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Bulletin – 4th Sunday of Lent

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Dear Friends,

Mass on Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 10 A.M.

Remember that March is Food Share Month–please be generous! Thank you! 

This of all, I just noticed that the bulletin for last Saturday’s Mass didn’t go through–I tried to send it from Beijing, and had thought it had gone, but not so– I am sorry for any inconvenience that may have caused you.

We continue our Lenten journey this week which is really a walk in faith.  We are asked to consider the ways that we might be “blind”  in our walk with Jesus as we think about the physical condition of blindness in this week’s gospel.

We are back from our China trip and are looking forward to being with you again! A heartfelt thank you to Pastor Dick for standing in for me.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

Readings:

  • 1 Samuel 16: 1, 6-7, 10-13
  • Ephesians 5: 8-14
  • John 9: 1-41

Bulletin – 2nd Sunday of Lent

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Dear Friends,

Mass on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 10 A.M.–Remember this weekend begins Daylight Savings Time–Spring Ahead!

Remember the March Food Drive for Winona Volunteer Services–canned meats and fish, low sodium soups and vegetables, canned fruits packed in water, peanut butter, whole grain cereals and oatmeal, brown rice and whole grain pasta, complete baking mixes-pancakes, muffins, biscuits, dried beans and peas and low-sodium canned beans–our board has also approved a $300 donation in your name–all that is given and collected in this drive goes a long way to keep the food shelves supplied well into the year, so be as generous as you can–Thank you all! 

Abram and Sarai, our forebears walk in faith in this week’s reading from Genesis–God will make them a nation they are told –“the Creator loves justice and right.” Paul tells us that we cannot be ashamed or afraid to speak for the truth of being a follower of Jesus. And Peter proclaims from the mount, “How good that we are here!”

Come; celebrate and ponder these mysteries with the community this week!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

P.S. Pastor Dick Dahl will be with you this week.  We are grateful to him and for your prayers in our absence.

Readings: 

  • Genesis 12: 1-4
  • 2 Timothy 1: 8-10
  • Matthew 17: 1-9

Sharing – 1st Week of Lent

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My Friends–we continue again this week with the wisdom of Fr. Ed Hays…

Kything Day–The Scottish word kything means to be spiritually present to another person. Today, experiment with the practice of being spiritually in communion with someone. As you connect with a friend, a family member or someone you know who is in need, do so by recalling memories of that person, perhaps an image, a common thought or emotion or a scent. In your kything prayer you might strive to picture that person in his or her environment.  Then add to your kything a blessing prayer for whatever needs that person might have on this day. On any day, whenever the thought of someone enters your mind, practice the prayer of kything.  Blessed are those who do not only go to Communion but live in Communion.

We need each other.  By consciously connecting yourself with those who share the same vision as yours, those with whom you are joined by love and friendship, is to be for them a source of graceful energy.  While invisible to the eye, even the eye of a microscope, love is as real a source of energy as electricity.  Perhaps someday we will have the technology to see love.  For now, we can  only see its powerful effects all around us. Even when we love others at a distance, we see those effects by eyes of faith, for love knows no limits or boundaries.

Blessings on your Lenten Week!

Pastor Kathy