Results are in for the 9th Annual Turkey Round-up

Thank you all who contributed to the 9th annual Turkey Round-up. Some people donated 4 or even 5 turkeys!

We also received $60.00 in cash/checks. So that money translates to 5 turkeys. That equals 54 turkeys!

If anyone has more to donate, they should bring them to the food bank turkey drive on Thursday, and be sure to mention that they are from the 301 Faith Partners..

In gratitude - Len (the Turkey Guy)

Weekday Mass

Wednesdays, at 11:00 am in the Fireside Room -

(In-person, no Zoom available)

Mary of Magdala, ECC's Annual Time and Talent Initiative

For the next two weeks we are asking all friends, families and members to choose an area (or two) from our list of opportunities to help us live into the mission of Mary of Magdala.

As an independent Catholic community we depend on friends and members to realize our mission - from creating meaningful worship services to ministries of service, to keeping this wonderful building in good repair or working with the regional or national ECC.

If you prefer completing on line use this link. Printed copies available at church.

Please complete individually and return by November 27. No gift of Time and Talent is too small. We appreciate each and every one of you.

Thank you, THANK YOU !!

Your Leadership Council

P.S. Our 'treasure initiative' begins in January

Fall Clean-up Day on Saturday

For our beautiful building and grounds.

Bring your Enthusiasm - No Experience Necessary!

We will be having our Fall Clean Up on

Saturday, November 19 from

8:00 am - 12:00 Noon

Come One Come All !

A booklet for Advent

Advent and Christmas,

Waiting in Joyful Hope

• Available to pick up at Mass on Sunday Nov. 13th, 20th and 27th
• Reflection/Prayer Group begins on Thursdays beginning 12/1 during Advent - 10:00 am and 7:30 pm via this Zoom Link

Different link than Sunday Mass

Led by Mother Rosean and Rev. Jane

Advent starts on the 27th. The book has a short scripture passage, a daily reflection and a short prayer for each day.

The book’s focus: The Advent season invites us to put the world’s ways aside and sink into the slow goodness of a spiritual season be- decked not in tinsel and bows but in silence and emptiness, in faint flickering lights against an inky winter sky and the Light that we know will break open our world and overcome its darkness forever come Christmas morning. 

Help Wanted: Let’s Imagine a Colorado ECC Gathering. Meets this week

Following our national synod, we are excited about creating a LOCAL life-giving shared experience. Volunteers are needed to plan an April 23rd gathering of folks from around the region -- perhaps with a celebration of Mass, relationship building, fun, a keynote speaker or service project, imagining the future and more. 

To get a jump start before the holidays, we’ll have a first meeting -

• November 19
• 10-11:30 a.m. on zoom

If you are interested in representing Mary of Magdala on the regional gathering planning team or have questions, contact Mother Rosean via email here.

Time for Shared Prayer for Peace

beginning next Monday - 11/21

We invite you to carve out a short time of your day for shared prayer for Transformation and Peace in the World, to strengthen our sense of belonging and to expand our sense of a loving community in the world. 

Whether sharing the Prayer of Jesus, a prayerful poem or reading or not, we welcome your holy presence and voice.

Whether there are two or 20 people:

• Monday mornings at 9:00 AM for 20 minutes.
• Here is the Zoom link

Love and peace like no other,

Suzanne King and Rev. Jane

Are you available to help drop off some food?

We are in need of a driver to pick-up some prepared food and drop it off at the LuMin student center for the food-insecure student program. This is a one time request on November 29, at around 5:30 pm.

If you can help, please email me, Lisa, at lpjones@gmail.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.

Sunday November 13, 2022 - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

A video recording of the readings and the homily given by Rev. Jane Reina is available here.

Sunday's #BlackLivesMatter Reflection

John Berry Meacham was born into slavery in 1789. Through carpentry and barrel fabrication, he eventually bought his freedom and that of his father, wife Mary, and their children. He became a pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest Black church west of the Mississippi River.

Although it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's basement, charging only a nominal fee to those who could afford to pay. When a more restrictive Missouri state law banned all education for Blacks whether slave or free, he created the Floating Freedom School on a steamboat anchored in the middle of the Mississippi River, outside the state’s jurisdiction.

John and Mary purchased enslaved people, educated them in carpentry and other trades, hired them out to earn money so they could reimburse the Meachams, and then emancipated them. John and Mary also supported the Underground Railroad and ferried runaway slaves across the Mississippi to the free state of Illinois.

John died at the pulpit in 1854 but his Freedom School continued to operate well into the Civil war. Mary continued the work of the Underground Railroad. In May 1855, she and freed-man Isaac Breckenridge guided 9 slaves to a boat hidden along the Mississippi. After crossing, 5 slaves were apprehended but the others escaped. Mary and Isaac were subsequently arrested and charged with “enticing slaves away from their masters”. However, Mary, a prominent St Louis citizen, was represented by good lawyers who managed to get the charges dropped. She remained an abolitionist and community leader until her death in 1865.

A landing at the site of the 1855 crossing became known as the Mary Meacham Freedom Crossing and was the first site dedicated in the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom established by the National Park Service. It was a stopping point in a walk organized by the ECC’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee at our 2022 Synod. Every year, the Crossing hosts a celebration for people who continue the fight for racial freedom and equality.

​​Wed November 16 - 11:00 am

• In the Fireside Room
• No Zoom available

Sunday November 20 12:30 pm

• Fall/Winter schedule. Mass at 12:30 pm (no 5pm Mass)
• Father Michael Nicosia

Wed November 23 - 11:00 am

• In the Fireside Room
• No Zoom available

Sunday November 27 12:30 pm

• Fall/Winter schedule. Mass at 12:30 pm (no 5pm Mass)
• First Sunday of Advent.

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

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