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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• With all due caution, I am canceling Mass for Sunday unless the weather reports turn out to be wrong. Pastor Danielle is canceling too. Watch for any changes on Sunday morning before 8 A.M.
• 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,

If the weather continues as predicted, WE WON’T MEET ON SUNDAY FOR MASS, 3-15-26. In that case , I will be sending a homily for your use.

Stay safe – peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• 1 Samuel 16: 1, 6-7, 10-13
• Psalm 23
• Ephesians 5: 8-14
• John 9: 1-41

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• Mass on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 10 A.M. Social time to follow.
• UPCOMING DATES: 1. March 29, 2026, Palm Sunday, regular 10 A.M. Mass 2. April 5, 2026, Good Friday Service, 4:30 P.M. 3. April 7, 2026, Easter Sunday, 10 A.M. Mass.
• Mark Your Calendars: July 26, 2026, Sunday Mass at 10 A.M., on the Redig Farm, celebrating all women with the Feast of Mary Magdala. Potluck lunch to follow.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.
• REMEMBER TO SET YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD ONE HOUR THIS SATURDAY EVENING!! Daylight Savings is upon us!
• Remember to brings donations for the Day Center through next Sunday, March 15–the list was in last week’s bulletin or there are half-sheets in Church for your use. Thanks all!

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Dear Friends,

As we continue our Lenten journey, we are moving through the month of March, dedicated to uplifting women and their gifts to our patriarchal Church and world.

Come; ponder with us this week having “hearts of flesh” rather than of “stone.”

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Exodus 17: 3-7
• Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8
• John 4: 5-42

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