• Mass on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at 10 A.M.
• SAVE THESE DATES:

–June 29, 2024 Celebration of Life for Mary Paszkiewicz at Signatures

–July 20, 2024 after 4:30 P.M. Saturday Mass, our annual pot-luck for Mary the Tower (Magdala) and all women

• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I might help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

We come to the end of the Easter Season with this Sunday. We are remembering Ascension Thursday as well with this Sunday. Additionally, this Sunday we remember all the many different ways that women “mother” in our world–physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Let us not only remember, but thank all the women in our lives today.

Come; pray with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• For Ascension–Acts 1: 1-11
• 7th Sunday of Easter, next two readings–1 John 4: 11-16
• John 17: 11-19

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• Mass on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 10 A.M. Fellowship after Mass.
• We will celebrate during and after Mass 16 years as a Vatican II parish! Come, and celebrate your faith and strength to, “continually [with the Spirit] renew the face of the earth.”
• 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,

With this Sunday and the next, we complete the Sundays of Easter. All these Sundays, with our remembering of the Ascension of Jesus this next Thursday, have been about lifting up the challenge to love, in our lives–in the ups and downs, knowing that we aren’t alone, but have our brother, Jesus, helping and sustaining us. We won’t be meeting on this next Thursday for liturgy, but will be remembering the Ascension along with the 7th and final Sunday of Easter the following Sunday.

Also this week, we celebrate the gift of my ordination to the priesthood for the People of God in Winona, and the privilege of us being a Vatican II parish for 16 years where we all strive to be our best!

Come; celebrate all this along with our daily call to love.

Peace and my love to each of you,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48
• 1 John 4: 7-10
• John 15: 9-17

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• Mass on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 10 A.M. We will have fellowship this week!
• SAVE THE DATE: July 20, 2024, after the 4:30 P.M. Mass, we will have a pot-luck supper in place of our Mary Magdala celebration on the farm due to road construction going on past our house all summer long. More details as we get closer.
• Please call me, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

Being that our gospel this Sunday is about the “vine and the branches,” i.e. our God’s desire to be one with us, I thought a short meditation from Joyce Rupp, in her book, Fragments of Your Ancient Name, on “Vine,” would be appropriate.

When I reflect on the people/Whom I dislike and tend to avoid, the people whose aberrant behavior/leads me to think less of them, Then I remember who you are: The true Vine, the anchor of love/To which every person is joined. You draw each of us to yourself/Regardless of who or how we are. If I am with you, then so are they.

Today: I turn my heart toward all people.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 9: 26-31
• 1 John 3: 18-24
• John 15: 1-8

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• Mass on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 4:30 P.M.
• Our annual Mary Magdala Mass on the farm will need to be postponed this summer due to the fact the road going past our farm is being majorly overhauled in the next several months. As we see how the construction of this new road goes, we can make a more updated assessment.
• Please call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way–don’t ever hesitate to do so.

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Dear Friends,

This week’s readings continue to follow those early days of the band of believers who carry on after their brother Jesus’ death and resurrection. Even though it was not always easy for them, they were filled with faith to tell his story and all that he had done for them.

We too friends, are called to faith. and to the strength we have in Jesus’ name.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 4: 8-12
• 1 John 3: 1-2
• John 10: 11-18

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• Mass on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 10 A.M.
• 1st Quarter Board Meeting after Mass–all are welcome to attend.
• We will dispense with fellowship this Sunday due to the scheduled board meeting.

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Dear Friends,

Jesus is risen–truly! This is the message of the Easter Season, and in pondering all that it means, we need to come to terms with how we are best able to be the “Easter people” that we are called to be.

Come; pray with us this week!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

P.S. If I can help you in any way, please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616 or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com.

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Readings:

• Acts 3: 13-15, 17-19
• 1 John 2: 1-5
• Luke 24: 35-48

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