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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, May 4
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, May 5
4:00 pm Service Committee
5:00 pm Mass
6:00 pm Bread for the World Letter
Writing
Tuesday, May 8
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
May 3, 2012
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Fifth Week of Easter
Saturday, May 5, 2012
5:00 pm
Readings: Acts 9:26-31; 1 Jn 3:18-24; Jn 15:1-8
Presider: Jessica Rowley
Homilist: George von Stamwitz
Sacristan: Jessica Rowley
Readers: Ann Bolger, Marty Campbell
Eucharistic Ministers: Mary Jordan, Ginny Kiernan Dahlberg, Mary Ellen Kruger
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 |
Bread for the World
Offering of Letters
Saturday, May 5, 2012
After Mass
Fellowship Hall
Our annual Bread for the World Offering of Letters and Soup Meal is Saturday, May 5. Please join us after Mass for a soup meal as we live our faith by being advocates for our neighbors living in poverty. We will write letters to Congress urging our senators and representatives to form a circle of protection around the programs that support our poorest neighbors in these difficult times. How we treat our neighbor -- both through our personal actions and as a nation -- are concrete expressions of how we love God. Sample letters and all the letter writing materials will be provided. Please bring a spoon and a bowl so it can be a "green meal."
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Hospitality Ministry Team
The newly forming Hospitality Ministry Team met this past weekend to discuss where SCF, as a a welcoming community, feels called to place special emphasis. At the present moment the following three ministries have emerged: Greeting (visitors, new members, set-up/take-down greeters table, etc); Gathering (receptions, potlucks, set-up team, clean-up team, dishwashing team, servers, etc); Caring (cards, notes and calls for birthdays, anniversaries (marriage or bereavement), illness, new visitors, check-in with people).
Some people have also expressed interest in leadership for these various areas: Marty Campbell, Greeting; Therese Gabriel, Gathering; and Michelle Smith, Caring. If you feel called to leadership in any of these areas, or would be interested in another aspect of leadership, feel free to contact Michelle Smith or Therese Gabriel, Parish Council liaison for Hospitality. The more the merrier! If you don't feel called to lead or coordinate but just want to help in some way, please know we appreciate whatever you are able to offer to a particular ministry. It takes a village!
Stay tuned for more updates and thanks to all for your willingness to share in this ministry. We welcome all who want to join as we ensure All Feel Welcome at Sts. Clare & Francis.
Blessings,
Michelle
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New Member Welcome and Ritual
We celebrate the remarkable individuals and families that have joined our community in the past year! Your faces, spirits, presence, and energy move and shape the God-life that flows through this precious family of faith. We would like to officially welcome you at our Pentecost liturgy on May 26th. There will be a ritual during Mass and a reception with appetizers to follow.
We would like to put together a program that highlights you. So, if you joined SCF since Easter 2011, please contact Steve Campbell by May 10 with the following information for our program:
- Send a digital picture of yourself. If that is not possible, let us know and we'll take a photo after Mass.
- Answer these two questions (in a sentence or two).
- What drew you to Sts. Clare & Francis?
- What makes you feel most alive (because Christ came so we might have life, and have it abundantly... John 10:10)?
Any questions, contact Jessica.
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Looking Forward...
There are lots of exciting events in the works at SCF. Here's a preview. Mark your calendars:
May 12, 3:00 - 4:30 pm - Convocation: Dances for Universal Peace
Join Linda Hibbits and Ed Francis as they lead us in this embodied form of prayer, walking us through spiritual gems from religions throughout the world.
June 16 - Enneagram Workshop with Kate Schroeder
We are pinning down a date (Saturday, likely) for a day long workshop/retreat on the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a tool to better understand ourselves and how our gifts fit into a community. Watch for more information coming soon!
Summer book study - Jessica with friend, Rev. Claudia Hall, will be reading and discussing the book Radical Love: An introduction to Queer Theology by Patrick Cheng. More information coming soon.
July 28, time TBA - a day of reflection with Stefan Andre Waligur
We welcome back Stefan, who facilitated our retreat in Spring 2011 with song, story and reflection. Stefan is a musician, song writer, retreat leader, and storyteller coming out of the Celtic tradition. We welcome him back to SCF while on summer break from studying in Ireland.
If you have any interest in helping with an event, contact someone on the pastoral team (Jessica Rowley, Frank Krebs, Steve Campbell, Lisa von Stamwitz, or Michelle Smith). |
Parish Council Minutes
The minutes of the March 22 Parish Council meeting can be found here.
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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
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Affective Therapy: An Integrative Approach to Healing
Friday, May 18, 2012
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Webster University
Presenter: Kate Schroeder
Registration fee: $45
Kate Schroeder is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in inner child work and affective therapy with clients. She is a certified administrator and interpretor of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator and has training in the Enneagram system of personality typing. For a flyer on this presentation, click here.
Therapeutic Support Group for Lesbians in Heterosexual Marriages and Coming Out
Nine Monday evenings, 7:30 - 9:00 pm starting May 14, 2012
Facilitator: Kate Schroeder
For more information about this support group, click here.
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random sightings wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
Author Tony Campolo, who makes a regular circuit as a chapel speaker on Christian college campuses, for a time used this provocation to make a point:
"The United Nations reports that over ten thousand people starve to death each day, and most of you don't give a shit. However, what is even more tragic is that most of you are more concerned about the fact that I just said a bad word than you are about the fact that ten thousand people are going to die today."
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey
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