Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14, 2025

Numbers 21:  Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
 Philippians 2:  Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, …
John 3:  For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

 

Mary Jane reading from the Book of Numbers


Thanks…   

Music,   Shonda & Ben
Readers,  Mary Jane & John
Homily,   John Cade
Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Tom
Final Blessing,  Rosemary

John reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians


Remember these special people:

For all the people affected by the floods;  For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Stack;    For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Warren Wittek; For Tom Good; For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;   For Mary Hall’s family and friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition;   For Sir Charlie;  For Ron ;  For Teresa Quinn’s niece, Maddie who has a brain tumor;

Jackie’s sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;    from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation,  the families of Annie and Michael and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.


Mary Jane gets a cookie for her birthday


Birthdays:
    Mary Jane Stevenson 9/20
Anniversaries:   Lynda & Tom Fleming 9/18

 

John gets a cookie for doing so well after hip surgery


Expenses: $  
600.00
Outreach: $  80.00

Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.


Rosemary’s Blessing:

May those that love us, love us. And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.  And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles, so we will know them by their limping.

An Irish Blessing

 

 

John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at 9:30 at
The ArtCentre of Plano,
902 E. 16th St, Plano, Texas.

 

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Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People,
provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.
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    Rosemary’s Blessing of The Week    

    May you be blessed with the gift of humility

    To know who you are,

    To appreciate your strengths and talents,

    To be aware of your shortcomings and limitations,

    And most especially…

    To be grateful each day for life

     

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    Denni reading from Exodus.

     

    Our Special Thanks

    •    For  the Readings:    Denni & Tom
    •    For The Team:   Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
    •    For the Special Communion Cups:  Jan & Sir Charlie
    •    For the Pictures:   Rick & Connie & Mike  
    •    For the coffee and extras:   John Cade & Jackie 
    •    For the altar & sound: Hue & Jackie
    •    For the Music:   Ray & Bethany & Mary
    •    For all who helped with communion   

     

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    Tom reading from 2 Timothy.

     

     

    Birthdays:    Richard Eschelbrenner (today, Sunday) 

     

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    Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

     

    Please Remember these special people:

    For Dee;   For Gilberto, whose mom just died, and for the family;  For Carol’s treatment;  For John Schanot's treatment;   For Brent's mom & family;   For Frank's treatment;    For Nadia's recuperation;   For a young man who is suffering from depression;    For Rosemary's great nephew, Patrick who broke his leg amd is in a body cast (3 years old); For Claire's mom;  For Jan’s mom;  For Grace's mom and brother in Alberta ;     For Tom Good;     For Cliff & Jean;    For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom;   For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron;    For Anthony;   For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;     For John & Jean's son John Louis;    For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;   


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    Okay, Georgie, is that little brother of yours still awake? 

     

    For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou;  For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer;      For Jackie's friend, Barbara, plus Angela;    For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;  Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer;    Frank’s & Mary's niece, Lisa, with brain cancer, Franks brother with advanced Parkinsons;     Diane McClurg's mom in Fort Dodge;   For Steve Barrett, Rose, & Katie;

     

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    Happy Birthday, Bill.  I don't think I can trust anybody as old as you.

     

     

    Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill.   Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip and Ethan Michel, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece & Annie & Kyler;     Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer;   Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher;   for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

     

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    Welcome Home, George.  Good to have you back from Mississippi.   

     

    Your Finances, Oct0ber 16, 2016

    Expenses:   $850.00

    Outreach:   $255.00

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

    Have a Great Week, J.S

    (214-783-0443)

     

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    Thanks, Brandon, for being our Candle Lighter of The Week.

     

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          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.

     

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    Wisdom 9: Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?  For the deliberations of mortals are timid,  and unsure are our plans.

    Philemon: Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man and in the Lord.

