Flower Sale Success!

 Slightly less successful than in the past, but what we didn't know is that we'd be competing with Unbound at SJF.  Still, we more than made back expenses.

St. Clare Collections:  $478

SJF Collections:  $222

Total Collections $701

Cost of flowers:  $355.28

Donation due to Mother and Child: $345.72

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Thank you to Ken Paulsen for organizing the SJF drive, he writes:
Thanks goes to Gene, Paul, Mike and Scott who helped after masses. I'm
especially grateful to Paul who took on the 5:30 pm mass alone on Sunday
as I had forgotten to get there at the end  of mass.  (I lost track of
time at Our Mother's Day party.)

We had a guest priest this Sunday who represented the charity
"Unbound".  It's a worthy cause that allows charitable people to sponsor
a disadvantaged person who lives in poverty.  Their displays in the
Narthex garnered a lot of attention after mass and so we were a little
less prominent than we've been in the past.  Left over flowers were
given out after the 5:30 pm mass.

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At St Clares, thank you to Michael James Morgan, who took the North Door at 5pm Mass, Rich DiGregorio who took the West door at 5 pm Mass, Erik Riechers who took the North Door at 8:30am Mass, Dan Riechers who took the West Door at 8:30 AM Mass, Paul Reswebber who took the North Door at 10:45am Mass, Cheryl Vanek who took the West Door at 10:45am Mass, and Michael Chau who helped Ted Seeber at the East Door for all three Mass times.