CHURCH OF SAINT CLARE LYNDHURST, OHIO

Corpus Christi Academy

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Academy

Ken Mitskavich, Principal

Darice Granito, Administrative Assistant

Gina Perlatti, Secretary

Fax: 440-449-1497

Aftercare

Clinic

Gym Kitchen

Food Services (Voice mail)

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Business Office

Lisa Gros, Business Administrator

Barbara Dokar, Parish Secretary

Janet Homa, Accounting

Gayle Jameson, Office Assistant

Fax: 440-646-9648

Rectory

Fr. Stanley Klasinski

Fr. Kevin Estabrook

Mass Schedule

Church of St. Clare

Office of Faith Formation

Lori Mascia, Pastoral Associate 119

Mary O’Neill, Administrative Assistant 122

Parish Ministries

St. Clare Outreach (Voice mail)

Youth Ministry, SCYGA

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Business Office & Chapel Hours

Monday-Wednesday: 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Thursday-Friday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Telephone Directory - Main Number: 440-449-4242

Prior to Daily Mass

Rosary & Divine Chaplet, 7:50 a.m. Come Join Us!

Monday, December 18

8:30 Edward and Margaret Nowinski

Tuesday, December 19

8:30 Richard Acton

Wednesday, December 20

8:30 Michael Sweeney

Thursday, December 21 ~ St. Peter Canisius

8:30 Mario Antonelli

Friday, December 22

8:30 Ashley Ostrander Potter

Saturday, December 23

4:30 William R. Korosec, Abate, Korosec

and Carbone Families

Sunday, December 24 ~ Fourth Sunday of Advent

9:00 Celebrant’s Intention

11:00 Our Parish Family

4:00 Our Parish Family

6:00 Celebrant’s Intention

12:00 Our Parish Family

Monday, December 25 ~ Nativity of the Lord

9:00 Celebrant’s Intention

11:00 Celebrant’s intention

This Week at Saint Clare

Monday, December 18

RCIA , 7:00 p.m. (HR)

Wednesday, December 20

Outreach, 7:00-9:00 p.m. (HR)

Mass Intentions

Saint Clare Parish Mission Statement

Saint Clare Parish is a Roman Catholic community that cherishes its faith tradition,

celebrates the sacraments, and cultivates lives of gospel service and stewardship.

Church of Saint Clare Business Office and

Adoration Chapel Holiday Schedule

Saturday ~ December 23 900 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Sunday ~ December 24 Closed

Monday ~ December 25 Closed

Saturday ~ December 30 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Sunday ~ December 31 Closed

Monday ~ January 1 Closed

The business office and Adoration Chapel

resume normal hours of operation on

Tuesday, January 2.

Early Bulletin Transmissions

Bulletin articles for the New Year’s bulletin

are due in the business office on

December 18.

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 17, 2017

Pray For All Our Deceased

Parishioners and Benefactors

Agnes Sopko

Joan Midolo

Alice Fox

$21,032.91

$90,000.00

$19,329.00

$31.00

$845.00

$20,205.00

$947.30

$190.73

$16,000.00

$14,857.57

Year-to-Date through 10/31/17

Goal for the Year

WEEKLY OFFERING GOAL

WEEKLY AVERAGE (23 WEEKS)

Wkly. Offertory Contributions

Children’s Offering

Loose Cash

Total Weekly Offering

Capital Improvement

St. Clare Community Outreach

Parish Support

Capital Improvement Contributions

Fiscal Year Beginning 07/01/17

Parish Support

FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 3,2017

Thank you for your commitment

to consistent giving!

Alicia Aguilera, Henry Augusto,

Roger De Penti, Kim DiBurro, Daniel Feola,

Patricia Heisler, Al Jurcisek, Tommy Lewis,

Nicholas Lombardo, Frank Sack, Timmy Shean,

Bob Sheridan, Tavenner Stone,

Bernadette Sweeney,

Paul Traczyk, Tom Warner,

Lillian Sutter, Pat Minor

Saint Clare Calendar Lottery

December 9 Beatrice Gund $25

December 10 Alberta Synk $200

December 11 Al & Herme Boger $25

December 12 Thomas Fagan $25

December 13 Mary Ellen Brice-Alan $25

December 14 Cheri Mackey $25

December 15 Craig Davis $25 Congratulations to all our winners!

2018 Calendar Lottery

The 2018 Saint Clare Calendar Lottery tickets with

donations are being received in the business office.

The drawings begin January 1. You can return the

calendar stubs with your donation in the collection

basket during Mass, by mail or in person, at the

business office. Proceeds go to the General Fund.

Call or stop in at the business office for additional

tickets. You can return them all year. The sooner

you play, the more drawings you are eligible to win.

There is a winner each day of the year, and this year

you have 365 opportunities!

Readings for the Week of December 17, 2017

Monday Jer 23:5-8/Mt 1:18-25

Tuesday Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a/Lk 1:5-25

Wednesday Is 7:10-14/Lk 1:26-38

Thursday Sg 2:8-14/Lk 1:39-45

Friday I Sm 1:24-28/Lk 1:46-56

Saturday Mal 3:1-4, 23-24/Lk 1:57-66

Sunday 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16/Rom 16:25-27

Lk 1:26-38

2017 Year-End Contributions

Any church donations that you wish to be credited to

2017 for tax purposes, must be in the business office

no later than Friday, December 29. Any donation

received after that date will be credited to 2018.

