• Reminder for the 1st Sunday of Advent, December 1, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Jeremiah 33: That's when Judah will be secure and Jerusalem live in safety.

    1 Thessalonians 3:  And may the Master pour on the love so it fills your lives and splashes over on everyone around you, just as it does from us to you.

    Luke 21:  And then – then! – they'll see the Son of Man welcomed in grand style – a glorious welcome!


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    Another Reminder for the 1st Sunday of Advent, December 1, 2024

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
    NOTE:  THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS as of 9/1/24
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • Sunday before Thanksgiving, November 24, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Sirach 50:  May he grant you a wise heart and abide with you in peace;

    1 Corinthians 1:  Every time I think of you – and I think of you often! –

    Luke 7:  One of them, when he realized that he was healed, turned around and came back, shouting his gratitude, glorifying God.

     

     

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    John Cade and John Stack are ready to begin Mass

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben & Shonda

    Readers,  Geri & Mike Moran

    Homily,   John Stack

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack 

    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Lynda

     


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    Cathy telling us about the toys of the Pilgrim children                            

     

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For John Simari's mother;  For Shonda's Grandmother;    For Meredith ;   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 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;  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 and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     


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    Cody gets a cookie for his birthday

    Birthdays:  John Cade 11/24

    Anniversaries:   Frank & Mary Esparza 11/28,    John & Michelle Simari 11/29

     

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    Donna updates us on the sweatshirt and hoodie drive

     

    Expenses: $   1,000.00

    Outreach: $   450.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

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    Lynda reads her blessing

     

     

    Lynda's Blessing:

    Today I am thankful for eyes that have come to see that life will not always be easy.
    That road will bend.
    Those lines will blur.
    That tides will rise.
    And that storms will come.
    I am thankful for those lights that took the form of humans.
    Who shone into me when I was at my lowest.
    Who were not afraid of sadness. Or darkness.
    Or the many layers that wove themselves around me and made me hard to understand.
    Or reach. Or even hard to love sometimes.
    I'm thankful for skies that change color.
    For paths that change direction.
    And for seasons that remind me that we are all just one breath away from a new beginning.
    I am thankful, knowing that kindness still exists.
    That the truth is out there.
    That faith can move mountains.
    And that I was made for every last bit of it.

    ~ 'Thankful' by Ullie Kaye

     

     

     
    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 Sunday before Thanksgiving, November 24, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Sirach 50:  May he grant you a wise heart and abide with you in peace;

    1 Corinthians 1:  Every time I think of you – and I think of you often! –

    Luke 7:  One of them, when he realized that he was healed, turned around and came back, shouting his gratitude, glorifying God.


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    Another Reminder for the Sunday before Thanksgiving, November 247, 2024

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
    NOTE:  THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS as of 9/1/24
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • Special Announcement about the Hoodies and Sweatshirts for Soul’s Harbor

    ByRosemary

    Donna Dinsmore checked on what size hoodies and sweatshirts are needed.

    Here is what is needed:  

    XXL – 10

    XL  – 13

    L – 16

    Donna said if people want to Amazon them to her house they can.  Here is the address: 

    9 High Mesa Place

    Richardson, TX 75080

    She also offered to pick items up from your house.  Just call or text her 972-679-0286.

     

    Giving Made Easy

    Christmas wreathe

     


  • 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 17, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Daniel 12: Men and women who have lived wisely and well will shine brilliantly, like the cloudless, star-strewn night skies. And those who put others on the right path to life will glow like stars forever.

    Hebrews 10: It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people.

    Mark 13: He'll dispatch the angels; they will pull in the chosen from the four winds, from pole to pole.

     

     

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    Connie reading from Paul's Letter to the Hebrews

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben 

    Readers,  Connie & John

    Homily,   John Stack

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack 

    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

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     Mary reading from Mark

     

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For John Simari's mother;  For Shonda's Grandmother;    For Meredith ;   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 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;  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 and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    Frank gets a cookie for his birthday

    Birthdays:   Frank Esparza 11/18, Cody Mashburn 11/19, Ron Ackerman 11/22

    Anniversaries:   Cliff and Jean Wright 11/23

     

     

      Expenses: $   375.00

      Outreach: $       0.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

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    Rosemary's Blessing:

    O God of Quiet, come!

    Whisper in our waiting hearts what you ask of us. … Come!

    Help us listen. Help us be quiet.

    May God’s small, still whisper reach our waiting, listening hearts.

     

    Sr. Delores Dolezai

     


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    Donna give us an update on the sweatshirt collection

     
     
     
    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 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 17, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Daniel 12: Men and women who have lived wisely and well will shine brilliantly, like the cloudless, star-strewn night skies. And those who put others on the right path to life will glow like stars forever.

