Reminder for Sunday, January 19, 2014, 2nd Ordinary Time A

James says, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in."

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. 

With her mom, Beth, looking on, Emma solves world problems.

Readings:

Isaiah 40, 1-5, 9-11,  Comfort, give comfort to my people (excellent, see Handel’s Messiah)

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

2 Peter 3, 8-14,  With the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.

Mark 1, 1-8,   The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Cowboy Cole works on the same problems.

 

Community Activities:

1.    ROMEO MEET: Friday, December 5, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  All left over turkeys welcome.

2.    LADIES' LUNCHEON, Thursday,  December 4, 1:00, Cantina Laredo, Royal & Preston (northeast corner on Royal side)

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

Carol

Cupcake of The Week to Maureen.

 3.  Love for the Kids’ picnic, December 13, Saturday, from 8:00-1:00 more or less.  More info from Bill Hammond.

4.    Interested in a French Christmas Market here in Dallas?  Check the International School, Dec. 7, this Sunday,  Download French Xmas Market 11-20-14

5.  Christmas gift toffee will be on sale Sunday & following Sundays, $13.  Proceeds go to Dallas North Rotary, my club.

Cupcake of The Week to Tom & Denni for 39 years.

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.    Fr. Charles Curran, friend of our community and theology professor at S.M.U.,  National Catholic Reporter,November 21,  2500 words,    Download Curran 12-4-14

2,    The Great ex-priest James Carroll on Thanksgiving,  Boston Globe,  November 24, 800 words,     Download James Carroll 12-4-14

3.  Kennedy on Synod Follies, National Catholic Reporter, November 26,  800 words,   Download Kennedy 12-4-14   

Beginning, 1st Sunday of Advent.

True? 

Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness.  Your job is to simply do your work  …  sacredly, secretly, and silently  …  and those with eyes to see and ears to hear will respond.

The Arcturians 

The Magic Hatmakers, Cathy & Harper, Bern & Victoria.

See you Sunday, December 7, 2014, 2nd Advent, Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Want a teddy bear?

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.

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

Our love Harper with one of her grandmother's hats, that is, Cathy.

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.

Offertory, Cole with his mom and dad, Chuck and Erin, and Erin's mom, Diane.

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.  

Bernadette and Gilberto are back home and Delgado Corner is open, yippee. Buddy and Torri.

 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
 

Cupcakes of The Week for Delgados (48th), Teresa, and Marsha, along with some little critters hoping for a crumb.

Another cupcake critter, Zoe waits hoping.

 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

Communion helpers with Rosemary, Beth and Rob and John.

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

J.S., 214-783-0443

Rosemary reads her blessing.

 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.

Want a hydrenaline jolt or electric shock to your system? Join this bunch of crazies.

Mass:  Coffee & donuts & treats on the house.

Place: Welcome back to Vines

Time: 9:30; Stack Celebrating 

Readings: Isaiah, 66, 18-21; Psalm 117, Go out to All the World and tell the Good News; Hebrews 12, 5-7, 11-13; Luke 13, 22-30.
 

Community Bulletin Board:

Thoughts on The Church:

1.  The Best Pope, National Catholic Observer, McBrien,  Aug. 17:

Download Popes of the 20th Century 8-20-10

2.  A Married Priest: Download Portland priest shares Journey 8-20-10

Super Bowl XLV: want to win 2 tickets to the Super Bowl, plus 4 nights at The Mansion, along with a 2nd place and 3rd place prize?

My Rotary Club, Dallas North, is sponsoring a raffle, 1,000 tickets only to be sold, $100 each.  Check the brochures this Sunday.  J.S.

Picture 1:   Eleanor with her mom, Rosheen, and granddad, Fr. Tony

Picture 2:   Sienna with her dad, Payton 

Picture 3:   Sienna with her buddies,Erin, Wendy, & Payton

Picture 4:   The Baacks, Sheila, Amanda, & Richard

Picture 5:    The Gang, Jo, Joan, Jerry, & Chuck

J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

"Happy New Year" from John & Karen, Judy & Dick.

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. 

Leo the Candle Lighter.

Readings:

Isaiah 55, 1-11,  All you who are thirsty, come to the water.  (Another excellent Isaiah selection)

Psalm 12,    You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.

1 John 5, 1-9,  Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God.

Mark 1, 7-11,   The baptism of Jesus.

Emma & Zoe at serious work.

Community Activities:

1.    ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 9, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  All left over turkeys still welcome.  The Old Geezer will be there to monitor salad bar abuse.

