• Reminder for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 26, 2025

    Sirach 35:  The LORD is a God of justice,  who knows no favorites.
    2 Timothy 4:  The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom.
    Luke 18:  But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

     

     

    I have a friend who follows the sun around her back yard in a deck chair with a glass of fresh fruit juice in one hand and a book in the other. Here’s the question: Is she “wasting” time or “celebrating” time? Think carefully before you answer. It can get to be a very important question as life goes by.
    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

     

    Another Reminder for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 26, 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.

     

  • 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 19 2025

    Buddy reading the prayer for the lighting of the candles
    Thanks…     

    Music,   Shonda
    Readers,  Mary & Frank
    Homily,   John Stack
    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin
    Setup,  Richard
    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

    Shonda sings solo this week


    Remember these special people:

    For all the people affected by natural disasters;  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 Ron ;

    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.

    Zoe gets a cookie for her birthday


    Birthdays:
        Zoe Brown 10/25
    Anniversaries:   

    Expenses: $  910.00
    Outreach: $  125.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

    The Browns except for Randolph and Geordie


    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    Autumn Months

    O God of Creation, you have blessed us with the changing of the seasons.

    As we welcome the autumn months,
    may the earlier setting of the sun
    remind us to take time to rest.

    May the brilliant colors of the leaves
    remind us of the wonder of your creation.

    May the steam of our breath in the cool air
    remind us that it is you who give us the breath of life.

    May the harvest from the fields remind us of the abundance we have been given and bounty we are to share with others.
    May the dying of summer’s spirit remind us of your great promise that death is temporary and life is eternal.
    We praise you for your goodness forever and ever.

    – Author Unknown,  found on jesuitresource.org

     

    John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at 9:30 at the
    ArtCentre of Plano,
    9
    02 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 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 19, 2025

    Exodus 17:  Moses’ hands, however, grew tired; so they put a rock in place for him to sit on.  Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
    2 Timothy 3:  Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it, . . .
    Luke 18:  For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.'” 

     

    A message from Cody:
    Thank you all for doing what you did and for those of you who made it to the service for sure. It was a very heartfelt event to say the least.

     

     

    One purpose of feasting is to get back in touch with the earth that sustains us, to glorify the God that made it and to pledge ourselves to save the land that grows our food.

    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

     

    Another Reminder for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 19, 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.

     

  • 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 12, 2025

    2 Kings 5:  Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha, the man of God.  His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy.
    2 Timothy 2:   Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with eternal glory.
     Luke 17:  “Ten were cleansed, were they not?  Where are the other nine?  Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”

     

    Mary reading from the 2nd Book of Kings

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Shonda & Ben
    Readers,  Mary & John
    Homily,   John Cade
    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
    The Magic Zoom makers,  Richard & Kevin
    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

     

    John reading from the 2nd Letter of St. Paul to Timothy

    Remember these special people:

    For all the people affected by natural disasters;  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 Ron ;

    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.

     

    Richard gets a cookie for his birthday


    Birthdays:
        Richard Eshelbrenner 10/15, Donna Dinsmore 10/18
    Anniversaries:   Ben & Candace Porter 25th 10/18, Annette & Roger 10/18

    Expenses: $  795.00
    Outreach: $  315.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

    Ben gets a cookie for his anniversary
    Annette & Roger get a cookie for their anniversary


    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
    no hands but yours,
    no feet but yours,
    Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s
    compassion is to look out to the world,
    Yours are the feet with which Christ is to
    go about doing good,
    Yours are the hands, with which Christ is to
    bless all people now.

    From a prayer by Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

     

    John Stack Ministries meets on Sunday for Mass at 9:30 at the
    ArtCentre of Plano,
    9
    02 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 Request

     

    Next Sunday we will have a service for Cody’s son, Caleb,  at 12:30 at the ArtCentre.  Family will be coming into town.  We would like to hep Cody and Shonda during this time by providing some food for the out of towners (15 – 20 persons) to share while here.  If you are able to bring some food to 3622 North Echo Trail, Plano TX 75023  on Saturday at 2:00, it would be appreciated.

    Ideas for food:  cheese plates, small sandwiches, salads, pasta, deviled eggs, hors d’oeuvres, the usual luncheon things.

    Cody’s Mom will bring dessert.

