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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, October 5
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, October 6
10:00 am Pet Blessing
3:30 pm Social Justice Committee Meeting
4:00 pm Social Justice Committee Book Study
5:00 pm Mass
7:00 pm Parish Council Retreat
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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, Nancy Wamser, Michelle Smith, Mary Crecelius, Marty Campbell, Jessica Rowley, Jennifer Reyes Lay, Frank Krebs, Bob Leible and Bill Schwindt.
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
October 4, 2012
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
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27th Week of the Year
Saturday, October 6, 2012
5:00 pm
Presider/Homilist: Frank Krebs
Sacristan: Mary Niehaus
Readers: John Dahlberg, Karen Diehl
Eucharistic Ministers: Kay Schmitt, Joan Switzer, Barb Winkler
If you are not able to serve in your scheduled ministry, please let Steve know when you get a substitute so that we can publish the correct names in the newsletter. Thanks.
scampbell@ppcsinc.org or 314.603.9991.
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Pet Blessing
Saturday, October 6, 2012
10:00 am
204 East Lockwood, on grass outside church doors
In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (on October 4) all creatures great and small are invited to join us Saturday for a pet blessing. See the flyer here.
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Fair Trade Coffee is coming...and Chocolate!
 The Social Justice Committee will be selling Equal Exchange Fair Trade coffee in multiple formats, as well as CHOCOLATE (at last!!) in multiple formats on October 13th and November 9th, the second weekends of these months. As I'm sure you know, this is a social action enterprise to help promote ways for small farmers in developing regions to have a fairer way of marketing produce in competition with the large multinationals. We also can know that the labor for the production of these products is not exploited -- especially in the chocolate market. We have quality products for just a little more than mass-marketed coffee, and can feel virtuous and helpful as we sip.
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New ECC Parish in Spokane, WA
Some of us know Tom and Carla Altepeter from the Emmaus ECC Community in Oshkosh, where Tom was the founding pastor. They've moved to Spokane and have started a parish there that you may wish to read about at this link. Click here to read more about it.
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Social Justice Committee Book Study
October 6, 2012
November 3, 2012
December 1, 2012
4:00 pm
Fireside Room
The Social Justice Committee invites everyone to join us for our book study of The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World by Richard Stearns.
We will meet on the Saturdays above to discuss the book. It challenges us to embrace all of the gospel through the story of Rich Stearns, who discovered the full power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to change his own life. He uses his journey to demonstrate how the gospel - the whole gospel - was always meant to be a world changing social revolution, a revolution that begins with us. It is available from Amazon - new, used, or as a Kindle edition.
"An urgent, powerful summons to live like Jesus. Stearns weaves solid theology, moving stories, and his own journey of faith into a compelling call to live the whole Gospel. Highly recommended!"
--Ronald J. Sider, President, Evangelicals for Social Action,
Author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
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Three Reasons to Celebrate
Sunday, October 28, 2012
2:00 pm
Holy Angel II Apartments
Join Sister Cecelia Ann Loomer and celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tree House Ministry, her 50th jubilee of religious life, and Cecelia's 70th birthday!
RSVP by October 15:
Vally 314.973.4172 or
Diana 314.537.4322 or
vally@treehouseministry.org
For more information, click here.
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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
National Salesian Convention
November 2 - 4, 2012
The Visitations Sisters and Oblates of St. Francis deSales are hosting their first national "Every Day Spirituality 4 U: Holy Living through a Salesian Lens" convention here in St. Louis, November 2-4. I have attended many events through the DeSales Resource Center over the past years and can attest to the practical, nurturing lessons of Sts. Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. Francis was the first person to write a spiritual book specifically for the laity, "The Devout Life!"
The organizers of the convention told me that the convention will certainly be an affirming and nourishing place for progressive Catholics, so if you or someone you know is interested, please check out the flyer or go to the website:
http://www.desalesresource.org/conference/index.php.
They are also willing to offer sliding scale scholarships and one day commuter fees by calling at 1.800.782.2270.
Becky Schwantes-An
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random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
If you talk to the animals, they will talk with you
and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them you will not know them,
and what you do not know you will FEAR.
What one FEARS, one DESTROYS.
Chief Dan George
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