Sunday Mass Reminder 11-23-08, Christ the King & Thanksgiving

 

 

 

 

Note: we are now meeting at Legacy Academy.

 

 

 

There they go for another year, having helped dozens of riders with flat tires, broken spokes, and accidents.  A great inspiration.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

It's a take over!

 

 

Readings:  

 1 Kings 19:4-8,  Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert.  

 Psalm 34,   Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

 Ephesians 4:30-5,2, Be kind to  one another

John 6: 41-51,  I am the bread of life

                                                                                                   

 

The Offertory Team, Claire, Teresa, Tom, & Ray
 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, Augsut 10, 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

 

 

 

Judy, Come back.  That cupcake is for both of us.  Please.

 

 

TRUE?

 

 The biggest lie I tell myself these days is "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."

 

 

 

Bon Voyage, Geri.  Haven't you always wanted to go camping?

 

Anything happening in our Catholic World?

 

 What to do about Cardinal McCarick,  National Catholic Reporter,   Download MCCARICK 8-9-18

 

 

 

"And you will not believe it, but he is taking me camping with a little pop-up trailer."  

"No, I cannot believe it.  I can't believe you, you are certifiable!" 

A Belle Vita package of cookies to anybody who can identify the speakers of the above quotes.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

 

Our Father.

 

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.

 

 

 

Peace, Everybody.

 

 

 

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

 Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John and Mike.

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

 

 

Readings:

Samuel 16, 1-13,   Samuel anointed David.

Psalm 23,  The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.

Ephesians  5, 8-14,  You were once darkness, but now you are light.

John  9, 1-41,  As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.

 

 

 Community Events:

 Fourth Sunday of Lent:  

  1. John & Mike 

  2. ROMEO lunch Friday, March 28,  Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids.  Maybe a day off this week & next.  People are away.

 3.  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. 

 

 

4.  Next Community Party: April 26.  Annual Anniversary Party (9 years!), Heritage Farm, 6:00 P.M., covered dish as usual.  

5.  Next book and game swap: May 18.  Save up.

6.  Food drive brought in 380 pounds of food.

 

 

What's going on in our Catholic World: 

1.     Francis at 1 Year,  Corpus & The Tablet, March 6, 17000 words,     Download Francis 1 year assessment 3-27-14    

 2.    Abuse victim appointed, National Catholic Reporter,  March 22, 1000 words,      Download Abuse Survivor 3-27-14  

 

True? 

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Spanish proverb

 

See you Sunday, March 30, 2014, 4th Lent, 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.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



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

Time: 9:30;  Stack Celebrating

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

 

Readings:   Wisdom 12, 13-19; Psalm 86, Lord, You are good and forgiving; Romans 8, 26-27; Matthew 13, 24-43

 
 
 
Picture 1:   Chloe with her mom Claire, Matthew, & her grandmother, Denni                                           

Picture 2:   Would you trust your kid to these guys?  Jerry, Mike, & Tony with Dillon 

Picture 3:   Sienna with her little sister, Brooklyn

Picture 4:   The Delgado Clan, some of….

Picture 5:   Zoe with her mom, Michelle

 
 

 Community Bulletin Board:

    1.    Thanks to all of you for the excellent community survey.  We are organizing it and will verbally present it the first or second Sunday of September, when most summer travel is done.  At the same time I'll post it on the blog.

    2.    We are looking at updating the community directory.  More in September.

   
 
 Picture 6:   Baptism  

 Picture 7:   Georgie

 Picture 8:   Baptism tree, one cypress tree for each child baptised

Picture 9:   Final Blessing
   

Church Happenings: 

  1.   Fr. McBrien,  National Catholic Reporter, 7-11-11,  Download Old Jesuit Acquaintance 7-15-11 

 2.  Immigration Reform, National Catholic Reporter,  6-27-11, Download Immigration Reform 7-1-11

 3.  Legionary Status today, National Catholic Reporter, 7-13-11, Download Legio Christi Status 7-15-11

   

  True?    

 

 

Ray, I think you just socked poor Mike in the eye!

 

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

 

 

Healing for Donna.

 

We have noticed that people discover that the Blog has not been 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

 

 

Betsy, it is obvious, you know The Secret: Red Velvet always tastes better when smeared on your cheeks and fed to you by your big sister, Harper.

 

Readings:

Isaiah 25, 1-6, 10, Then will the eyes of the blind be opened.

Psalm 146,  Lord, come and save us.

James 5, 7-10,  The coming of the Lord is at hand.

Matthew 11, 2-11,  The blind regain their sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

 

 

Becky, who does your Christmas decorating at this school, Legacy?  I want to hire this person.

 

 

Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, December 13,   Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.   I will be doing a wedding in Florida.

 

 

Donna's hand made jewelry on display for Christmas.

 

True?

For all that has been….thanks.

For all that is yet to come….YES!

Dag Hammarskjold

 

 

Chip, it is so good to see you & Cathy here.  Your mom is glowing.

 

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

The failed leadership of the U.S. bishops,https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/editorial-failed-leadership-us-bishops-clear?clickSource=email

 

 

Our Father.

 

See you Sunday, J.S.

214-783-0443

 

 

 

Peace of Advent be with you.

 

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.

 

 

 

Advent Peace to All.

 

I asked Bill if he would share with community some Excellent News he had just received.  His response—

 

Friends:

This is my first try at a group e-mail so I hope this will work and bring you up to date on my current status.  As many of you know I was diagnosed Oct 17th with stage 4 lung cancer which had spread to a spot on my liver and my adrenal glands.  After multiple scans and tests they started me on Infusion Chemo Therapy on Nov 21st still awaiting the genomic findings which arrived Nov 29th.

