Reminder for Sunday 1-15-12, 2nd Ordinary Time

Wisdom 12:  And you taught your people, by these deeds, that those who are just must be kind;
and you gave your children good ground for hope that you would permit repentance for their sins.
Romans 8:  The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.
Matthew 13:  Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field.  While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.

It’s easy to go through life grim and work oriented and predictable. But it’s ecstatic to go through life loving and laughing and applauding the present. “Celebration,” Jonathan Lockwood Huie says, “is its own road to happiness.”
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

Rickey Turner
Please click on the link below for more information on Rick’s fund for ongoing treatment and medications for a kidney transplant. As Rick is now back on track for the transplant, we are helping to cover the medications necessary following the transplant.
Rick Turner Blog Post

Another Reminder for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 19, 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.

Georgie checking out our new transport for altar helpers, plus a little mouse looking on.

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. 

Uh, oh, it does seem like the little mouse has made off with the new transport.. Practicing to join the altar helpers team? What think, Victoria?

Readings:

Jonah  3, 1-10,  The word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying…..

Psalm 25,    Teach me your ways, O Lord.

1 Corinthians 7, 29-31,   Let those having wives act as not having them.

Mark 1, 14-20,   Come after me and I will make you fishers of people.

Healing for John and Alison.

Community Activities:

1.    ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 23, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   The Old Geezer will be there to monitor bizarre ice cream creations.

2.    LADIES' LUNCHEON, Thursday, February 5,  1:00, Café Amore’, Midway, BYOB.

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

Carol

Stuff Swap, a big success.

3.    January 25, This Sunday, community brunch for an old geezer's 75th.

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

5.    Febrary 17,  Mardi Gras Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday.

6.    For all of you who has asked how our dear Celeste is, check out this link, a letter from her,    Download Celeste 1-22-15

8.    John Cade announces a Harville Hendrix seminar on Safe Conversation, Feb. 14, free.  214-357-0371,   Download FWD Flier Feb english 2015 B (3)

Happiness is a baby carriage for Zoe.

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.        Francis on Contraception, National Catholic Reporter,  January 16, 1800 words,      Download Francis on contraception 1-22-15   

 2.       Francis on Birth Control, National Catholic Reporter, January 9, 800 words,     Download Francis and Birth control 1-22-15

Buddy still in heaven on his motorcycle.

True? 

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Guess where. White Rock Lake this week.

See you Sunday, January 25, 2015, 3rd Ordinary Time, Cycle B

J.S., 214-783-0443

Rosemary, the Q.M., reading her blessing of the week.

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.

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.

 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:  2 Samuel 7, 1-16; Psalm 89; Romans 16, 25-27; Luke 1, 26-38.    

Community Bulletin Board:

• True?  The line separating good & evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either–but right through every human heart–and through all human hearts.  This line shifts.  Inside us, it oscillates with the years.  And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.                                             Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

• Our Christmas family: mom, 3 little girls, and a baby boy on the way.  We have reached our goal and doubled it!  More Sunday.

• Carol Eshelbrenner asks for any & all Dale Carnegie books lying around.  Her daughter Cary, a medical intern in New Orleans says that all the interns get copies of this book & they do not have enough.  

• Just a reminder that we have a treasure in our community: Greg Rogers.  He can do any building and handiwork.  Just ask Rosemary.     email: greg@able-bodiedconstruction.com  Phone 214-686-0892.

Picture 1:  Claire & Ray, Mabel & Curtis, Warren & Barb, Ken & Frank

Picture 2:  Christopher & Gail Bentley (Dr. & Mom)

Picture 3:  More Bentleys, Hunter, Cole, Holden, & Hope 

• See you this Sunday, December 21.

Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

Jan, The Most Welcoming Person, says, "Welcome in, Everybody."

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

Here, Buddy, let me get that bug out of your ear.

Readings:  

 Proverbs 9, 1-6,  Wisdom has built her house.  

Psalm 34,   Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.  (Wow, 2^nd week in a row, terrific)

 Ephesians 5, 15-20,  Watch carefully how you live. 

John 6: 51-58,  I am the living bread.

Sir Charlie, I am scared with you standing there so close to me.

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, August 17, 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), September, TBA

Wake up, Joe.  Just because Marsha is not here you think you can sleep during my homily.  

TRUE?

I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair.

He turned to me and asked, "Are you having it catered?"

And that, my friend, is the sad definition of "OLD".

You are lucky, John.  When I was supposedly growing up in Christ the King parish, they had ushers who knocked sleepers on the head when they got caught sleeping during the sermons of old Monsignor Bender.   How come we got so many sleepers this morning, John?

Anything happening in our Catholic World?

1.  Why not report clerical sexual harassment, America, 8-1-18,   Download SEXUAL SECRECY 8-16-18

2.   Steve Blow used to write column for the Dallas Morning News.  On at least two occasions, one of which was our wedding, Steve wrote me up & we became friends.  John Cade came across this article, which I had never seen.   It is a homily subject.  It will make your day.  Enjoy.   Download PET DELIGHTS 8-15-18

Donna, Bernadette, and Dana, I don't even want to ask what is going on there.  You even got Cody and Ben watching.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Peace, Everybody.

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, 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

   "Should we say, "Welcome," or "Trick or treat."  Scary!

Readings:

1 Kings 17, 10-16,  Please bring me a small cup of water to drink.

Psalm 146,    Praise the Lord, my soul.

Hebrews  9, 24-28, Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands.

Mark 12, 38-44,  The poor widow with the 2 small coins.                      

                                            Our Saints.                 

Community Activities:  

1. ROMEO MEET: Friday, November 6, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   Save your receipts for cookies.
2. LADIES' LUNCHEON,  will be next Thursday Nov. 12th at 1:00 at the Art Institute of Dallas at 8080 Park Lane, Suite 100; phone #  214-692-8080. Please RSVP to Cathy at cbamben@hotmail.com by Monday if planning to attend.

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

Carol

                                             Our Saints.

3. Love for the Kids picnic, December 12.  Book it.  Bill will have a signup sheet.  This is a great event for underprivileged kids, hundreds of them.
4. Services of Hope, 6540 Victoria Ave. Dallas: still want to help out with serving the less fortunate at Thanksgiving, like we used to do at the church? Book the Saturday before Thanksgiving, November 21.  More info the upcoming Sundays at Sigler.
5. Christmas boxes for military people overseas.  More explanation at Sunday Masses.  
6. Special Notice:  Christmas Eve, we are returning to Vines for only the Christmas Eve Mass, 4:00.  Don't go to Sigler Elementary.

                        Brent, Cheryl, Meredith, and Joe.
                                       

 What is going on in our Catholic World

1. 5 take aways from the Synod,  America & Corpus,  October 28, a video recording (paste into your browser to see the video),  www.americamagazine.org/media/videos/top-five-accomplishments-synod-family (if the video doesn't come up, click on "America Films" and then "Top Five Accomplishments of the Synod on the Family")                                                                                                                                                                            
2.   The Cost of child abuse in the Catholic Church,  National Catholic Reporter, November 2,  185 words,   Download Cost of Child Abuse 11-5-15   

                                                 Gotcha, Meredith.  

True?  

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is rapture in the lonely shore,

There is society where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

               I knew this guy when he was a nice little kid.  Now look at                  him.  A dear old & young friend, Noah.                                                                                                                                     

See you this Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

               The Brain Trust in Action, Zoe, Victoria, and Buddy.

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.

                     Healing for Barb's broken shoulder.
                                                                                           

Leo says, "See you next week, Everybody."  Can you believe Leo's self discipline.  4 cupcakes within arm's reach and he has touched not a one!