Reminder for Second Sunday of Advent, December 5, 2021

Malachi 3:  But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.
2 Thessalonians 3:  Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us.
Luke 21:  Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute.

To live is to venture beyond our fears to taste the sweetness of the unknown.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Another Reminder for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 16, 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.

 
Mass:   Coffee, pastries, Nope, not this week.  Too busy  

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating

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

 
 
 
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 10, 34-43; Psalm 118, This is the The Day the Lord has made, let & Rejoice and be Glad; Corinthians 5, 6-8; John 20, 1-9. 

Special Notice: Good Friday Services 7:00 PM at the home of Curtis & Mabel Ekes, 2514 Grandview Drive, Richardson 75080, where we celebrated Ash Wednesday.

Picture 1:   Brooklyn Michelle awake                                

Picture 2:   Leo & admirers   

Picture 3:   Beth & her sister, Janet     

Picture 4:   Rob & Bill, Janet's husband     

Picture 5:   Buddy with his momma, Michelle      

  Community Bulletin Board:

1.  Remember Margie Dugan's mom, who died Sunday night.

 2.  The Big Easter Egg Hunt: Hey, You Kids, get ready, Easter Sunday after Mass.

 3.  Save the Date & Welcome: Our Annual Anniversary Party (6th), May 7, 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.

4.  Girl Scouts Honoring Troops at Heritage Farm: Download Girl Scouts at Heritage Farm 4-22-11.  Also check, www.heritagefarmstead.org

5.  "Getting the Love You Want" Seminars with David & Margie McKeon, Download Seminar for Couples 4-22-11

6.  I have a person who is selling 2 burial sites at Calvary Hill.  Let me know if interested.

 
 
   
 Church Happenings: 

  1.   Fr. Richard McBrien, National Catholic Reporter, 4-18-11, Download The origins of Holy Week liturgies 4-22-11 

 2.  Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., National Catholic Reporter, 4-22-11, Download The hidden Catholic exodus 4-22-11

 
 
  
Picture 6:   Torry & Zoe with grandma Bernadette     

Picture 7:   Tony  with admirers, Nancy, Marilyn, & Joanne

 True?

This is my creed: For man the vast marvel is to be alive. For man as for flower and beast and bird the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterward. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh and part of the living incarnate cosmos.

 D. H. LAWRENCE

 Video:  Blessing of the Palms 

See you, April 24, 2011, Easter Sunday

  J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Barbara says, "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 

And welcome home to you, too, Celeste, from your teaching music in Albania.

Readings:

Jeremiah   38, 4-6, 8-10  They took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern.

Psalm 40,  Lord, come to my aid

Hebrews 12, 1-4,    Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.

Luke 12, 49-53,  Do you think I have come to establish peace on earth.  No.

(Less than amiable readings again this week.)

Happy 30th to you, Donna and David.

Community Activities:  

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.                                                                                                           
2. JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together):   TBA                                                                                                               
3.  This from Anthony DeGenova:                                                                                                                    

   Dear Father Stack,

   Thank you very much for being my sponsor for my LEGO Drive, as part of my Eagle Scout project.

   I would appreciate it, if you would please post the attached message to your blog.

   I really value all of the support from you and the Stack Community.

   Thanks, Anthony DeGenova                                                                                                                                                                            

   Dear Stack Ministry,

   Hello, my name is Anthony DeGenova.  I am 17 years old, and am working on my Boy Scouts Eagle Project.  My mission is to donate LEGO blocks to under-privileged children.  This project includes the collection, cleaning, sterilizing, sorting, packaging, and delivery of the LEGO blocks to a few charities that cater to children. I plan to donate all of mine, and would like very much to collect as many as possible from friends and neighbors like you, who wouldn’t mind giving theirs up for needy children.  I am accepting both used and new LEGO blocks. Please bring the LEGO blocks to church and my parents will pick them up.  Alternatively, I will gladly pick them up from your house, at your convenience. 

