1st Sunday of Lent, February 22, 2026

 

Rosemary's Blessing: 

 

Loving Father…

Often we forget those who struggle –

Those whose greatest need

is lost among our riches.

Help us to look again,

to see through your eyes.

You gave so freely.

Help us freely give.

Amen

www.christianaid.org.uk/images/count-your-blessings-2010.pdf

   

   

Special Thanks: 

·     For Reading: John & Alison

·     For the Communion Bread:  Jan

·     For Serving: Kevin

·     For the Wine Cups & Cross: Sydney & Hugh

·     For the Music: Ray &  Shonda & Celeste

·     For the Pictures: Jan & Mike

·     For the altar & sound: Margie & Hue

·     For the coffee & cake: Fred & Maureen

Happy Birthday:   Michelle Brown & Gabrielle Robinson (3) & Nikki Vansura 

The Status of The Hips:

2 more days of freedom until Feb. 24, when the right hip gets recycled.  I cannot wait!  Then a final month of being home bound.

Please Remember:

Geri & Mike Moran's 2 month old grand nephew, Cormac, recieving a liver replacement; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; David Hoover; Margie Dugan's grand kids Emma & Finn & their parents, having some rough times;  Jackie Ritter's friends Bob Minarik with cancer & Todd Fred with leukemia; Roy & Carol Strom's daughter Kelly with cervical cancer; Angie Carroll's mom, Mary Lou Kendrick, with cancer; Mark Leutkemeyer's friend, Guy Knight, down with terminal cancer; Wally Banzhaf's sister Chris with cancer;  Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer; Theresa McClure's dad;  Theresa Quinn's dad; for the recuperation of Jerry's right knee;  Celeste's niece, Lexi Colmenero;  Matt Baggert & his family & parents; Christine Drescher's Grandmother;  Rita Dore;  Julie Johnston;  Margie Weynant;  Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene;  Richard Froebe's dad;  Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark, and a little baby, Reese who has tuberous sclerosis complex;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Tom & Teresa's friend Neva Flynn with cancer & Teresa's niece, Angel & friend, Diane Kreitzer;   Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino,  Lisa's nephew Kristopher;  George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann & Hector; Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.   
 
 
 
      

Picture 1:  Beginning Mass with Tony and Kevin

 

Picture 2:  John reading Genesis

 

Picture 3:  Alison reading Philippians

 

Picture 4:  Fred making an announcement

 

Picture 5: The Donut Shop with Michael

 

Picture 6: The donation to CCAC with Mike, Jackie, Gayle, Diane, and Cathy

 

Picture 7: The Coffee Shop with Tony, Connie, Ray, and Barbara

 

 

Check out the Quads: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com  

Your Finances: February 28:

Income for Running   Expenses: $ 720.00

Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 463.50

 

 

Thanks for your Generosity!

 

 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S    (214-783-0443)

Rosemary's Blessing: Oh God,

Who called us forth from dust and breathed into us the soul of Life and a Hunger for Immortality and for You,

Help us to remember that not only are We made from Dust and will return to Dust, but that We are also destined to rise again and live forever in Glory with You. 

                Andrew Greeley, Irish American Blessings 

Special Thanks:

• For Reading: Mike & Geri Moran 
• For the Communion Bread:  Jan Keszler 
• For Serving: Noah
• For the Books & Wine Cups & Cross: Alison & John, Roy & Beth & Rob
• For the Music: Ray & Wendy & Celeste & Hue
• For the Pictures: Beth & Jan

Happy Birthday:     Gabrielle Robinson (3) & Nikki 

Happy Anniversary:

Clif & Diana Cameron (40th)

Please Remember:  Jon Waldron's dad who died ealier this week; Tanya's recuperation from surgery last Wednesday; Hugh Bivona's sick friends Bob & Bonnie; Rick Urbanczyk’s mom, Irene, who is declining; Cliff's daughters;  Geri's sister Tana with a hip operation; Maureen Gleason's continued recuperation; Rosemary's brother Peter with amyloidosis; Richard Froebe's dad who had a stroke;  Mike Bulger;  Bill Smith's eye operation; Maureen's good friend Sharon Haskew; Mary's son John; Warren & Barb's friends Jerry & and Mark & Becky's coming baby, plus Lee Ford in a car wreck;  Jackie's sister Sandy & friend Jack Brown;  Andy Goode;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim;  Kathleen's friend Jim Wallis; Tom & Teresa's friend Teri Knapke with cancer & Teresa's niece Angel;  Diane's dad Butch Uderman  & cousin Judy;  Margie's mom; Donna & Cathy Goode's mom; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Trey Bailey, Ryan McClurg, Matt Gardner, Chebino, Roy's son Chris, Lisa's nephew Kristopher on his 2nd Iraq trip, his grandmother Alice Quiocho; David & Rita; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son and Marianne's mom Marguerite; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;  Dawn's friend Jessica & Aunt Ann; Fred's friend John with cancer; Casey & Rob plus Cameron  & Reid, Trey and Brady; for our President  that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

