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This Week
"At a Glance"
5:00 pm Mass
Sunday, March 13
Daylight Saving Time begins Tuesday, March 15
4:30 pm Pastoral Team
Wednesday, March 16
7:00 pm Parish Council Mtg. |  |
Want to add an event to the calendar? Contact Jessica (314.918.2766). |
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General Info | |
The Parish Council meets on the third Wednesday of the month. Members: Anne Knight, Frank Krebs, George von Stamwitz, Jessica Rowley, Nancy Wamser, Sheila Leander, Steve Campbell, Sue Stolze.
We frequently have community gatherings called Convocations where we discuss the
vision of the community. Dates and times are announced in this newsletter.
The Parish 0ffice is located at Eden Theological Seminary, 475 E. Lockwood, Saint Louis, MO 63119. The office is being renovated during the month of December. Frank and Jessica are available for appointments. You can reach them at... Jessica: 314.283.4697, Frank: 314.740.1160.
We have an initiative to connect people to small faith sharing groups. If you are interested in joining a small group, please contact Jessica Rowley (314.918.2766 or email).
Do you have friends who would like to know more about Sts. Clare & Francis?
Would you be willing to invite them to your house for an hour or so to hear about us? Frank is willing to come to your home to share the story of SCF with your friends.
We Tithe as a parish and we need your recommendations
We have committed to tithing as a parish. We donate 10% of all that we collect in our offerings to worthy causes. We do this as an act of faith, trusting that, in doing this, we will still be able to meet our financial needs. We have received a number of wonderful suggestions. Please continue to let the Parish Council know about worthy organizations that you would like us as a community to contribute to. Information needed: your name, name of organization you are suggesting, to whom check should be made payable, where to send check and to whose attention. Please send your suggestions to Marilyn Tenholder.
Matthew 25 The Matthew 25 Fund helps members in our community who need financial assistance. All information concerning the people with whom we work is held in the strictest confidence. If you would like to contribute to this fund, make your check payable to Matthew 25, and place it in the collection basket. If you would like to donate cash, put it in an envelope labeled "Matthew 25" and place it in the collection basket. If you need assistance from the fund, you can contact We have a SafeChurch Policy to protect our children and other vulnerable populations. |
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Do you shop at Schnucks?
Please keep our Schnucks E-Scrip fund raiser in mind when you shop. If you don't already have an E-Scrip card, please call Marilyn Tenholder (314.323.1467) and she will get one to you. There is no charge and all you have to do is activate it by either a phone call or by going online. Simply show the card when you check out and a percentage of your purchase cost will be rebated back to Sts. Clare & Francis. Thank you! SCF Online Booksale Please consider donating books to the Sts. Clare & Francis Online Book sale Fundraiser. All proceeds, net of fees, will go to Sts. Clare & Francis. We are looking for good quality new or used books on religion, spirituality, self-  help, business, textbooks, cookbooks, psychology, books signed by the author and children's books. We will accept books from other categories, too, but fiction (especially paperback) doesn't sell very well. You can bring your books to the weekly Mass on Saturdays at 5:00 pm or you can arrange for pickup by calling Art Maines at 314.518.1973. If you have questions about the sale or books you'd like to donate, you can call Art at the same number. 
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COMMUNITY CORNER...our family news
(It is good for us to know what's happening in each other's lives. If you have any news you'd like to share with the community, please email Steve ).
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The Weekly News
March 10, 2011 |
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First Week of Lent
Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:00 p.m.
Presider: Jessica Rowley Homilist: George von Stamwitz Lectors: Ann Bolger, Janie Smith Sacristan: Jessica Rowley Eucharistic Ministers: Michelle Smith, Joan Switzer, Mary Jordan Children's Church: Barbara Harris, Sue Stolze
Lenten Witness: Gretchen Schiltz Brenner If you are unable to serve in your scheduled ministry, please let Jessica know when you get a substitute so that we can publish the correct names in the newsletter. Thanks so much. Jessica Rowley (314.918.2766). |
Liturgy Book 
Discussion Continues
If you enjoy reflecting on liturgy and your experience, please come! We will continue discussing the second section of Gabe Huck's Liturgy with Style and Grace on Friday, March 18, 12:30 - 2:00 pm at the parish office at Eden. |
Crafter's Group - March 19
Our next Crafter's Group will be Saturday, March 19, 3-4:30 pm. We craft, we chat, we deepen our love of the present moment, creativity and one another! Please join us. |
Parish Retreat!
Discovering our Thin Places
April 8 - 9, 2011
Rockhaven
$40 for commuter (scholarship money available)
Additional $50 for overnight accommodations
Download a registration brochure here.
