Reminder for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Novembe136, 2022

Say Tori and her buddy, "Welcome in, Everybody."   (Wish I had somebody who loved me as much as Tori loves her friend!)

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

Times are a changing, Folks!
 

Readings:

Ezekiel 37, 12-14.   I will open your graves

 Psalm 130,  With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

Romans  8-11,   Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

 John 11, 1-45,    Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.

You look beautiful, Bethany, congratulations again.
 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, March 31, 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),  

Join the fun and friendship for our April Luncheon Friday, April 7^th at 1:00 P.M. We will be going to Canton Chinese Restaurant 400 N. Greenville Avenue.  972-238-1863. It will be most interesting.  The restaurant is in China Town on the East side, South of Arapaho, North of Beltline. Enter at the stop light.  You will see Chinese Soldiers and a grand entrance.  Hope everyone can join us.

Love for the Kids, April 8, Welcome

DARCC collection this Sunday,  Download DARCC NEEDS 4-2-17

Time to start, Kevin.

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Child abuse by clergy in France, National Catholic Reporter, March 25, 456 words,    Download CHILD ABUSE BY FRENCH CLERGY 3-30-17

Leo, wake up, you are missing another great homily.

True?

I just discovered my age group! I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager)  

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 50-60 years later. 

I don't have to go to school or work

I get an allowance every month.

I have my own pad. 

I don't have a curfew. 

I have a driver's license and my own car.

 I have ID that gets me into bars and the wine store. I like the wine store best.

The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant, they aren't scared of anything, they have been blessed to live this long, why be scared?

And I don't have acne.     Life is Good!

Offertory Team, Warren & Barbara, Teresa & Tom.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Michelle & her favorite dad, Gilbert.

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.

Alison and her favorite, John.

Mass:  Coffee & Donuts & Extras 

Place: Vines High School

on 15th between Custer & Independence.  Time: 9:30

Readings: Daniel 7, 13-14; Psalm 93, The Lord is King, He is robed in Majesty; Revelation 1, 5-8; John 18, 33-27

Community Bulletin Board: 

Special Mass Sunday: in the spirit of Thanksgiving, a formal handing over of the keys of the white Chevy pickup to Janette Monear, the director of the TX Trees Foundation.  The truck & the red water trailer will continue the planting & maintaining of new trees.  Members of the TX Trees Foundation will attend the Mass and provide refreshments afterward.  Check the invitation: Download Invitation – John Stack

Sabrina, our Actress: 

Just wanted to pass along the show times for the play (Charley's Aunt) Sabrina is performing in.  It runs from Wednesday the 18th to Saturday the 21st.  The show starts at 7:30pm and lasts about 2 hours with 2 short intermissions.  Venue : Bishop Lynch High School.  Ticket price: $8.00

Hope you can make it.  It's hilarious and very well done.  Alison

Heritage Farm renovation: Off day this Saturday.  We have just about finished replacing rotten boards and look forward to a big paint day in December to finish up. 

Looking still for an H1N1 shot?  David Hoover recommends:

Dr. Aimee Wright, 428 Maplelawn Dr., suite 200, Plano;  972-424-3333; $21.00;  call for appointment.

Christmas Gifts for Child Advocacy: Beth will collect them.  Download Child Advocacy Gifts 

Thanksgiving is here!  Help Rosemary & me to feed the homeless a Thanksgiving Feast

Date: This Saturday, November 21., tomorrow.  Dinner provided by Norma's Cafe.

Also, Friday volunteers are needed to set up, 3:00 P.M.

Place: Lake Highlands Presbyterian, 8525 Audelia & Nwst Hwy.

Time: 10:00-2:00, two sittings.  Volunteers get to eat afterward.

Lifenet phone: 214-932-1950, David Bear

Welcome!  Drop in even for an hour. 

    
True? 

  
 
 
Picture 1:  Tony & Gayle

Picture 2:  Pastry Shoppe 1, Jon, Maddie, & Diana

Picture 3:  Pastry Shoppe 2, Rosemary, Kevin, & Sheila

Picture 4:  Pastry Shoppe 3, Kevin, Chloe & her mom, Clair, & Taylor

Picture 5:  Mass with Joanne reading
        

See you Sunday, November 22

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

My Dearest Betsy, who is that person dragging you along?

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community  & John Cade, Mike Carrell,  &  Stack  

Place: Legacy Charter School,  601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Beware, Dear Betsy, you are surrounded by alien critters.

We have heard that people discover that the Blog has stopped coming.  Typepad tends to drop people for no reason.  So if this happens to you, just sign up again by going to www.johnstackministries.com

Maybe Beth can help you out.  Maybe!

Readings:

Isaiah , 42, 1-4, 6-7,  I will make you a light to the nations.

  (This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.)

Psalm 29,  The Lord will bless his people with peace.

Acts of the Apostles 10, 34-38,  I see that God shows no partiality

John, 1 29-34,  John the Baptist sees Jesus coming towards him.

Our Father.

Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 17, 2020,   Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.  

Sisters and Best Buddies.

True?

There are two things which raise man above himself & lead to eternal, ever increasing admiration,

The Moral Law within me,

The starry sky above me.

Immanuel Kant

Communion line.

