Midweek Mass, Wednesday - 11:00 am

in the Fireside Room

(no Zoom available for Wednesday Mass)

Hope to see you there!

Assisting those with food insecurity

The program to provide dinner to 20 food insecure CSU students starts this week. Mary of Magdala will help by preparing and serving dinner once a week beginning September 13.

Please email Lisa Jones at lpjones99@yahoo.com for questions or to volunteer. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide!

Volunteer with Habitat

Build Day is this Saturday,

Sept 17 -- Our planned 'Build Day' is on Saturday, Sept 17. No experience is necessary, just a desire to contribute time and energy. Contact Len Russ via this email.

We are looking for volunteers for our Neighborhood Oktoberfest

We are looking for about 10 volunteers for our September 23rd event for set-up, event support and take down. No one will need to spend more than an hour volunteering so they can enjoy the event with family and friends.

For questions, reach out to Jan Friedlund at janfriedlund@msn.com.

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.

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday, September 11, 2022

A video recording of readings and the homily by Mother Rosean Amaral is available here. The full Sunday Mass worship aid is available to assist with prayer and meditation.

Social Justice Reflection - Sept 24

Tom Moos, Chair Social Justice Ministry

Until this past Friday, September in Northern Colorado has been one of the hottest on record, with daily high temps between 90 – 100 F, matching the heat of our Julys much more than our typical Septembers.

Worldwide, temperatures have risen dramatically especially during the three most recent decades. The graphic shown here was developed by Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading. Each of the 167 ovals depicts a world map composed of a pixel grid. A baseline surface temperature was calculated for the 30 years between 1961 to 1990 for each region represented by a pixel. Each map represents one year between 1850 to 2017 and compares the average regional temperature per pixel region that year against the 30-year baseline for that region. A pixel is colored:

• white if a region’s average temperature in a given year was unknown
• light to dark blue if the region’s average temperature was 0.2 to 2.5 degrees C cooler than during the baseline years
• light to dark red if the region had an average temperature that was 0.2 to 2.5 C hotter than the baseline

These maps dramatically illustrate that our world is heating up. The rapid warming of the Arctic compared to the rest of the globe is evident as deep reds become more prevalent in those regions. Also striking is the recent patch of blue coolness off the tip of Greenland which scientists think might be due to a massive influx of freshwater from the island’s melting ice sheet.

Are the effects of global warming really that bad?

Higher temperatures are worsening many types of disasters, including storms, heat waves, floods, and droughts. As temperatures spike, so does the incidence of illness, emergency room visits, and death, especially for children and elderly, particularly in low-income and minority communities. Rising temperatures also worsen air pollution by increasing ground-level ozone smog, increase wildlife extinction rates, acidify the oceans, and raise sea levels. All of these outcomes have featured prominently in the news.

As science has warned us, we must aggressively ditch our dependence on fossil fuels.

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