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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, March 16
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, March 17
3:00 pm SCF Family Meeting
5:00 pm Mass
6:30 pm St. Pat's Dinner
Tuesday, March 20
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
March 15, 2012
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Fourth Week of Lent
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Readings: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21
Presider: Jessica Rowley
Homilist: George von Stamwitz
Sacristan: Judy DeFrank
Readers: Luke Veltz, Michelle Smith
Eucharistic Ministers: Kay Schmitt, Marty Campbell, Mary Ellen Kruger
Lenten Witness: Linda Hibbits
If you are not 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
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March Convocation:
Family Meeting
Saturday, March 17, 2012
3:00 pm
Fireside room
Our next Convocation will be a family meeting to talk about...
- the process for the upcoming parish council elections
- the parish council-community listening process
- parish finances (including reports on 2011 revenue & expenses and the 2012 budget)
- an upcoming SCF pledge drive
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It's Easy to be Green St. Pat's Dinner
Saturday, March 17, 2012
After Mass
SCF Church Basement
Thanks to all who signed up and donated to attend St. Pat's Dinner. It looks like we will have about 65 people coming!
Let's keep it Green so:
Don't forget to bring a reuseable fork, knife, and cup.
If bringing a beverage to share, make it a recyclable container, preferably locally produced. We will have tap water to drink (we are trying to discourage use of bottled water).
And most important, let's give our L'Arche guests (there will be 7 attending) a warm, SCF welcome!
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Crafter's Group
Saturday, March 24, 2012
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Channel the creative energy of the season and enjoy an informal space to visit with SCF friends. Join us for the Crafters Group Saturday, March 24th 3-4:30 in the fireside room.
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Parish Council Election
Spring is around the corner and that means it's time for parish council elections. Sheila Leander and Steve Campbell are coming to the end of their terms. That means we have two slots to fill.
If you are interested in serving as a member of the parish council, or if you wish to nominate someone, please contact a parish council member, or place their name in the box outside church. (Before nominating someone else, please discuss it with her/him and confirm their willingness to serve.) Feel free to contact any of the current council members to learn what's involved. Nominations will be accepted until Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012.
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Student Pastor Update
Greetings brothers and sisters,
As we begin to put the wheels in motion for cataloguing our gifts and talents as a community, I wanted to share a website that some may find useful in discerning what some of our gifts for ministry might be. www.teamministry.com provides an online gifts assessment tool with a 4-5 page evaluation free of charge. The entire process took less than 30 minutes and affirmed me in my gifts for shepherding a flock and showing acts of mercy. So, I invite those who are able and interested to take a few minutes and visit the website and answer the online survey for individuals. You may be affirmed like I was or you may even discover gifts you had not realized were yours.
Blessings,
Michelle
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SCF On The Air
On February 23, our own Jessica Rowley was part of a panel on Alternative Catholic Communities on KWMU's St. Louis On The Air. To listen to a podcast of the discussion, you can click here and it will take you to the St. Louis Public Radio website where you can click on the podcast.
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Lenten Blogging
Throughout Lent, Frank Krebs will be blogging about community. You can link to his blog by clicking here.
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Lenten Witnessing 
We have a tradition at weekly Mass during Lent. Each week, we hear from a member of the community who shares about their own faith journey. We're making those sharings available in writing online at witnessing.posterous.com. |
Sponsored by Friends of SCF
 Catholic Action Network
The St. Louis Catholic Action Network for Social Justice (CAN), an independent network of progressive Catholics seeking justice both in the Catholic Church and in the world, seeks a Program Coordinator. The part-time position includes providing organizational, office, and fundraising support for CAN ongoing programs, meetings and events. Computer skills, non-profit organizational experience, and commitment to nonviolent social change are required.
Access a detailed job description and more information about CAN's programs at www.catholicactionnetwork.org.
Send résumés to can@catholicactionnetwork.org.
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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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random sightings wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
...the secret of weakness is not primarily about God trying to teach us in the midst of our struggles, but how God wants to bless others in the midst of our struggles. People seek out the church, not necessarily because Christians are strong and vibrant and healthy, but because honest Christians have known what it is like to be weak. They have known suffering. They have felt the stab of pain and loss. They have held each other in their sorrow - they have knelt at the beds of dying people, prayed in the ER, handed tissues to someone at the end of a rough day. And the reason people come through the sanctuary doors week after week is not because Christians have it all together or have eliminated suffering from their schedules, but because they are still able to say, after all this, 'We know that our Redeemer lives.'
Sarah Arthur
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