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The Weekly News
September 22, 2016
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26th Week in Ordinary Time
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Pre
sider: Frank Krebs
Homilist: Frank Krebs
Readers: Ginny Kiernan Dahlberg, Mallory Rusch
Eucharistic Ministers: Mary Ellen Kruger, Kristie Lenzen, John Dahlberg
Sacristan: Mary Vonderheide
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Synod
The ECC Synod is coming soon (October 10 - 13). Our Synod delegates will be reviewing the issues to be discussed in the House of Laity or House of Pastors. If any of our SCF members would like to sit in during this discussion, you are welcome to do so. The meeting will be September 29, 7:00 pm, Room 24, at church.
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Political Advice to Parishioners
The pastors (Kay, Jim, Frank) request that members of and guests at SCF wishing to advise worshipers about voting please do so by providing written information in the vestibule of the church, where these same member who are proponents may wish to position themselves at a table to converse with interested parties. During the announcement time you may wish to indicate that you will be available in the back of church after Mass.
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Help Us Welcome Our Friends from Poland on October 8!
Sts. Clare & Francis, in collaboration with St. Stanislaus, invites you to help us welcome our visitors from Poland to the U.S. for the ECC Synod. Fr. Tomasz Puchalski, Deacon Przemek Cichosz, and lay leader Ćukasz Nowicki will arrive in St. Louis for a pre-Synod visit on October 4, so we want to show them a warm welcome. We will be hosting a potluck after Mass on Saturday, October 8 to introduce them to the congregations of both churches. Sts. Clare & Francis will provide the main dish, so bring an appetizer, side, salad, dessert, or beverage to share and say hello to our friends from the ECC in Europe. For questions please call Art Maines at 314.518.1973 or email him at
a_maines@msn.com
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Last Chance to Vote for Mid-America Diocese Bishop
Attention SCF members: you should have received a notice by email about voting for our regional bishop. Please use the link in that email to vote before the end of the day this Monday, September 26. And thanks to all those who have voted so far!
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A huge thanks to all of those who participated in our first Local Harvest Meal on Sunday at Schroeder Park. It was a beautiful day spent with good friends and we enjoyed great locally-sourced foods! A very special thanks to Roger Reyes and Jenn Reyes Lay for providing us with music. Roger played instruments from his homeland - Peru, which added a special touch to our meal.
Some of the foods we enjoyed were pumpkin cheese from Baetje Farms, cheddar cheese from Marcoot Jersey Creamery, Andouille sausage from Real Farm Foods, quiche made with local eggs, chicken from Stuart Farm, brown rice and popcorn from McKaskle Family Farms, peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes from personal gardens, peaches from local orchards, and shortbread dessert from Cravings Bakery. It was a fun and educational day!
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Help Wanted
The Office of Presiding Bishop for the ECC is looking for an administrative assistant for 10 hours per week. Please call Frank at 314.740.1160 if you or someone you know is interested.
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Save the Date
The Mobilepack project for hungry children in many needy localities around the world s coming up, October 19 to 23, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Manchester. The goal this year is to pack 600,000 nutritious meals in five days. It's really satisfying to work on this. I'm hoping we can get a great Sts. Clare & Francis turnout.
The approach is simple: Children and adults hand-pack meals specifically formulated for malnourished children and the meals are shipped for distribution around the world. Food-packing takes place in two-hour shifts and we'll have specific slots for signing up in teams in just a few weeks.
Check your October calendars -- it's coming up fast.
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Trivia Night
Youâre Invited to our Trivia Night!
Crazy Questions, Silent Auctions, 50/50
Soft drinks, beer and light snacks provided
Join us on September 30, 2016
Form your tables of 8 and register below. Do you want to come but donât have the people to form a table? We will make up one or more tables with âSingletonsâ. When you register just indicate that it is for a single seat. Scholarships are also available.
Please see more information and register at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsB1y1ryriZ6RBJaWelurjzT_h_r-bpI_8jvucUu30MyHZiw/viewform
For registration questions please contact Kathy Krishon:
314.359.3634, kkrishon@gmail.com
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Homilies
You can listen to recent homilies:
The text of archived homilies can be found here.
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The Caring Ministry at Sts. Clare & Francis brings the loving presence of God, through a caring companion on the journey, when life is difficult. When we find ourselves struggling with illness, grief, depression, relationships, stress, the Caring Ministry is a supportive and listening presence - not counseling or problem solving. Don't go it alone; contact Sue Self or one of our priests to find out more, and see if it's a fit for you. We want to care for you.
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The Sts. Clare & Francis Prayer list is available for you to share prayer requests from you to your sisters and brothers who are walking this faith journey with you. Praying for one another when there are specific needs is one of the greatest ministries we can provide to one another. But, we cannot pray for events and happenings that we do not know about. Please share your prayers requests with the community. You can be as specific or general as you would like. Contact
Jim Schratz
with all prayer requests.
