24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 13, 2026

Is that a little monkey saying, "Hi, Folks, Welcome."? No, that's Leo.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

Georgie suiting up.

Readings:

Mark 11, 1-10,  Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem, read as we process in

Isaiah 50,  4-7  I gave my back to those who beat me.

Psalm 22,    My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?

Philippians 2, 6-11,   God greatly exalted him.

 Mark  14,  The Passion in 4 parts.

The Best, Shonda, Bethany, & Ray.

Community Activities:

1.       Palm Sunday this Sunday.  Assemble in the hall before processing in.

2.      Easter Sunday, April 5, 1 Sunday from this Sunday.

3.      ROMEO MEET: Friday,  March 20, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   No ice cream, Mike, it’s Lent.

4.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  April 3-4?,  1:00, Mexigo, 6205 Coit, #396 & Spring Creek, NW corner.  

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested.  If you let me know I will add their email to the list. 

Carol 

Communion for Cole.

4.      Holy Thursday and Good Friday Services at Marlene’s house, 2017 Keystone, Plano, 7:00 P.M.   Welcome.

5.    Love for the Kids Spring Picnic, April 4,   Download All Kids 3-6-15

6.    Welcome all, The Great Annual Anniversary Party, 10^th Anniversary (bet you figured it would never last this long), April 25^th, Saturday,  Heritage Farm, 15^th & Custer, 6:00 P.M., Covered dish, kids welcomed.    Vows will be renewed by numerous special couples, like usual. 

Emma putting her bread into the communion bowl.

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.       New English translation of Mass possible, Tablet, March 12, 567 words,     Download English translation possibility 3-26-15

2.       Francis on LGBT, National Catholic Reporter, March 20, 600 words,    Download Francis & LGBT 3-26-15

3.       Francis on economic abuse,  National Catholic Reporter,  March 21,  1200 words,     Download Francis on economic corruption 3-26-15

Harper, "Cupcake time yet?"

True?  

 I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake

See you Sunday, March 29, 2015, Palm Sunday,  Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Sydney, Hugh, and Sandra solving world problems.

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

   Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’sPeople, 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.

Beware, Marathoners passing, Bill, Paul, & Carrie. Hitch on for Boston Marathon.

 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:  Isaiah 40, 1-11; Psalm 85; 2 Peter 3, 8-14; Mark 1, 1-8.

Community Bulletin Board:

• True?  Love does not require two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction.     Antoine Saint Exupery

•  December 7–Advent Blood Drive, Food Drive, & Community Brunch (bring something for you and one other)
• From Wendy concerning her opera: 
  The opera is Die Fledermaus (dallasopera.org) – you can always double check and/or get tickets on the website.
  My performance dates are Dec. 5, 7, 10, and 13.
  Every show starts at 7:30 pm except for the matinee which is the 7th – it starts at 2:00 pm.
  There are reduced rates for groups of 10 or more.

We have a Christmas family: mom, 3 little girls, and a baby boy on the way.  Date to finish: Dec. 14.  We have a list of toys & items needed.  Beth will present the list again Sunday and the gifts can be struck off of the list.  The attachment has ideas: Download Christmas Family 12-6

Picture 1:  Renee Bresson at 17, T.J., Lacee, & Lorynne

Picture 2:  Presentation of Food & Habitat House

Picture 3:  Tom Fleming at Habitat House

Say Beth & Emma, "Welcome in, Everybody."

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

Just Us Ladies Into Eating Together, The Christmas Party.

Readings:

Isaiah 40, 1-5, 9-11,   Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God

Psalm 85,  Lord, let us see you kindness and grant us your salvation.

2 Peter 3, 8-14,  One day with the Lord is like a thousand years.

Mark, 1, 1-,  He will prepare your way.

Sorry, Romeos, None of us guys invited.  Can you believe!

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, December  8, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Apologies for the mix up last Friday.

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),  Jamuary Lunch TBA

Offertory Team, Ken & Cindy & Diane.   Says Ken, our food delivery man, we donated 303 lbs. of food to the food bank, 3rd best ever for us.

Love for Kids picnic:  December 9

Dickenson Trip:  February 23- March 3

Jackie & Rick: have a nice bedroom they would like to put up for rent, $500 per month.   Location: Garland, near a DART  train station.  Good News: 2 roomies found, one man, one woman.

