Mass & Service Schedule for October

Wed October 5 - 11:00 am

• Live only, in the Fireside Room

Sun October 9 - 5:00 pm

• Live and on Zoom
• Communion Service

Wed October 12 - 11:00 am

• CANCELLED

Sun October 16 - 5:00 pm 

• Live and on Zoom
• Oktoberfest social after Mass

Wed October 19 - 11:00 am

• Live only, in the Fireside Room

Sun October 23 - 5:00 pm 

• Live and on Zoom

Wed October 26 - 11:00 am

• Live only, in the Fireside Room

Sun October 30 - 10:30 am

• Celebrate Ecumenical Service with 301 Faith Partners
• Service begins at 10:30 am
• Followed by a catered lunch for all three churches
• NO 5:00 pm Mass

Our Hospitality Ministry is hosting a

new program called a....

Table for 4

The program is social in nature and promotes getting to know other parish members. Make your October 'reservations' by October 5th

Read about the program here

Blessing of the Animals - TODAY

• Tuesday, October 4
• 2-3 pm and 5-6:30 pm
• Outside near the church entrance

Reverend Jane and Mother Rosean would like to bless all your beloved creatures on this day and will be out front in the church parking lot from with some holy water and words of blessing.

So bring your dogs, cats, birds, ferrets, gerbils, guinea pigs, horses, snakes and even your fish for a sweet, loving, hands-on blessing. Our animal friends are a blessing to us, so it is fitting that once a year we can offer them a blessing as well.

The First Gathering of Gen-X and Millennials - This Thursday October 6

The first gathering of Gen-X and Millennials including partners and friends is being hosted by Steven Reising, Mary Vogl and Jared Orsi.

This will be in the Fireside Room at Trinity this Thursday, October 6 from 6:30-8:00 pm. For this first social event pizza and drinks are generously provided by Mary of Magdala.

For questions reach out via call or text at 970-493-9536

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.

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday, October 2, 2022

A video recording of readings and the homily by Father Teri Harroun a is available here and includes the community video created by David Cloyd. The full Sunday Mass worship aid is available to assist with prayer and meditation.

Social Justice Reflection

Tom Moos-Chair, Social Justice Ministry

Food deserts can be described as geographic areas where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or non-existent. The government’s definition is based on the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance, for example, within one mile in urban areas or within ten miles in rural settings. However, this definition fails to differentiate corner grocery or convenience stores from supermarkets nor takes into consideration socioeconomic factors. 

White neighborhoods contain an average of four times as many supermarkets as predominantly black neighborhoods. Grocery stores in African-American communities are usually smaller with less selection. Food deserts may actually contain an abundance of retail outlets selling food, such as fast food chains selling cheap meat and dairy-based foods high in fat, sugar and salt or highly processed foods. Food deserts also arise in poor communities where neighborhood stores may charge 3 – 37% more than a supermarket. The term “Food Apartheid” was coined to draw attention to a system of segregation that divides those with access to an abundance of nutritious food from those who have been denied that access due to systemic racism and unjust political and business practices. Food apartheid also contributes to increased rates of chronic disease in Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color.

Leah Penniman is one of a growing movement of activists focused on food sovereignty in Black and Brown communities. In 2006, she purchased 72-acres in Grafton, New York to co-found Soul Fire Farm, whose mission is to end racism and injustice in the food system that is largely dominated by white people. 

The flagship program at Soul Fire Farm is a 50-hour immersion course for Black and LatinX beginner farmers taught in the context of principles of organic farming practiced for millennia by Black and Indigenous cultures and revived by George Washington Carver in the early 1900s, community-supported agriculture invented by Booker T Whatley, and the cooperative farming movement of Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Soul Fire Farm provides no cost doorstep delivery of vegetables, fruits, medicine, eggs, and value-add products to people living under food apartheid in the Albany-Troy area.



In today’s Gospel, Jesus compares the kin-dom of God to a woman who mixes yeast with 3 measures of wheat flour until the entire dough is leavened. Leah Penniman may be a modern incarnation of that woman in her work to raise up victims of Food Apartheid and bring about justice in the food system today.

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