 

Yesterday my Oncologist, Dr Hughes told me that the kind of cancer (non-smokers adenocarcinoma) and the genomic test which showed BRAF- v600E was very treatable with two drugs taken in pill form and the infusion could be eliminated for now.  Great news for me as it appears to be a form of cancer that will respond to treatment very well.

 

I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers that have come my way and I can tell you it is very uplifting.

 

I'll keep you posted on my progress, Thanks again for all the prayers.

 

Bill Hammond 

 

 

Advent Peace again, Everybody

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

                       

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

Readings: Acts 4, 8-12; Psalm 118, The stone rejected by the builders has become the corner stone; 1 John 3, 1-2; John 10, 11-18, The Good Shepherd 

                

Community Bulletin Board: 

 The Annual Anniversay Celebration: May 23, 7:00, as usual, at  Fairview Farms & covered dish.  Book it.  Welcome!!

More Job opportunities from Lou Federico:

We have an immediate need for 2-3 experienced loan workout specialists.

The FDIC is requiring 10+ yrs. experience in loan workouts, negotiation skills, asset disposition, financial statement analysis, calculating net present value, etc. 

This is a contract, so no benefits. 

Hr. rate – $65.00. 

We will be working closely with FDIC staff on site. 

Hours will most likely be limited to 40 per week, unless pre-approved by FDIC. 

If interested – log on to www.careerconnection.org homepage…search for Loan Workout Specialist,

And follow the directions for the job opening. 

NOTE:  If you cannot pass a thorough background check by FDIC, please do not submit a resume. 

 

 

 

 

Likewise from Jane Drake:  Download TxDOT Summer Employment Program 2009

 

Tired of getting telephone books delivered to your door?  Want to stop them?www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org

True?  Life would not cause me sorrow if I thought of it as being like the Mountain Cherry blossoms which bloom and fade in a day.

Murasaki Shikibu

 

Picture 1:  52 years, Joan & Jerry with Kevin

Picture 2:  Reagan & Aviana with Hunter & Dillon

Picture 3:  Clare & Emery (sisters & Chloe's mom & aunt)

Picture 4: Zack

Picture 5: Taylor

       

 See you Sunday, May 3

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

 

 

 

They finally caught her.
 

 

 

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

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John Cade 

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

 

 

 

The Girls.  Again.

 

Readings:

Ezekiel  33, 7-9,    You have been appointed watchman for the house of Israel

Psalm 95,   If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts

Roman s 13, 8-10,  Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another

Matthew 18, 15-20,  Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am.  

 

 

 

Does that not look like a takeover!

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, September 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Most of us will be gone to Yosemite until the 14^th.  Take a break for a week?

JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together),   October, TBA

 

 

The Community.

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World

1. Jean Vanier, The Tablet & Corpus, August 18  800 words (a hero of mine from my years in Toronto),   Download VANIER 7-31-17

 

 

 

The Best Team.

 

True?    (from Patricia)

Author Anne Lamott recently turned 61. So she’s compiled the following list of “every single true thing I know.” A brief recap:

1. All truth is a paradox. “Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift, and it is impossible here,” she says. Life is “filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.”
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2. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.” That includes you.
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3. Nothing outside of you will help you in any real, lasting way. Radical self-care is the only thing that will get you through. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true, and it works the other way around too. “If it is someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the solution,” she says.
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4. “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared. Everyone, even the people who seem to have it most together.” So don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outsides, she warns.
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5. “Chocolate with 75% cacao is not actually a food. Its best use is as bait in snake traps or to balance the legs on wobbly chairs.”
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6. Every writer puts down terrible first drafts. The trick is that they commit to sticking with it. They take it Bird by Bird, her father’s advice that became the heart of her bestselling book. “Every story you own is yours. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better,” she says. “You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart — your stories, visions, memories, visions and songs. Your truth, your version of things, your own voice. That is really all you have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.”
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7. Creative success are “something you have to recover from. They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine.” And that brings us back to #1, because creative success is also amazing. “It is a miracle to get your work published,” she says. “Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes inside you. It can’t. It won’t.”
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8. Families are both astonishing and hard. Again reference #1. “Earth is forgiveness school,” she says. “It begins with forgiving yourself — then you might as well start at the dinner table.”
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9. Speaking of food: try to do a little better. “I think you know what I mean.”
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10. Grace is a powerful thing. “Grace is Spiritual WD-40 or water wings,” she says. “The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild.” Grace doesn’t always come in the forms you expect. Lamott sees it most in laughter. “Laughter really is carbonated holiness,” she says. “It helps us breathe again and again, and gives us back to ourselves.”
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11. God isn’t that scary. Rather than getting trapped in the mundanity of our own lives, she tells us to “go look up.” Now. “My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don’t look up,” she says. “If they did, they could fly to freedom. Instead, they walk around bitterly, bumping into glass walls.”
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12. Death is incredibly hard to bear, and you don’t get over losing people you love. “We Christians like to think death is a major change of address,” she says. “But the person will live again fully in your heart, at some point, if you don’t seal it off.” Memories of the people you love will make you smile at inappropriate times, but their absence will also be “a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.” Again, see #1.

She takes a deep breath. “Okay, I think that’s it. But if I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.”

 

 

Healing for Cindy.

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

A footnote:  We are donating  as a Community

$1000 to the special fund established by the mayor of Houston,

$1000 to the 1st Baptist Church of Rockport

 

 

 

Healing and Life for 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.

 

 

Communion for everyone.