2nd Sunday of Advent, December 7, 2025

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

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

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

Readings:

 Sirach 3, 17-18,
28-29, 
 Conduct your affairs with humility.

Psalm 68,  God, in your goodness, you have made a home
for the poor.

Hebrews 12, 18-19, 22-24,  You have approached Mount Zion.

Luke 14, 1, 7-14, Invite the poor, the crippled, the
lame, the blind.

 

 

Community Events:  

  1.   Our next
Habitat special day is probably September.  Look for the neighborhood
behind the Home Depot on Central, at 11th Ave.   A person may also
work any Saturday. There is still work to be done on the current house.

2.  ROMEO lunch Friday, August
23, 1:00.  Welcome All

 3.  The Women's Lunch Group on Thursdays
begins again in September.    For info talk with Carol
or Bernadette.  

 

 

 What's
going on in our Catholic World: 

1.   A monastery brewry?,  National Catholic Reporter, August 24, 1000 words,  
Download Beauty and beer 8-30-13

2.   A consoling story out of 9/11.  I have read the first part.  I had not read the final amounts, 1800 words,  
Download Delta 15 & 9-11, 8-30-13
 

   

 

 True? 

“The end of violence or the
aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is
reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an
end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the
oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.” 

MLK

 

 

See you Sunday, September 1,
2013, 21st  Ordinary Time, C cycle

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Readings:

1 Kings  19, 9-13,  There was a tiny whispering sound.

 Psalm 85,   Lord, let us see your kindness, and grand us your salvation.

Romans 9, 1-5,  My kindred according to the flesh

Matthew  14, 22-33,  Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.

 

 

Community Events:

1.   Ladies’ luncheon, This Thursday, August 7,  Jan’s house, 1317 Edgefield Drive, Plano, 214-926-6888.  Time: 1:00.  Jan will serve sloppy joe’s.  Please bring a small dish to share.  Let Jan know if you will be coming.

2.   ROMEO lunch, Friday, August 8.  Jason’s, 1:00.  Mike’s cookies up for grabs.

 3. Garbage Fact of the week:  This August comes only once every 800 years.  It has 5 Sundays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Fridays.

  

What's going on in our Catholic World:    

1.       Meeting in Rome on Marriage, National Catholic Reporter, July 30, 1600 words,     Download Meeting on Marriage 8-7-14

2.       Babe Routh, National Catholic Reporter,  August 2, 1200 words,     Download Babe Ruth 8-7-14   

 

 

True? 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

 

 

See you Sunday, August 10, 2014, 19^th Ordinary Time, 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cathy says, "Welcome in, Everybody.  He's gone, we can have more fun."
 

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, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence.

 

 

Sacrament of Healing for Mary Ellen, back home in Dallas and settled.

 

Readings:

Ezekiel  17,  22-24, 26-16, 22-34, It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.

 

 

                         Cupcakes of the Week                        

 

Community Activities:  

1.      ROMEO MEET: Friday, June 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.   We also welcome the Working Classes.  The Old Geezer returns hungry.

 2.      LADIES' LUNCHEON,  June 25, Thursday, 4:30 P.M.,  Steve Fields Steak & Lobster Lounge, 503 West Park Blvd.

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

Carol 

 

                                  Communion

 

What is going on in our Catholic World:

1.        Please check back next week.

 

                                     The Coffee Shoppe

 

True?  

 You know why it is hard to be happy?

Because I can't let go of what makes me sad.

 

                                                   The Wittek Girls.

 

See you Sunday, June 14, 2015, 12^th Ordinary Time, B cycle

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

                                     The Wittek Guys.

 

 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: 9:30; coffee, donuts, home made muffins, & juice on the house.

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

Readings: Acts 2, 42-47; Psalm 118; 1Peter 1, 3-9; John 20, 19-31.

Community Bulletin Board

Coomunity Directory: went out Wednesday.  You should have your copy if you signed on.  Any changes, let me know.  We can alway update & add data periodically.

Quad Squad:  Even a couple of hours once a month is a help!  Let me know or Donna Thomson,
  donnathomson@tx.rr.com 

Next Community Party: May 3, 7:00 P.M., Fairview Farms’ Barn, The Anniversary.  Hold the date.

Our taxi man, Rick Turner, knows the Metroplex.  Call: 214-707-6536c; 972-412-0711h.

From Frank Reyes:  

See you Sunday.

Isaiah 22:  He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.  I will place the key of the House of David on Eliakim’s shoulder; when he opens, no one shall shut, when he shuts, no one shall open.
Romans 11:  Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!  How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!
Matthew 16:  “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.  For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.  And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.  I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. . . .”

 

They asked Duke Ellington how he learned to play such soulful music and he told them, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” Point: It’s learning to let what’s in us out that is the key to becoming the fullness of the self.
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 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 23, 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.

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Wake up, Everybody, time for another unforgetable homily.
 

 

 

Readings:

Samuel 3, 3-10, 19,   The call of Samuel by Yahweh.

Psalm402,  Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will.

1 Corinthians 6, 13-15, 17-20,  Your bodies are members of Christ.

John 1, 35-42,  What are you looking for?    

 

 

 

Wake me up when he is finished, or it is Cupcake time!

 

 

Community Activities:  

ROMEO MEET: Friday, January 12, Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00.  Welcome all wakos,  you will fit right in.  Sorry, Guys, I will miss this Friday.  Wedding in PA.

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

 

Dickenson Trip:  February 23- March 3

 

 

 

 

Does it get any better than this!

 

 

What is going on in Our Catholic World:

Francis comments on migrants, National Catholic Reporter,  January 8,      Download FRANCIS ON MIGRANTS 1-8-18       

 

 

 

What a team!

 

 

True?

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.   It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. 

 Joseph Campbell

 

 

 

 

It don't get better than this, either.

 

 

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

 

 

 

 

These friends are all going on a cruise and they never invited me!

 

 

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.