Reminder for the Ascension of the Lord, June 1, 2025

Mass:  Plus coffee & donuts & specials on the house.  Welcome!

Place: Vines High School, Plano, 15th between Custer & Independence, west of Central Expressway.

Time: 9:30

Readings: Micah 5, 1-4; Psalm 80, Lord, make Us turn to You; let Us see Your Face and We shall be saved; Hebrews 10, 5-10; Luke 1, 39-45

  
Community Bulletin Board: 

Christmas Eve Mass, 4:00 P.M.

Special note: use west entrance (by the fire station).  Construction will close our normal entrance

Heritage Farm renovation:  On hold for a while.

Food Drive This Sunday for 2 Families: I have 2 families in need of help through the Christmas holidays.  Please bring non-perishable goods.  Thanks.

Nancy Kovatis has a note about a worthy boy in PISD: Download Sam

Community Blessings of 2009:

• HHH, Hotter 'N Hell bike ride in August
• Tony O'Donovan

Hey, All You Kids Waiting for Santa: serious rumor has it that Santa has scheduled us again this Christmas Eve, 4:00 P.M. Mass.  Better be nice to an old geezer.  Any other of you kids want to be a shepherd or angel in the Nativity Drama Christmas Eve?

   
 True?

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw
From a speech given at the Municipal Technical College and School of Art in Brighton 

Picture 1:  The Kerns, Michael & Steven

Picture 2:  The Kite, Doug & Julie, Emily & Megan, and Dawn Shultz

Picture 3:  Gilberto & Bernadette, Richard & David

Picture 4:  Claire, Wally, Ray, Bill, & Rose

See you Sunday, December 20

 J.S.   (214-783-0443) 

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

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

Readings: 2 Chronicles 36; Psalm137; Ephesians 2, 4-10; John 3, 14-21

Community Bulletin Board:  

True?   Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.  It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.  Mahatma Gandi   

CCAC Note of Thanks: Download CCAC letter

Picture 1:  Martha & Fred

Picture 2:  Wendy, Ben, & Celeste

Picture 3:  Rosemary, Angela, & Jon

Picture 4: Welcome  Reed

 See you this Sunday, March 22.

 J.S.   (214-783-0443)

Isaiah 50, God opens my ear that I may hear

Psalm 116, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

James 2,  What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works.

Mark 7,  Whoever wishes to come after me must  deny himself.

Welcome in, Everybody.

John Cade's Homily from 9/5/21:

Download John Cade Homily

Romeos, Welcome!    Jason's Deli, 1:00, Friday, September 10. 

All of you who attended Mass on line this past Sunday are welcomed this Sunday.  We are circa 35 people.   Wear a mask, please, because of the current spread.    We request that everyone be vaccinated.   

Peace, Everybody!

Another Reminder for Sunday, September 12, 2021.

Here are the links for Sunday:

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.

The Kless Family, Christine, Cara, Sean, and Ed

 Readings:    

Wisdom  2, 12, 17-20,  Let us beset the just one.

 Psalm 54,   The Lord upholds my life

 James 3, 16-4, 3,   Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder.

Mark 9, 30-37,  Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me.

Emma and Leo

Here comes Zoe step by step

Community Bulletin Board:   

1.  Free Medical Clinic in September (message from John Ernst, CCAC):   "September 29, there will be a large one day free clinic at the Dallas Convention Center sponsored by our national organization, of which we are members.  Thousands of people will be served all by volunteers."  Download Medical clinic 8-10-12 

2.  Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center Newsletter:  Download DARCC 9-21-12

Zoe arrived, 3 Special Kids playing on the stair right in front of the altar

What's going on in our Catholic World:     

1.    Bishop Finn fallout, National Catholic Reporter, September 10, 225 words,    Download Bishop Finn 9-21-12

2.    Legionaries fallout, National Catholic Reporter, September 13, 600 words,  Download Legionaries 9-21-12

Offertory, Richard, Ray, Bill, Ron, Barb, and Claire

True? 

If you are depressed, you a living in the past.

If you are anxious, you a living in the future.

If you you are at peace, you a living in the present.

Lao Tzu

Chris, Ray, and unidentified foreign object

Richard, Chris, and Ray in Paradise

See you Sunday, September 23 

J.S., 214-783-0443

Rose and Lisa

Evening in camp

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.

Leviticus 19:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Corinthians 3:  Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Matthew 5:  You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.  But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, …

Linda, Claire, Mary and Hue

John Stack Ministries now meets at:  The ArtCentre of Plano, 902 E. 16th St, Plano

Rosemary, Connie, John, Denni, Tom and John

Here are the links for Sunday:

For Zoom   ( the video conference, same as last week )

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7428208829?pwd=VERncTBxaWdkaFpkTUZKL3RROW81UT09