Dear Friends,

This Sunday is the last one of the Easter Season with Pentecost following in another week.  The Easter Season calls us to be grown-ups in our faith–it calls us to be our best selves when convenient and when not–to always keep our eyes on Jesus who shows us the way and is our strength.

This Thursday marks the Ascension of our brother Jesus–a permanent change in how he is with us–not in his physical presence any longer, but in his Spirit.  Our grown-up faith calls us to see him in each other.  We will not be gathering for Mass on Thursday as a community–I invite you to remember that where two or three are gathered, Jesus is with us.  Certainly, if you wish to attend liturgy, do that at our sister churches in town.

Note:  Today, May 4 marks my 8th anniversary of ordination and next week on May 10, our 8th anniversary as a parish community. Please, let’s prayer for each other as we continue to follow the Spirit’s lead.

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Readings: 

• Acts 7: 55-60
• Revelation 22: 12-14, 16-17, 20
• John 17: 20-26

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Dear Friends,

This week we are asked to consider, “peace.”  Peace, is what Jesus said he would leave us with. We come to understand that it is a peace unlike what we might think–not one that denotes, bliss, but one marked by struggle.  After the struggle for all that Jesus spent his life for, and for us, as his followers, comes the peace–none of us can have true peace, until we all have it!

Come; pray with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 15: 1-2, 22-29
• Revelation 21: 10-14, 22-23
• John 14: 23-29

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Dear Friends,

We continue to move through the Easter Season and proclaim that we are “Easter People!”  Easter calls us to something new–Jesus our brother, while among us was always doing something new, turning old ways of doing things, “on their heads.”   We are called to the same–to be all inclusive, all loving, all merciful–to see past the law to the love.

Come friends; celebrate the newness with us this Sunday!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Acts 14: 21-27
• Revelation 21: 1-5
• John 13: 31-33, 34-35

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Note: Remember to Save July 24, Sunday for the Mary of Magdala Mass and Picnic on the Farm! 

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Dear Friends,

This weekend, our Mass will be on Saturday afternoon at 4:30 P.M.  I will be away and Pastor Dick Dahl will be standing in for me.  I will be devoting the weekend to work with the Cojourner Advisory Council of which I am a member, in Rochester at Assisi Heights.  Please pray for our work as we contemplate how best to be a community of lay women and men that both befriends and carries on the spirit of the Sisters and the vision of Francis and Clare in our world.

The Scriptures for this 4th weekend of Easter assist us as cojourners and all of you as members of this good parish as we see Paul and Barnabas laboring among the Gentiles spreading the message of Jesus, realizing that it was intended for all to hear. We very simply, in today’s gospel, are encouraged, “to listen.”  Another way to think of this is to be attentive to the guidance of the Spirit all around us in all the circumstances of life.

Come; ponder and pray together with the All Are One community this Saturday!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings: 

• Acts 13: 14, 43-52
• Revelation 7: 9, 14-17
• John 10: 27-30

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Remember to Save the Date:  July 24, 2016, Mary of Magdala, Mass and picnic on the farm.