June 2016 - Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, US Area

Welcome to
St. Clare Chapel
June 2016 Sunday Mass: 10:00am
Weekday Mass Schedule: Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday: 10:00am
Celebrant: Fr. Jim Collins
To receive the St. Clare Chapel bulle n by email, Communion Service: Wednesday and Saturday, 10:00am
please contact: sfpusarea@fuse.net or call St. Clare Adoration: First Friday of the month after Mass until 4:00pm convent’s Administra ve Assistant 761‐9040 x 101. Thank you. LookingtotheFuture,CelebratingthePast
This year we celebrate our 20-year
anniversary for Franciscans for
the Poor ministry. Sr. Marie
Clement Edrich set us on this
wonderful journey after having
attending a conference that
centered around volunteer start-up
programs.
Originally, much of the work
From le to right: (seated) Sr. Marie Clement was done in conjunction with St.
Edrich and Sr. Karen Hartman; Chris Lemmon John’s, downtown Cincinnati with
and Marci Peebles. Not pictured: Dan Nolan. small groups of participants that
volunteered with their programs and often stayed in their transitional
housing when available. Afterward, Sr. Karen Hartman took over and
gave the program its wings and its current home at the Tau House
(in St. Bernard) — complete with beds!
Continuing the mission, Dan Nolan, a former Franciscan friar
expanded the outlets for volunteer opportunities. Chris Lemmon
continued the journey by doing a lot of updating to Tau House
including the setting up of systems to run the program.
Current director, Marci Peebles has enhanced Franciscans for the
Poor by adding mini-trip, service days and retreat hosting as well as
a pen pal program between our Franciscan Sisters of the Poor and
participants. Last year, 766 people connected with Franciscans for
the Poor, and participants clocked a total of 10,842 hours of service
at 25 different sites! Today we celebrate the seeds that were planted
20 years ago and look to continue opportunities to grow into the
future! Want to learn more? Please visit: http://franforthepoor.org/.
OurWeddingMinistry… St. Clare Chapel is a lovely Catholic
sanctuary where men and women
can be joined together in the eyes of
God. Working with the Archdiocese
of Cincinnati, our wedding ministry
provides an opportunity for couples
to share the happiest day of their
lives with us as they begin their
journey into married life!
Please join us as we pray for and
congratulate the following couples
who will marry this month:
Megan Kenny & Allen McCollum
Lauren Haby & Drew Miller
For more information about our wedding
ministry, contact: Sally Luken, Wedding
Coordinator, 513-761-9040x176 or
weddings@franciscansistersofthepoor.org
WOW!WomenoftheWord—is an interfaith women’s
Local graphic ar st, Diane Weymier, designed our Labyrinth based on the classic 7‐circuit Cretan labyrinth. group that focuses on spiritual growth through learning, sharing
and experiencing God together. We will meet Wednesday,
June 22 at 6:00pm at the Labyrinth (near the Centennial Barn).
Walking the labyrinth is an ancient spiritual practice that
incorporates prayer, meditation, contemplation and bodily
movement. How apropos for the coming together to pray as we
walk the paths that represent our diverse spiritual journeys and to
share the meaning of our experience!
ALL ARE WELCOME! For more information,
call Jo at 761-9040x101 or email sfpusarea@fuse.net.
HaircutsFromTheHeart—a Franciscan Ministry, Inc. was
recently featured on WVXU, Cincinnati. Listeners heard Sr. Bonnie
Steinlage, a Franciscan Sister of the Poor, tell about how she started
Shop at AmazonSmile and
Haircuts from the Heart ministry salon in 1988 and how it has grown to
Amazon will donate .5% of the
what it is today — a true ministry that provides more than hair care for
price of your purchases to the
those who are marginalized within our very own community.
Franciscan Sisters of the Poor
Accompanying Sr. Bonnie was Ida Mueller who has taken over the
Associates at no extra cost to you! salon services while continuing in Sr. Bonnie’s tradition of helping the
Just set Franciscan Sisters of the
poor and Elaine Ward, Executive Director of Franciscan Ministries, Inc.
Poor Communities Inc. as your
Sister Bonnie explained how she was inspired to do this and how
charity of choice and shop the
she’s gone all over the country talking about this ministry.
millions of products offered by
Ward talked about how Haircuts from the Heart goes where the
one of the world’s top retailers.
people in need are — in behavioral health care program facilities,
All donations benefit the
homeless facilities and psychiatric facilities. Adding to this, Mueller
Franciscan Associates.
explained the special events the
If you are a barber or hair stylist
Setup Takes Only Seconds!
ministry services — in fact at
and would like to volunteer,
1. Go to smile.amazon.com
least 21 different places such as
please call 513-381-0111.
2. Sign in with your Amazon
City Gospel, Our Daily Bread
login or make a new account
Want to learn more? Please visit:
and the Salvation Army, to
3. Search for Franciscan Sisters of name a few.
http://haircutsfromtheheart.org/
the Poor Communities Inc (note: ….Currently the brick and mortar
address will say Brooklyn, NY,
Haircuts from the Heart ministry is “homeless”! With the trio’s
but donations will go to our
creativity they’ve made the ministry “mobile”. When the ministry’s
Cincinnati Associates account
new location is available (sometime in 2017) Haircuts plans to continue
4. Select Franciscan Sisters of the their mobile outreach.
Poor Communities Inc
You can catch the full interview with Mark Heyne at:
5. Shop!
http://wvxu.org/post/haircuts-heart#stream/0.
For more information call Joan
Mills, Director of Associates at
Peddler ThriŌ Shop
761-9040x112.
50% off
Amazon has recently bought a hotel
in Seattle and turned it into a temporary shelter for the homeless and
reached out to a local nonprofit
called Mary’s Place to run the facility. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also donated $1million to Mary’s Place as
part of the project. Everything Kids:
Books/Toys/Clothes
Fri June 10 & Sat June 11
10:00am to 4:00pm
HAPPYFATHER’S DAY!
St. Clare Chapel ● 60 Compton Road
www.FranciscanSistersofthePoor.org
513-761-9040