Reminder for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 3, 2025

 

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

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

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

Our Angels

 Readings:

Isaiah  60, 1-6, Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem,  Your light has come.

Psalm 72,  Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Ephesians  3, 2-6, The Gentiles are coheirs.

Matthew 2, 1-12, Magi from the east arrived.

 For those who don’t have a decent Bible or a book of the readings, here are two links that I use, The Bible at Your Fingertips and USCCB, The New American Bible. 

The difference?  The second is officially Catholic and has the 12 little books in between the O.T. & N.T., called Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha. 

Both are good translations.  I use the first more often because it has fewer doors to pass through to get to the text.  Thanks, Gerald, for this idea.  I will include the link from now on.

 

 Community Bulletin Board:

1.  This Sunday: Celebrate the First Sunday of The Year 2013.

2.  January 24, Thursday night, 8:00, Collin County Homeless Coalition is having their annual census of homeless.  We will have a sign up sheet at Mass.  Last year we had two teams of about 5 each. 

  What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.    5 Things to do to make a better 2013, America and Corpus, December 31, 1000 words,   Download AMERICA 1-4-13 

 

 

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you stronger; the other weakens you.

The Teachings of Don Juan Carolos Castañeda

 See you Sunday, January 6, 2013, First of The Year

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.

 

 

 

True?

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

Time: 9:30; Tony Celebrating

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

 
 
 

Readings: Ezekiel 33, 7-9; Psalm 95, If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts; Romans 13, 8-10; Matthew 18, 15-20. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Picture Picture  1:    Emma with suspicious character          

Picture 2:    Leo                  

Picture 3:    Jack

Picture 4:    Pat & Sandra & Lisa

 
 
              

Community Bulletin Board:

1.   Loretta Garcia Williams would like to sell her '99 Suburban, 200,000 miles, $3500 or best offer, 972-839-1668.

2.  Next brunch Sunday, Sept. 25.  John Cade will celebrate the Mass in honor of his 50th anniversary of ordination.   

 

 

What's going on in our Catholic World:

1.   Vatican in a conflict with an old Jesuit friend of mine, a really good man, National Catholic Reporter, August 29:  Download Vatican vs old Jesuit friend of mine 9-2-11

 2.   Thought Control back again, National Catholic Reporter, August 31: Download Thought Police again 9-2-11

3.   Clergy push back in Austria, Corpus, August 31: Download Austria 9-2-11

 

 

Picture 5:    Rick & his daughter, Katie

Picture 6:    Sean & Katie

Picture 7:    Sean & Katie, Ethan, and parents  

True?

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

 

   Video: Rosemary's Blessing 

 
      

 

2 Samuel 5:  When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron, King David made an agreement with them there before the LORD, and they anointed him king of Israel.
Colossians 1:   He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Luke 23:   “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

 

When we embrace the unknown with an open heart, we make way for newness of soul—our own.
The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

 

Another Reminder for Christ the King Sunday, November 23, 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: Sunday, 9:30; coffee, donuts, muffins (home made), & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 14, 21-27; Psalm 145; Revelations 21, 1-5; John 13, 31-35

Community Bulletin Board

Anniversary Celebration: Rosemary & I invite you all to our 2nd anniversary party, May 5, 7:00-11:00, Fairview Farms (same place as last year), Parker & Central, northeast corner. Watch for the signs: Circuit City, Ross, Joe’s Crab Shack. Fairview Farms is behind them. Covered dish (A-G, deserts; H-Z hors d’oeuvre), casual dress, seven couples renewing vows. Also, the slide show of The Great East African trip.

From Tom Fleming with Habitat:

There has been a build started in Wylie and we can participate in a number of ways:

1.       This particular build has not been funded by IB4H. The funding has been provided by Thrivant Financial, a Lutheran faith financial institution. They require 50% participation by Lutherans in order to maintain funding. This will mean fewer opportunities for those of us who are not Lutheran. However, we have been notified that there are 20+ openings for volunteers on Saturday May 5 and May 12. This is when the basic framing and construction will be done and veteran Habitat folks say this can be especially rewarding to see/do. We will need to sign up volunteers on Sunday. We can supply one to 20 people, depending on how many are interested

2.       We have volunteered John Stack Ministries to provide a light breakfast and lunch for the volunteer workers on Saturday, May 19th. This will entail a typical continental type of breakfast and a lunch as simple or elaborate as we choose. (Ideas for lunch range from sandwiches put together by the workers on the spot to pizza to chili.) There are 40 workers scheduled to be at the build on the 19th. We will take care of coordinating the effort. Clearly, the more hands the lighter the effort.

