Reminder for Sunday, September 15, 2013, 24th Ordinary Time, Cycle C

Sirach 35:  The LORD is a God of justice,  who knows no favorites.
2 Timothy 4:  The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom.
Luke 18:  But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

 

 

I have a friend who follows the sun around her back yard in a deck chair with a glass of fresh fruit juice in one hand and a book in the other. Here’s the question: Is she “wasting” time or “celebrating” time? Think carefully before you answer. It can get to be a very important question as life goes by.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

 

Another Reminder for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 26, 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.

 

Amos 6:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!
1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
 Luke 16:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

 

Nothing we manage to amass here can change the value of what we really are underneath it all. “Why, snatch at wealth, and hoard and stock it?” Betty Paoli writes. “Your shroud, you know, will have no pocket.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

 

Another Reminder for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 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.

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

                 

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

Readings: 2 Chronicles 36; Psalm137; Ephesians 2, 4-10; John 3, 14-21

         

Community Bulletin Board:  

True?   Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.  It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.  Mahatma Gandi   

CCAC Note of Thanks: Download CCAC letter

    

Picture 1:  Martha & Fred

Picture 2:  Wendy, Ben, & Celeste

Picture 3:  Rosemary, Angela, & Jon

Picture 4: Welcome  Reed

 

 See you this Sunday, March 22.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

 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)

 

 Welcome: Coffee & juice & specials on the house

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

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

Readings:  Job, 7, 1-7, Is not man's life on earth a drudgery? (I will expand this reading); Psalm 147, 
Praise the Lord, who heals the broken hearted; 1 Corinthians, 9, 16-23; I have made myself a slave to all; Mark, 1, 29-39, They brought to him all who were ill.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                            Picture  Picture 1:    The Delgados, Michelle, Bernadette, and  Buddy & Torri          

Picture 2:    Mabel & Curtis             

Picture 3:    Cole            

Picture 4:    Leo  

Picture 5:    Leo

         

       
Community Bulletin Board  

    1.  Information on Rosemary.  Her left elbow healing well, according to the doctor.  He showed us the number of screws he needed: nine!  Plus a plate. 

    2.  To hear an excellent contemporary theologian March 17, check this out, Download MICHAEL MORWOOD 1-27-12 .  The Community can help pay your cost if needed.

Picture 6:    Leo sleeps                                                                                          

  What's going on in our Catholic World: 

   1. Vatican II Background on its anniversary: National Catholic Reporter, January 25, (words 1100),  Download Vat II Background 2-3-12

     2.  Contemporary Christology, Part 1 of 3, Michael Morwood, (words 800), Download Christ A 2-3-12

    3.  Check The Dallas Morning News, Steve Blow's column Friday or on the weekend.  Maybe an article on The Old Geezer.

 
                     

True?

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. 

HELEN KELLER

 

 

Picture 7:    The O'Donnells, John & Jean
  
Picture 8:    The Team             

 

  Video: Nancy reading Deuteronomy (2 Min.)

  

  See you Sunday,  February 5, 2012

 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: Genesis 22; Psalm 116; Romans 8, 31-34; Mark 9, 2-10. 

       

Community Bulletin Board: 

Greetings from Galveston where we just spent 4 days with 50 students on spring break doing hurricane recovery work.  St. Boniventure U., Buffalo, NY.  Trip paid for by the kids.  Bob McGrath & I just returned.

True?   Getting Older is the Only Way to Live.

Watch Out: Sunday begins Daylight Time

 

Picture 1:  Trash pick up in San Leon, TX, north across Galveson Bay

Picture 2:  Trashed tire with P.J. & Louis, St. Boniventure U. Buffalo, NY, on Spring Break

Picture 3:  Trashed Boat getting pulled out to the edge of the road for pick up, Rob, Rachel, Steve, Kaitlen (yellow shirt), Seth (black shirt)

Picture 4:   Roofing old man's house in Galveston

Picture 5:   Lunch on church grounds in San Leon

       

See you this Sunday, March 8.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)