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church?  Like…

A conflict: the retired pope publicly disagreeing with the present pope on celibacy for priests,  https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/surprise-benedict-openly-defends-clerical-celibacy-francis-considers-married-priests?clickSource=email

Communion for Everybody.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Peace for everybody, too.

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.

And even more peace from Her.

Texas Winter.

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

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

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

Readings:

Acts 13, 14, & 43-52,   Both Paul & Barnabas spoke out boldly.

Psalm 100,  We are his people, the sheep of his flock.

Revelation  7, 14-17,  I, John, had a vision of a great multitude.

John 10, 27-30,  I know them, and they follow me.

Consultation time with Buddy, Emma, and Zoe.

The Cupcakes of the Week, Michael, Jerry, Claire, Olivia, and Maureen and Fred on their 50th.

 Community Events:

1.  April 27, Saturday, The Great Annual Anniversary Party (8th), Heritage Farm on 15th just east of Custer, covered dish, 6:00 P.M.  If you are celebrating a special anniversary, join us in renewing our wedding vows, Rosemary & John.  Welcome all kids. 

2.  Romeos’ lunch Friday, April 5, 1:00, Jason's on 75 & Collin Creek. 

Our Capitol steps Wednesday in Austin. The Nuns on the Bus advocating for the 1 million in TX without insurance.

One of our contemporary prophetic people, Sr. Simone Campbell, addressing the rally before we broke into small groups to visit our congressional representatives.

 What's going on in our Catholic World:  

1.  Was Jesus married?,  This is an excellent, contemporary article by one of our best theologians and a married priest.  You will have to magnify it and it may take 2-3 sittings to get through the article.  It is worth it.  Let me know what you think.   Corpus Reports, March-April, 10 pages with 2 addenda,   Download Was Jesus Married

2.  Pope Francis' Oxygen,  National Catholic Reporter, April 7, 700 words,  Download Pope Francis' Oxygen 3-19-13

3.  Pope Francis and the issue of American nuns, America, April 15, 550 words,   Download Francis & Nuns 4-19-13 

4.  Who are the Nuns on the Bus, Austin, Channel 13, April 17, 550 words, Download Nuns on the Bus 4-19-13

In the words of Ursuline sister, Peggy Hill, it was a sacred day. Right hands raised in prayer, we prepare to visit our representatives.

Our Harper.

True?    

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

Thomas Jefferson

Gym session with Emma, Buddy, Torri, Zoe, and Harper.

Leo in the driver's seat.

                                                                                                                                        See you Sunday, April 21, 2013, 4th Sunday of Easter, C cycle 

J.S., 214-783-0443

The Gang at Love for the Kids picnic Saturday.

And more of Our Gang.

 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: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 5, 27-41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5, 11-14; John 21, 1-19

Community Bulletin Board

Invitation: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner, ca. 7:00. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them.

Seven couples will renew their vows. Guess Who? Also, we will do a covered dish hors d’oeuvres & desserts, and music for dancing. Moreover, the slide show of The Great East African trip.

Download the Anniversary Party 2007 Invitation.

From Angie Carroll: I am a volunteer at the Heritage Farmstead Museum on 15th and Custer in Plano and am currently helping them to find volunteer docents to give tours of the house and grounds. There is a great training program that is held every Tuesday in May from 7 to 9pm and every Saturday in June from 3-5pm.

This has been a really fun job because there is an opportunity to meet other volunteers, learn a great deal about life in Collin County at the turn of the century, meet lots of visitors who are from all over the country and also attend several social events each year.

We are looking for any women or men who have just a few hours each month to come and give tours. Anyone interested can call me at 972-612-8169, or e-mail me at acarroll@heritagefarmstead.org.

Important technology announcement

As you may have noticed in our emails, we have set up a blog. What is a blog? Essentially it is a web site that allows for someone like me to post writings to one place for viewing by others. For the past few months we have been posting my emails to the site in addition to sending them out as we have been via regular email.

Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to transition to using the blog as the main source for distributing this information. Why? Three reasons.

First, this will dramatically reduce the amount of time I need to spend on this process. Right now, I have to break the distribution into many groups of people, taking about an hour per week. With this new process I will just have to post the text to the site and an email will be automatically generated to you.

Second, I believe the blog will allow us to cultivate a greater sense of community. In addition to allowing me to post, a blog allows you to comment on the posts. As my homilies usually end with a question, I think it would be neat for some of you (if you feel inspired of course) to answer the question or pose your own question back to me.

Third, the postings are available for future viewing and listening. All previous homilies (including the audio files) and announcements will be automatically archived. If you want to view or listen to them in the future you just need to go to the site and they will be there.

What does this mean for you? After this email (the one that you are reading) we will begin to upload the email address up to what is called an RSS feeder system. You will receive an email from a service call FeedBlitz asking you to subscribe to the service. Please accept this. This is a private list. You will not be solicited in any way and your information is kept private.

For the next two or three weeks you will receive both the standard emails from me and an email from the FeedBlitz service. Once we are satisfied that this new system is working properly you will only receive the one from FeedBlitz on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please let me or Ed Kless (ed.kless@choosegreat.com) know.

Mass: 9:30; Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

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

Readings: Wisdom 12, 13-19; Psalm 86; Romans 8, 26-27; Matthew 13, 24-43

Community Bulletin Board:

 See you this Sunday, July 20

J.S.