• Reminder for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 21, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Amos 8: Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!
    1 Timothy 2:  It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.
    Luke 16: No servant can serve two masters.  He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and mammon.

     

    John Cade’s Homily from last Sunday, September 14, 2025
    09-14-25 Homily -Exhaltation of the Holy Cross

     

     

    True is always better than false—even where I myself am concerned. “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture,” Einstein wrote, “let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

    Another Reminder for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 21, 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.

  • Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14, 2025

    ByRosemary

    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.

     

    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 Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14, 2025

    ByRosemary

    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.

     


    There is no person below us and none above us either. We will be judged both on our respect for others and on our sense of the equality of all.
    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

    Another Reminder for the Exaltation of the Holy, September 14, 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.

  • 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 7, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Note: We are testing a new system for the blog. You should have received this post previously.

     

    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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    Becky reading from the Book of Wisdom

    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

    IMG_4032Brent reading from St. Paul’s Letter to Philemon

     

    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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    Annette gets a cookie for her birthday

    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.

    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 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 7, 2025

    ByRosemary

    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.

     


    September 2

                                                                                    

    When we deal tenderly with the lack in others, we make room for a new kind of greatness in ourselves.

    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

     

    Another Reminder for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 7, 2025

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
    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.

  • 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Sirach 3:  My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.   Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,  and you will find favor with God.   

    Hebrews 12:  No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, …

    Luke 14:  Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

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    Denni reading from Sirach

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben & Shonda

    Readers,  Denni & Tom

    Homily,   John Cade

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

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    Tom reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews

    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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    The Kiss of Peace

    Birthdays:

    Anniversaries:    

    Expenses: $  1,570.00

    Outreach: $  450.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people,

    A heart that forgives the worst,

    A mind that forgets the bad,

    And a soul that never loses faith in God.

     

    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 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Sirach 3:  My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.   Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,  and you will find favor with God.   

    Hebrews 12:  No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, …

    Luke 14:  Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

    White Rock Lake
                                                                                    

    Love never counts—either what it gets or what it gives. “Love,” Eleanor Farjeon writes, “has no utter most, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”

    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

       

     Another Reminder for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 24, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Isaiah 66:  I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory.

    Hebrews 12:  So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.  Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.

    Luke 13:  For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

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    Claire reading from Isaiah

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben  

    Readers,  Claire & 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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    John reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews

    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 Becky and 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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    The Kiss of Peace

    Birthdays:    Marilyn Ackerman 8/26, Teresa Quinn 8/29

    Anniversaries:    Rose  & Wally Banzhaf 8/29

    Expenses: $  690.00

    Outreach: $  50.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    O God from whom all blessings come,

    we thank you for this celebration and meal and community. 

    We also thank you for the joys with which you have blessed us through the years. 

    May our lives shine forth as bright lights of gratitude for all your gifts.

     

    Edited and adapted from a blessing by Fr. Andrew M. Greeley

    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 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 24, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Isaiah 66:  I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory.

    Hebrews 12:  So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.  Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.

    Luke 13:  For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

                                Summer 2
                                                                       

    Truth is time-bound, winning is fleeting, competition fails us, accumulations go to dust. Only love remains. Novalis says of it: “Love works magic/ It is the final purpose/ of the world story,/ The Amen of the universe.”

    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister 

       

                                                                                                                                            

    Another Reminder for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 24, 2025

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 17, 2025

    ByRosemary

    Revelation 11:  A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.

    1 Corinthians 15:  Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

    Luke 1:  When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

     

    John Cade's Homily: Download 08-17-25 Homily -The Assumption

     

     

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    Linda reading from the Book of Revelation

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben  & Shonda

    Readers,  Linda & Hue

    Homily,   John Cade

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

     

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    Hue reading from St. Paul's Letter to the Corinthians

     

     

    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 Becky and 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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    The Kiss of Peace

     

     

    Birthdays:    Janice Elmore 8/20

    Anniversaries:    Bernadette & Gilberto Delgado 8/19

     

    Expenses: $  240.00

    Outreach: $  30.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

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    Janice gets a cookie for her birthday

     

     

    Rosemary's Blessing:

     

    To laugh often and much;

    To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

    To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

    To appreciate beauty;

    To find the best in others;

    To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

    To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.

    This is to have succeeded.

     

    Success – Ralph Waldo Emerson

     
     
     
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    Michelle accepts the cookie for her parents' anniversary
     
     
     
    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.