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This Week
"At a Glance"
Friday, May 10
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, May 11
5:00 pm Mass
Sunday, May 12
Mother's Day
Wednesday, May 15
7:00 pm Parish Council
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Want to add an event to the calendar? Contact Jessica (314.918.2766).
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Parish Council News
For the minutes from the March 20, 2013 Parish Council Meeting, click here.
The agenda for the May 15, 2013 Parish Council Meeting can be found here.
Members
(click name to contact by e-mail):
Therese Gabriel
Nancy Wamser
Michelle Smith (Chair)
Mary Crecelius
Marty Campbell
Jessica Rowley
Jennifer Reyes Lay
Frank Krebs
Bob Leible
Bill Schwindt
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General Info
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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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ECC Midwest
Partner Communities
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Little Rock, Arkansas
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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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 9, 2013
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Seventh Week of Easter
Saturday, May 11, 2013
5:00 pm
Presider: Frank Krebs
Homilist: Frank Krebs
Readers: Art Maines, Ceci Paul
Eucharistic Ministers: Barb Winkler, Marty Campbell, Barbara Harris
Sacristan: Mary Niehaus
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 call or text 314.603.9991.
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Last Chance for Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade coffee, chocolate and cereal bars will again be available for purchase on May 11, in the Gathering Space. This will be the LAST CHANCE for regular purchases at church until next October although there may be some leftover items in June. We're taking a summer break from "shameless commerce." Thanks for and to all of you who have cooperated in helping a few small farmers get a fair break in our global marketplace.
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Getting The Word Out - Once Again
The Parish Council had budgeted money to spend on getting the word out about Sts. Clare & Francis. And then we received a sizable donation on top of that. So we are in a position to make some noise (in an inviting kind of way). If you are interested in being on a task-team to get this done, please contact Frank, or Jessica, or Michelle Smith.
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Mea Maxima Culpa Documentary
Saturday, May 18, 2013
After Mass 
For all those interested in seeing the HBO Documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa - Silence in the House of God", I will be showing the film on Saturday May 18th after Mass. I know that many do not have dinner 'til after Mass, so if you want to bring a sack dinner or pick up something on your way, that would be fine with me. I will have drinks available and maybe even dessert. If you would please RSVP to me at 314.962.0964 or mek002@hotmail.com I would appreciate it. I can accommodate approximately 12 people so feel free to bring a friend. If you need directions just let me know.
Mary Ellen Kruger
110 Hart Ave
Webster Groves, MO 63119
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Return to Pickle Springs
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Meet at 11:30 am, Leave at Noon
 Our outings to Pickle Springs Natural Area are so popular we've decided to do it again! Meet at Art and Frank's house at 11:30 am, and we'll plan to leave at 12 noon for Ste. Genevieve. It takes about an hour to an hour and a half to get to the trail-head, and approximately 1- 2 hours to hike the trail. Afterward, join us at Crown Valley Winery for a light dinner before heading home.
Pickle Springs Natural Area is a deep, forested gorge consisting of geological formations and plants that are found in few other places. Visitors will find examples of a sandstone glade, talus, forest, savanna, as well as a number of rare species of plants and animals. The area is noted for its blooming wild azalea and wildflowers in the spring. According to local legend, the area is named after William Pickles, a settler from Illinois who owned the land until he was shot by a band of renegades during the Civil War. Pickle Springs and other area creeks flow into Pickle Creek, which in turn traverses into Hawn State Park.
Designated a National Natural Landmark, Pickle Springs Natural Area features a two-mile hiking trail maintained by the East Ozark Audubon Society in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Conservation. This two-mile journey has an estimated hiking time of one hour and takes hikers past waterfalls, rock shelters, a double arch (photo right), towering bluffs, canyons and amazing rock outcrops. Wooden bridges along the trail aid hikers past troublesome spots.
For more information about Pickle Springs Natural Area, go to: http://www.greatriverroad.com/stegen/sgattract/picklesprings.htm
For more information about Crown Valley Winery, go to: http://www.crownvalleywinery.com.
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Homilies
You can find new homilies, including George's homily from May 4, Paraclete Energy
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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
Mercy Conference and Retreat Center
For information on Spring/Summer Retreats at Mercy Center,
click here.
The Inner World and its Workings
Living in Depth
Guided by Avis Clendenen
July 26 - August 2, 2013
(Register by July 5, 2013)
For a flyer, click here.
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random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
Mothers' Day Proclamation
Mother's Day was originally begun after the Civil War as a protest to the carnage of that war by women who had lost their sons. Here is the original Mother's Day Proclamation from 1870:
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts,
whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by
irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking
with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be
taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach
them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another
country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From
the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance
of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons
of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a
great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the
means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each
bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
but of God.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a
general congress of women without limit of nationality may be
appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at
the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the
alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement
of international questions, the great and general interests of
peace.
Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870
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