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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, June 8
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, June 9
3:00 pm Convocation - Parish By- laws
5:00 pm Mass
Tuesday, June 12
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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Parish Council
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Notes from the April 26 Parish Council meeting can be found here.
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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
June 7, 2012
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Presider/Homilist: Frank Krebs
Sacristan: Lorraine Tiffin, Marilyn Heller
Readers: Elizabeth Seitz, Michelle Smith
Eucharistic Ministers: Art Maines, Gretchen Schiltz Brenner, Joann Noll
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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Al Fischer and Charlie Robin Are Coming For Mass This Week
You may recall from local news reports, Al Fischer was fired from his teaching job at a Roman Catholic School where he taught. Shortly after that, he was fired from a parish where he directed music. Al was fired from both jobs because he and his partner, Charlie Robin, announced on Facebook that they were going to be married in New York state where same-sex marriage is legal. When Frank saw the news accounts, he reached out to Al and Charlie and invited them to SCF so that we could "surround them with affirmation."
Besides praying a prayer of thanksgiving for their relationship of years and their marriage, we will ask Al to lead us in a rendition of "Singing for Our Lives," which we sang at Easter. We invite all who are willing to be allies of gay and lesbian couples come on June 9th and support this great couple; let's let them know that Sts. Clare & Francis is standing with them!
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Summer Book Discussion
Beginning June 30th, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Fireside Room
Join a summer book discussion of Patrick Cheng's book, "Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology." Rev. Claudia Hall and Jessica Rowley will facilitate the discussion. We will gather on five Saturdays from 3:00 - 4:30 pm in the Fireside Room on June 30th, July 14th, July 28th, August 11th, August 25th
You can order the book here:
http://www.left-bank.com/book/9781596271326 $20 or at
http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Love-Introduction-Queer-Theology/dp/1596271329/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337810269&sr=8-1
Dr. Patrick Cheng's book "Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology" is part of a larger movement within Christian theology called contextual theology, which focuses on applying the historical doctrines and teachings of the faith to particular life circumstances. For centuries, celibate and/or heterosexual European men were responsible for the vast majority of religious writing and preaching. In the last 50 years, a variety of new voices have entered theological discourse, including sexual and gender minorities. This book is for everyone, offering a new way to look at the Bible, at church teachings, and at how we understand ourselves to be Christian. This five week series will follow Cheng's book while listening to our own responses for insights about how the Spirit is at work.
About Rev. Claudia Hall:
Claudia Hall comes to Sts. Clare & Francis with a diverse ministry background. She grew up in a variety of Protestant denominations, graduated with her B.A. in religion from St. Leo College, a Benedictine school, and received her M.Div from Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, MO. After serving as a Methodist minister for several years, including appointments as a church growth pastor and a new church start pastor, she left the UMC and founded an interfaith ministry which focuses on helping people rejected by traditional churches, especially sexual and gender minority persons. She is working on her Ph.D from the California Institute of Integral Studies and her dissertation is currently titled "The process of religious and spiritual identity construction in polyamorous Christians." She lives with her family in St. Charles.
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Summer Barbecues
 Sts. Clare & Francis is planning for the fifth annual summer barbecues for our community. Last summer's barbecues were very successful with many members getting to know one another better. We are in the process of scheduling and organizing the barbecues for this summer. The host/hostess supplies the atmosphere, plates, utensils, napkins, etc. and those attending each bring a dish to share. Each host/hostess can decide what they want to supply in addition to the place to gather. We now have volunteers to host July, August and September. If you would like to host a barbecue in June, please contact Therese Gabriel at 314.607.7087 or theresem40@gmail.com. Therese will be the contact person to organize scheduling and items brought by the participants.
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 True Selves Rising: Register today!
A day long retreat
June 16, 2012
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
$35.00
We welcome Kate Schroeder, LPC, to spend the day with us and break open an integrative approach to personal and spiritual growth. Through conversation, experiential exercises, and group process we will engage our core selves (using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and our defense systems (using the Enneagram). As we grow in self understanding we will explore how that wisdom can heal emotional and spiritual wounds, and build stronger communities.
Download a brochure and registration form here.
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SCF at the Grizzlies Game
Sts. Clare & Francis members enjoyed a beautiful day at the Gateway Grizzlies game last Sunday.
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Photos by Alex Shaffer
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Homilies
Jessica's homily from June 2 , The Crowd at the Hearth of the Soul, and all homilies from Sts. Clare & Francis are available at http://scfhomilies.posterous.com.
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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
Saxophone Lessons
Jessica Knopf, Marilyn and Clarence Heller's daughter, recently graduated with her Masters in Music Performance and is back home and starting her own saxophone studio. Anyone interested in lessons with Jessica can reach her at 314.322.6894.
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Tuning the Heart
July 13 - 15, 2012
Mercy Center
Murshid Khabir Kitz
Murshid Khabir Kitz established a Sufi center in Texas called the Shrine of the Heart. In 1976 he studied the dervish turn and continued the practice as a semazen, teaching the turn as a meditation practice. In 1981 he moved to land in the Ozark Mountains fo Arkansas where he founded Heartsong Retreat Center. In 1982 Khabir was ordained a Seraj in the Service of Universal Peace. He leads dance, meditation, turning and art workshops. Giving students the tools to find their inner guidance and discovering the creator within every being and thing is what Khabir has tried to do in life. For more details, see the flyer here.
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random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
Lord, you who told Lazarus to "Come out!" we pray for religious leaders who say it's wrong to do that. Amen.
Unvirtuous Abbey
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