The Service Committee is meeting at 4 pm on Saturday, February 4, in the Fireside Room.  Everyone is welcome to join us.

 

Join us for a weaving of conversation and craft Saturday, February 18th at 3pm in the fireside room.  Contact Jessica with questions.

 

"Prayers and blessings can 

be kneaded right into the dough and baked into every loaf.  Dedicating bread in this way focuses the baker's attention on its spiritual role as the sustenance of life."  Baking Bread with Children by Warren Lee Cohen, p 122

 

This event will combine story, song and blessing with the rich sensory experience of baking bread.  Children of all ages are invited to bring an adult and bake bread that we will then bless and enjoy in a simple Eucharist.  We will gather at Jessica Rowley's house on Sunday, February 19th from 10-11:30.  Please RSVP to Jessica by February 11th so we may have enough supplies for all (please include the number of children with their ages and number of adults).  Directions to Jessica's home in South County will be sent out the week prior.  

 

George's homily from January 28, Jesus' Opening Statement, and all homilies from Sts. Clare & Francis are available at http://scfhomilies.posterous.com. 

 

 

RockHaven Ecozoic Center

Spaghetti Dinner

Saturday, February 4, 2012

5:30 - 8:30 pm

Nerinx Hall High School Cafeteria

590 E. Lockwood

Tickets: $12 in advance, $18 at the door

Tickets available at www.rockhavencenter.org  

636.375.3159

 

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Therapeutic Support Group for Lesbians 

In Heterosexual Marriages & Coming Out

 

What: This is a therapeutic support group for married women or women who have been recently married to a man in a heterosexual relationship and are now coming out as lesbians or questioning their sexual orientation.

  

Married women are a significant but invisible part of the lesbian population who are often disregarded when it comes to providing resources and support. This therapeutic support group has been designed to address this disparity in resources and provide support and guidance so that individuals struggling with these issues do not have to exist in isolation but rather can begin to build their own supportive, rewarding and gratifying lives during this time of transition.

Who is eligible to participate? Any woman who is currently or recently been in a heterosexual marriage and is coming out as a lesbian or questioning their sexual identity.

  

Cost: Costs for participation in this group are $25 per session, per participant. Participants will be asked to contract for the full 9 weeks, and can pay in full prior to the group beginning or weekly if needed for financial reasons. Participants will also be required to pay an additional nominal fee for their individual screening session.

  

When: Weekly meetings on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8pm, starting February 9th, 2012 and running for 9 weeks. All meetings will be held in the therapist's office located in Webster Groves, MO.

Potential participants will be required to undergo an individual screening session with therapist prior to the 9 week therapeutic support group to determine therapeutic fit for the group.

For more information, please contact:

Kate Schroeder, M.Ed, PLPC, NCC

314.910.8260

kateschroederlpc@gmail.com

  

Month of Guided Prayer 

 

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.  

 

 

 

Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak. [...] What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. [...] And so we ignore our greatest gift, which is to enter into solidarity with those who suffer.

 

Henri Nouwen