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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, February 24
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, February 25
3:00 pm Convocation
5:00 pm Mass
Tuesday, February 28
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
February 23, 2012
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First Week of Lent
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Readings: Gn 9:8-15; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15
Presider/Homilist: Frank Krebs
Sacristan: Judy DeFrank
Readers: Ginny Kiernan Dahlberg, Jenn Lay
Eucharistic Ministers: John Dahlberg, Marty Campbell, Mary Jordan
Lenten Witness: Kevin Born
If you are able 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@stsclareandfrancis.org (314.918-2766)
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Final Convocation
in Service/Social Justice Series
Saturday, February 25, 2012
3:00 pm
Fireside Room
 After having looked at the scriptural and traditional foundations for social justice, we are going to look at the practical steps each of us can take to get as involved as we want to with various social justice issues. The previous two in this series have been well attended and stimulating for those who came. Come join us if you can on Saturday at 3:00 pm at church. There will be suggestions for those "who cannot take on one more thing" as well as those who are ready to get more involved.
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20 Minutes of Meditation
Fridays 7:00 am
Lent might be a good excuse to think about joining us for 20 minutes of meditation and a few more of conversation every Friday morning at church at 7:00 am. Newbies are welcome.
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Your Vote Counts
Your Vote Counts is a voter initiative represented by a broad coalition of bipartisan groups concerned with protecting the will of the people and the integrity of the ballot initiative process. The Missouri legislature attempts to overturn voter initiatives more than any other state legislature. They can simply pass a law that overrules the will of the voters. The proposed Act will make it more difficult for them to do this. A petition is currently in process and will be available after Mass for signing by persons registered to vote in St. Louis County. For more information, go to www.protectvoters.com.
Helen Gennari
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Homilies
Michelle's homily from February 18, How Strong is Your Faith?, and all homilies from Sts. Clare & Francis are available at http://scfhomilies.posterous.com.
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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
Phyllis Trible has taught us that the Hebrew word for "mercy" is the word for "womb" with different vowel points. And so mercy, she suggested, is womb-like mother love. And it is the capacity of the mother to totally give one's self over to the need and reality and identity of a child. And mutatis mutandis then, mercy is the capacity to give one's self away for sake of neighborhood. Now none of us do that completely. But it makes a difference if the quality of social transactions has to do with the willingness to give one's self away for the sake of the other rather than the need to always be drawing all of the resources to myself for my own well-being.
So it is this kind of generous connectedness to others - and then I think our task is to see how it translates into policy...I think that a community or a society finally cannot live without the quality of mercy. The problem for us is what will initiate that? What will break the pattern of self-preoccupation enough to notice the others are out there and we're attached to them?
Walter Brueggemann
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