The 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 8, 2026

1 Kings, Please bring me a small cupful of water.

Psalm 146,  Praise the Lord, my soul.

Hebrews 9,  Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by human hands.

Mark 12,  What do you wish me to do for you?

 

Welcome back, Everyone.  Special thanks to John Cade for celebrating our Sunday celebrations the past 3 Sundays.  Rosemary & I are so happy to be back with the community.   We celebrated the end of October with a Viking cruise on the Mediterranean from Barcelona, Spain to Venice.  Unfortunately, I return with a very painful lower back.  Hoping to get some medical help.

 

Romeos, Welcome!    Jason's Deli, 1:00, Friday, November 5. 

 

All of you who attended Mass on line these past Sundays are welcomed this Sunday.  We are circa 35 people.   Wear a mask, please, because of the current spread.    We request that everyone be vaccinated.   

 

 

Another Reminder for Sunday, November 7, 2021.

Here are the links for Sunday:

Sirach 15:  Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be given him.
1 Corinthians 2:  What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him, this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
Matthew 5:  Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

God is beauty; beauty is an expression of God. Neither can be found without serious and sensitive searching, open and attentive pursuit.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Another Reminder for The 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 15, 2026
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.

 

Deuteronomy 30:  Moses said to the people: "If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, … "            

Colossians 1:  Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Luke 10:Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers' victim?" He answered, "The one who treated him with mercy."  Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

 

“Hitch your wagon to a star,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said.   It’s a ride worth taking even if we never get where we thought we wanted to go.

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

 

 

Another Reminder for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 13, 2025

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.

 

Ecclesiastes 1:  For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun?

Colossians 3:  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.    When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

Luke 12:  “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”

                              

                                                                   

 

Never fear periods of darkness in life. They are the atrium to new phases of life, the threshold to new experience, the invitation to move on from where you are to where there is more for you to learn.

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

   

                                                                                                                                        

Another Reminder for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 3, 2025

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:

 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.

 

 

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.  

 

 

 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 amounts, 1800 words,  
Download Delta 15 & 9-11, 8-30-13
 

   

 

 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

 

 

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

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.