Our SIS ministry began in 2004, as we led Emmaus Retreats for the women of St. Clare.

10/25/25

Dear friends,

Next Saturday, November 1, is All Saints Day.  There will be the usual Saturday 5:30 mass. And, also, our Saturday Eucharistic Adoration from 2-4 p.m. will be a good way to start the November holy days. Benediction will be at 3:45 p.m..

Sunday, November 2, will be All Souls Day.  Such a beautiful opportunity to remember our loved ones who have gone on ahead of us.

Also on Sunday morning, Nov. 2, the Knights of Columbus will be serving a Pancake Breakfast from 9:30 to 1 p.m.

Wreath and Garland Sale is on now. You can order online (see bulletin) and there are printed order forms at the church doors. Orders need to be in by Tuesday, November 4.  

St. Clare's Kindergarten Information Night will be Wednesday, November 12-- 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the kindergarten room.  

Mens ACTS Retreat is coming in just 3 weeks: from Thursday, November 13 to Sunday, November 16.  Still possible to join.

Fr. Jim's Toiletry Project is in full swing and wrapping time will be in 4 weeks.

Dinner Talk #2 will be Thursday, November 20. The Subject will be "Come, Holy Spirit"-- and Dr. David Villegas will be leading us. Those of us who attended Thursday evening's Talk #1, know the pleasure of sharing a nice dinner and an evening of learning and reflecting, (with the help of Dr. Roussell this past Thursday), with fellow parishioners.  

St. Clare Christmas Bazaar will be the first weekend in December: Saturday, Dec. 6 from 4-7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Deacon Bill needs some jokes to share with various shut-in groups he visits (see bulletin).

The Seven Sisters Apostolate  is forming a group of St. Clare women to pray.  See bulletin for further information.  

St. Vincent de Paul needs: hot and cold cereal, canned mixed fruit, peanut butter, jams and jellies, cooking oil, and dishwasher pods and liquid detergent.  

Are you familiar with Catholic author Brian Doyle's Book of Uncommon Prayer?  This prayer is adapted from one in that book:

PRAYER FOR SUNDAY MORNING

. . . Thanks for the scrap of sunlight, finally, after seventy no kidding seventy straight days of rain . . .  And thanks for the shaggy lazy peace of Sunday morning . . . . And thanks for Sunday Mass, which can be . . . most of the time warm and funny and populous and communal, and sometimes it's even moving, and . . . you can sit in the back under the glowing windows and remember that the Catholic Church isn't a huge corporation as much as it is a vast amalgam of small villages in which people hold hands against the dark and believe in the unbelievable. . . . I am just saying thanks, this morning, after coffee, and before I get the last shower, which is reserved for Dad, because he can stand the cold water best, I guess.  And so: amen.

(With an extra little prayer that Brian is now chuckling with the angels.  A very special writer he was).

And blessings on the last week of your October 2025 and the beginning of your November.

Sheila Cullen