Reminder for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 27, 2025

Amos 6:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!
1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
 Luke 16:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

Nothing we manage to amass here can change the value of what we really are underneath it all. “Why, snatch at wealth, and hoard and stock it?” Betty Paoli writes. “Your shroud, you know, will have no pocket.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Another Reminder for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 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.

Isaiah 35:  Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the mute will sing.

James 5:  Make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord is a hand.

Matthew 11:  Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.

Christmas Eve Mass will be on Saturday, December 24th at 4:30 P.M.  There will not be a Mass on Christmas Day. 

The Kiss of Peace

Advent Opportunities

1.  December 11, 2022 We are collecting sweatshirts and hoodies for the men at Soul's Harbor.

2.  From Lynda Fleming:

John Stack Ministries now meets at: 

The ArtCentre of Plano

902 E. 16th St, Plano

Please use the Haggard Park side entrance.  Latecomers please use the 16th Street entrance.

Shonda and Ben, the musicians
                                                       

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

Time: 9:30; Stack Celebrating

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

Readings: Isaiah 55, 1-3; Psalm 145, The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs; Romans 8, 35, 37-39; Matthew 14, 13-21.  Excellent readings this week.
                                                                                           

 Picture 1:  Bernadette

 Picture 2:  Mark

Picture 3:  Mark and Loretta

Picture 4:  Mike, Kevin, John, Connie, Tony, Jerry & Fred

Community Bulletin Board:

1. Thanks again to all of you for the excellent community survey. We are organizing it and will verbally present it the first or second Sunday of September, when most summer travel is done. At the same time I'll post it on the blog.

2. We are looking at updating the community directory. More in September.

True:

Believe those who are seeking truth.                     

Doubt those who find it.

 ANDRÉ GIDE

Mass: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with The Community & Stack.  Welcome. 

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

Readings:  Numbers 6, 22-27, The Lord Bless You and Keep You; Psalm 67, May God bless us in his new mercy; Galatians 4, 4-7, So you are no longer a slave; Luke, 2, 16-21, The Shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem.   

Video: Alexandra reads Isaiah 9 (1 min.)

  
  
                                                                                                                                                                                            Picture  Picture 1:    Angel passing, Sienna & Jenny in background    

Picture 2:    Angels      

Picture 3:    The shepherd Cole ready   

Video: Morgan reading Titus (1 min.)

  
  

                                                                                          
 Community Bulletin Board:

    1.  Thanks to all of you who helped to make our Christmas Eve Celebration tremendous.

    2.  A note from Jean Atwood with the Collin Co. Adult Clinic:

I wrote you a heart felt thank you for all you do for the clinic. I am with Missy for the holiday or I would love to tell the St. Vine congregation myself. Because of you and all you have touched we are serving 100 patients per week, which now includes Dr. visits, lab work,  and medication.

     3.  Save the night of January 26.  More later. 

Picture 4:    Georgie    

Picture 5:    Sienna       

Picture 6:    Claire reading Luke         

Picture 7:    Santa's helper, John   

Picture 8:    Santa & Brooklyn      

Picture 9:    The Christmas Crowd    

What's going on in our Catholic World:

     1.  More on the new Mass translations,  Fr. McBrien, National Catholic Reporter, December 26,   Download Mass Translation 12-30-11  

True? 

 Graham Greene

  Video: Santa pays a visit (10 min.)

  See you Sunday,  January 1, 2012

 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

Acts 12:  Suddenly the angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shone in the cell.  He tapped Peter on the side and awakened him, saying, “Get up quickly.”

2 Timothy 4:  The Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it.

Matthew 16: He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.

Remember the old saying, “Two men looked out through prison bars/ One saw mud, the other saw stars”? Well, Abraham Lincoln put it this way: “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

Another Reminder for Saints Peter and Paul Sunday, June 29, 2025

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

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

Readings: Joshua 5, 9-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5, 17-21; Luke 15, 1-32 (The Great Prodigal Son Story) A pre-homily Sunday.

Community Bulletin Board

The East African Travelers have returned!!!

Thanks to all of you who helped with the March 4 service: Carol Eshelbrenner, Claire Occhipinti, Bill Carey, Jimmy Miller, and especially, Fred & Maureen, who hosted the ceremony.

See you this Sunday, March 18.