      

 Picture 1:  Mike reading Genesis

Picture 2:  Geri reading Peter

 Picture 3:  Audry

 Picture 4:  Ray & his mom with Wendy & Celeste

Check out the Quads: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com   

Your Finances:

March 1: 

• Income for Running   Expenses: $1416.00 
• Income for Outreach Expenses: $  530.00   

Thanks for your Generosity!

I will be in Galveston this week doing hurricane rebuilding work with the spring break kids from St. Boniventure U. (Buffalo, Franciscans), Bill Hammond, & Bob McGrath (alumni).

 Have a Great Week, J.S    (214-783-0443)

Rosemary's Blessing:

I shall no longer allow

negative thoughts or feelings

to drain me of my energy.

Instead I shall focus on all the

good that is in my life.

I will think it, feel it and speak it.

By doing so I will send out

vibes of positive energy into

the world and I shall be grateful

for all the wonderful things it

will attract into my life.

Positivity Pledge given to me by Sandra Pratt

Author Unknown

 

 

John reading a beautiful passage from the Great Isaiah.

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings:   John & Mary Jane
•    For The Team:    Georgie & Buddy & Kevin
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
•    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan
•    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike  
•    For the coffee and extras:   Mike & Jackie & Beth
•    For the altar & sound:  Jackie & The Beavers
•    For the Music:   Ray & David & Shonda
•     For all who helped with Communion 

 

Mary Jane reading from Paul's letter to the Romans.   

 

Birthdays:    Grace LeBlanc & Cathy Bambanek (67) Sunday, today),  Diane Drescher & David Delgado (Tuesday), Genny Mattingly (Thursday), Patricia's Fred (69 Thursday), & Patricia's last cigarette 2010, 6 years ago), Noah Thompson (20, Friday)

Anniversaries:

Denni & Tom (41st, Tuesday)  

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week. 

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Carol's recuperation from her operation;      For Bill Carey, who had open heart surgery;  For Tom Good;   For Dee;      For John Schanot's treatment;     For Frank with Hospice;    For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;       For Cliff & Jean;    For Laura's sister Claudia;    For Dawn;   John Simari’s friend, Ron;    For Anthony;   For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;    For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanzyk's continued recovery;

 

 

Andrew sharing the story of his recovery from his early life of drugs and alcohol thanks to Souls Harbor.

 
 

For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Cathy's uncle, Jim Wright at 90;   For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;     Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

 

 

The formalizing of the marriage between Cody and one of our Most Special People, Shonda.

 

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill, and Judy's aging parents & daughter of her best friend, Mekala;   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler;     Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;   for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

  

Cody and Shonda sharing their marriage vows. 

                                                                                                                 

Your Finances, December 4, 2016

Expenses:   $1345.00 

Outreach:   $515.00 

                                    November 27, 2016

 Expenses: $348.00

Outreach:   $270.00

 

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

 

 

The bringing together of 5 people to a new union is symbolized by the mixing of different sands and Leo is adding his contribution.
 

 

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

 

 

Hi, Buddy, pretty neat story from Andrew, right?

 

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.

 

Victoria & Zoe & their buddy invite you all back next week.

 

 

 

Denni reading from Sirach.

 

Rosemary's Blessing of the Week.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars.
Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings.
Now, think.
What delight God gives to humankind
with all these things. . . .
All nature is at the disposal of humankind.
We are to work with it.
For without we cannot survive.

Hildegard of Bingen

 

 

 

Tom reading from Hebrews.

 

Our Special Thanks

•    For  the Readings: Denni & Tom   
•    For The Team:   Buddy & Georgie 
•    For the Communion Bread:   Alison & John
•    For the Wine & Cups:  Cindy & Ken
•    For the Pictures:    Jackie & Mike & Connie
•    For the coffee and extras:   Becky & Tom & Jackie & John & Connie
•    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Ben & Shonda & Hue
•    For all who helped with communion             

 

 

 

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

 

Birthdays:    Marilyn Ackerman, Teresa Quinn, 

Anniversaries:

Ken & Cindy (57, Sunday)

Rob & Beth (45, Friday)

David & Caroline (34, Saturday)

Dee & Mike (62, Friday)

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Teresa.

