Reminder for Christmas Eve, Thursday, and Sunday, December 27, which is Holy Family

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with John Cade.  Welcome. 

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

Readings:  Isaiah 40, 1-11, Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God; Psalm 85, Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation; 2 Peter 3, 8-14, The Lord does not delay his promise;  Mark 1, 1-8, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way.

                                                                                                                                                                                            Picture  Picture 1:    Sienna & Leo meet

                                              

Picture 2:   Brooklyn with Brian & Robyn 

                           

                  

  
                                                 
 Community Bulletin Board:

  A.  Schedule of upcoming events:  In an attempt to make our Advent special this year, we invite the community to focus on one gift to the less fortunate each of the 4 Sundays.  We will include a special reconciliation rite the 4th Sunday, Dec. 18.  See the flier:  Download Advent 2011

     Last Sunday, November 27, The 1st of Advent.   The gift: Food.  From Ken Cramer,

    John, our community contributed 265 pounds of food and one $20 check. Assuming the check would buy 5 pounds of food, and assuming we had 91 people in attendance yesterday, we averaged nearly three pounds of food per man, woman, and child.

I think we should be proud of ourselves!

  

    1.  This Sunday, December 4, 2nd Advent.  The gift: Toys for Collin County Child Advocacy Center with Beth helping.  For suggestions with toys: Download CCCACXmas11 11-25-11

         December 10, Saturday, Love for Kids Christmas Party in Flower Mound for handicapped kids.  loveforkidsinc@yahoo.com

       2.  December 11, 3rd Advent.  The gift:  Blankets to The Bridge Homeless Shelter.  Also, Thanks Brunch in gratitude to our Board and particularly to Ron Kovatis, Penny Morrow, & Cathy Goode, who are retiring.  Special guest homilist, Jamie Rose. 

       3.  December 18, 4th Advent.  The Gift: Men's Shoes for the Austin Street Shelter.  Also, a special rite of reconciliation during our Mass.  Mike Carrell will share his ideas during the homily.

      4.  Christmas Eve, 4:00, December 24, Saturday.  Christmas Pageant, plus 2 special visiters will be present.    

 

 What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.  The new Mass language, National Catholic Reporter, November 23,  Download A faulty translation 12-2-11   

2.  Irish Catholicism, National Catholic Reporter, November 30, Download Ireland 12-2-11           

 3.  Another unique Catholic parish, Corpus,  November 30, Download New York 12-2-11                         
 
True?

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all—that has been my religion.

JOHN BURROUGHS 
     

   Video: Communion

 

 See you Sunday,  December 4, 2011

 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

 

  

 Mass:  Coffee & Donuts, Juice & Home Made Muffins on the house.

Place:  Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.  Time: 9:30

Readings: Proverbs 9, 1-6; Psalm 34, Taste & See the Goodness of the Lord; Ephesians 5, 15-20; John 6, 51-58

Community Bulletin Board: 

From Geri Moran with the Shawl Ministry for Babies:
Dear Friends of Stack Ministries,

On behalf of all volunteers at St.Elizabeth Ann Seton
Shawl Ministry for babies we would like to thank you for your interest
in participating in this outreach.  We could use knitters, crocheters, and fringers plus people to sew on labels and make the tags as the need is great.

For those who are available to stop by, we meet the second Tuesday
of each month (August 11th) at 7pm in the Faith Formation Center located at
3100 W.Spring Creek Pkwy, PLN 75023
 
I believe this ministry may be a blessing to you as well.

God bless you all,
Geri
972-867-8968 HM
972-489-8968 cell

PS.
To find out more about this ministry go to
http://setonparish-org.ecatholicchurches.com/index.cfm?load=page&page=274

From Marianne Elwell concerning the cruise next summer:

Re the cruise – if someone is interested in the cruise, or even think they might be interested, they only have to put a deposit of $25.00 per person by 8/26.  They can always cancel (up to a certain point and I will find out what the latest cancel date is), but we need at least 8 cabins booked by then or we lose the group status. 

If you can put in the blog to encourage anyone who even might be interested (including yourselves in case your hips fail) just to put the deposit down, if we get at least 8 cabins, we’ll be good to go.

