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This Week
"At a Glance"
Thursday, June 13
7:00 pm Getting the Word Out Committee meeting
Friday, June 14
7:00 am Contemplative Prayer
Saturday, June 15
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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Metro East
Mission Church
Every Sunday at 11:00am
11 North Pennsylvania
Belleville, IL
All are welcome. If anyone would like a ride, contact Rev. Kay Schmitt at 314.620.9511.
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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
June 13, 2013
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11th Week of the Year
Saturday, June 15, 2013
5:00 pm
Presider: Jessica Rowley
Homilist: Jessica Rowley
Readers: Amy Hauser, Art Maines
Eucharistic Ministers: Joan Switzer, Art Maines, Marty Campbell
Sacristan: Lorraine Tiffin
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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Getting the Word Out
PR Committee Meeting Tonight
June 13, 2013
6:00 pm
Parish Office at Eden
We are convening a new Public Relations Committee to help get the word out about SCF! We had some money gifted to us for this purpose and there are many possibilities to consider. The first meeting of this committee will be June 13 at 6:00 pm in the office at Eden. If you would like to join us as we get the ball rolling, please contact Jessica. We will set goals, begin brainstorming, and look at ways we can dovetail with the national church's effort to highlight the Ecumenical Catholic Communion's 10th anniversary this Fall.
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Food Truck Friday
Tower Grove Park (closer to the Kingshighway part of the park)
 Friday June 14, 2013
5:00 - 8:00 pm
If you have or haven't been to Food Truck Friday, you're in luck! It's like a picnic without having to bring all that stuff. All you need is an appetite, lawn chair or blanket, and cash (very few trucks take credit cards). There is a recycle station for your trash. Details: Get there early. Look for a yellow M&M T-shirt on a pole (that will be our spot!). We will be near the left end side of the food trucks (left side meaning grass side not street side). Nancy and Terri will be there early to get a spot. Anyone who can come early to save space would be helpful. No reservations needed - just show up!! |
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The House I Live In
 June 22, 2013
After Mass
All are invited to stick around after Mass on June 22nd for a Clare & Francis movie night that ties into our social justice focus on racial and economic injustice.
We will be showing the documentary "The House I Live In," which captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.
While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have meant it is more often treated as a matter for law enforcement, creating a vast machine that feeds largely on America's poor, and especially on minority communities.
We will be ordering pizza and invite you to bring a salad or desert to share if able. Please also remember to bring your own reusable dishes, utensils, and drink ware to support our ongoing efforts at caring for the environment by being mindful consumers and stewards of our resources by reducing the amount of waste we create. See you after Mass on the 22nd for a thought provoking movie and discussion!
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Thank You!
Father Dickson Communal Work of Service
Whether you were there physically or in spirit and prayer, a big heartfelt thank you to all who made our first Fr. Dickson workday a reality.
About 35 members joined us last Saturday to trim, cut, mulch and pray over the graves of many forgotten but blessed souls.
We have found a new friend in Ernest Jordan (those wishing to continue your support can see the PDF link here or flyers in the back of church).
And most importantly, as so many paradoxes/mysteries of life, even as our community contemplated death and dying, we have never felt more alive and growing!
Thanks to all,
Sue Nauert
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Pride Festival 
June 28 - 30, 2013
Show you are PROUD to be a Welcoming Catholic by joining Sts. Clare & Francis in celebrating the annual Pride Festival June 29-30. Kick off the weekend with an outdoor movie night showing the documentary "Fish Out Of Water," which tackles the bible verses used most to discriminate against homosexuals. The film features theologians, clergy, and laity to help us understand what our faith really says about homosexuality and how we can move forward with love and compassion. The movie will be shown on the Commerce Bank lot of S. Grand Blvd, near the intersection of Grand and Hartford, Friday, June 28 at 8:30 pm. Bring a blanket or lawn-chair to sit on.
Then join us on Sunday, June 30 for the annual Pride Parade, which will march down Market Street this year. Plan to be downtown by 10:00 am, but please stay tuned for exact information about where to meet.
After the parade we need volunteers to staff a booth for the group of Welcoming Catholic Communities from 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm. If you are able to work the table at all during that time, please e-mail Jennifer Reyes Lay: jennlay331@gmail.com with your name, phone number, and times you can be there. We look forward to celebrating Pride with you as a Welcoming Catholic Community!
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Fourth of July BBQ
SAVE THE DATE: Art and Frank will be hosting our first BBQ of the season at their house on July 4th. Mark your calendars for the BBQ and fireworks viewing that evening. More info in the next newsletter. Everyone is welcome!
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Rides for Ed, Update
We now have a wheelchair at church for Ed Bilger's use, so drivers for Ed do not need to carry Ed's wheelchair any more. This makes picking Ed up so much easier since he is able to get from inside his house to your car on his own with the aid of a cane. Because of this, volunteers do not need to have the strength that was previously required. We have three parties willing to pick up Ed every four weeks. We are looking for a fourth. Let us know if that is something you feel led to do. Please contact me by clicking here.
Thanks,
Frank
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Don't Send Your Batteries To A Landfill!
Please bring your used batteries to church and we will recycle them. Deposit them in the box on the welcome table, and help reduce waste and pollution in our landfills. Thanks! |
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Homilies
Homilies from Sts. Clare & Francis can be found at
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Sponsored by Friends of SCF
Woman's Place 
Healthy Relationships
A free workshop for women
Saturday June 22, 2013
9:30 am to Noon
At our new location behind St Mark's Catholic church in Affton
This workshop explores the dynamics of a healthy relationship and how we create our own ideas of what a relationship looks like. Open to all women. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Call by June 19, 2013.
314.645.4848
For a flyer on this Workshop, click here.
www.womansplacestl.org
Woman's Place is a safe and welcoming drop-in center helping women break the cycle of violence and facilitate their transition toward safety, healing and personal empowerment.
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eRacism 
Analyzing and Understanding
Systemic Racism
June 27 - 29, 2013
Register by June 12, 2013
$50 (Commuter $25)
All are welcome to attend this Pro-Reconciliation / Anti-Racism workshop. Scholarships are available.
The goals of our time together will be to:
* Explore a common definition of racism
* Examine individual, institutional and cultural manifestations of racism
* Be introduced to a strategic methodology for dismantling racism.
Schedule: Workshop begins Thursday, June27, at 6 p.m., and ends Saturday, June 29, at 3 p.m. (meals served)
Co-Leaders: Dwight Bailer and Martha Herrin
National Trainers for the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ
Pro-Reconciliation / Anti-Racism Initiative
For more information, see the flyer here.
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random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
When I was about twenty years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time.
But one day when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking -- the first in his life. And she told him he would have to go outside and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back he was crying.
He said to her, "Mama, I couldn't find a switch, but here's a rock you can throw at me." All of a sudden, the mother understood how the situation felt from the child's point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone.
The mother took the boy onto her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. Because violence begins in the nursery -- one can raise children into violence.
Astrid Lindgren
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