Statements for contributions in 2017 will be mailed

to parishioners who have contributed $500 or more

in 2017, and to ALL contributors who asked for their

statement last year. To request your contribution

statement, call Lisa in the business office, extension

113.

Pray for Our Sick

By December 31, please let us know

whether or not to retain you on the

prayer list: 440-449-4242, Ext. 101.

Donations

Mary Jane De Penti

Donated generously to the

Capital Improvement Fund

In Memory of

Paul Buffa

PREPARE THE WAY!

ADVENT-CHRISTMAS 2017 CHURCH OF SAINT CLARE

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Individual Confession

Saturdays, 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

COMMUNAL PENANCE SERVICE Tuesday, December 19, 7:00 p.m., Saint Paschal Baylon

Christmas decorating in Church to be announced!

Helping hands are welcome!

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Saturday, December 23, 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, December 24 , 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

THE VIGIL OF CHRISTMAS Sunday, December 24

4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m. (Midnight) Masses

THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRISTMAS Monday, December 25 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD (Not a Holy Day of Obligation in 2018)

Monday, January 1 9:00 a.m.

Saint Clare Christmas Eve 4:00 p.m. Liturgy

At our 4:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Liturgy at the Church of Saint Clare, the young

children in our parish are invited to participate in a special way by coloring a special

card and saying a prayer for an elderly person. The children are asked to bring the

cards to church on Christmas Eve and give them as gifts to Jesus at the Presentation of

Gifts during 4:00 p.m. Mass, Christmas Eve only. These cards will be sent home

through the Day School, Preschool, PSR, Sunday School, and the Nursery. They will also be available

at the doors of the church, the business office and the religious education office.

Epiphany House Blessing

The Church has a custom of blessing homes during the week of the Feast of the Epiphany. Family and friends

gather to mark their doors with chalk and to ask God’s blessing on their homes and on those who live there or

visit. It is an invitation for Jesus to be a daily guest in our home, our comings and goings, our conversations,

our work and play, our joys and sorrows.

The ARISE groups have prepared an Epiphany Blessing Kit, complete with simple instructions, for each family

in our parish. These kits will be blessed and distributed at each Mass the weekend of January 6-7, 2018.

“Chalking the Door” is a way to celebrate Epiphany and God’s blessing of our lives and home. With time the

chalk will fade. As it does, we let the meaning of the symbols written on our door sink into the

depths of our heart and be manifested in our words and actions.

Online Giving

The Church of Saint Clare offers to our

parishioners the availability of making weekly

contributions via electronic funds transfer

directly from any bank account or by major credit

cards (Visa, MasterCard and Discover). To enroll in the

electronic funds transfer program, go to saintclare.net,

click on Parish and OnLine Giving. Online giving can

be used effectively on its own or in

cooperation with regular offertory envelopes

If you would still like to receive envelope packets but

also want to give online, you have the option to do so.

For a list of FAQs or more information, click on the

ONLINE GIVING ACCOUNT.

2018 March for Life Bus Trip

One Night Hotel Stay

Make this the year you take two days to take

the message to our nation’s capitol, that we

are a country that supports the life of even its

most vulnerable citizens. Leave

Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1545 South Green

Road, South Euclid, at 7:00 a.m.,

January 18, sight-see upon arrival;

overnight stay in a hotel; ride the Metro to

Mass the morning of January 19, and Rally

and March in the afternoon. Board the bus

after the March for late night return to South

Euclid. Bus fare is $65. The rate per room is

$114. Rooms sleep up to six people.

Reservations and information: 216-932-9515,

or heightsarea4life@gmail.com.

Opening the Mass Book

We will open the Mass Book for the first half of 2019 on Tuesday, January 9. We will be in the

Harvest Room of the Sister Lucy Center at 9:00 a.m.

Each Mass reservation is a donation of $10. Each family or individual may reserve three Masses

during this six-month period, and one of those may be a Saturday, 4:30 p.m. Mass.

We still have Masses available for the second half of 2018. You can schedule any of these Masses in

addition to the first half of 2019.

The

Symbolon Catholic Faith

Explained

Would you like to learn more about the Catholic faith? Do you ever wonder

why we believe what we believe? When you recite the Creed each week at

Mass, do you really understand what you are saying?

The Spiritual Formation Committee is pleased to offer a 10-part study of the

Catholic faith entitled Symbolon. Beginning in January, we will gather once a

month to reflect on God’s plan of salvation, basing our study on the Creed.

Each session will include prayer, video presentations and time for discussion.

So, what is Symbolon? In the ancient world, the Greek word symbolon

typically described an object like a piece of parchment, a seal, or a coin that

was cut in half and given to two parties. It served as a means of recognition

and confirmed a relationship between the two. When the halves of the

symbolon were reassembled, the owner’s identity was verified and the

relationship confirmed.

In the early Church, Christians described their Creed, their summary statement

of faith, as the symbolon. The Creed served as a means of Christian

recognition. Someone who confessed the Creed could be identified as a true

Christian.

Mark your calendars. Our first session will be held on January 8 from

6:40 p.m. to 8:10 p.m. in the Kazel Room at Saint Paschal, and on January 11

from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Harvest Room at Saint Clare. Come to

learn and leave with your symbolon!