Reflections from our Co-Pastors' and Wednesday Mass will pause for Lent. Please see the Holy Week Schedule below

Mid-Week Update at Mary of Magdala, ECC

Lenten Social Justice Project - Will Collect 'Rice Bowls' on Sunday

Thanks to all the generous donors who brought in their rice bowls on March 26. In case you forgot to return yours, the Social Justice committee will still accept them on Palm Sunday, April 2. This will be the final collection date. (If you are writing a check, please make it out to Mary of Magdala and identify the benefactor in the memo line.)

• Homeward Alliance - benefiting at risk and unhoused individuals and families.
• ISAAC - works in solidarity for human dignity and immigration justice. Read the Social Justice reflection about ISAAC here
• TACSCO - help workers and victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey - Read the Social Justice reflection about TACSCO here

Lenten Reflection from Presiding Bishop Paul

Dear Beloved,

As this Lenten season began, I found myself once again in the Dominican Republic.  Every year at this time a group of faculty, staff and students travel with me to communities on the island of Hispanola to learn and experience first hand the joys, challenges and hopes of subsistence farmers and immigrant field workers from Haiti. Host families open their lives and homes to us in a way that enables, even non-Spanish speaking sojourners to feel connected and welcomed as extended members of the family.....

Read more here.

Pray with the Blessed Mother in the Chapel

Room 9 (East hall of the Trinity building) has been converted into a Chapel for prayer and quiet reflection. Images of Mary, the Mother of Christ are there, and you may take a rosary if you so desire. You may light a candle as a way of offering a prayer. (In the notebook, put the number of your candle and the date upon which you lit it so that batteries may be replaced later.)

The Chapel will be open for your use at any time when the Trinity building is open. It will continue to be available until the August rotation of Faith Family Hospitality.

Spring Cleanup Day - Needing Everyone to Make it Effortless!

Please come join our Faith Partners in cleaning up our beautiful church home just before Easter. There will be tasks for all skill levels inside.

When: This Saturday, April 1st, from 9:00 a.m. to Noon

Where: Inside the church

What: Please bring your cleanup tools and supplies.

Thank you so much!

Image by Maria from Pixabay

Last Lenten Reflection

Co- Pastor led prayer and reflection on the Lenten booklet 'Not by Bread Alone" On Zoom only– use this Zoom link. (Different from Sunday Mass)

• Weds - Mar 29 at 7:00 pm, or attend -
• Thurs. Mar 30 at 1:00 pm , or both!

Table for 4

Reservations are OPEN

for April/May

If you want to participate select the RESERVE TABLE button below or call 970 224-0297.

Reservations are extended to April 5

If you are not aware of Table for 4: It is an opportunity for MoM members to meet in smaller groups to get to know one another a little better. Participants are put into a group of 4 and they decide whether to go out to breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, drinks, etc. Each Table will meet one time during the 2 month period. Table for 4 is open to singles and couples. You do not need to join every time reservations are open... only when it fits into your schedule.

Last Taizé Lenten Supper & Prayer Service

• Taizé worship will be held this Thursday with a 'Soup Supper' before worship.

Join us Thursday - March 30

• Soup Supper at 5:45 pm, and/or;
• Taizé at 6:30 pm - 30 minute service, live and on Zoom (different link than Sunday Mass)

If you would like to participate with preparing a simple soup or help with set up, clean up, and/or donate bread, sign up here!

2023 Rocky Mountain First Regional Synod

April 22, 2023 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Mary of Magdala, ECC

301 E Stuart Street, Fort Collins CO 80525

Please register for in-person attendance and for Zoom attendance at our Regional Website - http://www.coloradoecc.org/ by April 10

You can also register by printing this form, complete and mail to Mary of Magdala by April 10. Zoom links and detailed Schedule will be emailed to registrants.

Suggested donation, In-person attendees $10/person, $15/household

Zoom attendees: $10/household

Schedule in Brief - April 22

..9:00 - Check-in and Breakfast

..9:20 - Sharing our ECC experiences dreams

10:00 - Chrism Mass part 1: Liturgy of the Word

10:30 - Cross-community, table conversations.

......(2 sessions, attendees choose 1 topic in each)

• Liturgical Music
• Liturgical Prayer/Language
• Publicizing our Faith Communities
• Interacting With our Host Churches
• Fellowship/Hospitality Practices
• Religious Ed for Youth & Adults
• Community Finances

11:40 - Faith Community take-aways

12:15 - Lunch

12:45 - Social Justice Project

..1:40 - Keynote: George von Stamwitz, ECC Chancellor: “ECC in Action”

..2:30 - Chrism Mass part 2: blessing of oils, ministry re-commitments Eucharist (S)

..3:30 - Wrap-up and Goodbyes

Remember to register by April 10

Request for Prayers

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 March 26 2023

Celebrating the 5th Sunday in Lent with Rev. Jane Reina. A video recording of the readings and Homily is available here.

Social Justice Reflection

Om Moos, Chair Social Justice Ministry

Our Lenten theme this year has been “Blooming in the Desert: a New Perspective on Lent”. We are encouraged to think about Lent in new ways. Rather than giving up chocolate and sweets, we’ve been called to be intentional, to live abundantly into God’s promises, celebrate where justice and mercy embrace, love without fear, bring good news to the poor and set the oppressed free. More important than abstaining from meat on Fridays, God invites us to bloom in Christ consciousness, glow with the light of compassion, and open our hearts to new experiences of the Divine. The Gospels from John (the transfiguration, the woman at the well, the man born blind, and today, the raising of Lazarus) are rich in theological language and imagery, and powerfully expounded through the wisdom of our homilists. 

This Lent, we have also offered financial sacrifices, given alms for 3 organizations working on behalf of the homeless, the immigrant and asylum seeker, and the victims of catastrophic earthquake devastation. Compared to the need of so many, the help we offer may be but a “drop in the bucket”. And yet, perhaps part of our “blooming” - part of our “new perspective” - might be the awareness that for the specific individuals helped by our donations, this assistance could be life-giving, may bring hope’s light to darkness and despair, and perhaps even be transformative.

On behalf of Homeward Alliance, ISAAC, and TACSCO, thank you for your generosity. May God continue to bless your good work this Lent. Often, our world can seem like a hostile, barren, lifeless desert. In this final week of Lent, through Holy Week and as we again celebrate the glory of risen life at Easter, may we see with new eyes the beauty around us blooming in this desert.

11:00 am Wednesday Masses are paused throughout Lent - Will resume after Easter



Palm Sunday April 2 12:30 pm

• Palm Sunday
• Mother Rosean presiding



Holy Thursday April 6 5:00 pm

• Holy Thursday with Foot Washing
• Mother Rosean presiding

Good Friday, April 7

• Stations of the Cross, Noon to 2:00
• 7 Last Words of Christ, 7:00 PM

Easter Services, April 9

• Mary of Magdala—Sunday 12:30 pm
• Mother Rosean Presiding

Mary of Magdala Parish Community

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

• Here is the webpage with more information on membership
• If you would like to contribute to Mary of Magdala, here are ways to schedule a single or recurring Sunday offertory.
• Need to view, update information or download a copy of the member directory? Just click here.



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.