Shared Service & Oktoberfest this Sunday October 22

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine

but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

This Sunday, October 22 the 301 Faith Partners will celebrate together!

• Shared Adult Forum beginning at 9:00 am (In-person and Zoom) Sarah Lindsey from Habitat for Humanity will provide an update on their work in Ft Collins.

Room 2 and on this Zoom Link (Different than the Shared Worship Link)

• Shared Worship at 10:30 am (in-person and on zoom.

Here is the Zoom Link (Different than our Sunday Zoom link)

Passcode: 419433 Meeting ID: 896 7616 4246

==> No 12:30 Mass <==

• Noon Oktoberfest!!

The Oktoberfest will include beer, brats, potato salad, and all the best of Oktoberfest! Bring your stein or cup to the celebration. This will also be a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity to help them reach their goal of $100,000.

Schedule for volunteers on Sunday:



Grillers - please be at the grill by 8 AM.

Setup Team - Please begin by 9:45 AM.

Beer Servers - -please be at the Fellowship Hall by 9:30 AM.

Volunteers bringing food - please bring your donations to the serving tables by 10:25 AM.

Everyone - this event will be using glassware. No plastics. For those choosing beer, please bring your own stein!

One last request - if anyone has a bean bag toss game, please call or text Len at 970-4481-5541. There will be beautiful weather for outdoor fun.

Book Exchange This Sunday!

Books on spirituality, theology, amd faith.

Would you like to pass on some of your well-loved books and get several new ones in return? Then stop by Mary of Magdala’s book exchange table in the narthex after our joint worship service on October 22, 2023. If you have no books to offer—don’t fret—take some that interest you anyway.

Mary of Magdala Announcements

This Wednesday - Join with us to explore interspirituality

The current disunity in Christianity, and between zealous believers of many kinds, reflects elements of hidden, super subtle prejudices inhabiting our old consciousness.



The Gospel, as a universal way of being human, invites us to move toward a further Christic horizon; to enter a deeper, more whole life in Christ.

This presentation will explore new directions highlighted by Thomas Merton and Thomas Keating, and others, and Rev. Len Schreiner’s own understanding

of the “complete Christ” and the transcendent nature of the scriptures. It will identify steps along the interspiritual path toward “becoming a universal spiritual person,” and the soulful consciousness of the mystic, the contemplative, and the peacemaker.

Next Presentation:

Wednesday, October 25

6:00 pm - 7:30pm

On this Zoom Link

Weekly Monday Morning Peace Prayer

Peace reaches deep into our psyche to heal and renew. It radiates from the deepest place within us. While it seems that all creation and institutional bodies are in chaos, Jesus still calls us to the Peace of Christ (John 20.21). It is that Peace within us that radiates outward.

“Where two or more are gathered, there I am in your midst”

(Matt 18:19-20).

If you have the inclination and 20 minutes, please join us in prayer Pray with us for peace in the world and within ourselves. 

Monday mornings at 9am on this Zoom link

Meeting ID: 844 1669 8343

Passcode: 557026

May Mary, Mother of the World, who abhors all violence, bless us.

Rev. Jane

301 Faith Partners' Announcements

Joint Eco Team meeting

The JET meeting will be Tuesday October 24, a week early to avoid Halloween. It is the last scheduled meeting this calendar year. Meeting will be in person and on zoom. Please park in the west lot – those doors will be the only ones open. Meeting will be in Room 2 in the East wing.

• To join via Zoom click HERE.
• Meeting ID: 350 899 592 Passcode: 028929

Enjoy a Dead Workshop and Celebration!

Saturday, Nov. 4, 7 - 9 PM

In this Thin Time of the year, when we remember our loved ones who have passed away, St. Paul’s is offering a Day of the Dead workshop and celebration on Saturday, Nov. 4th, from 7-9 PM for all the 301 Faith Partners. This will be an opportunity for all of us to honor our beloved ancestors for All Saints Day!

Choose your own adventure:  There will be multiple stations, and you are welcome to participate in whatever ways you choose. There will be opportunities to decorate sugar cookies for Days of the Dead, play a game with our Death Deck cards, work on your advance directive documents, engage in conversations about your experiences with death and dying, spend time in contemplation using Visio divina (sacred looking), and remember your ancestors, both of the blood and of the heart.

We invite you to bring images and objects (even favorite foods) of beloved forbears of the soul and/or body to include in the altar we will be creating. Wine, a festive non-alcoholic drink, cheese, cookies, and other goodies will be on offer.

Fall Clean-up Day Nov. 4, 9 am - 12 pm

Please join together with our Faith Partners for the annual Fall Cleanup Day on Saturday, November 4, from 9 am-12 pm. Please bring your favorite rake, leaf-blower/leaf-vacuum, pruning shears, and/or other tools to clean up the church campus.

If you would prefer to work inside or if the weather is too bad to be outside, please bring cleaning supplies and hand vacuums for interior room cleaning. Come help clean and get ready for Advent! Please contact Mike Werner at (316) 250-6409 or Gray Currier at (970) 962-4057 with any questions.

Ongoing Faith Partners Groups

The Trinity Readers

The Trinity Readers (the TLC morning book group) will meet on November 6th to discuss the Walter Isaacson biography of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna entitled The Code Breaker.  Doudna was instrumental in developing the CRISPR gene-editing technique. 

