Our Vision Statement: ‘With the heart and mind of Christ, we transform the world.’

This week at Mary of Magdala

Weekly Morning and Evening

Peace Prayer 

Join us in a prayer for peace in the world and within ourselves. 20 minutes every Monday and Tuesday via Zoom. (Families invited!)

Monday Morning Peace Prayer

At 9:30 am on this  Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 844 1669 8343, Passcode: 557026

Tuesday Evening Peace Prayer

At 7:00 pm on this Zoom Link < New Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 881 2656 0118 Passcode: 295075

May Mary, Mother of the World, who abhors all violence, pray for us. Rev. Jane

THIS THURSDAY

301 Faith Partners August Get-Together

The August 14th meet-up will be held at New Belgium brewery, located at 500 Linden St. in Fort Collins 80524.

Join up between 3:30 PM - whenever. We’re usually done by 5:30 PM. No RSVP.

We are not exclusive! Bring your partner! Open to all.

LuMin's Student Housing Security Initiative (SHSI)



Saturday, August 23 from 10 am–1 pm

Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ

916 W Prospect Road, Fort Collins

CSU’s Office of International Programs and the Fort Collins International Center help welcome their students to campus. SHSI students will be housed this year at Rams Village, where apartments come with beds, desks, chests, table and chairs, couch/chairs/coffee table, major appliances, and empty kitchen cabinets. Housing for international students varies in size and what is provided.

The purpose of the Welcome Event is to provide, at no cost to the students, items that will help them make their space functional, conducive to study, comfortable and HOME.

How can you help? Spread the word with friends, neighbors, fellow faith community members, anyone you know who might be downsizing, relocating or simply has more than they need. For further information and a list of most-needed items, go to plymouthucc.org/studentsupport.

DONATIONS MAY BE DROPPED OFF AT PLYMOUTH AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES:

• Sunday, August 17 from 9 am-12 pm
• Wednesday, August 20 from 1-4 pm
• Thursday, August 21 from 3-6 pm

Service Recordings

19th Sunday of Ordinary Time

The recording of the readings and homily for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary time, Aug 10, 2025 has been uploaded here.

Mother Rosean was the presider and homilist.

Social Justice Reflection

Jared Orsi

Sometimes prophecy comes from unlikely places. Like 20-year-old college women.

When I lecture to my classes about CSU history, there’s always a part about the presidency of William Morgan, who presided over CSU from 1949 to 1969 and oversaw the transformation of CSU from a small agricultural college into a full-spectrum modern university.

But when it comes to expanding women’s rights, we turn our attention to a student, Vicki Hays.

As late as the 1960s, women students were required to live on campus and had nightly curfews. They also had the option of living off campus in apartments approved by the Dean of Women. Approved housing units were those that agreed to enforce the university curfews.

Men could live wherever they wanted and had no curfews.

This was a vestige of a nineteenth-century concept known as in loco parentis, a Latin phrase that means “in place of parents.” It was the doctrine under with the Colorado Agricultural College, and many other institutions of high ed, assumed responsibility for students’ moral well-being, especially women’s. In the 1800s, it was a way for colleges to assure farm parents that it was safe to let their children go off to college. By the 1960s, however, many students considered it an antiquated Victorian relic. 

Vicky Hays found it downright burdensome.

To support herself through school, Hays worked as an editor for the student newspaper. This regularly kept her out past the curfew, and she frequently found herself locked out and having to wake up friends to sneak her in. In fall 1964, she moved off campus to an apartment not sanctioned by the CSU. When she was discovered, the university gave her the choice of returning to the dorms or leaving school.

At first, she fought back, using the Collegian as a platform to publicize the housing double standard. Many of her classmates agreed with her and organized a sit-in at the Dean of Women’s office. Hays appealed the ruling but lost. She transferred to another university.

But the cat was out of the bag. This was the first of several students protests against sexism in housing rules and other infringements on their independence. By 1967, a series of reforms had eliminated restrictions on women’s living quarters and numerous other vestiges of in loco parentis.

What impresses me here is that the change was ignited by a twenty-year-old college woman so obscure that I couldn’t even find a picture of her on the internet or in the university archives to use for this social justice minute. It makes me wonder, in the troubled times we live in now, how might ordinary, obscure people like you and me be called to be prophetic?

Prayer Requests

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

+Zoe Wahl, sister of Kristina Bulik-Hocum, member

+Colleen DeMuth, member

+Courtney and Cache, family of Jean Christin, member

+Jane Kommrusch, spouse of Richard Kommrusch, member

+ Jeff Klein, son of Debbie Klein

+Mary Powers and Katie Richards, members healing from long COVID

+Milo Pasquale Cushman -- brother of Liz Urban, member

+Hope Kunze,  granddaughter of Mother Rosean

+ Valerie Dorr, mother of Deana Andrist, TLC

+Cindy Cloyd, member

+Sandra Life, member

+Julie Lucas, daughter of Bruce and Carol Yeazell

+The Grant and Cloyd families, for healing

+Carolyn Sue Cecil and family, friends of Mary of Magdala

+ Mary Lou and David Devlin, members

+Rachel, Ryan, & Chloe Honeybourne, family of Julia Morrow, friend of Mary of Magdala



+ Sharyl Hoepfinger, for prayers of healing

+ Jenny Witzke, for prayers of support

+Pastor Rick Reiten, Pastor at Trinity Lutheran

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

+Donna Lusby, friend of Ralph, Anne, Debbie, Mark, Dori, and Tom, members

+Lois Hug, mother of MaryAnne Heyman, member

+Richard Life, member of Mary of Magdala

+Donald Sherlock, brother-in-law of Dori Healy

+Joseph Grant, nephew of David and Cindy Cloyd

+Dennis Healy, Tom Healy's brother and Dori's brother-in-law

+Barbara Lange, grandmother of Gray La Fond

+Leonard Urban, husband of member Liz Urban

+Tess Peters, friend of Mary Lou Devlin, member

+Kelly Cahill, friend of Ruth Alexander

+Pauline Devlin, David Devlin's mother

+James Lyons, brother-in-law of Mary Lyons, member

+Carole Lyons, sister-in-law of Mary Lyons, member

+Jessica Melton, family friend of Jane Reina

+Jim Carroll, husband of member Dori Carroll

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.

Wednesday - Weekday Mass

August 13, 11:00 am

• Weekday Mass in the Fireside room
• No Zoom available
• Mother Rosean Amaral presiding

Sunday Mass -

August 17, 12:30 pm

• In person and Zoom available
• F. Frank Quintana presiding

Wednesday - Weekday Mass

August 20, 11:00 am

• Jim Berry will be presiding over communion service.

Sunday Mass -

August 24, 12:30 pm

• In person and Zoom available
• Rev. Jane Reina presiding

Did you miss an article or announcement?



Past e-bulletins are posted on our website here. Below are links to some key articles:

• July News from the Office of Presiding Bishop - here
• ECC News from the House of Laity - May - here
• Spring News from the Office of Presiding Bishop - here.
• Read the recent ECC statement on immigration here.
• Ongoing Giving Opportunities in Fellowship hall; see list here.
• Dedicating Altar Flowers? Contact Joan Stepleton at JoanStepleton@gmail.com or 864-650-2816. A $25 dollar donation is kindly requested.

Mary of Magdala Parish Community

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

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO MARY OF MAGDALA

If you would like to contribute to Mary of Magdala,

click here 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.