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.

Jessica Rowley 314.918.2766;

Frank Krebs 314.740.1160;

We have a SafeChurch Policy to protect our children and other vulnerable populations.

Fundraising

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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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 ).

The Weekly News

October 24, 2013

30th Week of the Year

Saturday, October 26, 2013

5:00 pm

Readings: Sir 35:12-14, 16-18; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 16-18; Lk 18:9-14

Presider: Frank Krebs

Homilist: George von Stamwitz

Readers: Karen Diehl, Therese Gabriel

Eucharistic Ministers: Mary Jordan, Mary Ellen Kruger, Art Maines

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.

Micro-Lending as a Communal

Work of Service

Saturday, November 9, 2013

3:15 pm

"All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need." (Acts 2:44-45) On November 9 at 3:15 pm in the Fireside Room we will join as a community to extend loans. Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate in choosing loan recipients at this meeting.

If you have any questions or want further information, please contact Clarence Heller (marclar123@aol.com, 636.256.6515).

Book Club

Saturday, October 26, 2013

3:00 pm

We'll be covering Chapters 5 & 6. You are welcome to join us for interesting discussion, whether or not you have read the book.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Bother?

Exploring a Sustainable Spirituality

Save the date for a presentation being sponsored by Sts. Clare & Francis, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm on Saturday, November 23. The presenter will be Sr. Maxine Pohlman, SSND, director of La Vista Ecological Learning Center (www.lavistaelc.org).

Homilies

Frank's homily from the 29th Week of the Year, The Tendency to Wander, The Desire to be True, And Blessing the Whole Time, and all homilies from Sts. Clare & Francis, can be found at

http://scfhomilies.wordpress.com/.

Sponsored by Friends of SCF

SNAP

Sunday, October 27, 2013

6:30 pm
In front of the St. Louis Basilica Cathedral
4431 Lindell Boulevard (corner of Lindell and North Newstead)

Our local St. Louis Voice of the Faithful Group is again giving SNAP and our supporters a beautiful opportunity to honor those victims of clergy abuse who are deceased. Unfortunately, these victims paid the ultimate price for what happened to them, but they are still with us in spirit. Please join us.

Service should take no longer than 30 minutes.

If you need further information, please contact Mary Ellen Kruger at

314.962.0964 or mek002@hotmail.com.

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Mercy Center

Contemplating Teilhard de Chardin's Divine Milieu - A Day of Prayer

Don Goergen, OP

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Registration: 8:30 a.m.

Program: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Non-refundable registration: $25 due Oct.15

Total cost, including registration: $60 (includes lunch)

Contact: Bonnie Green 314.909.4677 or bgreen@mercycenterstl.org

Teilhard de Chardin's spiritual classic was The Divine Milieu, written between two world wars, a spirituality of hope and realism. There will be input on Teilhard's spirituality, in particular, his appreciation of the world as a divine milieu wherein we find God, as well as time for personal reflection and interaction. We will focus on the core insights that Teilhard offers for our own spiritual pilgrimages.

Presenter: Don Goergen, OP is Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Aquinas Institute of Theology and is Prior of the Dominican formation community.

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Transformation Counseling

Introduction to Visual Journaling: Using Images to go Deeper Than Words With Clients

Saturday, November 2, 2013

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

8730 Big Bend Boulevard, Suite B 63119

Kate Schroeder

Learn to move beyond thought and words into feelings and intuitive knowledge in your work with clients.

For a flyer for this workshop, click here.

On Becoming a Parent

Thursday, November 7, 2013

7:00 - 9:00 pm

8730 Big Bend Boulevard, Suite B 63119

Attend this workshop to learn more about:

Your core parenting personality and innate preference patterns as a parent
Your defense system and how you cope will parenting stress in your life
How these two parts affect your parenting and what you can do about it

For a flyer for this workshop, click here.

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Peter & Paul Community Services

Race for Home

Saturday, November 9, 2013

9:00 am 10k / 5k Run

9:30 am 1 Mile Walk

Tower Grove Park

Sons of Rest Pavilion

Join us in support of Peter & Paul Community Services' work with our neighbors who are homeless. This will be our first year at the new location, beautiful Tower Grove Park in south St. Louis. For a flyer with more information and a registration form, click here or go to www.raceforhome.org, click "Events," then "Race for Home."

random sightings

wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

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