Reminder for Sunday, March 2, 2014, 8th Ordinary Time, Cycle A

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

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

Readings: 

James 5, 7-10,  Be patient until the coming of the Lord.

Matthew  11, 2-11, What did you go out to the desert to see?

Chuck Pratt: one of our most stalwart and loving of community members now Dances with the Father,   Download Pratt Press 12

Chuck Pratt celebration, his son Chris reading.

 

Community Events:

1.    This Sunday, collect for Samaritan Inn (from last week) and Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center  (this week).  For what to bring, click on the link:     Download Advent 2013 b&w

Current Urgent Needs at Samaritan Inn:  Disinfectant Spray,  Bleach Wipes and  Toilet Paper.  Check the website for other needs:  http://www.thesamaritaninn.org/SupportTheInn/NeedsList.aspx1.

2.  Love for the Kids Picnic,  A most touching event,  Dec. 14,  Download Love-for-kids   Also, for updated info:   Download Love For Kids update 12-12-13

3.   ROMEO lunch Friday, December 6,   Jason's, 1:00, Welcome.  

4.  The Women's Lunch Group on 1st Thursdays,  The Olive Garden, 1:00, Central and Plano Pkwy, northbound service road.    For more info talk with Carol or Bernadette. 

By the way, we are dropping the idea of riding bikes through Highland Park to look at the Christmas lights.  It is just too cold.  Plus, each bike would need lights on front and back, a little expensive.

Chuck's daughter, Pam, reading.

1.      How is Francis doing with reform?, National Catholic Reporter, December 2, 340 words,     Download Francis' Reform progress 12-12-13

2.      Times are changing with Francis?,  National Catholic Reporter, December 6, 850 words,   Download Times are changing under Pope Francis 12-12-13

3.       What?  Francis out at night in disguise?,  Huffington Post,  December 3, 250 words,    Download Freancis out at night 12-12-13

Chuck's memorial celebration at Slate on Custer Parkway.

True? 

The mantra we frequently pray, "Come, Lord, Jesus, come," means somehow in Advent we have to make sure we are hungry, that is, that there is room inside us for "more."  Who else do I need to "take in" my heart and my mind?

Like Jesus, we can give the God who dwells in us a way of coming to human expression in the way we are neighbor, the way we are in solidarity with those who are different from us or who have less than we, the way we put an end to divisions, and the way we are more expansive and inclusive in our loving, forgiving and giving.

As we live this holy season of Advent, let us remember "God comes to you disguised as your life."*

*Paul D'Arcy
References: Yes, And… by Richard Rohr and Praying a New Story by Michael Morwood.  Via Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead, NY

Chuck's Memorial Celebration Wednesday evening.

 See you Sunday, December 15, 2013, 3rd Advent, Cycle A

 J.S., 214-783-0443

 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.

Hey, Mary, is that a little mouse on top of your head?  

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

John, now you got two mice.  These mice sure do love you. 

Readings:

Isaiah 58, 7-10,   If you bestow your bread on the hungry, then light shall rise for you in the darkness.   

 Psalm 112,  The Just Person is a light in darkness to the upright.

 1 Corinthians 2, 1-5,   God chose the foolish of the world.

 Matthew 5, 13-16,    You are the light of the world.

Our community has mice.  Now do we have a tree growing out of Cathy's hair?  

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, February 3, 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), February,

Juliet’s ladies luncheon group will be meeting Friday, February 3 at 1:00 P.M. at Eddy’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant, 2108 W. 15^th Street, Plano.  It is located at 15^th Street and Custer next to McDonalds.

For those of you who have not eaten there; it is a cozy Italian Restaurant who offers pasta dishes, pizza and other Italian specialties. Lunch prices are very reasonable and their garlic rolls are great. Even better it is a BYOB.

And now Rosemary will show us all a new dance step.
 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Parish priests: Stop closing parishes, National Catholic Reporter, 1-31-17,   Download STOP CLOSING PARISHES, 2-2-17    

So sorry, Brent, we just ran out of cupcakes.  This will have to be your consolation ($2000 to Souls Harbor).

