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: Deuteronomy 11, 18-32; Psalm 31; Romans 3, 21-25; Matthew 7, 21-27
See you this Sunday, June 1
J.S.
Mass: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.
Place: Vines High School on 15th between Custer & Independence.
Readings: Acts 5, 27-41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5, 11-14; John 21, 1-19
Community Bulletin Board
Invitation: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner, ca. 7:00. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them.
Seven couples will renew their vows. Guess Who? Also, we will do a covered dish hors d’oeuvres & desserts, and music for dancing. Moreover, the slide show of The Great East African trip.
Download the Anniversary Party 2007 Invitation.
From Angie Carroll: I am a volunteer at the Heritage Farmstead Museum on 15th and Custer in Plano and am currently helping them to find volunteer docents to give tours of the house and grounds. There is a great training program that is held every Tuesday in May from 7 to 9pm and every Saturday in June from 3-5pm.
This has been a really fun job because there is an opportunity to meet other volunteers, learn a great deal about life in Collin County at the turn of the century, meet lots of visitors who are from all over the country and also attend several social events each year.
We are looking for any women or men who have just a few hours each month to come and give tours. Anyone interested can call me at 972-612-8169, or e-mail me at acarroll@heritagefarmstead.org.
Important technology announcement
As you may have noticed in our emails, we have set up a blog. What is a blog? Essentially it is a web site that allows for someone like me to post writings to one place for viewing by others. For the past few months we have been posting my emails to the site in addition to sending them out as we have been via regular email.
Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to transition to using the blog as the main source for distributing this information. Why? Three reasons.
First, this will dramatically reduce the amount of time I need to spend on this process. Right now, I have to break the distribution into many groups of people, taking about an hour per week. With this new process I will just have to post the text to the site and an email will be automatically generated to you.
Second, I believe the blog will allow us to cultivate a greater sense of community. In addition to allowing me to post, a blog allows you to comment on the posts. As my homilies usually end with a question, I think it would be neat for some of you (if you feel inspired of course) to answer the question or pose your own question back to me.
Third, the postings are available for future viewing and listening. All previous homilies (including the audio files) and announcements will be automatically archived. If you want to view or listen to them in the future you just need to go to the site and they will be there.
What does this mean for you? After this email (the one that you are reading) we will begin to upload the email address up to what is called an RSS feeder system. You will receive an email from a service call FeedBlitz asking you to subscribe to the service. Please accept this. This is a private list. You will not be solicited in any way and your information is kept private.
For the next two or three weeks you will receive both the standard emails from me and an email from the FeedBlitz service. Once we are satisfied that this new system is working properly you will only receive the one from FeedBlitz on an ongoing basis.
If you have any questions, please let me or Ed Kless (ed.kless@choosegreat.com) know.
Zecariah 9: He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; the warrior’s bow shall be banished, and he shall proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Romans 8: If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Matthew 11: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
The question is not what we should celebrate, but what shouldn’t we celebrate. Every occasion is an occasion. It’s not the date on the calendar that matters, it’s the cognizance in our own soul of the amount of goodness around us that is in question.
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 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 5, 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.
2 Kings 5: Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel.
2 Timothy 2: Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with eternal glory.
Luke 17: Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine?
The Kiss of Peace
Here is John Cade's homily from last Sunday: Download 10-02-22- Homily – 27th Sunday Ord
John Stack Ministries now meets at:
The ArtCentre of Plano
902 E. 16th St, Plano
Please use the Haggard Park side entrance. Latecomers please use the 16th Street entrance.
The Kiss of Peace
Here are the links for Sunday:
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.
Ecclesiastes 1: For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun?
Colossians 3: For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.
Luke 12: “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”
Never fear periods of darkness in life. They are the atrium to new phases of life, the threshold to new experience, the invitation to move on from where you are to where there is more for you to learn.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister
Another Reminder for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 3, 2025
Here are the links for Sunday:
Meeting ID: 885 2874 4737
Passcode: 412993
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
Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee and juice and specials on the house served afterwards.
Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack.
Place: Vines High School, 15th between Custer & Independence.
Readings:
Matthew 21, 1-11, Jesus enters Jerusalem
Isaiah 50, 4-7, I gave my back to those who beat me.
Psalm 22, My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?
Philippians 2, 6-11, Because of this God greatly exalted him.
Matthew 27,, 11-54, The passion & death.
Community Events:
1. Sixth Sunday of Lent: Palm Sunday & Passion
2. ROMEO lunch Friday, April 11, Jason's, 1:00, Welcome all Old Geezers & kids, plus the Real Romeos.
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. Love for kids picnic, Download Love For Kids 4-10-14
5. Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center meeting, View this photo
6. Next Community Party: April 26. Annual Anniversary Party (9 years!), Heritage Farm, 6:00 P.M., covered dish as usual.
7. Next book and game swap: May 18. Save up.
What's going on in our Catholic World:
2. U.S. Parish profiles, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, 1400 words, Download U.S, Parish demographics 4-10-14
3. A bishop’s compensation, National Catholic Reporter, April 7, 1600 words, Download A bishop's worth 4-10-14
4. Immigration policies, Corpus, April 1, 1900 words, Download Immigration 4-10-14
True?
It is your right to be happy.
This is what you were made for.
And if you will not resist,
happiness will find a way
to pour from your heart and fill your days.
– Hugh Prather
See you Sunday, April 13, 2014, 6th 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.
Sez Genevieve, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in. Look at me, I can walk."
Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.
Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack & Mike.
Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075
Buddy, you look terrific in your new robes.
Readings:
1 Kings 19, 16, 19-21, Please, let me kiss my father & mother goodbye.
Psalm 16, You are my inheritance, O Lord.
Galatians 5, 1, 13-18, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Luke 9, 51-62, I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family.
Hi, Brandon, How do you like Lovejoy?
Community Activities:
Who is that taking all those pictures? Thanks, Beth, they are excellent.
Special Notice 1: Can we postpone the community brunch until July 10? I completely forgot to mention it last Sunday. This Sunday is too soon now, and July 4th weekend is next. So, July 10?
Special Notice 2: We would like to form a help network for Richard & Carol and John & Mary Jane. It will depend upon what Richard and Mary Jane would find helpful. Meals? If you could help out in any way way, please contact Grace LeBlanc, dougle20@verizon.net.
Happy 44th to you and Kent, Diane.
What is going on in Our Catholic World
Happy Birthday, Harper. Excellent, 5 years old.
True?
The best fishermen I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.
John Gierach, American author (and fisherman)
Thanks for the Offertory you folks, Diane & Erin, Lynda & Tom.
See you Sunday.
J.S., 214-783-0443
Special Blessings on you, Carol, as you begin this journey.
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.
See you Sunday.
J.S., 214-783-0443
A Fathers' Day Blessing for all our guys.