   If you have any questions, please contact me at:

   Telephone: 972-495-3639

   Email Address:  anthonydegenova@outlook.com

   I look forward to your support, and hope to make this drive and my Eagle project a success. Thank you very much for your help,

   Anthony DeGenova
   3021 North Spring Court
   Garland TX  75044

Happy 41st  to you, Hue and Linda.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Where are all the Vatican II priests today,   National Catholic Reporter,  August 3,   830  words,    Download Vatican II Priests 8-11-16

You and Judy take the prize today.   Happy 52nd, Mike.

True?

Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Our Juliets, Mary, Connie, Jackie, Cindy, Jeanne, Rosemary, Judy, and Geri & Cathy.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Genevieve, want to go for a skateboard ride?

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.

Some of our Air Force riders taking a break from helping others.

Peace, Everybody.

Says Cathy, "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.

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

Genevieve & Georgie, too, say, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

Acts 9,  26-31,  The Church was at peace.

Psalm 22,    I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

1 John 3, 18-24,   Let us love not in word or speech, but in deed and truth.

 John  15, 1-8,  I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.

Leo in action, proud of his little sister.

 Community Activities:        

1.      ROMEO MEET: Friday, May The First, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Last one in picks up the tab.   Yeah, Mike. 

 2.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  Pass this month, too much going on.  Up next, June.

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

Carol 

And just in case Genevieve needs protection, Batman Buddy is ready.

3.     The Great Annual Anniversary Party, 10^th.    Thanks, Everybody, who took part or sent congratulations.   All is good, Rosemary signed up for another year.

Says, "Emma, what a nice little baby."

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.       Gay Jesuit in training,  America,  April, 20,  514 words,    Download Gay Jesuit comes out 4-30-15

 2.      Encyclical on Environment, National Catholic Reporter, April 24, 272 words,     Download Encyclical on environment 4-30-15

3.         Catholicism in Viet Nam, National Catholic Reporter, April 27,  1200 words,     Download Catholicism & Viet Nam 4-30-15

David, who MC'd our vow renewals, was, also, one of the three who officiated at The Ceremony 10 years ago.

 True?  

When asked how they managed to stay together for 65 years, the woman replied, “We were born in a time when if something was broke, you fixed it..  Not throw it away.” 

See you Sunday, May 3, 2015, 5th Easter,  Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Zoe receives communion from her big sister, Georgie.

 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.

Two weeks? No way. More like two days.

Only bad people can eat this stuff, boudin, straight from a market in Opelousas, La. What else needs to be said about these two.

Our Man Leo, say, "Hi, Folks."

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

Buddy says, "Where is Leo today?"

Readings:

Isaiah  22, 19-23,  I will pull you down from your station.

 Psalm 138,   Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands.

Romans, 11, 33-36,  For from him and through him and for him are all things.

Matthew 16, 13-20,  You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church.

Victoria tends to her dad, Randolph.

Community Events:

1. ROMEO lunch, Friday, August 15.  Jason’s, 1:00.  Note: The Great Biker will miss this one, Nature calling, Wichita Falls.
2. Hotter 'N Hell Hundred this week, Saturday, August 23, Wichita Falls  Welcome, All You Bikers.  
3. Come  celebrate a special Mary Ellen Munzell Sunday.  Reception after Mass.

Who is that pretty girl with the pink ribbon and pigtails? Why, it's Zoe.

 What's going on in our Catholic World:    

1.        Historical survey of the pedophile crisis,  Corpus, August, 5400 words, long article, but excellent and thorough, by Fr. Tom Doyle,   Download Fr. Tom Doyle on pedaphilia crisis 8-21-14

2.       American Sisters meeting, National Catholic Reporter, August 13, 740 words,     Download American Sister again 8-21-14  

3.       Eugene Kennedy on abuse of American sisters, National Catholic Reporter,  August 15, 700 words,       Download Kennedy 8-21-14

4.        High Praise for American sisters from a unique source, New York Times, August 16, 1000 words,    Download High Praise for nuns 8-21-14

The Best, Bethany, Shonda, and Ray.

 True? 

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir 

Nina contemplates riding the HHH.

See you Sunday, August 24, 2014, 21st Ordinary Time, Cycle A

J.S., 214-783-0443

Creative minds at work, Leo, Emma, Cowboy Cole, Victoria, 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.

Victoria (Tori) says, "See you next week, Everybody."