• Mass on Sunday, April 19, 2026, at 10 A.M. – social time to follow. Speaking of social time, before we get into the busy summer months, perhaps we could get some people in place for the months of June, July, and August – the 3rd Sunday of each month, 2 people are needed with each bringing a treat to share. If you are not a baker, a treat from the store is fine too. May is covered. Thanks for this pre-planning.
• Sunday Mass on April 26, 2026, at 10 A.M. – we will have the former choir and musicians from St. John’s Catholic church with us doing the music – hopefully many of you can be with us. Our own Mary Breza and Sue O’Brien are members of this choir.
• UPCOMING DATE TO SAVE: Sunday, July 26, 2026, Mass on the Redig Farm, celebrating Mary Magdala, (The Tower) and all women in ministry. Pot luck lunch to follow.
• 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 Easter Season continues and the eyes of the disciples are “beginning to open,” more and more, to all that Jesus, their rabbi, their brother, has done, and WHO, in fact, he is and what he wants from, and for, each of us!

Come; ponder all this with us on Sunday!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 2: 14, 22-28
• 1 Peter 1: 17-21
• Luke 24: 13-35

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• Mass on Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. Speaking of social time, AAO on for coffee and treats on April 19th – we need two people to do this, each bringing a ready-to-serve dessert-your choice. Let me know if you are available. If you have not done this before, it really is quite easy-help serve after Mass, and do a bit of cleanup after social time. Robert always takes care of the coffee and we bring half and half. A reminder: AAO is on every third Sunday of the month, so if you aren’t available this month, think about which month you might be. Thanks in advance.
• NOTICE: On Sunday, April 26, 2026, the choir from St. Stanislaus parish, of which Mary Breza and Sue O’Brien are part, will be sharing their music with us during Mass—hopefully, many of you can be with us to welcome them!
• NOTICE: The first two Sundays in May, the 3rd and the 10th, Robert and I will be away, and there will be NO MASSES those two weeks. I will be sending out readings and Dick Dahl will provide homilies.
• SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, July 26, 2026, we will be having our annual Mass on the Farm, celebrating Mary Magdala-Mary the Tower, and all women as called. Our Mass will be followed by a pot-luck lunch. More as we get closer.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help in any way.

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Dear Friends,

Eastertime is upon us and we marvel at the love of those 1st Christians – we must strive too to share the Good News that Jesus is with us – always!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 2: 42-47
• 1 Peter 1: 3-9
• John 20: 19-31

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Times that we will meet:

• Good Friday – 4:30 P.M. service
• Easter Sunday – 10 A.M. Mass
• 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,

Being that we do not meet on Holy Thursday, or Holy Saturday, I have included readings for all three days known as the Triduum. These are solemn days that can best be spent reflecting on how much we are loved by our God.

Holy Thursday is a day that we remember our God’s wish in Jesus that God wants to be one-with-us, and has thus given us the Eucharist, a tangible way for us to “feel” our God’s presence. Our task then, is to go out and share Jesus’ presence and message, his “body and blood” – his words and actions in our world. It is in this extension that Jesus’ body and blood is truly seen in our world, and the purpose for his coming, to live through each of us.

Jesus showed us so beautifully, the night before he died how we “are to be” in our world, when he humbled himself by washing the feet of those gathered for this last sacred meal. And I believe we can be sure that our brother Jesus included the women and the children too!

Holy Thursday is also the night that all ordained persons, women and men remember their calls to be of service to others, and again, so beautifully depicted in the washing of the feet.

On Good Friday we will physically meet.

Holy Saturday, as we await the Resurrection to new life, the Church reviews the story of faith in six Old and New Testament readings. I have included a sampling of them here. This service always includes the Blessing of New Light and remembers our baptisms, with the understanding that we are to carry that “light” into our often, it seems, dark world.

We will gather on Easter Sunday with the return of alleluias! Please be with us in spirit if you can’t be with us in person.

May you each be blessed during this holiest of weeks.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

Holy Thursday:

• Exodus 12: 1-8, 11-14
• Corinthians 11: 23-26
• John 13: 1-15

Good Friday:

• Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 4,5a,6a,7-8a,9,11a,12a
• Hebrews 4: 14-16; 5: 7-9
• Passion of Jesus, the Christ, John 18: – 19: 42

Holy Saturday: Review of Salvation History

• Genesis 1: 1 – 2: 2
• Isaiah 55: 1-11
• Ezekiel 36: 16-28
• Epistle – Romans 6: 3-11
• Gospel – Matthew 28: 1-10

Easter Sunday:

• Acts 10: 34, 37-43
• 1 Corinthians 5: 6-8
• John 20: 1-9, 11-18

• Mass on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. NOTICE: On this Sunday, Kay Hannahan and her husband Tyler Hurley will be with us, respectfully filming our Mass to be used in a documentary that she is doing on women’s ordination focusing on your pastor.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.
• Schedule for Holy Week: Good Friday Service: April 3, 2026, 4:30 P.M., Easter Sunday Mass, April 5. 2026 at 10 A.M.

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Dear Friends,

With this Sunday, we begin the holiest week of our Church Year. Hopefully, many of you can be with us. Blessings to all this week and always!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Blessing of Palms: Matthew 21: 1-11

Mass Readings:

• Isaiah 50: 4-7
• Philippians 2: 5-11
• The Passion – Matthew 26:14 – 27: 66

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• Mass on Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 10 A.M. Due to missing Mass last weekend, AAO will do refreshments this Sunday. We usually do the third weekend.
• Upcoming: March 29, 2026, we will have a guest at Mass. Some of you will remember Kay Hannahan, from a while back – Kay is doing a documentary on women priests, and me, in particular. She took a few years off caring for her young children and now would like to take the project up once again. She will be doing some filming, respectfully, during Mass, from the back. This is an opportunity to spread the word that women priests are here to stay! Thanks for your cooperation.
• 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 continue our Lenten journey with the extended readings from John – this week giving us the rising of Lazarus from the dead, and the prophecy of his sisters.

Come; ponder all this with us…

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Ezekiel 37: 12-14
• Romans 8: 8-11
• John 11: 1-45

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