    Hebrews 10: It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people.

    Mark 13: He'll dispatch the angels; they will pull in the chosen from the four winds, from pole to pole.


     

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    Another Reminder for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 17, 2024

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
    NOTE:  THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS as of 9/1/24
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 10, 2024

    ByRosemary

    1 Kings 17:  'The jar of flour will not run out and the bottle of oil will not become empty before God sends rain on the land and ends this drought."

    Hebrews 9:  But instead he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all the other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin.

    Mark 12:  "All the others gave what they'll never miss; she gave extravagantly what she couldn't afford – she gave her all."

     

     

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    Annette reading from 1 Kings

     

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben 

    Readers,  Annette & Roger

    Homily,   John Stack

    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade

    The Magic Zoom makers,   Richard & Kevin

    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

                                                                                 

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    Roger reading from Hebrews

     

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother;    For Meredith ;   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 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;  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 and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    Connie and John celebrating their anniversary

    Birthdays:   John Anderlick 11/14 

    Anniversaries:   Connie & John Bresson 11/14

     

     

      Expenses: $   680.00

      Outreach: $   285.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

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    The Kiss of Peace

     

     

    Rosemary's Blessing:

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place: and in the sky
    The larks still bravely singing fly
    Scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the dead: Short days ago,
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved and were loved: and now we lie
    In Flanders fields!

    Take up our quarrel with the foe!
    To you from falling hands we throw
    The torch, Be yours to bear it high!
    If ye break faith with us who die
    We shall not sleep tho’ poppies blow
    In Flanders Field.

    IN FLANDERS FIELDS
    By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

    Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
    during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium


     

     
    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 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 10, 2024

    ByRosemary

    1 Kings17:  'The jar of flour will not run out and the bottle of oil will not become empty before God sends rain on the land and ends this drought."

    Hebrews 9:  But instead he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all the other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin.

    Mark 12:  "All the others gave what they'll never miss; she gave extravagantly what she couldn't afford – she gave her all."


     

     

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    Another Reminder for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 10, 2024

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
    NOTE:  THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS as of 9/1/24
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.

  • All Saints, November 3, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Revelation 7:   “These are those who come from the great tribulation, and they’ve washed their robes, scrubbed them clean in the blood of the Lamb.”

    1John 3:  What marvelous love the Father has extended to us!  Just look at it—we’re called children of God! 

    Matthew 5:  Whenever you did one of these things to someone. who is overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.”     

                            

     

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    John Cade and John Stack begin Mass.

     

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Ben & Shonda

    Readers,  Mary Jane & John

    Homily,   John Cade

    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 Revelation

     

     

    Remember these special people:

    For John Stack;  For Shonda's Grandmother;    For Meredith ;   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 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;  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 and her neighbor, Marie and the family;    for the medical staffs, teachers, and coaches in our public & private schools.

     

     

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    John reading from the 1st Book of John

    Birthdays:    Karen Anderlick 11/4

    Anniversaries:   

     

     

      Expenses: $    330.00

      Outreach: $        0.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

     

    Rosemary's Blessing:

    Gracious God inspire us with the hope in the gift of shalom, the gift of wholeness and the promise of your presence.

    Give wisdom to seek nonviolence as an answer to the violence of our lives and world.

    Give us courage to seek wholeness in a fractured and divided world, to find reconciliation rather than revenge, to abandon the instruments of violence and death and entrust our lives, our homes and our families to you.

    May your presence fill us and others with the thirst for unity, wholeness, and the desire to see all people valued as created in your image.

    May we and others receive your shalom, that we might be faithful instruments of your love.

    Blessed be your name forever,

    Amen.

    Rabbi Andrew M. Paley, senior rabbi with Temple Shalom, Dallas. He emailed this letter to his congregation in 2018 after a gunman shot members of the Tree of Life Synagogue. He gave The Dallas Morning News permission to publish it.

     

     

     
    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 All Saints Day, November 27, 2024

    ByRosemary

    Revelation 7:   “These are those who come from the great tribulation, and they’ve washed their robes, scrubbed them clean in the blood of the Lamb.”

    1John 3:  What marvelous love the Father has extended to us!  Just look at it—we’re called children of God! 

    Matthew 5:  Whenever you did one of these things to someone. who is overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.”                             


     

    Fall back

    Saturday night – fall back 1 hour

     

     

     

    Another Reminder for All Saints Day, November 3, 2024

     

    Here are the links for Sunday:

    For Zoom   ( the video conference)
     
    NOTE:  THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS as of 9/1/24
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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.