Reminder for Sunday, March 9, 2014, 1st Lent, Cycle A

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

                

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

Readings: Exodus 20, 1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1, 22-25; John 2, 13-25

         

Community Bulletin Board:  

True?    This is posted on the San Antonio Spurs locker room wall:     “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

  

Picture 1:  Hunter, Dillon & Audrey

Picture 2:  Blake, Tim, & Sheryl

Picture 3:  Bill Hammond brushing rust off bunk beds, Galveston

Picture 4:  Church Dorm, University Baptist, Galveston

 

 See you this Sunday, March 15.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

 

Amos 8: Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!
1 Timothy 2:  It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.
Luke 16: No servant can serve two masters.  He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and mammon.

 

John Cade’s Homily from last Sunday, September 14, 2025
09-14-25 Homily -Exhaltation of the Holy Cross

 

 

True is always better than false—even where I myself am concerned. “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture,” Einstein wrote, “let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Another Reminder for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 21, 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.

Acts of the Apostles 5:  Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles.

Revelation 1:  Do not be afraid.  I am the first and the last, the one who lives.

John 20:  Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.

 

Buddy and Zoe lighting the candles

 

 

Mass: Second Sunday of Advent: 9:30; coffee, donuts, home made muffins, & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Isaiah 35, 1-6, 10 (again beautiful); Psalm 146; James 5, 7-10; Matthew 11, 2-11

Thanks to all who donated or tried to donate their blood in Sunday’s blood drive.  Despite having about 50% rejected. 

Thanks also for making our Sunday brunch So Terrific!  See the Pictures.   

Community Bulletin Board

Christmas Eve Mass: 4:00 P.M.  Welcome!

The Mass after Christmas, Dec. 30: No Mass.  Rosemary & I will be in Mexico.

Two questions:

• What do you think about putting together a community directory with just names, perhaps email addresses, phone number, even address?
• What about a food drive Christmas Eve?  When St. James Parish said they did not want our donations any more, I forgot about the project.  But, we have Food Banks in Plano & Richardson, and people have said they would like to contribute.

                               

Tree Project update: maybe in December?  Waiting to hear from Collin Co. Child Advocacy Center, Park & Los Rios.

See you Sunday.

 

Frank & Blair, his daughter, who is getting married next May, say, "Welcome, Everybody."

 

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: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

  

 
             Happiness is a Cupcake of the Week, Brandon & Leo.                            

 

Readings:

Isaiah   53, 10-11,  The Lord was pleased to crush him.

Psalm 33,    Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you

Hebrews  4, 14-16, Let us approach the throne of grace.

Mark 10, 35-45,  Whoever wishes to be great will be your servant.                         

                            Happiness is Carrie & Paul. 

 

Community Activities:  

1.        ROMEO MEET: Friday, October 16, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   All Old Geezers welcome.

 2.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  Friday,  October ?,  12:30 P.M.,  Uni Sushi, 1410 Ave. K, # 1109B, Plano.  Carol says, “Join us early if you can.  They close at 2:00”

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

Carol 

  

Happiness is getting baptized and welcomed officially into the Community.

                                           

What is going on in our Catholic World

1.      Mortal Sin today?, Commonweal, Corpus,  October 3, 1500 words,     Download Mortal Sin today 10-15-15  

2.      The results of Francis' visit,  National Catholic Reporter, October 8,  1000 words,     Download The result of Francis visit 10-15-15

3.      Synod Dissention, National Catholic Reporter, October 12,   625 words,       Download Synod dissention 10-15-15

4.       3 way split in Catholic Church?, Crux,  October 6, 1000 words,     Download 3 way split in Catholicism 10-15-15

 

"Happiness is sitting in my grandmother's lap," Genevieve and Jill

 

True?  

Be careful of reading health books. You might die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

 

              Is that applause I hear?," says Genevieve with Marlene.
                                                     

                                                                                       

See you this Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

"Now that we have moved, where do we go for communion?"

           

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.

 

 

Under the main, downtown train station in Basel, Switzerland, there is this enormous, secure, and almost full bike parking area.  In Amsterdam this would not be nearly enough.  People ride bikes!

 

            If not Uber Black, Mike, maybe a new line, Uber Red?

 

 

Readings:

Zachariah 9, 9-10, Rejoice heartily, O daughter of Zion.

Psalm 145,  I will praise your name forever, My King and my God

Romans  8, 9, 11-13,  You are not in the flesh, you are in the spirit.

Matthew 11, 25-30,  Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened

 

Giverny, France, the home of Claude Monet.

 

ROMEOS, Friday, July 3, 1:00,  as usual.    Welcome!

ROMEOs' Virtual Jason's Deli BYOB lunch
This is a recurring meeting, Friday, 1:00 pm
Link :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85798571623?pwd=NmFSTW1ocVMzRGdIc0QzUGxKdHM3dz09

Meeting ID: 857 9857 1623
Password: saladbar

 

Honfleur, France.

 

Reminder for 14th Sunday Ordinary Time, July 5, 2020

Here are the links for Sunday:

Paris in the snow.

 

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. 

Barack Obama