Hello friends!

It has been a crazy busy week for us here at SCA but so blessed and amazing!  Sunday, we had our Advent Family Gathering, Tuesday was Giving Tuesday (which we totally rocked!), and Wednesday was Advent by Taillight!

Let's talk about Giving Tuesday, though.  Wow!  We have such an amazing and generous parish family.  We raised over $26,000 and counting as a few donations still trickle in. Did I mention we were #1 in the Archdiocese?! The priests and deacons will be able to get new vestments of each color.  So exciting!  Next we look at the cafeteria and see which improvements we can make with the amazing amount of money everyone donated.

Thank you so much for your generosity.  It gives us all the feels here at St. Clare!  If you haven't donated but still want to they do have the online donating open for another day or so.

PROJECTION OF READINGS DURING MASS
Beginning this weekend, we will no longer use the projector for the readings during the Liturgy of the Word. Now that we have the Pew Missals at our fingertips, we can use them to follow the readings. In addition, the bishops of the United States have explicitly cautioned us about how much time we spend looking at screens. They've said that "the Sacred Liturgy ought to be a prayerful break from that experience." The Church emphasizes time and again the hearing of the word of God -- to listen attentively with our ears so it can pass to our heart. St. Paul writes in his letter to the Romans: "Thus faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ." Hopefully we can grow in our listening to the word of Christ this Advent season!

If you are donating online, and do not wish to receive contribution envelopes, please inform the parish office at stclare@saintclareofassisi.org or comment on this Flocknote. It takes about 4 weeks for the envelope company to process the request.

Have a great weekend and we hope you get out to enjoy this weather!

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