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Tree House
Prayer Circles
1st Tuesday at 7:00 pm
Holy Angels Apartments II
3499 DePaul Lane, St. Louis. 63044 (at I-270 and St. Charles Rock Road)
3rd Wednesday at 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Library Headquarters
East Room
St. Louis County Library
1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard
Frontenac, MO 63131
Fall Retreat - Let Go of the Shore
September 23-25, 2016
Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse
For a flyer with more information, click here.
YWCA Woman's Place
You Are Invited
to the 18th annual
Vigil for Women's Safety
Wednesday, October 19 at 6:00 p.m. to mark National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the YWCA Week Without Violence. This vigil is presented by YWCA Womanâs Place, working since 1998 to end violence against women. Violence thrives in silence. We will gather to acknowledge it, remembering victims, supporting survivors and celebrating those who are free of the violence. A brief outdoor ceremony will be held on the beautiful campus behind St. Mark Catholic church followed by light refreshments. For more information call 314.645.4848.
YWCA Womanâs Place works to end violence against women by providing compassionate crisis intervention, facilitating womenâs transition to safety and healing, and educating the community.
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random sightings
wisdom...reflection...insight...amusement
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Qui tollis peccata mundi,
the cleaning lady whispers,
reciting the sacred text of Sunday Mass
as if to illuminate the darkening hour outside
the windows of the 82nd floor conference room.
There, above the clotted city air and woolen lows
of the clouds, she goes about her solitary job.
As she works towards the 83rd floor, she moves
ever closer, she likes to think, to the stars and
to the glittering sparks of the spirits.
Proceeding quickly, cleaning away the oily finger
prints of the portfolio managers, her cart of cloths,
mops and supplies out in front of her, she inches
forward, ascending on a magical dream
to where the nocturnal sky is less confining.
As the night deepens,
Agnus Dei
comes to her
and she begins to see a constellation of a lamb,
the one which takes away the sins of the world.
Miserere nobis
plays as though one could vacuum
the adjusted numbers and secret deals away.
Would that each chair confess
the transactions it was privy to. And pigeons read lips.
Agnus Dei,
she repeats, as if the lamb could cure
the debts of the world and pigeons transmute
into doves and the peregrine falcon become a prince.
But her supplications go unheeded. She is talking
to herself.
Cum sancto Spiritu,
she hears herself say
to the ghost of whatever deity had left for the day and
to the office towers and empty suites across the street.
She wonders if halos can be turned on like fluorescent
lamps and if some night the city might soak up
the darkness outside leaving nothing but
faint glitter of distant galaxies.
Benedictus qui venit
she says, spray bottle of Pledge in hand. And suddenly,
there are only two offices to go and then the subway
home, the sparsely filled car quietly lurching. Soon
matins,
and soon the executives back at their desks.
Allen C. Fischer
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Ecumenical Catholic Communion
ECC Financials
ECC Midwest
Partner Communities
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All Saints ECC
Our Mission Church
We meet at:
Trinity United Church of Christ
47 North Douglas Avenue
Belleville, IL 62220
Our Metro East ECC Mission Church meets every Sunday at 9:00 am.
Our chapel is in the lower level of Trinity UCC.
Directions from St. Louis:
Hwy. 64 East to Exit 12;
RIGHT onto #159/IL St. Continue 5 miles to Douglas Ave.
(railroad crossing)
LEFT on Douglas Ave. to church.
For information, contact:
Rev. Frank Krebs (314.740.1160) or Rev. Kay Schmitt (314.620.9511). Contact Kay if you wish to ride with her.
All are welcome.
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General Info
Want to get connected and involved? Start by taking a look at our
Ministries Brochure
or check out our website at
www.scfecc.org
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The
Parish Office
is located at Eden Theological Seminary, 483 East Lockwood, Suite 3, St. Louis, MO 63119.
Frank
or
Jim
are available for appointments. You can also reach Frank at 314.740.1160 or Jim at 314.896.0125.
To Schedule Meetings at Peace UCC:
Contact Kelly, the church secretary, to get it on their calendar.
314.968.1727
churchoffice@peaceuccstl.org
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
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We have a
SafeChurch Policy
to protect our children and other vulnerable populations
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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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Sts. Clare & Francis offers information about other organizations and activities as a way of providing information that we feel is useful or relevant to our members and to the public. As an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) organization, Sts. Clare & Francis is required to abide by certain rules. Sts. Clare & Francis is absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Sts. Clare & Francis is also prohibited from devoting a substantial part of its activities to attempting to influence legislation. As a result of these rules, we do not specifically endorse these organizations or activities nor do they specifically represent the views of Sts. Clare & Francis, to the extent that doing so would jeopardize Sts. Clare & Francis' standing as a Section 501(c)(3) organization.
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If you have an item that you wish to submit for publication in the Weekly News, please send it to
Steve Campbell
no later than noon on Wednesday of the week you would like it to appear. If you cannot send an
e-mail, you may contact Steve at 314.603.9991.
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Sts. Clare & Francis ECC
Church
: 204 East Lockwood Avenue | St. Louis | MO|63119
Office: 483 East Lockwood Ave. | Suite 3 | St. Louis | MO | 63119
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