• Mass on Sunday at 161 West Broadway, in Winona, our new space at First Congregational church (use side door) at 10 A.M.
• Please remember our parishioners at care centers, recovering, Patte P., Bob E., and Bev D. and Sue E. at home, and our friend, Melanie R.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.
• Pastor Danielle at 1st Congregational will be speaking on Sunday after the social time, at 11:30 on the topic of “Christian Nationalism” and our response to it, if you have time and want to stay.
• We will also be having our 3rd quarter board meeting after Mass–any of you may attend or you can simply join the social hour after Mass.

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Dear Friends,

We continue to bask in our new space at First Congregational church! Some of you have yet to see and experience it and in the near future, we will celebrate our new working/sharing relationship with First Congregational with a joint blessing. I will share more as this is planned.

Another reminder, when you come to our new space, use the side door and if you need assist with the few stairs, there is a lift, but we need to show you how to use it as we have been instructed not to do it alone–it works really slick once you know how!

Our readings this week call us, as always, to keep our eyes on Jesus, in choosing to do the most loving thing, attempting to find the balance in our human and spiritual lives.

Come; be with us this week.

Peace and love, Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 53: 10-11
• Hebrews 4: 14-16
• Mark 10: 35-45

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• Mass this week will be on Sunday, October 13, 2024, at 10 A.M. in our new liturgy space at the First Congregational church, 161 West Broadway in Winona. Enter the Johnson Street door–there will be signs! Parking is in the lot, south of the church, if room, or on the streets, Broadway and Johnson. If you haven’t read my email of yesterday, please see that for more details about “our new home!” Looking forward to seeing you there!
• 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,

It is with such great joy that I write to you today with the announcement that we have been given a new space to meet, plus the connection to another group of Christians on the faith journey with us! Pastor Danielle Bartz has been so kind and willing to open the First Congregational doors to us! Do thank her when you see her.

The theme of this week’s readings is all about wisdom which takes us to our hearts. Come; ponder this with us this week, and celebrate our new space!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Wisdom 7: 7-11
• Hebrews 4: 12-13
• Mark 10: 17-30

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• NO MASS THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024 due to the fire at the LCC early Tuesday morning. Winona area parishioners –see earlier email addressing this issue. I will be putting out the readings here and have a homily for you later in the week for your prayer and reflection. Our board had planned on having our 3rd quarter meeting after Mass this week, and that too will be postponed for now. We will be looking for an alternate space to conduct our Masses for the interim until we can hopefully return to our regular space.
• 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,

This week, in our Church, we remember “Respect Life Sunday” and let us remember that this truly means more than “life in the womb.” We can’t be together this weekend – but please ponder this idea–that we must respect life in all of its differing forms, as did our brother, Jesus!

Peace and love, Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Genesis 2: 18-25
• Hebrews 2: 9-12
• Mark 10: 2-16

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• Mass on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 10 A.M. –bring a friend!
• 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 Scriptures this week call us, in no uncertain terms to be prophets, in the footsteps of our brother, Jesus, the Christ! No exceptions, no excuses!

Come; ponder this with us this Sunday!

Peace and love, Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Numbers 11: 25-29
• James 5: 1-6
• Mark 9: 38-43, 45, 47-48

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• Mass on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 4:30 P.M. Bring a friend!
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I may help in any way.

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Dear Friends,

We continue moving through our Church Year in a section of time named as, “ordinary,” even though we know that following our brother Jesus, calls for more than “ordinary” behavior.

Come; ponder all this with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Wisdom 2: 12, 17-20
• James 3: 16 — 4: 3
• Mark 9: 30-37

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