Good News - Mother Rosean had a successful surgery on Thursday to address her infection. Looks like she will return with no restrictions midweek.

Thank you everyone for your continued prayers!

Celebrating the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time February 19, 2023

If you want the cooperation of humans around you you just make them feel they are important—and you do that by being genuine and humble.

—Nelson Mandela

Join us Sunday at 12:30 p.m. in the Church or on Zoom for Mass. Father Michael Nicosia is presiding.

Our lectors are Matt Chavez and Gray

LaFond. Our Eucharistic ministers are Becky and Matt Chavez. Our wonderful choir will lead us in prayerful song.

Here is the worship aid (view or print) to assist with prayer.

• Zoom Link: Here
• For Zoom App:  431 502 8167
• Call-in Audio Only:  +1 669 900 6833
• Meeting ID: 431 502 8167

An Invitation to Ash Wednesday

Please Join Us for an Evening Ash Wednesday Reconciliation Service and Ashes, 7PM, Wednesday, February 22, 2023. Bring your friends!

The season of Lent is a time of preparation. We cannot experience the joy of Easter without preparing and embarking on the journey that carries us through Lent. Preparation for some begins before Ash Wednesday. Some of the ancient Carnival celebrations went from Christmas until Ash Wednesday.

Today, though, not many Christians consciously prepare for Lent, and fewer attend Ash Wednesday services. It might be a misunderstanding of Lent because Lent is a reflective and renewing time that touches many different emotions, especially come Holy Week. But we are not there yet. We have a long journey ahead of us, as we walk now with Jesus through our own desert places.

In this service, you are invited to prepare for Lent and make a way for holiness to be a part of your journey through Lent and beyond. Many of us have been here before, at the edge of this wilderness, stepping into the desert, and for some, this may be our first Lenten journey. But for all of us, we are not the same as we were last year at this time. Life changes and so do we. That is why it is good for us to go on the Lenten journey again and prepare to sing ‘Alleluia’ again on Easter morning.

But now we must bury our ‘Alleluias’, as the early Christians did, and prepare for another journey, because we are not there yet. As we begin our service, the Carnival masks we hide behind must fall. As we come before the One who knows us as we are, we are invited to think about how we will prepare for our 40-day journey.

Service created by Rebeka Maples, God of Desert Places, Wild Goose Publications. Minor edits by Rev. Jane Reina

The Season of Lent 'Blooming in the desert, a new perspective on Lent’

Wednesday February 22 – Thursday April 6



For an updated calendar of all Lenten opportunities for prayer and reflection, click here. Copies will be available at Mass on Sunday

• Lenten Forum on End of Life
• Taize Services
• Lenten Daily Readings with Co-Pastor led reflections
• Online Lenten reflections
• ...and more.

Mary of Magdala Announcements

301 Faith Partners Shared Service & Potluck - Next Sunday - February 26, 10:30 am - No 12:30 Mass

Our Next 301 Faith Partners Shared Service will be on Sunday February 26 at 10:30 am followed by a 3 church potluck.

Join us after the service for a potluck dinner. 🥮🍤🥘🌮🥗🍕🥙 😊

IF you are able, please bring a dish to share.



Hope to see you there for fellowship & good food!

Lenten Reflections - Led by Mother Rosean and Reverend Jane

Booklets available after Mass (1 per family)

Mark your calendars! Co- Pastor led prayer and reflection weekly through Lent.

• Weds. at 7:30 pm beginning March 1
• Thurs. at 10:00 am beginning March 2.

Taize Worship

Taize worship will be held on THURSDAYS during Lent. with Soup Supper before worship. In the spirit of Lent, the meal will be simple, with just soup and bread. No need to bring soups but if you could stay and help clean up, that would be appreciated.

Join us Thursdays throughout Lent - March 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30

• Soup Supper at 5:45 pm (no need to bring soups!)
• Taize at 6:30 pm, 30 minute service, live and on Zoom

We need Your Input! Survey is open.

The focus of the Joint Eco-Justice Ministry (a 301 Faith Partners effort), is to explore and act on topics related to eco-justice.

We are interested in what the members of Mary of Magdala think would be important topics on which to act.

Please complete this short survey so we can know more about what is important to our community. Questions? Contact Linda Joyce

Stewardship - 2023

Thank you everyone who participated in the Stewardship Pledge

Pledges are now up to 78% of proposed budget.

You can still participate! Here is the stewardship form.

DONATIONS NEEDED

FOR PERMANENTLY PLACED FAMILIES

The Donation Task Force could use kitchen tables/chairs, couches, living room chairs, twin/queen comforters/blankets, towel sets, and twin box springs/metal frames/mattresses. Please contact Jodi at (970)371-5345 or jodi@familyhousingnetwork.org.

DAY CENTER NEEDS

The Day Center is in need of full size shampoo and conditioner. Please check out the signup genius link here if you have any availability to help volunteer on the weekend.

Isaac Reads

Solito, A Memoir, by Javier Zamora.

Join us in a book discussion on March 7 (Time and Zoom information to follow)

This gripping best-selling memoir narrates Zamora’s three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border when he was nine years old. 🥚 EGG

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Trinity Book Group

Join the Trinity Book Group to discuss Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s novel Woman of Light. 

When: Monday, March 6 at 9:30 a.m

Where: Join us in the Sun Room or on Zoom here. 

Questions? Call Nadine Hunt at 970-825-373ing"!

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 Mass February 12 2023

Celebrating the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

A video recording of the readings and the homily given by Father Teri Harroun is available here.

Wednesday February 22 - 11:00 am

• Cancelled. Join us for Ash Wednesday service

Ash Wednesday February 22. All open to our three communities

• 7:00 am - St. Paul's Episcopal
• 12 Noon - Trinity Lutheran
• 7:00 pm -Mary of Magdala, ECC

Sunday February 26 10:30 am

• 301 Faith Partners Shared Service at 10:30 am - Mother Rosean and Rev. Jane presiding
• Followed by POTLUCK with our partners! Bring your favorite 'shareable'

Mary of Magdala Parish Membership And Sunday Offertory

All are invited and ALL are welcome to join our parish community.

Here is the webpage with more information. If you would like to contribute to Mary of Magdala, here ways to schedule a single or recurring Sunday offertory.

The ECC Regional Website is now live - View here.

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

Click here for the Trinity Lutheran Church monthly newsletter, "Tidings". And here is St Paul's weekly bulletin.

Mary of Magdala Member Directory

Need to view, update information or download a copy of the member directory? Just click here.

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Apple App Store: Get the iPhone / iPad app here

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