Thanks for being our Candle Lighter Girl of The Week, Dearest Zoe.

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

1.  Married Priests being considered, The Telegraph,  November 2, 285  Words,    Download MARRIED PRIESTS 12-7-17
2.  Arms Race, National Catholic Reporter,  November 30,  923 words,    Download ARMS RACE 12-7-17
3. Change the wording of the Our Father?  Should we do it as a community?   National Catholic Reporter,   December 6,  543 words,  Download OUR FATHER WORDING CHANGE 12-7-17     

The Girls, Carol, Barb, & Claire.

True?

Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.  

Bill talking up this Saturday's Love for the Kids Picnic and the February 23rd trip to Dickenson, TX to do rehab work together with the 100 more or less students & faculty (Jim Maher) from St. Bonaventure U. near Buffalo, NY.  Bill's Alma Mater.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

After all these years, a standing ovation?  Doesn't count if I have to beg for it.

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.

Advent Peace Kerry & Nina, Patricia & Bernadette.

Advent Peace Judy & Mary, Sydney, Hugh & Cathy, and Everybody.

Says Cathy, "Hi, Folks, Welcome."

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and pastries, both bought and home-made, after Mass.

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

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

Genevieve & Georgie, too, say, "Welcome in, Everybody."

Readings:

Acts 9,  26-31,  The Church was at peace.

Psalm 22,    I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

1 John 3, 18-24,   Let us love not in word or speech, but in deed and truth.

 John  15, 1-8,  I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.

Leo in action, proud of his little sister.

 Community Activities:        

1.      ROMEO MEET: Friday, May The First, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Last one in picks up the tab.   Yeah, Mike. 

 2.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  Pass this month, too much going on.  Up next, June.

Everyone, please forward to anyone you think would be interested.  If you let me know I will add their email to the list. 

Carol 

And just in case Genevieve needs protection, Batman Buddy is ready.

3.     The Great Annual Anniversary Party, 10^th.    Thanks, Everybody, who took part or sent congratulations.   All is good, Rosemary signed up for another year.

Says, "Emma, what a nice little baby."

 What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.       Gay Jesuit in training,  America,  April, 20,  514 words,    Download Gay Jesuit comes out 4-30-15

 2.      Encyclical on Environment, National Catholic Reporter, April 24, 272 words,     Download Encyclical on environment 4-30-15

3.         Catholicism in Viet Nam, National Catholic Reporter, April 27,  1200 words,     Download Catholicism & Viet Nam 4-30-15

David, who MC'd our vow renewals, was, also, one of the three who officiated at The Ceremony 10 years ago.

 True?  

When asked how they managed to stay together for 65 years, the woman replied, “We were born in a time when if something was broke, you fixed it..  Not throw it away.” 

See you Sunday, May 3, 2015, 5th Easter,  Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Zoe receives communion from her big sister, Georgie.

 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.

Two weeks? No way. More like two days.

Only bad people can eat this stuff, boudin, straight from a market in Opelousas, La. What else needs to be said about these two.

Isaiah 56:  . . . for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
Romans 11:  I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them.
Matthew 15:  Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.”

Some artists are cooks. Some of them are welders. Some of them are counselors. Some of them are technicians or accountants or teachers. “Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed,” H. E. Davey wrote, “so can all other activities become art.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Jackie’s homily from last Sunday:  08-09-26 Homily

Rickey Turner
Please click on the link below for more information on Rick’s fund for ongoing treatment and medications for a kidney transplant. As Rick is now back on track for the transplant, we are helping to cover the medications necessary following the transplant.
Rick Turner Blog Post

Another Reminder for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 16, 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.

Ezekiel 33:  Thus says the LORD: You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me.
Romans 13:  Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.
Matthew 18:  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

It can often be far more difficult to identify the real questions we face than it is to find spurious answers to the superficial ones.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Rickey Turner
Please click on the link below for more information on Rick’s fund for ongoing treatment and medications for a kidney transplant. As Rick is now back on track for the transplant, we are helping to cover the medications necessary following the transplant.
Rick Turner Blog Post

Another Reminder for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 6, 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.