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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, June 10
7:00 am Centering Prayer
Saturday, June 11
5:00 pm Pentecost Mass
Tuesday, June 14
4:30 pm Pastoral Team
Wednesday, June 15
7:00 pm Parish Council |  |
Want to add an event to the calendar? Contact Lisa (314.795.0114). |
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General Info | |
The Parish Council meets on the third Wednesday of the month. Members are: Therese Gabriel, Steve Campbell, Sheila Leander, Nancy Wamser, Michelle Smith, Mary Crecelius, Jessica Rowley and Frank Krebs.
The Parish 0ffice is located at Eden Theological Seminary, 483 E. Lockwood, Suite 3, Saint Louis, MO 63119. 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).
We Tithe as a parish and we need your recommendations
We donate 10% of our collections 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. Please let the Parish Council know about worthy organizations that you would like us 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 need assistance from the fund, contact Peggy Montgomery.
Membership Care Prayer List
If you have a joy or concern you would like to share on the prayer list please contact someone on the pastoral team Jessica Rowley 314.918.2766; Lisa von Stamwitz 314.795.0114; Frank Krebs 314.740.1160; We have a SafeChurch Policy to protect our children and other vulnerable populations. |
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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!
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Monthly balance sheets and income statements for Sts. Clare & Francis parish can be seen by clicking the links.
April 2011
May 2011
Please direct questions about the financial reports to:
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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
June 9, 2011 |
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Pentecost
Saturday, June 11, 2011 5:00 p.m.
Readings: Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 7:37-39
Presider: Frank Krebs
Homilist: George von Stamwitz
Sacristans: Marty Campbell, Lisa von Stamwitz
Readers: Art Maines, Carol Ogier
Eucharistic Ministers: Mary Ellen Kruger, Kay Schmitt, Janie Smith
If you are unable to serve in your scheduled ministry, please let Lisa know when you get a substitute so that we can publish the correct names in the newsletter. Thanks so much. Lisa von Stamwitz (314.795.0114). |
Updating the SCF Directory
Please help us update our directory. All registered members should receive a copy of the records (as they currently stand) via email, if you have not already received it. Please reply by email to let me know that you and your household's information is correct. As an added convenience, someone will be available each Saturday during June after mass with a hard copy of the directory; you could look at the info then and either note that it is correct or edit it. Either way we'd like to make sure your information is correct. If you are or want to be a member and do not receive an email, please contact me; and I'll be in touch with you.
Thanks.
Your brother, Frank |
Summer BBQ Hosts Needed
Hosts are needed for Sts. Clare & Francis get-togethers this summer. Jim & Doris Schneider will again host a barbeque in July at their home
in Robertsville, MO (date TBA). Volunteers are needed to host gatherings in August and September. Please contact Doris at 314.974.8288
or dschneider1631@att.net. |
Synod 2012
Yes, believe it or not, planning is underway for the next ECC Synod to be held in October 2012, probably in California. The leadership of the House of Laity has asked us to let them know who our lay delegates will be. Michelle Smith and George von Stamwitz served as first-term delegates to the Synod here in 2010. Carol Ogier and Steve Campbell have been delegates at the last two Synods, and their terms are ending. That leaves us with two slots to fill. If you are interested in serving as an SCF delegate to the Synod, or if you wish to nominate someone, please contact a parish council member in the next week. (Before nominating someone else, please discuss it with her/him and confirm their willingness to serve.) Feel free to contact any of the past delegates to learn what's involved. |
Pridefest Parade Update
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Meet at 11:00 am, Parade starts at Noon
Where to meet: TBA
Come join us as we march in solidarity with our LGBT brothers and sisters past thousands of bystanders! The parade happens Sunday, June 26 at noon. We will meet at a location-to-be-announced at 11:00 am, where we then queue up for the parade. The parade route is about 1.5 miles long along South Grand Avenue. It will take about two hours to walk the parade route. If you've never been in a parade, here's your chance, one of the largest in St. Louis! Afterward, we'd like to meet, relax, grab a cold one, and talk about our "parade experiences." We are looking for a convenient location for that; any restaurant/pub suggestions would be appreciated! Please consider joining us. We are hoping for a very large group to reperesent SCF. We will have sign-up sheets in the back of church or e-mail suenauert@gmail.com. |
Casserole Brigade Enlisting Members
If you have the ability to provide a nutritious main dish in support and care for those in our faith community who are dealing with illness or life-changing circumstances, please contact Lisa von Stamwitz at 314.795.0114 or lvonstamwitz@netzero.net. |
L'ocal L'Arche
 Hi everyone! I invite you to join us in our prayers of thanksgiving. We welcomed our first core member, Kim, on Tuesday! What a momentous occasion after many years of prayer and effort to bring a L'Arche community to St. Louis! We would not be here without your love, prayers, hard work and financial support! Thank you, thank you!
Long live L'Arche!
peace,
janet ryan |
Homilies
Bishop Rick's homily from June 4, This Is Our Journey, along with other archived homilies from Sts. Clare & Francis, is available at http://scfhomilies.posterous.com. |
Events Sponsored by Friends of SCF
L'Arche St. Louis
Mouse Race and Silent Auction
Saturday, July 9
Doors open at 6:30 pm; Races start at 7:00 pm
Immaculate Conception Gym
Anna Street & Marshall Avenue (Maplewood) 63143
$20 per person (before July 1)
$25 per person (after July 1)
Please join us for the Friends of L'ArcheSt. Louis Mouse Race and Silent Auction to be held Saturday, July 9, 2011 at Immaculate Conception Gymnasium (Anna St. and Marshall Avenue in Maplewood, 63143). Cost is $20.00 per person in advance (prior to July 1st) and $25.00 per person beginning July 2nd. Admission cost includes soda, beer and pretzels. Feel free to bring appetizers to share at your table (up to ten people). To register contact Kay Calcaterra-Hoelting at kch63119@sbcglobal.net or call (314) 962-4599. Checks should be made payable to "Friends of L'Arche St. Louis". If you are unable to attend, but would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please mail to: Friends of L'Arche St. Louis, 311 Violet Lane , 63119.
"Friends of L'Arche St. Louis" has opened the first L'Arche community in Missouri this year! Our first home will be at 2934 Marshall in Maplewood. L'Arche is a community of faith, rooted in the spirit of the Beatitudes, where people with and without intellectual disabilities create homes, foster relationships of mutuality and recognize the gifts of each person. All proceeds from this event will support the L'Arche community in Maplewood.
To learn more about L'Arche go to: www.larchestlouis.org |
random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
I would like to see churches teach their people how to have intelligent dialogue that doesn't degenerate into argument. We have to teach people that the Holy Spirit works in the middle of conversation. We see it time and time again - Jesus enters into dialogue with people; Paul and Peter and the apostles enter into dialogue with people. We tend to think that the Holy Spirit can only work in the middle of a monologue where we are doing the speaking.
Brian McLaren |
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