• Mass on Sunday, April 7, 2024, at 10 A.M.
• Sunday, April 14, 2024, 1st quarter board meeting after Mass–everyone is invited, if you wish to attend. If you have any items you would like the board to discuss, please let Maureen Guillou know.
• Please never hesitate to contact Pastor Kathy at 507-429-3616, or by email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if she can help in any way.

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Dear Friends,

Easter isn’t so much an end, as it is, a beginning! It is now, each of us who must be “Jesus” in our world.

Come; pray with us and ponder this mystery!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 4: 32-35
• 1 John 5: 1-7
• John 20: 19-31

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• Good Friday-March 29, 2024 at 4:30 P.M. -this is a solemn, prayerful and meaningful service – all about our God who has loved us so much!
• Easter Sunday Mass-March 31, 2024 at 10 A.M. Alleluia is our song! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Friends,

Robert and I are back! We have missed you all! We had an awesome trip, some of the wonders of which I will share on Easter Sunday and in the weeks ahead. One realizes as a result of traveling that there is so much in our beautiful world that needs each of us to protect and care for. I believe in a general way, this was part of the reason for our brother Jesus’ coming–to remind us to “walk gently” upon the earth and treat each other with care.

Come; be with us for Good Friday and Easter Sunday! The “alleluias” are upon us!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

P.S. 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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Readings:

Good Friday

• Isaiah 52: 13–53: 4, 5a, 6a, 7-8a, 9, 11a, 12a
• Hebrews 4: 14-16, 5: 7-9
• Gospel of John-the Passion of Jesus, 18: 1–19: 42

Easter Sunday

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

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• Mass on Sunday, 3-10-24, at 10 A.M. REMEMBER TO SPRING AHEAD THIS WEEKEND! Palms will be given out this Sunday ahead of Palm Sunday as Pastor Kathy and Robert will be gone on that day.
• This will be our last scheduled Mass until Holy Week, when we will meet on Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. I will be sending out materials for your use while we are away.
• Additionally, while we are away, I can connect you to a Zoom link from one of my sister priest’s parish in Indianapolis. If you are interested, please let me know and I will see that you get the link.
• In case you missed my earlier email, our friend, Mary Paszkiewicz died this past week. If you would like to send a card to the family, you can check the earlier email or contact me individually. The family is scheduling a Celebration of Life here in the later spring which I will do, so watch for notification of that.
• 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,

As we continue on our Lenten journey, a couple of wonderful lines from this Sunday’s Scriptures stand out: “We are God’s work of art,” and “We can go home again[!]”

Come; pray with us and ponder these thoughts this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• 2 Chronicles 36: 14-17, 19-23
• Ephesians 2: 4-10
• John 3: 14-21

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• Mass on Sunday, March 3, 2024, 10 A.M.
• Robert and I will be away for two weekend Masses in March, Saturday, the 16th and Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024. I am sorry to have to miss these weekends during Lent, but I will as usual, send out readings, prayers and a homily for both weeks. I will have palms for you to take on March 10th. I may be able to give you a Zoom link to the services of a sister priest–let me know if that would be of interest to you. I will be present for our Good Friday service and for Easter Sunday.
• 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,

Continuing on in our Lenten walk, we are challenged to break from the status quo, open eyes and ears to see and hear the injustice that is often in our midst, and respond to it as Jesus did–not always an easy walk, but a necessary one if we persist in claiming that we follow our brother, Jesus.

Come; struggle with us, and pray with us this week.

Love and peace,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Exodus 20: 1-17
• 1 Corinthians 1: 22-25
• John 2: 13-25

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• Mass on Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 10:00 A.M. For those attending Mass this Sunday, there will be no Fellowship after Mass as Pastor Kathy and Robert have a family birthday party to attend at noon.
• 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,

We continue on in this time of Lent, and perhaps by now, you have decided on one, or two things in your personal lives that you could do, either by way of “giving up,” or “giving to” to make you stronger, truer followers of our brother Jesus. I encourage whatever you feel will make that change in your lives–what is good for one, may not be good for another.

Come; let us ponder all this together this Sunday.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Genesis 22: 1-2, 9, 10-13, 15-18
• Romans 8: 31-34
• Mark 9: 2-10

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