We Need Magazines for Good Friday

The 301 Partnership is again sponsoring Outdoor Stations of the Cross on Good Friday from noon to 3:00 pm. Bill Smith will be providing the instrumental music and song.

We need magazines! Can you help us by donating any magazines you might have at home that are relevant to the issues of our time? The photos and headlines chosen will become a permanent part of the collages on each of the Stations.

There will be a box available in the foyer of the church this weekend.

Weekday Mass on Wednesdays 11:00am

In-Church Gathering Only

Co-Pastors Reverend Jane and Mother Rosean will celebrate weekly Mass in the Fireside Room. Please join us-- in person--to hear the Word of God, partake of the Eucharistic meal and enjoy being in community with each other. All are welcome.

NEXT SATURDAY!!!

We Need You for Spring Cleaning



Come knock off the winter sludge and come-on-down to a Spring Cleanup day, Saturday, April 9 from 9 am-12 pm. Join with our Faith Partners to cleanup our church home. There will be projects for all skill n levels - inside and out.

Image by Susan Ryan from Pixabay

Holy Week and Easter Schedule

 Zoom Links to be provided later this week

For complete service schedule,click here

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Last Opportunity in Lent

Taize - Join us weekly for this

Spiritual Practice - In Church & on Zoom

Wednesday Evening during Lent

6:45 pm – April 6.

Silence is a prayer. Silence is a song.

Silence is a reflection. Silence is a gift.

Let us worship together on Wednesday with Taize music, centered around the spiritual practice of Silence and song.



To attend via Zoom, click HERE. To learn more about Taize click HERE

ECC Official News - Spring 2022

• Read greetings and message from our Presiding Bishop and the nomination of a successor.
• Save the date for the Synod, St. Louis, October 9-12. Theme: The Church in Action
• News from Poland, House of Pastors and Mary Magdalene Society

Click HERE to read

Please send prayer requests to marymagdalafc@gmail.com. Prayers will be listed for one month unless requested for longer. Prayers for the repose of souls will be listed for six months unless requested for a longer time.

Recording - Sunday, April 3, 2022

Here is the video recording of the readings and the homily by Fr Teri Harroun. The  Sunday Worship Aid is available for you to print or view to assist with prayer.

Sunday's Social Justice Reflection

Most borders have been imposed and maintained by violence, and are generally quite arbitrary, with no concern for the people who live there, or for the terrain. Few borders in the world are so heavily guarded by sophisticated technology, and so subject to impassioned rhetoric, as the one that separates Mexico from the United States, two countries with amicable diplomatic relations.

This border was kept fairly open until 1994, when it was militarized by the Clinton Administration under Operation Gatekeeper.  Before then, people regularly crossed the border to see relatives and friends. Activist writer and philosopher, Noam Chomsky, has suggested that Operation Gatekeeper was motivated by the imposition of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which opened Mexican farmlands to multinational corporations that were given special treatment by Mexican government and which ultimately undermined Mexican farming, wreaked havoc on the Mexican economy, and triggered mass migrations northward.

The Gatekeeper strategy of “control through deterrence” was first implemented during a period of economic recession as well as political anti-immigrant sentiment.  Initially, it was focused on the 5 5/8 westernmost border miles between the Pacific Ocean and San Ysidro Port of Entry but was eventually extended across the state of California.  Rather than reduce illegal immigration as intended, it forced immigrants to cross into the US over more treacherous mountain and desert lands and exponentially increased the dependence on coyotes, or human smugglers. Whereas in 1994, fewer than 30 migrants died along the border, it has been estimated that 5 people die every 4 days due to dehydration and sunstroke in the summer or freezing in the winter.

I continue to watch in awe as Poland graciously welcomes refugees from the Ukraine and am heartbroken by the misery and suffering imposed by inhumane practices and regulations at our own borders with Mexico, quite possibly motivated by imperialist greed as Noam Chomsky suggests.  I hope you will join me in prayer and advocacy for a national transformation of mind and heart towards our neighbors to the South.

Tom Moos - Chair, Social Justice Ministry

Past Recordings, Bulletins, and Announcements

For all bulletins, reflections, Sunday recordings during, visit our webpage. Please contact us with questions, concerns and ideas for better connection with and for the community - marymagdalafc@gmail.com. And feel free to call the office at 970 493-9536

Newsletters of Trinity Lutheran Church and the St. Paul's Episcopal  

What are our partners in ministry up to? Click here for the Trinity Lutheran Church monthly newsletter, "Tidings". And here is St Paul's weekly bulletin.