Reminder for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

Sirach 3:  My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.   Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,  and you will find favor with God.   

Hebrews 12:  No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, …

Luke 14:  Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

White Rock Lake
                                                                                

Love never counts—either what it gets or what it gives. “Love,” Eleanor Farjeon writes, “has no utter most, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

   

 Another Reminder for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

 

Here are the links for Sunday:

For Zoom   ( the video conference)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.

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    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


    Harper 8-30-13

    Our love Harper with one of her grandmother's hats, that is, Cathy.


    Readings:

     Sirach 3, 17-18,
    28-29, 
     
    Conduct your affairs with humility.

    Psalm 68,  God, in your goodness, you have made a home
    for the poor.

    Hebrews 12, 18-19, 22-24,  You have approached Mount Zion.

    Luke 14, 1, 7-14, Invite the poor, the crippled, the
    lame, the blind.

     

    Offertory 8-30-13

    Offertory, Cole with his mom and dad, Chuck and Erin, and Erin's mom, Diane.

     

    Community Events:  

      1.   Our next
    Habitat special day is probably September.  Look for the neighborhood
    behind the Home Depot on Central, at 11th Ave.   A person may also
    work any Saturday. There is still work to be done on the current house.

    2.  ROMEO lunch Friday, August
    23, 1:00.  Welcome All

     3.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays
    begins again in September.    For info talk with Carol
    or Bernadette.  

     

    Delgaod Corner 8-30-13

    Bernadette and Gilberto are back home and Delgado Corner is open, yippee. Buddy and Torri.

     

     What's
    going on in our Catholic World:
     

    1.   A monastery brewry?,  National Catholic Reporter, August 24, 1000 words,  
    Download Beauty and beer 8-30-13

    2.   A consoling story out of 9/11.  I have read the first part.  I had not read the final amounts1800 words,  
    Download Delta 15 & 9-11, 8-30-13

     

    Cupcakes 8-30-13

    Cupcakes of The Week for Delgados (48th), Teresa, and Marsha, along with some little critters hoping for a crumb.

       

    Zoe 8-30-13

    Another cupcake critter, Zoe waits hoping.

     

     True? 

    “The end of violence or the
    aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is
    reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an
    end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the
    oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.”
     

    MLK


    Communion 8-30-13

    Communion helpers with Rosemary, Beth and Rob and John.




     

     

    See you Sunday, September 1,
    2013, 21st  Ordinary Time, C cycle

    J.S., 214-783-0443

     

    Rosemary 8-30-13

    Rosemary reads her blessing.

     

     JSM Mission-Faith Statement

         Help create a Catholic Community that
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        Reaches out to help people who
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    live in a better place to live.

     

    Hotter 8-30-13

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    Mass: Coffee, pastries, & specials on the House.
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    Delgados 10-7-11 C.C. & Kayla 10-7-11

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    Claire & Kids 10-2-11
    Buddy 10-7-11

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    Picture 3: Claire with Sienna & Kayla
    Picture 4: Buddy with his grandmom, Bernadette
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    Picture 6: Torri with with granddad Gil
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    Community Bulletin Board:
    What's going on in our Catholic World:
    1. Reflections on Autumn, Eugene Kennedy, National Catholic Reporter, September 30: Download The liturgical season of autumn 10-7-11
    2. The Pope visits Germany, National Catholic Reporter, September 30: Download Pope visits Germany 10-7-11
    3. Catholicism & the Death Penalty, National Catholic Reporter, September 30: Download Death Penalty 10-7-11
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    Claire 10-7-11
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    Community Activities:  

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    What is going on in Our Catholic World

    1.  Oldest Bishop in the weorld, National Catholic Reporter, June 1,  590 words,    Download Oldest Bishop 5-2-16

     

    Cole & books
     

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    True? 

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    Cupcakes
     

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    Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People,
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    Welcome:  Coffee & juice & specials on the house.

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    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.

     
    John Stack Ministries, 7017 Helsem Way, Dallas, Texas 75230