• Mass on Sunday, January 25, 2026, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. The board will be meeting after Mass — anyone wishing to attend is welcome.
• We will once again accept by unanimous ballot, the names of Bill Crozier, Pat Przybylski, and Paula Shaw to serve another two years on our board. All three are now able and willing to serve another term.
• UPCOMING: Pastor Kathy and Robert will be away the 1st two Sundays of February — watch for an email next week with materials for your reflection.
• Please never hesitate to call me, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com, if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

We are both “gifted with” and challenged this week to “shine our own particular lights” in our world that seems to be locked in too much darkness at present. Our world, I think you would agree, needs special lights — needs us!

Come this week, and gain the strength in community to do just that!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 8: 23 — 9: 3
• 1 Corinthians 1: 10-13, 17
• Matthew 4: 12-23

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• Mass on Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10 A.M. – social time to follow – AAO is on for treats!
• PLEASE NOTE: It was previously mentioned that we didn’t need a board election this year as all who were up for re-election had agreed to stay on and no new candidates had come forward. One of the three now feels a need to not continue, so we do need another one of you to step up. Please consider this role – there are just four meetings a year and we hold them after Mass, so no need to come in an extra time. Our main task at each meeting is to give most of our monies away to needy causes within our city, country and world. Consider serving in this way.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

We enter, once again, Ordinary Time, a time of many challenges in our Christian walk: to be “lights” in the darkness of our world.

Come; ponder with us just how to do this…

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 49: 3, 5-6
• 1 Corinthians 1: 1-3
• John 1: 29-34

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• Mass on Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. This Sunday, Robert and I will be leaving shortly after Mass as this weekend our family is home for our Christmas celebration and we have other plans after Mass. Please feel free though to stay for the social time.
• AAO Board meeting for the 4th Quarter of 2025 will be held after Mass on January 25, 2026–all are welcome to attend. Three of our board members are up for re-election: Pat Przybylski, Paula Shaw, and Bill Crozier, and each has agreed to serve another two-year term. We thank them! No one has come forward wishing to serve, thus we can vote Pat, Paula and Bill in by unanimous ballot. We will do this officially at Mass on January 25, 2026.
• Please call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way. Never hesitate to reach out to me with your needs.

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Dear Friends,

With this week, we move from the simplicity and peace of the crib out into our world, “to be the light” that our brother Jesus asks us to be.

Come; pray with us for each other and our world this Sunday.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7
• Acts 10: 34-38
• Matthew 3: 13-17

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• Mass on Sunday, January 4, 2026, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. AAO will be on for refreshments on January 18, 2026. I can bring 1/2 of the treats, if someone could join me. Please let me know.
• Board elections will be held in January. Each year we vote on 3 members, either those presently on the board or new people who might like to serve. This year, Pat Przybylski, Paula Shaw and Bill Crozier are up for re-election. They are all willing to serve another 2 -year term, unless there are people out there who would like to serve. If so, let me know and we will have an election. If not, we will consider these three re-elected by unanimous consent.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com, if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

The 12 days of Christmas time are winding down — with today’s feast we are at the official end of this beautiful season. Let us carry its lessons into the New Year — simplicity , joy, peace, love, and justice for all.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 60: 1-6
• Ephesians 3: 2-3, 5-6
• Matthew 2: 1-12

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• Mass on Sunday, December 28, 2025, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow.
• NO MASSES ON EVE OR FIRST DAY OF 2026.
• First Mass of the New Year, 2026 is on Sunday, January 4, 2026.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

Holy Family Sunday encourages us all to see our families as holy too. This Sunday also calls us to “thankfulness” for what is, not for what is not, looking hopefully ahead. Much to ponder — come; be with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Sirach 3: 2-6, 12-14
• Colossians 3: 12-21
• Luke 2: 22-40

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