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Reflection from our Co-Pastors - Tuesday, Nov. 23
MAY I BE HOPE…
On Sunday, Kerrie Anderson made available to us a handout that we could use for Advent reflection. The theme of our Advent season is "Lighting the Way to Christmas with Hope, Peace, Joy and Love." Please let your reflections guide and inform you during this season of waiting for the birth of Christ.
As we light our Advent wreaths at home or in the Sanctuary of Mary of Magdala, let us remember the words of Jesus to us: "You are the light of the world... let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to God in heaven."
(Matthew 5: 14-16) The candle lit
on the first Sunday of Advent symbolizes Hope--Hope in the coming of Christ and Hope in the Christ within each of us.
Today's reflection on Hope is from Farrell Mason author, blogger and pastoral minister of Woodmont
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Christian Church in Nashville,
Tennessee:
"I like to imagine that you and I are all wearing invisible superhero T-shirts. They are imprinted with the words "I Am Hope." It is how we are spiritually encoded; it's in our DNA. We are living, well-lit advertisements of God's Hope in this world. Hope is our first language as God's beloveds. Hope means God has us. God will make a way. Hope saves us moment by moment. Hope is not a sentiment, but a choice. Every time you speak a word of Hope into another, the Christmas story lives on."
So let us enter into our first week of Advent with Hope in our hearts and in our being.
We ask this in Jesus' name.
Amen
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Thank you! Thank you! for a Great Turkey Drive! |
Len Russ, aka 'the Turkey Guy' reported that 72 turkeys were donated weighing in at 1,112 lbs!
He and Ginger say, "Our thanks again to all our generous friends! The Food Bank said that their own drive was a success and will be able to distribute enough turkeys to the both Fort Collins and Loveland food pantries!"
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Above is a picture of Mother Rosean from Mary of Magdala and Len Russ doing a blessing of multiplication on the turkeys received Sunday afternoon. Sure enough, soon after the blessing, more donors showed up. |
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Thank you!
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Praying for peace, health and well-being through challenging times
+Michael Beavan, hospitalized with Covid pneumonia, Brother of Anne Beavan
+Everly Parks - 4 year old with cancer, friend to Lynne and Jim Barnes, members.
+Joyce - for her cancer treatments, friend to Suzanne King, member.
+Harry, 11 year canine companion to Gray La Fond.
+Allison and Madison- Granddaughters Cousin Nancy and Sister-in-law Judy - Dick and Sandra Life, members.
+Dan Scace, Tom Dykers and Monte
Bowthorpe - friends of Dick Life, member
+Charli - friend of Jean Christen, member
+Joan Wershberger & Mary Etta Fothergill - friends of member Cathy Engel
+Dorothea Grimm - Mother of Rosanna Bateman, member
+Mary Detweiller - member
+Jerry Padilla, father and Ryan Cordova nephew of Lisa Jones - member
+Michael Keefe, son of Yvonne Keefe-member
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+Joanne Gallagher - member
+Rosemary - Fr Michael's mother
+Dani - niece of the Cloyds - members
+Mike Gudim
+Suzanne King - member
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A blessed and peaceful repose of souls for those who've passed and comfort for the friends and families.
+For the niece of Steve and Cheryl Backsen (of Trinity Lutheran) and the entire Backsen family
Fr. Denny Dempsey - and in gratitude for his spiritual presence in my life - Gaston Lopez
Eric Rose - Estes Park Policeman
Leo Six – Father of Michael Six, member
Dr. Barbara Immroth - sister of member Joanne Gallagher
Dolores Orsi - mother of member
Jared Orsi
Herman Phillip - friend of Brad Rouse
Adrian - Son of Joe & Ann - friends of
members Cindy and David Cloyd
Mary Crosby - member
Margie Weitz - member
David Heyman -member
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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.
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Sunday, Nov 21st - Recording
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Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894. His parents moved there from Memphis in hopes that the drier, warmer California weather would ease their tuberculosis symptoms. Paul’s parents both died by 1898 leaving he and a brother orphaned. His adoptive parents supported Paul’s desire to become an architect and enrolled him in some of LA’s more selective schools.
Though Paul encountered obstacles and some of his teachers discouraged him, he persisted and eventually studied architectural engineering at the University of Southern CA and drafting at the LA branch of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He participated in and won several architectural design competitions where his work was judged anonymously on its own merits. Over time, he attracted the attention and mentorship of some of LA’s foremost architects. He opened his own office at the age of 28.
An early project designing luxury homes in Flintridge cemented his reputation as one of LA’s premier architects. Williams developed a style that uniquely blended Tudor, French Chateau, or Mediterranean styles with modern, customer-specific elements. He designed over 2000 dream homes for people like Frank Sinatra, Lon Chaney,
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Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwick, and other wealthy entertainers, politicians and business moguls. Williams famously noted the bitter irony that most of the homes he designed, and whose construction he oversaw, were on parcels whose deeds
included segregation covenants barring Black people from purchasing them. In fact, during most of his career, he and his family lived in a simple home.in a less desirable LA neighborhood. Williams taught himself the unique skill of drawing upside-down so white clients, sitting comfortably on the other side of his desk rather than beside him, could see his design sketches right-side-up as he created them. As his reputation spread, Williams earned commissions to design commercial projects across the country. Many are now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. He designed St Jude Children’s Hospital for his friend, Danny Thomas, for free.
Reflecting on his lifelong encounters with racism in a biographical essay, he said, “I came to realize that I was being condemned, not by lack of ability, but by my color. I passed through successive stages of bewilderment, inarticulate protest, resentment, and, finally, reconciliation to the status of my race. […] I found in my condition an incentive to personal accomplishment. I developed a fierce desire to vindicate every ability I had.”
He retired from his practice in 1973 and died of diabetes in 1980 at the age of 85.
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Past Recordings, Bulletins, and Announcements
For all bulletins, reflections, Sunday recordings during, visit our webpage. Please contact us with questions, concerns and ideas for better connection with and for the community - marymagdalafc@gmail.com. And feel free to call the office at 970 493-9536.
Newsletters of Trinity Lutheran Church and the St. Paul's Episcopal
What are our partners in ministry up to? Go here for the Trinity Lutheran Church monthly newsletter, "Tidings". And here is St Paul's weekly bulletin
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Who Are the 301 Faith Partners? |
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The 301 Faith Partners have a Vision,
Mission and Values statement that guides our relationships, interactions, and shared projects and ministries.
Our Vision – ‘Our guiding Light’
Weaving a tapestry of love, hope and justice for the world.
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Read the Vision, Mission, Core Values and Covenant here.
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