This Sunday, January 26th!

Chili Luncheon after Mass

Please join us for a delicious Chili Luncheon after Mass on January 26th. 

If you haven't signed up to bring a chili, salad or cornbread, it's no problem. Come and join us!! If you have questions, call Joan at 970-214-6480.

Let’s warm our bodies & souls with delicious food, friendship & fellowship! We hope that you will join us!

The Hospitality Ministry

Contribution Statements for 2024

This week the contribution statements for the 2024 tax year have been sent by email with an attached PDF. We send these with deep gratitude for your participation in, and support of our community. 

Please reach out to us if you have any questions or believe that the document is in error. Though we do our best to accurately track stewardship and gifts to Mary of Magdala through checks and online contributions, we can make an error. We would be happy to review our records. 

In Christ's Love

Mary of Magdala, ECC

Yvonne Wootten and Kristin Crawford

marymagdalafc@gmail.com

Weekly Monday Morning

Peace Prayer 

Join us in a prayer for peace in the world and within ourselves. 20 minutes every Monday morning via Zoom.

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, pray for us. Rev. Jane

 A new Bulletin feature - a Social Justice public service.

Welcome to our first listing of "Up To Us Now". We'll start with one link to an issue of social justice. There will be plenty more to come. I'd love to get feedback on this effort. Perhaps there is fodder for healthy and respectful discussion and learning. Email: marymagdalafc@gmail.com

Click to read - Immigrant Voices Echo in the Halls of the Colorado State Capitol — Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition

Announcements For Our Shared Ministries,

Activities and Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteers Needed - Building Security

We are looking for several new volunteers to lock up TLC on Fridays and Sundays. The work is easy and takes about a half hour in the evening. You could work as a primary and do it once a week or as a back-up which would be a rare involvement. Thank you for considering this 301 Partners ministry. Please email marymagdalafc@gmail.com

Bloom the Circle

The 301 Property Committee will be starting an initiative called "Bloom The Circle" in order to beautify the circle in front of TLC.

Do you love designing and nurturing beautiful gardens? We need you if you do and would appreciate your talent. More will be known as we leave the throws of winter.

Faith Family Hospitality - Update

Faith Family Hospitality (FFN) also known as Family Housing Network (FHN) will no longer be using the Trinity Lutheran Church building for family overnight housing.

Poudre Fire Department regulations which require the need for overnight fire watchers in lieu of a functional fire sprinkler system has presented an obstacle to our communities' participation on site.

Mary of Magdala will still continue to work with Christ United Methodist Church to provide shelter and support to FFN. Your participation is valued and recognized and the need for continued participation at the other Ft Collins sites is essential for this valued ministry. Thanks to All for past and furture volunteering.

Read with Trinity Readers in 2025!

If your New Year’s resolution is to do more reading

in 2025, consider joining in the discussions of the Trinity morning book group, with the next one being at 9:30 a.m. in the Fireside Room on February 3. We will be looking at the issue of the oppression of women by discussing Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The authors call this the “paramount moral challenge” of the present era.



Come every month, or just when the book interests you. Questions?

Call Nadine Hunt at 970-825-3730.

Volunteering at Irish Elementary 

Are you interested in having a rewarding, making-a-difference experience? Please consider listening to a child who needs help with reading. We need reading tutors at Irish Elementary School. We currently have need of a tutor at 10:40 am on Wednesdays. 

Although Irish is a bilingual school, you do not need to know Spanish to help. If you spend 30-45 minutes a week helping a child read, you’ll be rewarded knowing that you’ve made a big difference in that child’s life. Please contact Jo Anne Gearhart at gearhartjm@yahoo.com Thank you.

Adult Learning Opportunities 

Join the TLC Forums via Zoom

Each Sunday at 9:00 am

To join any of these forums via Zoom click here   

Meeting ID: 894 3735 9149 // Passcode: Lutheran

January 26: is Reconciling in Christ Sunday and our conversation will revolve around this topic.

301 Faith Partners Prayer Group

On the last Monday of each month at 10:30 am, the 301 Faith Partners Prayer Group meets to pray for the 301 Faith Partners! The group opens by calling on the Holy Spirit to be present. They then take one of the Core Values of the 301 Faith Partners and reflect on it. Following this, they engage in Lectio Divina and then share their reflections. 

They pray for the clergy and leadership bodies of Mary of Magdala, St. Paul’s, and Trinity. They close with a Litany of God’s Mission for the 301 Faith Partners, which was first prayed at the Bishops’ Blessing on May 31, 2023.

301 Quilters Update



The 301 Quilters stay busy making quilts from the donations given to us. We meet each Friday from 10-12 in Room 2. All are welcome and no experience is needed. We'll teach and guide through the quilt making process. Come be a part of this Faith Partner ministry.

Contact Pat at pathw27@gmail.com with any questions.

Chapter 2 Book Club

Thursday January 30 at 6 p.m. in the Fireside Room at Trinity to discuss The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. (This is a long one if you haven't read it yet and you'd like to join the conversation, I'd suggest starting this one sooner rather than later). 

If you are planning to attend, please email Madeline at madeline.b.fairfax@gmail.com to receive a week-of meeting reminder and any last minute changes to plans.

Service Recordings

The 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.

January 19, 2025

We invite you view the recording of the readings from this Sunday and the homily given by F. Michael Nicosia. Click here to view.

Other Mass recordings can be accessed via our service recordings website here.

Prayer Requests

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

+Pedro Engel, 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

+ Fr. Frank Quintana, for healing

+ Sean Raynes, grandson of Richard and Sandra Life, members

+Rachel, daughter of Mary Lou Devlin, member

+Cathy Engel, member, for her healing process

+Mother Rosean, clergy of Mary of Magdala

+Rev. Kate Lehman, ECC clergy

+Amanda Staut, friend of Lisa Jones, member

+Ted Newbre (Devlin), member of Mary of Magdala

+Jean Powers, daughter of Mary Powers

+Frederique Pesin, and her family, friends of Mother Rosean



+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.

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

+Barbara Lange, grandmother of Gray La Fond

+Leonard Urban, friend of members at MoM

+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

+Arlene Miller, former secretary at John XXIII

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

+Jessica Melton, family friend of Jane Reina

+Betty Smith, mother of Bill Smith, member

+Grace Robinson, member of Mary of Magdala

+Mary Detweiler, member of Mary of Magdala

+Allen Wilberton, brother of Tom Wilberton

+Sharon L. Six, mother of Michael Six, member

+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

January 29, 11:00 am

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

Sunday Mass-

Feb 2 at 12:30 pm

• Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
• Mother Rosean Amaral presiding
• In person and via Zoom

Wednesday - Weekday Mass

February 5, 11:00 am

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

Sunday Mass-

February 9, at 12:30 pm

• Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
• In person and via Zoom

Did you miss an article or announcement?



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

• November news from around the US Ecumenical Catholic communities. Great pictures and updates.To read, click here.
• Synod Links to Presentation and Parade of Parishes, click here.
• To read the ECC Synod newsletter, click here.
• To read the ECC Council of Bishops' statement on the War in Gaza and Israel, click 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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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.