|
ECC Midwest
Partner Communities
| |
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Little Rock, Arkansas
Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
|
This Week
"At a Glance"
Thursday, March 1
6:00 pm Parish Council
Friday, March 2
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, March 3
4:00 pm Service Committee
5:00 pm Mass
Tuesday, March 6
2:00 pm Pastoral Team
|  |
Want to add an event to the calendar? Contact Jessica (314.918.2766).
|
|
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 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. |
| Fundraising |
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!
|
|
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 ).
|
|
|
|
The Weekly News
March 1, 2012
|
Second Week of Lent
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Readings: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Rom 8:31b-34; Mk 9:2-10
Presider/Homilist: Jessica Rowley
Sacristan: Mary Niehaus, Marilyn Heller
Readers: Ceci Paul, Art Maines
Eucharistic Ministers: Ginny Kiernan Dahlberg, Barbara Harris, Joann Noll
Lenten Witness: Helen Gennari
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 or 314.918.2766 |
Service Committee
Saturday, March 3, 2012
4:00 pm
Fireside Room
Everyone is invited to join us as we review the surveys from the convocation and plan our activities for the next few months.
|
Liturgy Visioning Gathering
Saturday, March 10, 2012
3:00 pm
Fireside room
We continue the work of reflection and discernment as we look at our liturgy and attempt to make it, truly, the "work of the people." Join us for our second gathering Saturday, March 10th before Mass. We will spend most of the time looking at the overall flow of our Eucharistic liturgies and identify areas we would like to study in more detail this year. Contact Jessica with questions or comments.
|
Student Pastor
Brothers & Sisters,
I am so excited to be serving my beloved Sts. Clare & Francis Community as your Student Pastor for next few months. In collaboration with Frank as my supervisor and the Pastoral Team, we have submitted my Learning Contract to my professor at Eden Seminary. As a result, I am happy to share that I will, at a minimum, be focused on the following four ministerial tasks:
1. to establish a formal Hospitality Ministry that is referenced in our Parish Bylaws
2. to create a Parish Directory of Gifts and Talents
3. to make weekly pastoral care contacts as needed, and
4. to preach and/or preside at three worship services
I will be reaching out to you in various ways as I attend to these tasks. My hope and prayer is that we will grow even closer as a community as a result of my time in service. I look forward to and welcome all comments and feedback as we work together over these months.
Blessings of Lent,
Michelle
|
Social Justice Convocation
Last Saturday's Convocation presented by Bob McMullen, Sue Stolze, Sue & Paul Nauert and Frank Krebs shared insights on advocacy, environmental sustainability and racism.
If you weren't able to attend, you can click here to see a survey that invites your participation in social justice activities. Please consider completing it and e-mailing to Bob McMullen. Or you can just send comments/interests to him. (The attached survey is a PDF, as it's the only format Constant Contact allows. Unfortunately, you won't be able to complete the survey electronically, but will have to print it, fill it out, and either give Bob the paper copy or scan and e-mail it to him.)
Some of the contact information shared at the Convocation:
Friends Committee on National Legislation
This is the Quaker lobbying arm and a source of information and easy on-line communication with Congress.
www.fcnl.org
Network
A Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace, Network educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation.
www.networklobby.org
Pax Christi USA
The national Catholic peace movement, Pax Christi focuses on being peacemakers, not as much on lobbying.
www.paxchristiusa.org
St. Louis Justice and Peace Shares
A shared way of funding a number of local social justice organizations, including Catholic Action Network and the Peace Economy Project.
jps@newcommunities.net
Bread for the World
A pluralistic cooperative that lobbies and helps us advocate to alleviate hunger in our country and in the world.
www.bread.org
There were also two handouts from the National Conference of Community and Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis:
Cycle of Socialization
Cycle of Liberation
|
Sponsored by Friends of SCF
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.
|
random sightings wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
When it comes to God, we have nothing to say to others and we must not be ashamed of saying it.
Peter Rollins
How (Not) To Speak of God
|
|
|
|
|