True?

It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Johannesburg

Brandon got it.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Le Patisserie: Happiness is eating pastries while checking out Girl Scout cookies.

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.

Happiness is healing for Carrie and Paul.

Happiness is peace, peace to you all.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice & specials on the house served afterwards.

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

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

Our Angels

 Readings:

Isaiah  60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem,  Your light has come.

Psalm 72,  Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Ephesians  3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs.

Matthew 2, 1-12, Magi from the east arrived.

An Angel named Torri

 For those who don’t have a decent Bible or a book of the readings, here are two links that I use, The Bible at Your Fingertips and USCCB, The New American Bible. 

The difference?  The second is officially Catholic and has the 12 little books in between the O.T. & N.T., called Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha. 

Both are good translations.  I use the first more often because it has fewer doors to pass through to get to the text.  Thanks, Gerald, for this idea.  I will include the link from now on.

One more week for our Christmas Tree

Emma at work

 Community Bulletin Board:

1.  This Sunday: Celebrate the First Sunday of The Year 2013.

2.  January 24, Thursday night, 8:00, Collin County Homeless Coalition is having their annual census of homeless.  We will have a sign up sheet at Mass.  Last year we had two teams of about 5 each. 

The Reads, Taylor, Zach, and Teresa

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.    5 Things to do to make a better 2013, America and Corpus, December 31, 1000 words,   Download AMERICA 1-4-13 

Rosemary reading her blessing

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you stronger; the other weakens you.

The Teachings of Don Juan Carolos Castañeda

Communion helpers

 See you Sunday, January 6, 2013, First of The Year

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace be with you

  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.

True?

Remember: NO MASS THIS SUNDAY!

Have a Great Thanksgiving Break.  J.S.

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

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating; Tony Levatino of Holy Trinity Parish talking

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

 
 
  Readings: Exodus, 34, 4-9, Note the great line, The Lord is Gracious & Merciful, slow to anger, and rich in kindness & fidelity;

Daniel 3, Glory and Praise Forever;

2 Corinthians 13, 11-13;

John 3, 16-18.

Picture 1:    Sienna with her grandmother, Robyn                             

Picture 2:   Alison & John                  

Picture 3:   Noah with his dad, Carl                          

Picture 4:  The Ekes, Marlene, Mabel, & Curtis 

 Picture 5:   Emma with her mom & her apple juice                 

 
 
 Community Bulletin Board:

  1.   June 26, next brunch celebrating anniversaries

Church Happenings: 

  1.   Fr. McBrien on Women's Ordination & Infallibility,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-13-11,  Download Infallibility on Women 6-17-11

 2.  The Great Theologian, Hans Kung,  National Catholic Reporter, 6-11-11,  Download Hans Kung 6-17-11 

 3.  The Great American Theologian, Anthony Padovano, National Catholic Reporter, 6-11-11, Download Padovano in Detroit 6-17-11

True?   

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

See you, June 19,  2011, Father's Day

 

  
Picture 6:   The Cake Shoppe



Picture 7:    Communion



Picture 8:    Bill Hammond at the Collin Classic Bike Tour, 30 mile rest stop



Picture 9:    40 mile Rest stop



 
 

 See you this Sunday, 6-19-11, Father's Day

J.S.   (214-783-0443)

 

      

 

 

 

Isaiah 50:  The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.
Philippians 2:  Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness;. . . .
John 9:  He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The teacher says, “My appointed time draws near; in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.”‘”

“Friendship,” Coleridge writes, “is a sheltering tree.” It shades us in the sun, shelters us in the rain and protects us from the harsh winds of life. Our friends stand between us and the storms of life to give us the time and reflection we need to become our strongest selves.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Donna Dinsmore asks for prayers for her daughter, Dana, (and unborn child) who is having  some problems during her pregnancy and still has 10 weeks to go.

Another Reminder for Palm Sunday, March 29, 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.