Join us at 9:30 a.m. in person in Room 2 or on Zoom.  Come every month, or come just when the book especially interests you.  Questions?  Call Nadine Hunt at 970-825-3730.

301 Faith Partners Prayer Group

Join the prayer group praying for the 301 Faith Partners. We are meeting on the last Monday of the month at 10:30 am in the Fireside Room. All are welcome!

Quilting Group

We meet each Friday at 10 am. All are welcome to come—any gender, any age, no experience is required. Come if you can only attend every other week or once a month. Bring a helping heart and your favorite coffee mug or water bottle

Faith Partners Fellowship Group

Every Second Thursday

The Faith Partners Fellowship Group is every second Thursday of the month.

Watch for the announcement on where they will meet next.

301 Faith Partners is all inclusive, and men, women, transfolx and non-binary folx are all welcome.

Chapter 2 Book Group

Too much of a good thing, the original Book Group needed to expand. Join us each month to discuss a book from a variety of both fiction and non-fiction books. Readers are welcome to attend each month or just when the book interests them. We will be meeting on the 4th Thursday of the month at 6 pm in Room 2. On October 26th we will discuss Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Boylan. Everyone is welcome. Email Adrianne Jurgenson with any questions.

Volunteering at Irish Elementary

Volunteering has begun again at Irish Elementary Escuela Bilingue. Volunteers meet with students once per week to listen to them read in English. Knowledge of Spanish is not necessary. Currently there are 6 volunteers but there is a need for more volunteers - especially on Tuesday mornings. Other volunteer times are Tuesday afternoons, and also on Wednesdays. Contact Mary Raich for more information

Praying for peace, health and well-being through challenging times.



+Joanne Gallagher, member

+David Devlin, member

+Joanne Kresl, friend of Suzanne King, member

+Lisa Moos, member

+Jim Carroll, husband of member Dori Carroll

+Kolten Weitzel, grandson of Kerrie Anderson, member

+Sabrina and her two children, currently homeless

+Grandneice of Father Michael Nicosia

+Linda Browell, member

+Sandra Carter, friend of Mary Vogel

+Kris Jenkins, wife of Father Scott Jenkins

+Jen Banks, friend of Mary of Magdala

+Francisco Cruz Antonio, friend of Rev. Jane

+Yvonne Keefe, member

+Jo Anne, friend of Sandra Life, member

+Grace Robinson, member

+Jerry Padilla, father of member Lisa Jones

+Janessa and Hayden, sister and niece of Jen Banks

+Rachel, daughter of Mary Lou Devlin, member.

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A blessed and peaceful repose of souls for those who've passed and comfort for the friends and families.

+Daniel, cousin of Pedro Engel

+Juanita Newbre, aunt of MaryLou Devlin, member

+Jeanette Marian Banks (Brown) mother of Jen Banks

+Flavian Reising Jr., Father of Steve Reising, member

+Marge Gruber, friend of Michael Six, member

+Betty Jones, mother-in-law of Lisa Jones, member

+Jean Preslan, friend of Mother Rosean and Yvonne Wootten, member

+Josy Moos, Godmother of Tom Moos

+Fr. Fred Ball, OFR, ECC priest

+Bob Colhour, father of member Mark Colhour.

+Candy Palmer, friend of Mary Lou Devlin, member

+Johnny Berlyn Thomas, friend and benefactor out of his own poverty, of Pastor Jane

+Fr Don Willet, from John XXIII



+Linn Zink, friend of MoM, Social Justice advocate

+Bishop McGrath - RC diocese of San Jose, Friend of Suzanne King

+James Ryan cousin of Mary Lyons, member

+ Rosemary - Fr Michael's mother

+ Mother Sheila Dierks, ECC priest in Boulder

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.

Celebrating the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrate with Father Michael Nicosia presiding on October 15th. The video of the homily and readings is available here.

Mass Schedule

Weekly Mass Wednesday, Oct 25 at

11:00 am

• Weekly mass in the Fireside Room
• No Zoom available

Sunday Oct 29 at 12:30 pm

• Rev. Jane Reina is presiding. In-person and with Zoom

Weekly Mass Wednesday, Nov 1 at

11:00 am

• Weekly mass in the Fireside Room
• No Zoom available

Sunday Nov 5 at 12:30 pm

• Rev. Jane Reina is presiding. In-person and with Zoom

Did you miss an article or announcement?

Past e-bulletins posted here



• Ongoing Giving Opportunities in Fellowship hall; see list here

• ECC House of Laity, NEWSLETTER, August 2023, read here

• Dedicating Altar Flowers? Contact Joan Stepleton at JoanStepleton@gmail.com or 864-650-2816. A $25 dollar donation is kindly requested.

• The purpose of the Mary Magdalene Society is to financially support aspiring and current priests and encourage the development of youth in their spiritual journeys. Read more here.

Mary of Magdala Parish Community

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

If you would like to contribute to Mary of Magdala, here are ways to schedule a single or recurring Sunday offertory.

All are invited and ALL are welcome to join our parish community. Here is the webpage with more information on membership



The ECC Regional Website - 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.