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  • Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024

    Mark 11:  Hosanna!   Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

    Isaiah 50: I gave my back to those who beat me,  my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;  my face I did not shield  from buffets and spitting.

    Philippians 2:  Rather, he emptied himself,  taking the form of a slave,   coming in human likeness;  and found human in appearance,  he humbled himself,  becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

    Mark 14: The Passion of the Lord

     

     
     
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    John Cade and John Stack starting Mass
     

     

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,    Ben & Shonda 

    Readers,   Mary Jane, John, Claire, Tom, Lynda & Mary

    Homily,   

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

     

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    Mary Jane reading from Isaiah

     

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother;    For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Frank Esparza; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;   For Mary Hall's 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;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & the families of Annie and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    John reading from Paul's Letter to the Philippians

     

       

    Birthdays:   Barbara Wittek 3/29

    Anniversaries: 

     

     

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    Tom, Mary, Lynda and Claire reading The Passion

     

     

    Community Finances:   

      Expenses: 755.00

      Outreach: $   310.00

     

      Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

                           

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              Barbara gets a cookie for her birthday

     
     
     
    Rosemary's Blessing:
     

     

    Gethsemane  by Mary Oliver

     

    The grass never sleeps.

    Or the roses.

    Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.

    Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept.

    The cricket has such splendid fringe on its feet,

    and it sings, have you noticed, with its whole body,

    and heaven knows if it ever sleeps.

    Jesus said, wait with me.

    And maybe the stars did, maybe the wind wound itself into a silver tree, and didn't move,

    maybe the lake far away, where once he walked as on a blue pavement, lay still and waited, wild awake.

    Oh the dear bodies, slumped and eye-shut, that could not

    keep that vigil, how they must have wept,

    so utterly human, knowing this too

    must be a part of the story.

     

     

     
    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.

  • Reminder for Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024

    Mark 11:  Hosanna!   Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

    Isaiah 50: I gave my back to those who beat me,  my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;  my face I did not shield  from buffets and spitting.

    Philippians 2:  Rather, he emptied himself,  taking the form of a slave,   coming in human likeness;  and found human in appearance,  he humbled himself,  becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

    Mark 14: The Passion of the Lord

     

    Palm Sunday 2

     

    Another Reminder for Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024
     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference, same as last week )
     
     
     
     
     
    Palm Sunday 1
     
     
     
    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.
  • 5th Sunday of Lent, March 17, 2024

    Jeremiah 31: I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    Hebrews 5:  Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

    John 12:  Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.

     

     
     
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    Mary reading from Paul's Letter to the Hebrews

     

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,    Ben & Shonda 

    Readers,   Mary & Frank

    Homily,   John Cade

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

     

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    John Cade sharing his homily

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother; For the family of Ron Senter;   For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;   For Tom  Quinn;   For Frank Esparza; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;   For Mary Hall's 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;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & the families of Annie and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    John sharing about Connie's next eye surgery

       

    Birthdays:  

    Anniversaries: 

     

     

     

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    The Kiss of Peace

     

     

    Community Finances:   

      Expenses: 480.00

      Outreach: $   0.00

      Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

                                     

     
    Rosemary's Blessing:
     

    Oh God who made me absolutely unique,

    Help me to value more the Person You made Me to be.

    And protect me from comparisons and envy and discouragement over what I am not.

     

    Andrew Greeley,  Irish American Blessings  

     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • Reminder for the 5th Sunday in Lent, March 17, 2024

    Jeremiah 31: I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    Hebrews 5:  Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

    John 12:  Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.

     

     

    St. Patrick's Day

     

     
     
     
    Another Reminder for the 5th Sunday in Lent, March 17, 2024
     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference, same as last week )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.
     
  • 4th Sunday in Lent, March 10, 2024

    2 Chronicles 36: Whoever, therefore, among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him!”

    Ephesians 2For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; . . .

    John 3: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

     

     
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    John reading from Chronicles

     

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,    Ben 

    Readers,   Mary & John

    Homily,   John Stack

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

     

     

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    Mary reading from Ephesians

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother; For the family of Ron Senter;   For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;  For Tom Good;  For Tom  Quinn who had back surgery on November 21st; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;   For Mary Hall's 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;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & the families of Annie and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    Jackie sharing her homily

       

    Birthdays:  Dee Miller 3/10, John O'Donnell 3/14

    Anniversaries:   

     

     

     

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    John commenting on the homily

     

     

    Community Finances:   

      Expenses: 780.00

      Outreach: $   250.00

      Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

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    David commenting on the homily

     

    IMG_0069Donna sharing the bags of toiletries, socks and other goodies for the men at Soul's Harbor
     
                                    

     
    Rosemary's Blessing:
     

    God,

    Bless anyone who has asked me to pray for them

    and anyone that I have promised to pray for.

    Bless anyone that I cannot get along with

    And anyone that cannot get along with me.

    Bless the person who has hurt me deeply

    and anyone that I have hurt.

    Bless the person that I cannot forgive

    and anyone that cannot forgive me.

    Grant me the grace to live as a person of peace today

    and to treat all I meet today with dignity

    Author Unknown

     

     
     
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    Brent thanking all for the gift bags for the men at Soul's Harbor

     
     
     
     
    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.

  • Reminder for the 4th Sunday in Lent, March 10, 2024

    2 Chronicles 36: Whoever, therefore, among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him!”

    Ephesians 2For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; . . .