3.       Fund raising can be done in two ways: Direct donations from churches and fund raisers done for IP4H. We have pledged $1,000 for this year for our direct donation. In addition, we have signed up a number of people from our group for the Tom Thumb/Kroger fund raising. I don’t know the breakdown by congregation; however, we know that Interfaith Partners for Habitat (IP4H) raises over $500 per month from the reward card donations. We would like to again offer to sign up members of our church over the next 2 or 3 Sundays.

Also, from Jane Drake, please see her friend Julie’s resume which is attached. Click here to download Julie’s Resume 

                                                                   

To the San Vino Community from Cheryl Ann & the C.C. Adult Clinic:

We would be remiss if we did not let you know how very much your support and monthly donations mean to the clinic.  We think of you as our lifeline in offsetting out biggest headache – our monthly rent.

Thanks to the good word you preach, we also have a number of volunteers for Stack Ministries who are regular and loyal volunteers of the clinic.  Many of them will tell you, Thursday nights are rally a full day’s work and we are fortunate and blessed to have the support and help from you all. Thank you, thank you and may you all reap a hundredfold the rewards of your kindness.

                               

Remember: Wendy’s recital Friday night, 6:00, SMU.

             

From Debbie Ekes:

We would like to donate some office furniture to any interested parties.  This furniture must go this weekend and it is located off the Dallas Parkway.  The furniture to be donated is:

·         Conference Table

·         6-7 Leather Chairs

·         Desk

·         Leather Couch

If interested call Debbie Ekes at 214-778-1103.

The 5th Annual Taste of Hope (benefitting St. Vincent de Paul Society, St Mark Chapter) is Thursday, May 10th from 7:00-10:00.  It will be held at Swan Court in Richardson.  Tickets are $30.00 and you can get them from John.

See you this Sunday, April 29.  J.S.

 

Sorry, all you other folks, only white Toyotas accepted to membership in this community.

 

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

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

Place: Legacy Charter School, Accent Drive, Plano, TX 75075

 

 

Jan, keep your eyes on this Gil.  One second you turn away, he'll eat all the home made communion bread (it's so good).

 

Readings: 

Jeremiah 17,  5-8,   Cursed  is the one who trusts in human beings.

Psalm 1,  Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.  

1 Corinthians 15, 12, 16-20,    Christ has been raised from the dead.

Luke 6,  17, 20-26,  Blessed are you who are poor.  (beatitudes)

 

 

 

Sir Charlie, keep your clothes on.

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, February 15, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.   

 

JULIETTE LUNCHEON:  March, 2019 – TBA

 

 

 

Our Father 1.

 

TRUE?

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."   

William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

 

Our Father 2.

 

 

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

1.   A lesson from an Opus Dei leader,  https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-lesson-opus-dei-fr-mccloskeys-downfall?utm_source=JAN_15_EDITORIAL_MCCLOSKEY&utm_campaign=cc&utm_medium=email
2. Want a feel good video about Irving Berlin, dance, and how we are all really one in spirit? https://www.youtube.com/embed/KgoapkOo4vg?rel=0

 

 

Communion, Welcome, Everybody.

 

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.

 

 

Peace to you, too, Rookie

 

 

 

 

 

Note: this Sunday we begin meeting at Legacy Academy.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Says Harper, "Welcome in, Everybody."

 

 

Readings:  

 Exodus 24, 3-8,   This is the blood of the covenant

 Psalm 116,   I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord

 Hebrews 9, 11-15,    He is a mediator of a new covenant.

 Mark 14, 12-16, 22-26,   The Eucharist   

 

 

 

A down payment (local honey) to Becky for inviting us to Legacy and for helping us transition this Sunday.   Sigler, our present location is being renovated during the Summer.

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 1, 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), 

from Cathy Bambeneck & Geri Moran:  next luncheon, June 1, 12:30, Urban Rio Cantina, 1000 E 14th, ste. 100, Plano.  Please reply to Cathy if you can make it, not if you won't be there.                  Cathy Bambenek [cbamben@hotmail.com]

 

 

 

 

 

Healing for Meredith still in Medical City, Dallas.

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

  Was Jesus Married?,  Corpus,  2013,    Anthony Padavano,    Download Was Jesus Married  

 

 

 

Bill & Frank Hart, Frank, Sr.'s two oldest sons.

 

 

True?

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

Too much fun going on in that corner!

 

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

Says Emma, "Want to dance, Mom?"

 

 

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.