Marianne Foley Elwell

(214) 448-9279 (cell)

reply to: mfoley@IWantThisVacation.com

For Travel go to: www.IWantThisVacation.com

 

True?  Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love,
grace, and gratitude. 

Dennis Waitley

 

Note: Following discussion among the board members, we decided that we have to give up inviting our dogs to Mass.  Some people have allergies, some are skittish, but above all the Health Dept. might get upset and invite us out.  So sorry, you kids and dog lovers.  J.S.

  

Picture 1:  Burro Pass above Matterhorn Canyon going into Piutte Creek

Picture 2:  Rose over Burro Pass (10,000+ feet)

Picture 3:  Curtis & Barb at the Coffee Shoppe

Picture 4:  The Drescher Girls, Megan with her mom & grandmother, Christine & Diane

   

Picture 5: Dinner Time, Tom & Lynda, Rob, Bill, & The Geezer

             

 See you Sunday, August 16

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Picture 6: Daniel cleans out the whole pot

Exodus 17:  Moses’ hands, however, grew tired; so they put a rock in place for him to sit on.  Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
2 Timothy 3:  Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it, . . .
Luke 18:  For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.'” 

 

A message from Cody:
Thank you all for doing what you did and for those of you who made it to the service for sure. It was a very heartfelt event to say the least.

 

 

One purpose of feasting is to get back in touch with the earth that sustains us, to glorify the God that made it and to pledge ourselves to save the land that grows our food.

The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

 

Another Reminder for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 19, 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.

 

 

 

Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

 

 

 

 

 

 Welcome in, Sophie.    Want to blend in?  Change your hair color.  However, it is too pretty to do that, for sure

 

 

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.  

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

 

 

 

Should we dare ask Lynda & Tom what is so funny?

 

 

Readings:  

 Jeremiah 23, 1-6,  Woe to the shepherds who mislead the flock.

 Psalm 23,   The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.   (a good one!)

 Ephesians 2, 13-18, He is our peace.

Mark 6, 30-34,  They were like sheep without a shepherd.

 

 

 

 

Beth, just because it is your birthday, you still don't get to taste each cupcake before you take one.

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 20, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. 

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

 

 

 

 

Our Father.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

1. World Cup and Peace, National Catholic Reporter,  7-11-18,    Download WORLD CUP 7-19-18

     2.   Catholic backlash to #MeToo, National Catholic Reporter, 7-17-18,   Download CATHOLIC BACKLASH 7-19-18 

 

 

 

Peace, John & Tom. 

 

 

True?

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

 

 

 

 

Peace, Bernadette and Rick.

 

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

 

And more Peace.  Does it get better?

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

And even More Peace!

 

 

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: Wisdom 12, 13-19; Psalm 86; Romans 8, 26-27; Matthew 13, 24-43

Community Bulletin Board:

• Sunday: Community Brunch & Blood Drive. 
• The Quads need help. See their link: http://gerwerbabies.blogspot.com
• True?   The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.  Marcel Proust
• See Tuesday’s Dallas Morning News’ Metro section: Article on Julia & CCAC

 

 See you this Sunday, July 20

J.S. 

 Special Notice:   A Dearest Friend and one of The Founders of our Community 15 years ago, Carol Eshelbrenner, moved to The Other Side Tuesday evening.

Memorial: Saturday, 10:00 A.M., Ted Dickey West Funeral Home, 7990 Bush Turnpike, Frankford & Coit.

 

 

 

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made. 

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

Place: Legacy Charter School,  601 Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

Note:  this Sunday, let's have have a food drive

 

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Father's Day Special Blessing.

 

Readings: 

Genesis 14, 18-20, Blessed be Abraham.

Psalm 110, You are a priest forever in the line of Melchizedek

1 Corinthians  11, 23-26,  I have much more to tell you.

Luke 9, 11-17, Dismiss the crowds

 

 

The Community, in action.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 21, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.   

 

Juliets, June, TBA

 

 

Communion time.

 

TRUE?

If there is something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Tom Hanks

 

 

Communion–For All

 

What's up in Ye Old Catholic Church?  Like…

The case against abolishing the priesthood?   James Martin, S.J.    https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/05/17/case-against-abolishing-priesthood

 

 

 

Our Father.

 

See you Sunday,

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

Peace.

 

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.

 

Peace, Everybody.