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Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, January 20
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, January 21
3:00 pm Crafters
5:00 pm Mass
Tuesday, January 24
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
January 19, 2012
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Third Week of Ordinary Time
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Readings: Jon 3:1-5, 10; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20
Presider/Homilist: Frank Krebs
Sacristan: Sheila Leander
Readers: Kay Schmitt, Elizabeth Seitz
Eucharistic Ministers: Michelle Smith, Art Maines, Barb Winkler
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). |
Delegate to the Midwest Regional Council
We are looking for someone who might be willing to serve as a lay representative from SCF on the ECC Midwest Regional Council. The Council meets every other month for about an hour and a half on the phone. The Council's job is to find ways to improve the connection among the four communities that make up the region: Emmaus in Oshkosh, WI, St. Jerome in Tulsa, OK, San Damiano in Little Rock, AR, and SCF. Each community has one clergy and one lay rep.
We asked the current and retiring rep, Peggy Montgomery, to reflect on her experience:
It's been an honor to serve as the lay representative on the regional conference. The members are a great group of people, and we are deeply committed to doing what is best for our own communites and for the greater ECC. It's a long road we've been travelling, this one of discerning whether or not to form a diocese, what it would look like, and mapping out a path to follow. This is all before we take it to our parishes for a decision! I've found our conversations to be interesting, challenging, productive, respectful, and sometimes amusing (I'm always thankful when some levity enters in, because, in all honesty the conversations can get sort of dry when you're the lay rep and the clergy start taking off on their clergy-speak!) I have taken the responsibility very seriously; and it's a good thing, because, believe me, if you want the lay voice to be heard, you'd better be ready to speak up! I can tell you that I believe that this is an important job that isn't for everyone, but, if you think you might be the person to represent the lay voice of Sts. Clare and Francis, I would encourage you to give it a try. If you're interested and would like to talk to me before you sign on the dotted line, feel free to give me a call.
Peggy Montgomery
If you are interested contact anyone on the Parish Council. Thanks.
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Crafters Gather
Eucharist with Children
Saturday, January 21, 2012
3:00 pm
Fireside Room
Crafters and artists of all stripes: gather to share your work, conversation and glean new ideas for projects in 2012. We will gather before Mass in the fireside room Saturday, January 21st at 3pm.
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Bread Baking and
Eucharist with Children
 In an effort make liturgy accessible to the children and grandchildren of SCF I will be offering a Sunday morning bread baking party and simple Eucharist. Before a date and location is chosen I need to gauge numbers. If you have a child in mind for this experience or you would like to help at this kind of event, please email me.
Thanks!
Your sister,
Jessica
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Liturgy Visioning Group
Do you enjoy discussing your experiences at liturgy? Do you want to be a part of visioning our future liturgical expression at SCF? A group will be gathering monthly to do just that. As we move through 2012, Year B in our liturgical calendar, we will we evaluate and vision for 2012-2013, Year C. Each month we will discuss a different season or part of the liturgy.
Please let Jessica know if you're interested so you can stay in the loop on meetings times and topics. Email her at jessica.rowley@stsclareandfrancis.org or call 314.283.4697.
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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
 Hungry for Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability
Six Session Discussion Course During Lent
Fridays, February 24, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
10:30 am - Noon
The Family Center
602 West Kirkham in Webster Groves
Cost: $30
Register by February 10 so books can be ordered.
For information, call 6183466.5004
To register, send payment to
La Vista Ecological Learning Center
4300 Levis Lane
Godfrey, IL 62035
Lent is a perfect time to explore our relationship to food, especially now when our planet is in peril. We know that how we eat determines to a great extent how the earth is used.
Participants will:
Explore the interconnected nature of food systems and our relationships to them
Examine the impact our food choices have on our health and the health of our planet
Consider the ethical and political implications of our current food system and our personal food choices
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 Never Been A Time
Harper Barnes
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00 pm
St. Margaret of Scotland
Ever wonder how our region developed the racial divides and challenges that exist today? The book Never Been a Time offers insight into a part of our region's history as it chronicles the tragedy of the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis.
You are invited to read an account of this event and hear from the author himself. We are so fortunate to have Harper Barnes, a former editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, author and columnist, to join us on March 1st, at 7:00 pm at St. Margaret of Scotland Church Hall, 3827 Flad, 63110 (corner of 39th and Flad) to discuss the book followed by questions and answers.
Left Bank Books will have the book for sale at a 20% discount at both their locations or you can order it from them on-line at http://www.left-bank.com/book/9780802715753. You may pick it up or they will mail it. Also, the City Library has 10 copies and the County Library does as well. Please register for this free event by contacting Gerry Rauch, 314.664.5770 or gerrauch@gmail.com.
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random sightings wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda
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