Reflection from your Co-Pastors
May 26, 2022
We Lament
Tuesday, families and towns were again traumatized by a shooter killing innocent children in their classroom. Trauma is becoming normalized. And we ask ourselves, how can we change this?
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Sitting on a Hill with My Heart in My Hands | | |
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Some wounds can’t be healed with bandages,
only time and effort –
a lifetime of effort to stitch a patchwork heart.
Hide the hurts: Learn from the pictures lining the hallway
that cover the holes in the walls.
Covering,
covering,
covering.
Behind family vacations and forced picture-day smiles –
generations of covering.
Did anyone see?
The what-ifs are always harder than the what-weres.
Happiness reflected in fragmented mirrors.
Is this my mouth? Lift the corners,
shaky, shaky.
Is this my voice? Disembodied.
Practice,
practice,
practice.
There. That’ll do.
But you can’t feel anything in the uncanny valley.
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Can a patchwork person ever be real?
We can never remember
Our dreams.
After he died, I sat on a hill,
rows of pine behind me,
rows of self in front.
I thought, How do I measure existence?
In breaths? In laughter? In moments of clarity?
Unconsciously picking at the scabs of old wounds,
The blood pumping around scars, smooth and raised,
The patchwork seams
Slowly fracturing, flowing, flooding,
Life begins at the cracks.
-- Sara Palmer
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A possible heart reply:
“God in Christ crucified insists on swapping lunches, demands we bring our cups of spiced and foaming wine, our liquefying rage, the wormwood of our bitterness, the festering inflammations of horror-torn creation. Just as God in Christ crucified stretches out loving arms, drains the dregs of our poisons, sucks dry the pus from our wounded world…. God in Christ crucified invites us to come with anger and tears, with shame and humiliation poured out to the point of exhaustion. “I hunger and thirst for it all. For heaven’s sake, don’t keep swallowing it or try to force it down someone else’s throat!...Don’t hold back! I can take it all in, and still rise on the third day!” ¹
And so, we lament… How long, O God, how long must we cry out. How long must our children be killed violently and needlessly? Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your great mercy.
Here are two options to 'Listen and Lament' together. This one in Latin. This one in English.
1.Marilyn McCord Adams, Christ and Horrors; The Coherence of Christology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 294-295 in Sally A. Howard, Secure Dwelling and Positive Meaning in the Face of Trauma, CAC Publishing, 26, Oneing: Trauma, Vol.9 No1.
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This Week at Mary Magdala, ECC | |
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Meet Your 2022-23 Leadership Council
The Leadership Council conducted a runoff election for the third open seat on the 2022-23 Leadership Council. Congratulations to Lisa Jones who secured the third seat. At our annual meeting on Sunday, we elected David Cloyd and Joan Chapman-Smith to the other two open seats.
Co-Pastors Mother Rosean and Reverend Jane remain on Leadership Council as our clergy representatives. Sandra Life, Baily Livengood, Carol Persons, and Michael Six return for their second year of their term. David Cloyd and Michael Six have been elected co-chairs at last Monday's meeting with Lisa Jones elected as Secretary. (For pictures of our Leadership Council, click here.)
Your can reach any of the Leadership Council members at marymagdalafc@gmail.com, text or voice mail at 970-493-9536
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Praying for peace, health and well-being through challenging times
+ Pauletta, friend of member Suzanne King
+ Cory Breslin - friend of member Kerrie Anderson
+ Jim, husband of Dori Carroll member
+ Joanne Gallagher - member
+ Deacon Katie (TLC), Curtis, & Baby Theo
+ Edward for healing and Marge for hope, relatives of Ruth Conley, member
+ Heather, daughter of Don Heyse, (TLC)
+Paul Wagner, brother of Co-Pastor Rev.Jane
+ Dave Skinner, friend of Sharon Friedman.
+ Harry, 11 year canine companion to Gray La Fond.
+ Yvonne Keefe - member
+ Michael Juranek - friend of David and Mary Lou Devlin
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+ Everly Parks - friend to Lynne and Jim Barnes, members.
+ Rosemary - Fr Michael's mother
+ 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.
+ Dennis Snyder. brother-in-law of Ruth Alexander, member+ John Crowfoot, friend of Jean Christen, member
+ Lauren Roob - friend of Rosanna Bateman, member
+ Dona Bosse - member
+ Blanca Mattalia Wyrzykowski, friend of Mother Rosean
+ Gloria Farrell, aunt of Co-Pastor Jane
+ Tom Froehlich, brother of Ann Russell, member
+ Howard, brother of Joan Crawford, ECC Deacon
+ Verna Bodig, member
+ Kathie Reiten, mother of Pastor Rick.
+ Mary Lynn Eyestone, sister of Joan Chapman Smith, 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. | |
Service Recordings and More | |
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Recording - 6th Sunday in Easter, May 22, 2022
Here is the video recording of the readings and the homily by Co-Pastor Rev. Jane Reina. The worship aid is available for you to print or view to assist with prayer
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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
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Our Vision – ‘Our guiding Light’
Weaving a tapestry of love, hope and justice for the world.
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The 301 Faith Partners--Mary of Magdala, Trinity Lutheran, St Paul's Episcopal --have a Vision, Mission and Values statement that guides our relationships, interactions, and shared projects and ministries.
Read about our Mission, Core Values and Covenant here.
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Newsletters of Trinity Lutheran Church and the St. Paul's Episcopal
What are our partners in ministry up to? Click here for the Trinity Lutheran Church monthly newsletter, "Tidings". And here is St Paul's weekly bulletin.
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