 

Please Remember these special people:

For Sydney, For Sir Charlie recuperating from surgery;  For Gilberto who had a gall bladder operation:  Claire Mazzei's knee replacement operation Tuesday;    For Tom Quinn's brother & Tom's shoulder recuperation;      For a friend & neighbor, Karen, with brain cancer; For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg; For Meredith, cancer free;    For Hue;  For John O'Donnell;    For Dee, and for her daughter, Lisa; For John Schanot's continued health;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli and Lambrini; 

 

 

Dearest Ken & Cindy, Happy 57th Anniversary.

 

For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For our good friend Kay (at 91 years!) in Ontario;  For Jackie's friend, Lynn, plus Angela, & her mom;  for Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;    for Steve Barrett,Rose, & Katie;  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's  Annie & Kaitlen;  For Cliff & Jean, plus Jean's brother Terry;  For Laura's sister Claudia;   For Dawn;    For Anthony & Sabrina;  

 

 

 

Dearest Dee, Happy 62nd Anniversary to you and Mike looking down upon us here on earth.

 

Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, their granddaughter, Mikayla;   plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues, especially Mark Pelton; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President.

 

 

 

Tori & Zoe, you are The Best!

 

Your Finances, September 1, 2019

Expenses:   $  735.00

Outreach:    $  740.00

 

 

 

Dearest Connie, congratulations on being able to see for the first time maybe in your life with those cataracts removed.

 

 

Thanks, Everybody 

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What do you think, Luke?  A pretty crazy bunch of people. no?

 

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.

 

 

Happy Labor Day and welcome into September & cooler temps.   Most of all, Peace!

 

 
Rosemary's Blessing: 

May we pray during this graced season of  Lent when we are called to deepen our  awareness of our constant connectedness with God, with all people and with all that exists.

Acknowledging the pain and hurt that comes when we act as if we are disconnected, let us begin this Lenten journey willing to heal, to mend and to be God’s human expression  of love, forgiveness and justice as Jesus taught and modeled for us.

From a letter from Sister Jean Amore, CSJ Vice-President, Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, New York

 

   Special Thanks:

• For Reading:  Taylor & Zach  
• For Serving:  Georgie & Kevin
• For the Communion Bread:  Alison & Jan
• For the Wine & Cups:  Beth
• For the Music: Ray  & Shonda & Bethany
• For the Pictures & Video: Jan, Rick & Beth, John & Connie
• For the coffee and pastries:  Marlene & Jerry & Jackie & Denni
• For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue

 

 

Birthdays: Ben Cronin (27, Thursday) and Ray Winkler(Friday)

Anniversaries:

John & Lambrini (19th, Tuesday)

We Remember  

Bill Ekes eye operation recuperation;   Jim Butterly’s brother, Paul;  Rose Banzhaf & the Banzhaf family on their new grandkid, Warren;  Mary Hall who broke her foot; Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;  And Donna's recuperation from hip surgery;  Judy's Matt Larson with cancer, David, and Sue, her sister & Sue's husband, Jim;  Janie's friend Wilbur;  Gerald's mom really sick;  Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her foot operation;  Jean Wright's recovering from rotator cuff surgery;    Sue Tomas;   Mike & Dee’s daughter, Lisa;    Alexander Occhipinti;  Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke;

 

  Rita;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer;     Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom & brother, Dick;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad  in assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary;    Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, & Chebino;  a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

  
 Your Finances: February 17, 2013

Expenses:     $990.00 

Outreach:     $230.00  

 We donated this week: 

1.   Nothing special this week.

    Thanks for your Generosity 

Have a Great Week, J.S (214-783-0443)

  Video:   Entrance Hymn (2 min.)

      

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.

  

  

 

 

 

 

Habakkuk 1: For the vision still has its time,  presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;  if it delays, wait for it,  it will surely come, it will not be late.
2 Timothy 1: I remind you, to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.
 Luke 17: “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,  ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

 

Thanks…     

Music,   Shonda & Ben
Readers,  Connie & John
Homily,   John Stack
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Richard & Kevin
Final Blessing,  Rosemary

The Blog can always be accessed by going to www.johnstackministries.com

 

Remember these special people:

For all the people affected by the floods;  For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Stack;    For John Cade;  For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Warren Wittek; For Tom Good; For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;     For Sir Charlie;  For Ron ;

 

Jackie’s sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;    from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation,  the families of Annie and Michael and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

 

Birthdays:    Leo (Shonda’s son) 10/1, Sophia (Ben’s daughter) 9/24
Anniversaries:   Carrie & Paul Bieda 10/6

 

Expenses: $  300.00
Outreach: $  110.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

 

 

Rosemary’s Blessing:

 

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.