Zoom Mass this Sunday, March 28, 2021! Watch for link on this Saturday! Have your palms with you for a community blessing at the beginning of Mass. If you wish to receive communion, please have your own bread, wine/juice.

IF YOU WILL BE WITH US ON SUNDAY, AND WOULD BE WILLING TO READ (FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOMES OF COURSE (:) WOULD YOU PLEASE EMAIL ME AS WE WILL NEED SEVERAL READERS WITH THE PASSION AND OTHER READINGS–Thanks!

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Dear Friends,

On Sunday we begin the holiest week of the year. We might differentiate this up-coming week, naming it, “holiest” from Christmas week that we often think of as, “the happiest” week of the year. “Happy,” we might say in the celebration of so much love–bestowed, first by our God, in the sending of Jesus and then, with the anticipation and promise of us doing the same in our own lives, following in his footsteps. “Holy,” we speak of for this upcoming week as we do try to follow our brother Jesus through so much that is, self-giving, self-effacing, and the culmination really, of love–in its perfection . Much to contemplate throughout this “holiest” of weeks!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

P.S. Looking forward to seeing many of you on Zoom this Sunday. Hoping this finds all well, with your vaccinations done, or soon to be! Please call, 507-429-3616 or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help in any way, or even if you just want to chat.

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Readings:

• Mark 11: 1-10–Blessing of Palms
• Isaiah 50: 4-7
• Philippians 2: 5-11
• Passion from Mark 14: 1–15: 47

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