Reminder for Sunday, April 2, 2017, 5th Lent, Cycle A

Isaiah 49:  I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
1 Corinthians 1:  … to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
John 1:  He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’

John Cade’s Homily from last Sunday:  01-11-26 Homily -The Baptism of the Lord

The real problem in life is when we accept what other people say we are. We learn not to change, not to try, not to begin all over again. But the poet Rumi says, “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Another Reminder for The Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 18, 2026
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.

NO MASS, Everyone.

Next Mass: August 5.

We are in King’s Canyon – Yosemite, J.S.

Jackie getting everything ready to celebrate The Baptism.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

Welcome.

Readings:

Isaiah  62, 1-5,     The Lord delights in you. (another excellent reading, this time from Isaiah III)

Psalm 96,  Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

 1 Corinthians 12, 4-11,  There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same spirit, different forms of service, but the same Lord.   (a good selection)

John 2, 1-11, There was a wedding at Cana.  ( a good story)

Sacrament of Healing for Ken.

Community Activities:  

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Welcome all old geezers & young ones, too.                                                                                                                                             
2. JULIETS’ LUNCHEON,  Friday, February 5, 1:00,   Urban Rio Cantina?  1000 E 14^th, Plano, Please RSVP to  Jeanne Vogel [pickincotton26@verizon.net] or Geri Moran at  GeriinTX@gmail.com?   Thanks, Jeanne for organizing the outing.

Sacrament of Healing for Mary Ellen.

 What is going on in our Catholic World  

1. Review of the movie Spotlight by a priest, National Catholic Reporter, December 23,   900  words,       Download Spotlight 1-14-16 
2. Whitfield's Advent Homily at St. Rita,     Download JOSHUA WHITFIELD

 The Kerns, Mike & Stephen, Candy & Ben (13 years old), and Holly.

True? 

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

Hi, Mommy, says, Victoria.   

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 Our Father with Buddy, Bernadette, and 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.

Peace, Everybody.

And More Peace.

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.

The Celebration.

Our Georgie.

 Readings:

Exodus 3, 1-8, 13-15, The Lord appeared to Moses in fire flaming out of a bush.  (One of the great stories)

Psalm 103,  The Lord is kind and merciful. (One of the great lines)

1 Corinthians 10, 1-6, 10-12,  Do not grumble.

Luke 13, 1-9,  There was a person who had a fig tree.

Community Bulletin Board:

1.   March 3, nothing special this week

2.  March 10, donate to Catholic Charities from bean soup meal. Time change Sunday to Daylight Time.

3.  March 17, Soul’s Harbor truck will collect everything brought in, clothes, utensils, furniture, appliances.  We are also collecting powdered laundry soap for Soul's Harbor.

4.  March 24, Palm Sunday 

5.  April 13, Love for the Kids picnic

6.  How did the lunch gathering of guys go last Friday?  Pretty good, a dozen showing up.  Pix coming.  Plus, from one of our baddest members, a name, i.e., ROMEO'S (retired old men eating out).  Guess who.  Are we hearing rumor of a womens' lunch group?

Emma is here.

Emma at work.

  What's going on in our Catholic World:  

1.  The Conclave, 10 reasons why different,  National Catholic Reporter, February 22, 1500 words,  Download Conclave 3-1-13 

2.  Kennedy on Benedict’s resignation,  National Catholic Reporter, February 14, 1200 words,    Download On Benedict 3-1-13

3.  Legio coverup, National Catholic Reporter, February 18, 500 words,    Download Legion of Christ 3-1-13

Torri at work.

Buddy is here.

   True? 

"When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we
had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we
opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land."        

 Desmond  Tutu

Blessing of the Sacrament of the Sick for Dee.

 See you Sunday, March 3, 2013, 3rd Lent, C cycle 

J.S., 214-783-0443

Zoe and Buddy.

Bernadette and Gil, Where's all the grandkids?

  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.

Revelation 11:  A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.

1 Corinthians 15:  Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Luke 1:  When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

Love is the value that trumps all others — truth, equality, even justice. “At the evening of life,” John of the Cross writes, “we shall be judged on our love.”  And the reason is obvious.

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

Another Reminder for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 17, 2025

 Mass:  Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

Place:  Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.  Time: 9:30

Readings: Exodus 20, 1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1, 22-25; John 2, 13-25

Community Bulletin Board:  

True?    This is posted on the San Antonio Spurs locker room wall:     “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

Picture 1:  Hunter, Dillon & Audrey

Picture 2:  Blake, Tim, & Sheryl

Picture 3:  Bill Hammond brushing rust off bunk beds, Galveston

Picture 4:  Church Dorm, University Baptist, Galveston

 See you this Sunday, March 15.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)