    John 3: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

     

    Dst 2024
    Stack has charisma,

    Cade has class,

    Spring your clock forward

    So you don't miss Mass

    Mike Moran

     

     

    John Cade's homily from last Sunday:  Download 03-03-24 Homily – 3rd Sunday of Lent

     

     

    Becky Good has a new book published on Health and Wellness: https://a.co/d/0UYmdoR

     

     

    A message from David and Donna Dinsmore.

    We will be preparing gift bags for the men at Souls Harbor for our happy lent.  We will be preparing 80 bags (76 men).

    If any one would like to donate , we will be at church the next couple of weeks. Or they can text or email me.

    972-679-0286    Cruisinalice@sbcglobal.net

    We are donating : bags, socks, shaving cream, and razors.

    Suggestions : Candy, cereal bars, small hand lotions, chap sticks (we have 6 already)

    Thank you!!!

     
     
     
    Another Reminder for the 4th Sunday in Lent, March 10, 2024
     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

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

  • 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 3, 2024

    Exodus 20: In those days, God delivered all these commandments: “I, the LORD am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,  that place of slavery.

    1 Corinthians 1For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

    John 2:  He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

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    Thanks…     

    Music,    Shonda & Ben 

    Readers,   Geri & Mike

    Homily,   John Cade

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

     

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    Connie

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother; For the family of Ron Senter;   For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;  For Tom Good;  For Tom  Quinn who had back surgery on November 21st; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;   For Mary Hall's 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;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & the families of Annie and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    Buddy

       

    Birthdays:  

    Anniversaries:   

     

     

     

    IMG_9857Connie, John, Denni and Tom
       

      

    Community Finances:   

      Expenses: 330.00

      Outreach: $  60.00

      Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

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    Linda and Barbara

     

                                     

    Rosemary's Blessing:
     

    A Prayer For Growing Old Gracefully

    Lord, Thou knowest better than I myself that I am growing older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.

    Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all; but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on my aches and pains; they are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

    I dare not ask for improved memory, but for a growing humility and a lessening cock-sureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

    Keep me reasonably sweet, for a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people; and give, O Lord, the grace to tell them so.

    Amen.

    17th Century Nun’s Prayer

     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • Reminder for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 3, 2024

    Exodus 20: In those days, God delivered all these commandments: “I, the LORD am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,  that place of slavery.

    1 Corinthians 1For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

    John 2:  He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

     

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    A message from David and Donna Dinsmore.

    We will be preparing gift bags for the men at Souls Harbor for our happy lent.  We will be preparing 80 bags (76 men).

    If any one would like to donate , we will be at church the next couple of weeks. Or they can text or email me.

    972-679-0286    Cruisinalice@sbcglobal.net

    We are donating : bags, socks, shaving cream, and razors.

    Suggestions : Candy, cereal bars, small hand lotions, chap sticks (we have 6 already)

    Thank you!!!

     
     
     
    Another Reminder for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 3, 2024
     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

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

  • 2nd Sunday in Lent, February 25, 2024

    Genesis 22:  . . . I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; . . .

    Romans 8. . . if God is for us, who can be against us?

    Mark 1: Jesus took Peter, James and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.  And he was transfigured before them, . . . 

     
     
     
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    John reading from the Gospel of Mark
     
     

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,    Shonda & Ben 

    Readers,   Pat & Fred

    Homily,   John Stack

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,   Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Lynda

     

     

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    Shonda and Ben, our musicians

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother; For the family of Ron Senter;   For Meredith  whose cancer has come back;  For Tom Good;  For Tom  Quinn who had back surgery on November 21st; For Lambrini, John Cade's wife, who is dealing with cancer ;  For Allen Stryker;   For Mike and Judy Carrell ; For Madeleine, Richard Eshelbrenner's granddaughter;  For Hue; For Jackie;  For John's sister, Kathey recovering from a fall;   For Mary Hall's 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;  For Dee, and for her daughters, Lisa & Lauren;  For a young man who is suffering from depression;  John Cade's daughter, Joey, with cancer; from Barbara, a little baby boy named Ford recuperating from an operation & the families of Annie and Michael ;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    Michelle gets a cookie for her birthday

     

       

    Birthdays:  Michelle Brown

    Anniversaries:   

     

       

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      Donna sharing with the community about the gift bags for the men at Soul's Harbor

     

     

    Community Finances:   

      Expenses: 430.00

      Outreach: $  

      Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

     

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    Lynda reading the Blessing

                                     

    Rosemary's Blessing:
     
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    Author  Unknown
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • Reminder for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, February 25, 2024

    Genesis 22:  . . . I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; . . .

    Romans 8. . . if God is for us, who can be against us?

    Mark 1: Jesus took Peter, James and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.  And he was transfigured before them, . . . 

     

    Lent 5

    A message from David and Donna Dinsmore.

    We will be preparing gift bags for the men at Souls Harbor for our happy lent.  We will be preparing 80 bags (76 men).

    If any one would like to donate , we will be at church the next couple of weeks. Or they can text or email me.

    972-679-0286    Cruisinalice@sbcglobal.net

    We are donating : bags, socks, shaving cream, and razors.

    Suggestions : Candy, cereal bars, small hand lotions, chap sticks (we have 6 already)

    Thank you!!!

     
     
     
    Another Reminder for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, February 25, 2024
     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

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