    Luke 14: Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

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    Thanks…     

    Music,   Shonda

    Readers,  Becky & Brent

    Homily,   John Stack

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

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    Remember these special people:

    For all the people affected by the floods;  For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Stack;    For Adam, that the doctors may find a remedy for his seizures; For Meredith ;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Warren Wittek; For Tom Good; For Lambrini, John Cade’s wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Hue; For Jackie;   For Mary Hall’s family and friend Cadence still suffering from a serious medical condition;   For Sir Charlie;  For Ron ;  For Teresa Quinn’s niece, Maddie who has a brain tumor;

    Jackie’s sister, & friend, Lynn;  For Rick Turner searching for a kidney donor, Type O neg.;   For Jean & Cliff Wright;    from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation,  the families of Annie and Michael and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

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    Warren gets a cookie for his birthday

    Birthdays:    Warren Wittek 9/12, Annette Miller 9/13

    Anniversaries:   Rob & Beth  Robinson 9/7,  Mike & Geri Moran (50) 9/12

    Expenses: $  1,360.00

    Outreach: $  660.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

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    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    Loving God…

    Give us hearts
    where all may enter in,
    ears to hear your call,
    hands to do your will,
    voices to sing your praise
    and soul enough
    to recognize You
    in everything we do.

    Taken from The Prayer for Those Who Dwell In A Monastery of the Heart by Joan Chittister

    John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at 9:30 at The ArtCentre of Plano, 902 E. 16th St, Plano, Texas.

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     Rosemary’s Blessing: 

    Loving God,

    Lead us beyond ourselves

    To care and protect,

    To nourish and shape,

    To challenge and energize

    Both the life and the world

    You have given us.

    Joan Chittister, OSB   and   www.benetvision.org

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    Special Thanks–

    • For Reading:   John & Jean
    • For Serving:  Kevin  
    • For the Greek Communion Bread:  John Cade's Greek mother in law, Caliope
    • For the Wine & Cups:  Beth & Rob
    • For the Music: Ray & Bethany
    • For the Pictures & Video: Rick, Jan & Beth,  John & Connie
    • For the coffee and pastries:  Bill & Jackie
    • For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue

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    Anniversary:

    Luciano & Amanda Godinez (Day 1)

     We Remember  

    All our veterans and those serving today;  Mike’s upcoming & postponed hip operation;  Mark Ackerman’s recuperation from an operation and Cathy Bambanek’s recuperation from her foot operation;  Jean Wright's recovering from rotator cuff surgery;   Sue Tomas;   Mike & Dee’s daughter, Lisa;   Patricia’s husband, Fred, who had quadruple bypass a few weeks ago;  Bill Hammond's broken ankle;  Alexander Occhipinti;    Diane McClurg's good friend, Suzy McGonigle with cancer;    Mary Zachos' brother (Jessica Bresson's maid of honor) with a stroke; 

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      Lisa's Ackerman’s  Lucus Quiocho going to Afghanistan & his mom depressed about it;   Rita;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's daughter Colleen with breast cancer;    Barb & Warren's  friend, Mike, fighting cancer, & Tara;   Bernadette Delgado's mom & Gilberto's mom;   Marilyn Ackerman's mom & brother, Dick;   Grace LeBlanc's niece Carlin, 13, with hodgkins;  Tom & Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, & Diane Kreeitzer;  Connie Doherty's mom & her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter, & John's dad  in assisted living; Jean Wright's daughter, Mary; Kerry's sister Maura with her second cancer;   Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret, & Jim; our friends, sons, & daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg & Chebino; George & Marianne's sons & Linda's son, plus Stacie & Ben White & their niece with leukemia; a cure for autism from Laura Chollick;   for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

     

    Toffee Prep 11-11-12

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      Your Finances: November 11, 2012

    Expenses:    $510.00    

    Outreach:    $250.00    

    We donated this week: 

        1  After screening an applicant, we donated $400 to a family with 3 kids & one on the way, in severe need.

        2.  $2,000 to Bona Responds of St. Boniventure U., with professor Jim Mahar & many volunteer students (50 plus), working in NY after the hurricane.   Latest report from NYC,  Download Hammond 11-11-12

     Thanks for your Generosity 

    Have a Great Week, J.S (214-783-0443)

    Video:   And the Cupcake of The Week…….Rosemary on her birthday,     (1 min.)