 Please set aside April 8 - 9 for a parish retreat with Stefan Andre Waligur.
Please note, the dates have shifted to Friday evening and Saturday. We will begin at 7:00 pm Friday evening and conclude in time to drive to Webster Groves for Mass on Saturday.
One of the highlights of the ECC Synod in October was a Celtic prayer experience in which Stefan led the music. We are thrilled that he has agreed to come back to St. Louis for this retreat.
His website describes him as a contemplative, musician/composer, and retreat leader. |
Tridu-what? 
Learning about and preparing
for the high point of our liturgical year
The word Triduum, three days, refers to the time from the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday until evening prayer on Easter Sunday.
This section of the newsletter during the season of Lent will help us prepare for these three important days. We hope you will not only be inspired to attend the liturgical celebrations of the Triduum this year, but also enter more deeply into their mystery.
The emphasis is on the unity of days, on not separating death from resurrection. From its first years, the church has never spoken of one without the other. Triduum is a single celebration. Gabe Huck from Liturgy with Style and Grace
"Anticipate resurrection," Terry Tempest Williams urges. In the darkest depths, in the hollows of our lives and of our own flesh, there are luminous thresholds whose edges we find only by tracing the cracks in our lives and walking through the openings they offer. Christ, who in his resurrection still bore the wounds of his crucifixion, stands ever at the threshold. He is both a tough and a graceful companion, given as he is to offering both challenge and comfort for the way. Jan L. Richardson from Garden of Hollows
Join us...
Thursday, April 21, 7:00 pm Mass of the Lord's Supper
Friday, April 22, 7:00 pm God's Friday Service with Evangelical UCC
Saturday, April 23, 7:30 pm Easter Vigil |
Frank's Lenten Blogs
Frank will blog during Lent again this year. Last year he did a series on prayer. This year he is going to be blogging about the relationship between prayer and the rest of our lives. To follow just go to the SCF website and under "our community" click on SCF Blog, or just click here. |
Lenten Practice: Meditation
 A group of SCF members have been meeting on Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. at church to meditate together. They would like to open it up to anyone who wishes to join them. Maybe Lent is a good excuse to start (or try) meditating. The group usually has a short check in, then meditates for maybe 20 minutes, then has a short time for sharing, and finished up by 8:00 a.m. Please join us. Beginners are welcome! Contact Frank with any questions at frank.krebs@stsclareandfrancis.org.
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Convocation Follow Up: Sunday Mass?
About 26 members showed up for the convocation last weekend. We looked at the pros and cons of doing a trial addition of a Sunday mass. We also "problem solved" around identified obstacles. Frank is working up the notes from the meeting and will try to have them available for the next newsletter. Fundamentally it was clear that more information is needed before we could ever make a decision. Potential time frame for the pilot could be 3-6 months beginning August or September. |
Homilies
Frank's homily from March 5, Sleeping, Daydreaming, Waking Up, along with other archived homilies from Sts. Clare
Most weeks lately between 500
and 700 people read these homilies, according to data from our service. You may have a friend you want to share the link with. |
Events Sponsored by Friends of SCF
Women's History Month
Dr. Dorothy Irvin presents
"The Archaeology of Women's
Ministries in the Early Church"
Thursday, March 10, 2011
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Sinquefield Room
Dubourg Hall, St. Louis University
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED
Sponsored by: Women's Studies Program, Department of Theological Studies, And Faithful of Southern Illinois (FOSIL)
About the Talk: Beginning with archeological evidence of women's participation as leaders in Jewish worship, Dr. Irvin's slide lecture shows women attested to by their contemporary communities as ordained and ministering within the episcopal structure of the church. Women's presence then, their work and their teachings, implanted positive practices and values which are still a part of the church today. The photographs she shows are authentic photographs, no artist's reconstructions. An overview of Vatican statements regarding women's ordinations is woven into her lecture.
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Week of Guided Prayer An Ecumenical Retreat in Everyday Life Meet one-on-one with a prayer guide 30 minutes each day Afternoon or evening, Monday through Friday.
St. Gabriel Catholic Church Starts March 13, 2011
For more information: ~~~
 Catholic Action Network
Visioning Meeting May 15, 2011 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. The Former CSAT Building (Center for Theology and Social Analysis) 1077 South Newstead Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110 (in the Forest Park Southeast Neighborhood) Catholic Action Network (CAN) is planning a visioning meeting for our upcoming work. We would like members of the Sts. Clare & Francis Community to come help us create the future at CAN by attending. If you are interested, please contact John Powell at jpowell@vdoh.org. For more information about CAN, click here. |
random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
Wild Geese
Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting ----
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
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