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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, December 9
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, December 10
4:00 pm Sacrament of the Sick/Healing Ritual
5:00 pm Mass
Tuesday, December 13
2:00 pm Pastoral Team
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Want to add an event to the calendar? Contact Jessica (314.918.2766).
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General Info
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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 East Lockwood, Suite 3, St. 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. 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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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
December 9, 2011
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Third Week of Advent
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Readings: Is 61:1-2a, 10-11; 1 Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, 19-28
Presider/Homilist: Frank Krebs
Sacristan: Cecelia Andres
Readers: Elizabeth Seitz, Janie Smith
Eucharistic Ministers: Mary Jordan, Ginny Kiernan Dahlberg, Mary Ellen Kruger
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). |
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Crafters' Group
Saturday, December 17th
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Fireside Room
 Get those last minute gifts ready while connecting with your SCF family. Crafters and artists of all stripes are welcome. Need some crafting help? It's a great place to get advice from experienced crafters (especially knitting, crochet and sewing).
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SCF's RED and GREEN
Christmas Party
Saturday, December 17, 2011
After Mass
 All are invited to a holiday celebration after Mass on Saturday, December 17. We will have pizza (red) and a salad bar (green) along with assorted Christmas cookies/sweets for dessert. This event is sponsored by our small group, but a $2 donation to cover pizza or a contribution of a salad fixing, a plate of cookies or bottle/six pack of your favorite beverage would be appreciated. In addition, we will collect children's, women's, or men's gloves for Karen House / Peter & Paul Shelter. (And bring your singin' voice! If you have a karaoke machine to borrow, let us know.) Please let us know if you plan to come. Sue / Paul Nauert (suenauert@gmail.com)
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Advent: Sacrament of Reconciliation and Sacrament of the Sick
The holidays can be a hectic time, but Advent invites us into a season of centered-ness as we watch and wait for the Holy One to be born in our lives. To that end, we would like to offer a few opportunities for you to connect with God and yourself.
December 10 - a communal service for the Sacrament of the Sick at 4:00 pm in the fireside room. All are welcome to be anointed for healing of mind, body or spirit.
December 17 - Frank will be available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the library across from the pastor's office at EUCC from 4:00 - 5:00 pm.
Feel free to contact one of the pastors if you would like to set up a time outside of these offerings or if you have any questions.
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Christmas
Please note that SCF will celebrate Christmas Mass on Sunday, December 25th at 9:00 am. We will not have our regular Saturday evening Mass on the 24th to accommodate our host church.
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Winter Solstice Service
December 20, 2011
7:00 pm
Enter a circle of warmth and candlelight on the (nearly) longest night of the year as we embrace the darkness and anticipate the birth of the light. Join Sts. Clare & Francis for a simple service with cider and cookies to follow. It will be a sanctuary of peace and meditation for those who are busy with holiday preparation. If you are able to bring a plate of cookies, proclaim a reading, or help with set-up, please contact Jessica.
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random sightings wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
I possessed curiosity. I possessed awe. I possessed hope, doubt, and fear, but nothing like certainty about what I believed. When I brought this up in Bible study, the other girls looked at me as if I had just passed gas. Clearly, I was not where I was supposed to be in my walk with God. As my friend Becca once said, "The church answered all my questions while I was growing up, but they also gave me the questions I could ask."
[...] I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust that with certainty. I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the world although I could not say for sure how that happened. I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so. While this understanding had the welcome effect of changing faith from a noun to a verb for me, it was an understanding that told me how far I had strayed from the center of my old spiritual map.
Leaving Church
Barbara Brown Taylor
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