Reminder for Sunday, October 8, 2017, 27th Ordinary Time

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

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

Readings: Acts 9, 26-31; Psalm 22, I will praise You, Lord, in the Assembly of your People; 1 John 3, 18-24; John 15, 1-8

Community Bulletin Board: 

Many thanks to the Board and to all who helped us find a back up location for Mass this Sunday.  Monday, PISD notified us that facilities would be closed for two weeks because of the flu.  Wednesday they fortunately reversed the policy and now are open as usual.

 The Annual Anniversary Celebration:May 23, 7:00, as usual, at  Fairview Farms & covered dish.  Book it.  Welcome!!

True?  There are 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

Picture 1:  Ron doing the quarterly report

Picture 2:  Sisters: Ellen & Maddie Drake

Picture 3:  Welcome to our world, Cole Ryan Webster, arrived Wednesday, son of Erin & Chuck, grandson of Diane & Kent McClurg

Picture 4: Alexandra & Wendy.  Alexandra got in the Arts Magnate School

Picture 5: The Donut Shoppe: Teresa, Mikaela, & Kira

 See you Sunday, May 10

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

From John & Connie, "Hi, Folks, Welcome."

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

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

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

And from Art, Nina, and Kerry, "Bonjour a Tous."

Readings:

2 Chronicles 36, 14-16, 19-23 , He has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem.

Psalm 137,    Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you.

Ephesians  2, 4-10,   God brought us to life with Christ.

 John  3,  14-21,   Jesus & Nicodemus.

Offertory with Mike (the ice cream artist) & Geri, Lily & Scott (My biking hero)..

Community Activities:

1.     This Sunday,March 15, Special homily from Mike.  Also, our reconciliation ceremony.

2.    ROMEO MEET: Friday,  March 13 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Keep away from that ice cream, Mike, I’m still coming hungry. 

3.    LADIES' LUNCHEON,  April 3-4?,  1:00, Mexigo, 6205 Coit, #396 & Spring Creek, NW corner.  

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested.  If you let me know I will add their email to the list. 

Carol 

Where do all little kids go (and some big kids)? To the Patisserie.

4.    Love for the Kids Spring Picnic, April 4,   Download All Kids 3-6-15

5.    Welcome all, The Great Annual Anniversary Party, 10^th Anniversary (bet you figured it would never last this long), April 25^th, Saturday,  Heritage Farm, 15^th & Custer, 6:00 P.M., Covered dish, kids welcomed.    Vows will be renewed by numerous special couples, like usual.

6.    Special request.  Anybody have a good running, good starting, used, walk behind gasoline lawnmower you are willing to donate or sell inexpensively?  We are looking for a lawnmower for Jackie.

Drone training with Zoe, Victoria, and Buddy.

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.       A meeting concerned with Women, at the Vatican, National Catholic Reporter, March 9, 200 words,   Download Catholic Women 3-12-15

And helicopter training with Buddy.

True? 

He who works with his hands is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands, his head, and his heart is an artist.

Francis of Assisi

Buddies, Leo & Cole.

See you Sunday, March 15, 2015, 4th Lent,  Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Harper the gymnast.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

   Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’sPeople, 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 with Bill & Tom (now a grandfather).

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

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating

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

 
 
 
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 2, 14, 22-33; Psalm 16, Lord, You will show us the Path of Life; 1st Letter of Peter1, 17-21; Luke 24, 13-35 

Picture 1:   Sir Charles' mom, Nellie                                  

Picture 2:   Wendy's parents, Jack & Jean         

Picture 3:   Preston, Nolan, Valerie, & Vincent                

Picture 4:   Bill, Ray & Claire, Ron         

Picture 5:   Gayle, Sydney, & Hugh        

 
 
 
 
  Community Bulletin Board:

  1.   Welcome: Our Annual Anniversary Party (6th), May 7, this Saturday evening, 6:00, Heritage Farm, like last year.  The mules and hay wagon will be taking rides.  We'll supply cold drinks & water.  BYOB.  Covered dish, hors d'oeuvres & desserts.  John & Rosemary

Also, before the party, at noon, Saturday, at the Windspear in Dallas, Wendy is performing as a semifinalist in the Dallas Opera Guild competition.  Come and support her!  Free admission. 

2.  Penny's daughter has a very nice crib for a deserving family.

  

 
   Church Happenings: 

  1.   An American Catholic Council, National Catholic Reporter, 5-2-11, Download American Catholic Council to convene 5-6-11

  2.  Australian Bishop Kicked Out, National Catholic Reporter, 5-3-11, Download Support for ousted Australian bishop 5-6-11

  3.   On Jesuit numbers & influence, Washington Post,  4-
23-11, Download Fewer Jesuit priests this Easter 5-6-11

Picture 6:   The Coffee Shoppe with Tony, Nina, & Jamie        

Picture 7:   6th Avenue looking south with the mob heading for Central Park   

Picture 8:   Staten Island Ferry heading to lower Manhatten & Battery Park where the 5 Boro begins  

True?

 Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

 HERACLITUS           

 See you, May 8, 2011

  J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Our Father.

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

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

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

Sacrament of the sick for Beth.

Readings: 

 Amos 6, 1, 4-7,   Woe to the complacent.

Psalm 146,  Praise the Lord, my
sould.

1
Timothy 6, 11-16,  Pursue
righteousness, devotion, faith, love.

Luke 16, 19-31,  The rich man and Lazarus.

Offertory, Sydney and Hugh.

 Community Events:  

 1.  Highly
recommended: This Saturday,  The Open Window of Dallas is
bringing to Dallas Francis Vanderwall, a biblical scholar and great
presenter.  He is a long time friend and former Jesuit.

He will join us for Mass on Sunday, Sept. 29, but will
share his insights

into the Bible on Saturday, the 28th.  You will
find it a fascinating and

amusing Saturday.  Don’t judge him badly because
he is my long time friend.  Welcome.
  Download Fall Conference 9-13-13

2.  ROMEO lunch Friday, September 27,
1:00.  We are home.

 Welcome All.

 3.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays begins
again, this time at The Olive Garden, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service
road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

Two Freds, a Martha, and a Maureen equals fun.

4.  Christmas Concert at the Meyerson:

We have the date: 
December 19; cost:$45 (cheaper than last year).  Rosemary says that you may still sign
up.  Her contact, Blake, knows that we
usually have a few additional people. 

Welcome, also, to the Rectory for wine
& cheese and a ride through Highland Park to see the best lights.  

Connected
with this, a plan is developing to visit the Christmas lights in Highland
Park on bikes one evening, a common event.  We have our guide, Chris Phipps,
who lives there, and the old geezer can second, since this is his old
neighborhood.  Get your bike lights polished.

Bernadette, Alison, and John.

  What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.      Curse of Institutional Religions, The Observer and Corpus,  September 15, 700 words, Download Institutional Religion 9-27-13

2.      Age of Change
Ahead,  Bloomberg
News, September 22,  675 words,
Download Bloomberg 9-27-13      

3.      Francis’ real test, The Great Hans Kung, National
Catholic  Reporter, September
23, 1200 words,   
Download The real test of Francis 9-27-13

4.       The
big Meeting, the 8 cardinals and Francis, October 1, National Catholic Reporter, September 25, 1300 words,   
Download G8 Meeting 9-27-13

Bill receiving communion from Mike.

True? 

 Finish each day and
be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities
have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall
begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curtis and the girls, Megan, Cindy, Mabel, and Debbie.

 See you
Sunday, September 29, 2013, 26^th  Ordinary Time, C cycle

J.S., 214-783-0443

John and Mary Jane, John and Jean.

 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.

Kevin a la Patisserie.

Welcome, Everybody, to the community bakery, Harper, Cathy, and Geri.

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

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

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

Special blessings for the kids.

Readings:

Wisdom  12, 13, 16-19,   You judge with clemency.

Psalm 86,   Lord, you are good and forgiving.

Romans 8, 26-27,  The spirit comes to the aid of our weakness.

Matthew  13, 24-43,  A farmer sowed good seed in his field.

The pretzel jar. Oops, only room for one hand at a time.

Community Events:

1.   ROMEO lunch Friday, July 18.   The Old Geezer will miss.  Those Iowa corn fields are calling, plus home made rhubarb & strawberry pie.   Sorry about your brother's death, Fred.

Community work station with busy workers.

What's going on in our Catholic World:    

1.       A very interesting case about confessional secrecy from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, National Catholic Reporter,  June 27, 555 words,      Download Confessional Secrecy Case 7-17-14 

2.        Fr. Tom Reese, an excellent man and a Jesuit, at that, National Catholic Reporter,  July 7, 280 words,     Download Excellent Man & Jesuit at that 7-17-14   

Offertory, Doug, Joe, John and Alison.

 True? 

 We make a living by what we get;

We make a life by what we give.

Says Harper, "Is is cupcake time yet?"

See you Sunday, July 20, 2014, 16^th Ordinary Time, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

Says Emma, "Bye, see you next week."

 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.

Don't look. Iowa will get rid of all these extra calories.

2 Kings 4:  When the woman had been called and stood at the door, Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be fondling a baby son.”
Romans 6:  We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.
Matthew 10:  And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because the little one is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

To be able o be the source of calm and joy in the midst of crisis is to stir timid souls to life again. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,” Thich Nhat Hanh says, “but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Rickey Turner
Please click on the link below for more information on Rick’s fund for ongoing treatment and medications for a kidney transplant. As Rick is now back on track for the transplant, we are helping to cover the medications necessary following the transplant.
Rick Turner Blog Post

Another Reminder for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, June 28, 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.