Author: kredig

Bulletin – Easter Vigil/Easter Celebration

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Dear Friends,

  • We will be meeting this afternoon, Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. for the Easter Vigil which will also serve as our Easter Service –THERE WILL BE NO MASS ON SUNDAY!
  • Please bring small bottles with you to take some of the blessed, holy water with you, if you wish. I will have it available for a few weeks if you can’t be at the service tonight. 

We are meeting on Saturday, today, for our Easter celebration as it is the 3rd Saturday of the month and we regularly meet then for Mass. Given that, it allows us to partake in the very rich and meaningful, Easter Vigil liturgy.  This service incorporates the story of our faith, from our fore parents and prophets on through to the coming of our brother, Jesus, the Christ of whom we celebrate in completeness this weekend.

The Easter Vigil is rich in ritual–the lighting of the new fire, the blessing of the new water, a renewal of our baptismal promises and the Eucharist.

Come; be with us and celebrate these beautiful tenets of our faith.  If you can’t be with us, know that our community will be praying for you and your families this night–a special blessing be upon those who are traveling to get there and back, safely.

Peace and love, Happy Easter!

Pastor Kathy

P.S. It was announced at our Good Friday service that the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship had invited us to a special service on this Sunday.  This was in error–the service is on April 23rd instead.  Sorry for the confusion.

Readings:

Prelude to Mass–3 of the 6 used for this service

  • Genesis 1:1–2:2
  • Exodus 14:15–15:1
  • Isaiah 55: 1-11

Mass Readings:

  • Romans 6: 3-11
  • Matthew 28: 1-10

Bulletin – Good Friday

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Dear Friends,

Good Friday Services, today at 4:30 p.m.

If you can’t be with us, here are the Scriptures for your reflection:

  • Isaiah 52: 13–53:12
  • Hebrews 4: 14-16
  • John 18: 1–19:42

This is a beautiful, solemn service when we will have the opportunity to reflect on the Scriptures, pray for our Church and world, reverence the cross, and receive the Eucharist. Come; be with us to remember with gratitude and love the great love and compassion of our God for us.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

Homily – Palm Sunday

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My friends, as we begin Holy Week, just a few thoughts.  I decided, due to the reading of the Passion today and the wealth of the other Scriptures; we might just reflect a bit on the emotional side of what this day brings us.  We could spend time describing the significance of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and of how he did everything as the prophets foretold, but when all is said and done, it is really all about love—love first for the God who sent him and then love for those who awaited a Messiah.  He, of course was a different manifestation from what the people thought they needed and wanted, a King to conquer the Romans—instead of a humble man of character and a servant—this was who they needed and only later would they discover, it was who they wanted as well.

Paul, in his beautiful treatise on Jesus to the Philippians says it simply, “His state was divine, yet he did not cling to it…but became as all people are.”  Jesus in his image as slave and servant showed us the way to go—not as this world sees greatness, but as God does.

We saw these images throughout Lent in the form of the Good Shepherd, the Samaritan woman at the well to whom Jesus gave, ‘living water,” the man, born blind to whom Jesus gave much more than physical sight.

This week will zero in on three very significant days—the Triduum—remembering the institution of the Eucharist and the formal institution of the priesthood—ideally intended to be a calling to service.  Within the Holy Thursday service Jesus demonstrates what being a servant means when he washes the feet of his apostles—not about him—but about others.  Pope Francis has been trying to reacquaint the present day “apostles” to this concept and still there are those who don’t get it!

We will meet as a community here on Good Friday to remember the height and length and depth of our God’s love for us.  To be about love—to wear it as a breastplate as Christians means that as Jesus did, love is always the response to what we as humans can come up with by way of injustice, even if we stand alone.  Jesus would not compromise this principle and he knew what the consequences were for that stance.

The Easter Vigil concludes the Triduum as we remember and reflect on our salvation history—a story that delineates God’s over-the-top love for us—always directing the prophets of Old and New to keep us as a people on-track until the message of love could be given to us in perfect form—in the person of Jesus.

This, my friends is a wonderful week that we are beginning—one not to be taken lightly, one not to miss.  Let our prayer for each other be that our God’s over-the-top loving for us be something that we can give back as we respond to our world.

 

 

 

 

News Item

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All Are One Roman Catholic church Holy Week Schedule–All Services will be held at 451 Huff Street, Winona, MN, Pastor Kathy Redig, RCWP

Palm Sunday Liturgy–Mass–Sunday, April 9, 2017, 10 A.M.

Good Friday Service, Friday, April 14, 2017, 4:30 P.M.

Easter Vigil Service, Saturday, April 15, 2017, 4:30 P.M.

The Easter Vigil will serve as our Easter Sunday Mass–NO MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 16TH . 

Peace , love and joy, ALLELUIA!

Pastor Kathy

Bulletin – Palm Sunday

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Dear Friends,

Mass on Sunday, April 9, 2017, 10 A.M.

With this Sunday, we begin our observance of the holiest week of the Church Year.  We are invited to walk with our brother Jesus through the completion of his earthly life, death and resurrection, pondering what that was for him and ultimately, what it means for us too.  Hopefully, you will carve out some time for yourself this next week to reflect on all that these events can teach us–Jesus was human and he was God.  In his humanity, he suffered loneliness, discouragement, lack of faith, as do we, but he also strove after what was best in him–faith in a God who loved him, unconditionally, knowledge that he was never really alone, and strength in his discouragement that God is never closer than when we are in pain.  This is truly what the resurrection is all about!–becoming our best selves–whole people!

Come; ponder these mysteries with us beginning on this Sunday, Palm Sunday.  SEE HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE BELOW: 

Holy Week Schedule

Good Friday Service, Friday, April 14, 2017, 4:30 P.M.

Easter Vigil Service, Saturday, April 15, 2017, 4:30 P.M.

The Easter Vigil will serve as our Easter Sunday Mass–NO MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 16TH . 

Peace , love and joy, ALLELUIA!

Pastor Kathy

Readings: 

  • Matthew 21: 1-11 (procession)

Mass: 

  • Isaiah 50: 4-7
  • Philippians 2: 5-11
  • The Passion of Jesus, the Christ–Matthew 26:14–27: 66