The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has partnered with FACTS for Many Gifts, One Nation: A Day of Giving to Catholic Schools, to be held January 30, 9 a.m. through January 31, 9 a.m. . This day is made to help people give back to their local Catholic school communities. FACTS will be providing an online giving platform that allows donors to directly give to their Catholic school. Visa, MasterCard, and Discover credit or debit cards are accepted. Here is St. Clare's School link to the Giving Portal site: https://stclarem.portal.giving.factsmgt.com ​​​​​​​

Simple Suppers are a regular event during Lent at St. Clare.  Our first one is on Ash Wednesday, February 14, and then the next five Mondays during Lent.  We encourage Religious Education families to make it a part of their Monday routine.  Our first hosts will be the PTO Board and the Knights of Columbus, thank you to all the councils and commissions for making the soup and hosting the evening.

There will be a parent/child meeting for those preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Communion on February 25. Children are encouraged to invite his/her Godparents to the 9:00 Mass.  There will be a rite of enrollment for the Sacraments at this Mass.  Following the Mass, there will be a meeting. We need a baptismal certificate for each child who will receive the Sacrament.  ​​​​​​​Also on the 25th there is a Sunday Social for grades 2, 3 and 4.  All families are encouraged to bring a breakfast treat to share.

Next Saturday we will begin a week of prayer, encouragement, pride, and support for our Catholic School of St. Clare.  It has been in existence for 90 years.  Help the school to continue to instill faith and knowledge to our young people in the parish and surrounding community. Come to the Saturday, January 27, 4:00 Mass and/or 8:15 Mass on Wednesday January 31 to pray and celebrate with us.  Bring someone to the open house Sunday, January 28 from 2-4. Come and visit the school.  It is “our” school.  We as a parish are responsible for it. 

JOIN US TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 16, AT 10:30 A.M., for an eclectic array of chamber music by Bach, Beethoven, Donizetti, Dvorak, Desenclos, and Piazzolla. Nadine Deleury, cellist with the Michigan Opera Orchestra and Christopher Sacco, outstanding young Saxophonist will open the program with music by Beethoven and Donizetti. 

This year the week of prayer for Christian Unity begins on Thursday January 18th. The prayer week has a history dating back more than 100 years when Christians around the world take part in an octave of prayer as a visible display of Christian unity.  By annually observing the WPCU, Christians move toward the fulfillment of Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper. "Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power" is the theme for 2018. Let us join this annual celebration and raise our voices, hands and hearts to God seeking the fulfillment of the prayer of Jesus, the Son of God, “that they all may be one.”  

Faith Opportunities will abound again. Beginning on Thursday, January 11, we will have a series on the Acts of the Apostles. This will help each of us to be better evangelizers.  In Acts, St. Luke recounts the beginnings of the early church and the beginnings of the apostles being very BOLD after the resurrection. Every adult...