2.    LADIES' LUNCHEON, Thursday, January 8, Cafe' Brazil, 1:00, Coit & Bush, Plano.

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

Carol

Buddy and Victoria show that even twins can work together.

3.  January 18, Our Stuff Swap will take place.  Souls Harbor will take all that is left over.  Bring useful items that you don't need or want anymore.  Take home what you want.

4.    January 25, community brunch for an old geezer's 75th.

5.    February 15, Community memorial for Fred with brunch catered by Maureen & the Macchio gang. 

6.    Febrary 17,  Mardi Gras Tuesday

A new member our our music team? Could that be Leo?

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.        Runner-up to Man of The Year, National Catholic Reporter, December 31,  1000 words,      Download Runner-up 1-8-15  

2.       20 Brand New Cardinals, National Catholic Reporter, January 4, 700 words,   Download 20 New Cardinals 1-8-15   

3.       Kennedy on the Rome's report on the nuns, National Catholic Reporter, December 19, 11600 words,    

And could that be Leo, too?

True? 

Poverty is not the absence of goods, but rather the overabundance of desire.

Plato

Cupcakes (or Power Bars) of the Week to Tom & Jan for birthdays, Carol and Richard for 40 years.

See you Sunday, January 11, 2015, Baptism

J.S., 214-783-0443

The Girl with the pretty blue ribbon, our Zoe.

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.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice & specials on the house served afterwards. But not this week. 

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

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

Buddies,Connie and Cathy.

Celeste arriving.

 Readings:

Acts 10, 34, 37-43, He went about doing good.

Psalm 118,  This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. 

1 Corinthians  5, 6-8,  A little yeast leavens all the dough.

John 20, 1-9,  Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning.

Curtis processing with a prayer shawl.

Jim, Jerry, and Bobby forming a welcoming line.

Community Events:

1.  March 31, this Sunday, Easter Sunday.  Bring a flower and you kids bring Easter baskets–empty.  Easter Egg hunt after Mass.  Anybody free who would love to help Carol & Bernadette fill eggs Friday, Call Carol, 972-423-0069.  

2.  April 13, Love for the Kids picnic

3.  Romeos’ lunch Friday, March 29, 1:00, Jason's on 75 & Collin Creek. 

Georgie arriving.

Beth arrives.

 What's going on in our Catholic World:  

1.  Priests Married?, Corpus & NY Times, March 20, 1100 words,   Download Priestly Marriage 3-29-13

2.  Kids at Mass, Commonweal, Washington Post, March 15, 700 words,   

3.  One view from Argentina, Religion & Politics, March 18, 1600 words,   Download View from Argentina 3-29-13

  4.  5 Tests Ahead of Pope Francis, National Catholic Reporter, March 22, 1300 words, Download Five Papal Tests 3-29-13

Passion readers, Tom and Denni and John.

Kayla awaits.

True?    

It is only because of your love — only your love — that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.

St. Vincent de Paul

Maureen with Finn and Raven and their momma, Becca.

Finn and Raven.

 See you Sunday, March 31, 2013, Easter Sunday, C cycle 

J.S., 214-783-0443

Olivia with her grandmother, Sandra.

Zoe, the Rabbit.

 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.

He who takes pictures, Rick.

Emma, one of Rick's favorite subjects.

My Dearest Betsy, who is that person dragging you along?

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

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

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

Beware, Dear Betsy, you are surrounded by alien critters.

We have heard that people discover that the Blog has stopped coming.  Typepad tends to drop people for no reason.  So if this happens to you, just sign up again by going to www.johnstackministries.com

Maybe Beth can help you out.  Maybe!

Readings:

Isaiah , 42, 1-4, 6-7,  I will make you a light to the nations.

  (This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.)

Psalm 29,  The Lord will bless his people with peace.

Acts of the Apostles 10, 34-38,  I see that God shows no partiality

John, 1 29-34,  John the Baptist sees Jesus coming towards him.

Our Father.

Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 17, 2020,   Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.  

Sisters and Best Buddies.

True?

There are two things which raise man above himself & lead to eternal, ever increasing admiration,

The Moral Law within me,

The starry sky above me.

Immanuel Kant

Communion line.

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

A conflict: the retired pope publicly disagreeing with the present pope on celibacy for priests,  https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/surprise-benedict-openly-defends-clerical-celibacy-francis-considers-married-priests?clickSource=email

Communion for Everybody.

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

Peace for everybody, too.

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 from Her.

Texas Winter.