             

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    •    For  the Readings:   Alexandra, Morgan, & Sabrina
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    •    For the Communion Bread:   Alison
    •    For the Wine & Cups:    Alison & John
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    Tom & Teresa (48, Wednesday

     

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    For Betty's husband & the family;  For Jerry's back; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia;   For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn;   Michelle Simari’s sister;   For Barb Wittek's broken shoulder & new grandbaby;  For Frank;     For Anthony;    For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues;  For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer;  For Stacey McKinley dealing with cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis;   For Jackie's friend Mary Moczygemba with cancer;  For our good friend Kay in Ontario;    For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why;    The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla;   For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;          

     

     

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    For Nina Tucker's dad, Art;   For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau;  Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;  John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;     Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;     Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;   For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

                       

     

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     Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece;   Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter;  for Mary Ellen; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

     

                               

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    Your Finances, December 27, 2015 

    Expenses:   $2665.00

    Outreach:   $1215.00 

     

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    Donated today:  

    Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

     

     

    Santa 2

    Santa and his Helpers

     

    Have a Beautiful Christmas Week, J.S

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          Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world  we live in a better place to live.


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    Rosemary's Blessing: 

    May you always follow your Inviting Star and watch not the bitter earth but the Starry Sky.

    May you delight in Wonders Unforseen and New Adventures only now begun,

    And may the God of Adventure & Pilgrimage Bless You on Your Way.

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    • For the Communion Bread:  Claire Occhipinti
    • For Serving: T.J.
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    • Tom & Theresa Quinn (41st)

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    Picture 1:  Mary Ellen Munzell reads Isaiah 

    Picture 2:  Daniel Fleming home from A&M reads Ephesians

     Picture 3:  The Candle Shop of Carina & Maria Luisa

     Picture 4:  The passageway of the arcade in which is the candle shop

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    Your Finances:

    Christmas and End of Year: 

    • Income for Running  Expenses: $ 6,215.00  
    • Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 1,141.00 

    January 4: 

    • Income for Running  Expenses: $ 1,188.00  
    • Income for Outreach Expenses: $ 583.00

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     Have a Great Week & a Peaceful New Year, J.S    (214-783-0443)

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    Rosemary’s Blessing

     

     Our Special Thanks:

    •    For Reading:  
    •    For The Team:  Georgie & Kevin
    •    For the Communion Bread:  Alison
    •    For the Wine & Cups: Denni & Tom
    •    For the Pictures & Video:   Rick & Beth,  Mike & John 
    •    For the coffee and pastries:   Ron & Marilyn,  Jackie and Beth Dugan
    •    For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
    •    For the Music:  Bethany & Shonda & Rsy
    •    For Mike doing our service this Sunday

     

     

    Birthdays:     Ron Senter (Friday), Patricia (68, Thursday), Cowboy Cole 95, Tuesday), Fred Martinez (41st of ordination, Monday)

    Anniversaries:

    Hugh and Sydney Bivona (7th, today, Sunday)

    Bill and Patty Hammond (46th, Today, Sunday)

     

     

    Please Remember these special people:

    For Nina Tucker's dad;   Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery;  Cathy’s mom, Mary Dzuro, in hospice care;  For Patty Hammond’s recuperation from knee replacements;  From Mary Hall, Debbie Hooper with serious cancer;   for a special girl named Missy Ackerman; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital;   John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli;  Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Fred and Maureen’s friend, Real Giguere;   Beth Dugan's dad struggling with prostate cancer;  from Rob, the brother of his business associate who has cancer;  

     

    John Simari's collegue with the final stages of cancer;  Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one;  Margie McKeon’s brother, Bill, with lung cancer;  Jackie's sister, Shellie;  Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living;   Dee's friend, Don Fox, with cancer;   Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill & her cousin Terri.  Barb & Warren's new grandbaby, Leighton Elizabeth, and their friends, Mike and Tara;   Judy Carrell's friend, Matt Larson; Alexander Occhipinti; Rita; 

     

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    Bernadette Delgado's mom; Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; Mary Ellen's Christopher, Margaret and Jim; our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Cole Carey, Ryan McClurg just home from Korea, and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

     

     Your Finances, May 4, 2014

    Expenses:   $

    Outreach:   $

     

        

    We Donated this week:  nothing special.

    Thanks for your Generosity.

    Have a Good Week, 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.