    Thanks to all.

  • 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 5, 2025

    Habakkuk 1: For the vision still has its time,  presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;  if it delays, wait for it,  it will surely come, it will not be late.
    2 Timothy 1: I remind you, to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.
     Luke 17: “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,  ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

     

    Connie reading from the Book of Habakkuk

    Thanks…     

    Music,   Shonda & Ben
    Readers,  Connie & John
    Homily,   John Stack
    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
    The Magic Zoom makers,  Richard & Kevin
    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

    The Blog can always be accessed by going to www.johnstackministries.com

     

    John reading from the second Letter of St. Paul to Timothy


    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 John Cade;  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 Sir Charlie;  For Ron ;

     

    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.

    Shonda and Ben accept cookies for Leo and Sophia who had birthdays

     

    Birthdays:    Leo (Shonda’s son) 10/1, Sophia (Ben’s daughter) 9/24
    Anniversaries:   Carrie & Paul Bieda 10/6

     

    Expenses: $  300.00
    Outreach: $  110.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.

     

    Michelle accepts a cookie for her daughter, Georgie

     

    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    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 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 5, 2025

    Habakkuk 1: For the vision still has its time,  presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;  if it delays, wait for it,  it will surely come, it will not be late.
    2 Timothy 1: I remind you, to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.
     Luke 17: “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,  ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

    John Cade is home and resting.

     Learning to celebrate life is one of the best lessons a person can learn.
    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

    Another Reminder for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 5, 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.

  • 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 2025

    Amos 6:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!
    1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
     Luke 16:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

     

    Connie reading from the Book of Amos


    Thanks…
    Music,   Shonda & Ben
    Readers,  Connie & John
    Homily,   John Stack
    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack
    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue & Kevin
    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

    John reading from the First Book of Timothy


    Remember these special people:

    For the Ukraine and the Holy Land; For our new Pope, Leo XIV;  For John Cade:  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.

    Tom helps John today

     

    Tori and Buddy get cookies for their birthdays

    Birthdays:    Tori & Buddy Brown 10/3
    Anniversaries:   Pat & Fred 10/2, John Cade Ordination 9/30

    Expenses: $  1,250.00
    Outreach: $  315.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.


    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    “Rivers do not drink their own water;
    trees do not eat their own fruit;
    the sun does not shine on itself
    and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves.
    Living for others is a rule of nature.
    We are born to help each other.
    No matter how difficult it is.
    Life is good when you are happy
    but much better when others are happy because of you.
    Let us remember that pain is a sign that we are alive,
    problems are a sign that we are strong and
    prayer is a sign that we are not alone.
    If we can acknowledge these truths and
    condition our hearts and minds, our lives will
    be more meaningful,
    different and
    worthwhile.” 

    Pope Francis


    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 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 2025

    Amos 6:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!
    1 Timothy 6:  But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
     Luke 16:  “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.  And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

     


    Nothing we manage to amass here can change the value of what we really are underneath it all. “Why, snatch at wealth, and hoard and stock it?” Betty Paoli writes. “Your shroud, you know, will have no pocket.”
    The Monastic Way, Sister Joan Chittister

     

    Another Reminder for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 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.

  • 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 21, 2025

    Amos:  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.

    Lynda reading from the Book of Amos


    Thanks…   

    Music,   Shonda & Ben
    Readers,  Lynda and Tom
    Homily,   John Stack
    Eucharistic Prayer A & B,  John Stack & John Cade
    The Magic Zoom makers,  Hue, Kevin & Richard
    Final Blessing,  Rosemary

    Tom reading from St. Paul’s first Letter to Timothy

    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.
    Birthdays:
    Anniversaries:   Becky & Tom Good 9/26
    Becky and Tom get a cookie for their anniversary

    Expenses: $  335.00
    Outreach: $  30.00

    Thanks again, Folks, for doing what you can.


    Rosemary’s Blessing:

    … May God bless you with enough foolishness
    to believe that you can make a difference
    in this world, in your neighborhood,
    so that you will courageously try
    what you don’t think you can do, but,
    in Jesus Christ you’ll have all the strength necessary.

    “Troubadour: A Missionary Magazine,” published by the Franciscan Missionary Society

     

    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.