake me up when he is finished, or it is Cupcake time!

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Sorry, Guys, I will miss this Friday.  Wedding in PA.

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

 

Dickenson Trip:  February 23- March 3

 

 

 

 

Does it get any better than this!

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

Francis comments on migrants, National Catholic Reporter,  January 8,      Download FRANCIS ON MIGRANTS 1-8-18       

 

 

 

What a team!

 

 

True?

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.   It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. 

 Joseph Campbell

 

 

 

 

It don't get better than this, either.

 

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

These friends are all going on a cruise and they never invited me!

 

 

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.

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

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating 

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

   
 

 
Readings: Isaiah 8, 23-9, 3; Psalm 27, The Lord is my Light and my Salvation; 1 Corinthians 1, 10-13; Matthew 4, 12-23

 

 
 

 Community Bulletin Board: 

 Rosemary & I are in Mexico this week.  More info on Karina & her mother, Maria Luisa, when we return.

 
 
  

   
Picture 1:    Can you believe how they have grown!    

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Church Happenings:

1.   Nice survey of the Catholic scene by a veteran observer, Download Good Reflections on Where we are 1-14-11

      

True?  

I am not discouraged,
because every wrong attempt discarded
is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

  

 See you Sunday, January 16, 2011

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

  

 

Ezekiel 47:  This water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah, and empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh.  Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh.
1 Corinthians 3:  Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
 John 2:   He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables,and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

 

Every one who looks bad isn’t, and everyone who looks suave isn’t. “Always check to see,” the Irish say, “that there’s bread under the butter.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

 

Another Reminder for Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, November 9, 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.