• Mass on Sunday, August 24, 2025, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow.
• Please let me know of your availability to help with refreshments on the 3rd Sundays of September – December – we need two people for each Sunday – the treats can be homemade or store items. I have one slot filled for October, otherwise all the rest are open. Most needful now is September!
• 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 on again in Ordinary Time with the challenge to be more than ordinary. Our brother Jesus calls us as always, to be our best, looking for that true balance that finds us caring for our own needs, but for the needs of others as well.

Come; pray with us this Sunday.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 66: 18-21
• Hebrews 12: 5-7, 11-13
• Luke 13: 22-30

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• Mass on Sunday, August 17, 2025, at 10 A.M. AAO is on for refreshments for social time following Mass–Sue O. and Maureen G. will be serving–thanks gals! A gentle reminder that AAO is on for each 3rd Sunday of the month–please check your calendars to see if you are available for September, October, November or December.
• 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,

I am taking a bit of “pastor/literary license” so to speak this week by uniting the scheduled feast of the 20th Sunday in O.T. with the holy day of the Assumption celebration to be remembered liturgically on Friday of this week. In order to do that, I have taken two selections from the gospel of Luke to speak about Mary, our mother, sister, and friend for the journey, and one reading from Hebrews for the 20th Sunday in O.T., and we will try and tie both feasts together.

Come; ponder the mysteries with us this week!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Luke 2: 41-52
• Hebrews 12: 1-4
• Luke 12: 49-53

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• Mass on Sunday, August 10, 2025, at 10 A.M. Social time 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,

We are encouraged in this Sunday’s readings to ponder the great virtues of faith and trust in our God, coupled with hope — all much needed in our present-day world.

Come; ponder with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Wisdom 18: 6-9
• Hebrews 11: 1-2, 8-19
• Luke 12: 32-48

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• Mass on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. With this in mind, a gentle reminder that AAO is on every third Sunday of the month for refreshments which consists of 2 people each bringing a dessert, cut in small pieces. Let me know if you could do this on August 17th. Also, looking ahead, at September 21, October 19, November 16, and December 21. Let me know if you can do any of these months. Robert and I always supply coffee and 1/2 and 1/2 each month.
• 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,

As always, this week we are again called, “to be our best.” Working from our hearts, we should seek to live, and share life with others.

Come; be with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Ecclesiastes 1: 2; 2: 21-23
• Colossians 3: 1-5, 9-11
• Luke 12: 13-21

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• Mass on Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow with First Congregational.
• Some of you were asking for the name of the woman minister/author who first widely shared the new information on Mary Magdala: her name is Diane Butler Bass.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, krredig@hbci.com if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

We see through this Sunday’s Scriptures how our loving God is “always with us,” helping us to be our best.

Come; ponder with us, these mysteries of our faith.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Genesis 18: 20-32
• Colossians 2: 12-14
• Luke 11: 1-13

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