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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, October 19
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, October 20
5:00 pm Mass
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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 18, 2012
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29th Week of the Year
Saturday, October 20, 2012
5:00 pm
Presider: Jessica Rowley
Homilist: George von Stamwitz
Sacristan: Cecelia Andres
Readers: Jenn Lay, Art Maines
Eucharistic Ministers: Mary Jordan, Ginny Kiernan Dahlberg, Mary Ellen Kruger
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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Calling All People with Domestic Gifts
Are you able and willing to offer gifts of cooking (or purchasing prepared food), laundry, light housekeeping/chores or babysitting/pet sitting, etc. to members of our Community? If so, please contact Michelle Smith at attorneypastor@gmail.com or call 314.494.1457.
We will have a need among us the weekend of October 20-21, 2012.
Thanks in advance for your generosity of Spirit.
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Parish Council Agenda
November 7, 2012,
- Check-in
- Opening Prayer
- Approval of Minutes from last meeting
- Approve Agenda for this meeting
- Old Business
- Missioning Groups - i.e. Belleville
- Pastoral Situation - confidential
- Michelle - Ordination to the Diaconate
- Tithing Decisions
- Parish Membership
- New Business
- ECC budget increase request
- Parish Council Retreat Action Items Review
- Ministry Updates (f/k/a "Reports"):
Liturgy Committee - Jessica
Social Justice Committee - Mary
Pastoral Team - Frank
Fundraising Committee - Nancy
Finance/Tithing - Michelle
Hospitality - Therese
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Social Justice Committee Book Study
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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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
Got Junk?
Cleaning out basement or garage? Did you know that W.I.T.S. www.witsinc.org, Missouri's largest non-profit recycler accepts small appliances, TVs, electronics, CDs, DVDs, floppy discs, cassettes, small motors (including lawn mowers) and much, much more. See their website for a complete list. The next collection near SCF will be on Saturday, October 20 at the Sunset Hills community center. If you can't make it October 20, they offer collections every 3rd Saturday of the month or bring your junk (if small enough to fit in a Prius) to Saturday mass for a "Nauert special delivery."
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Project Cope Project C.O.P.E. (Community Offender Partnership Enterprise) invites our Sts. Clare and Francis community to a potluck supper at St. Cronan Church, 1203 South Boyle Avenue, on Sunday, November 4, 5pm-7pm. This organization offers teams of people to accompany those who are returning to society from their incarceration. Mary Neihaus and Kay Schmitt combine with members of St. Cronan parish to form a C.O.P.E. team. This is a perfect opportunity for those who have approached Mary or Kay about Project C.O.P.E., and anyone else, to learn about team experiences and to hear from our partners (C.O.P.E. term for our ex-offenders).
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
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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