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

Another Great 301 Shared Sunday

Adult Forum, Shared Service and Chili Potluck - Tomorrow Sunday, October 18

Adult Forum & Service On Zoom and in-person

9 am Shared Adult Forum: will be led by Nizhoni Valdez, Executive Director of the First Peoples Community Center in Fort Collins. She will share information about the vision, mission and activities involving this non-profit organization founded in 2026.

Use this link for Adult for and Shared Worship if attending via zoom

10:30 am Shared Worship (no Mass at 12:30 pm)

Use this link for Adult for and Shared Worship if attending via zoom

11:30 am Shared Meal It’s fall, y’all, so you know what that means! Time to bust out some of those delicious chili recipes!

➡️➡️Sign up to bring a dish to the shared meal HERE.

Mary of Magdala Announcements

Keeping Our Grounds Looking Great!

HELP! We are in need of kind hearted people to help mow for the next two weeks! No experience necessary

If you can help us mow on the 24th and/or the 31st

we would greatly appreciate it!

Help care for our shared church grounds. Tasks include mowing, trimming, weed-whacking, blowing off walkways, and general grounds cleanup. No experience is necessary! New volunteers will receive equipment training at 9:00 AM on their first Saturday.

Sign up with a friend or come meet someone new. Together, we can keep our grounds looking neat, tidy, and green! Sign up here.

Weekly Morning Peace Prayer

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



Monday Morning Peace Prayer

At 9:30 am on this  Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 844 1669 8343,

Passcode: 557026

Mary Powers 80th

Birthday Bash

And you are invited!

October 24, 11am-4pm

in the Fellowship Hall at Trinity Lutheran

For a head count please

RSVP to cafemonkey03@hotmail.com or text/call 303-652-7400 to leave a message

No Gifts + Kids are Welcome

Costumes Encouraged

(Prizes will be awarded)

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Rocky Mountain ECC Regional Council

We need just 2 volunteers !!

House of Laity Steering Committee

Mary Lu Stensen from Light of Christ will be stepping down from serving as a regional representative to the ECC House of Laity Steering Committee. 

The Steering Committee meets once monthly on Zoom to discuss ECC issues and concerns that pertain particularly to the lay members of the ECC. If you are interested in serving our region in this capacity, please contact Tom Moos (970 219-9441 or tjmoos@aol.com). Mary Lu is happy to provide training and guidance.

Board of Directors Member in the Colorado Council of Churches

The Colorado Council of Churches (CCC) is an interdenominational organization working together for justice focusing on affordable housing and housing justice, criminal restorative justice, education of children, Environment, Health Care, Poverty, Immigration, Racism, Sexuality, Families and Abuse. 

The CCC has historically also been the primary organizer of the Easter Sunrise Services at Redrocks. As vicar for ecumenical engagement, Fr Michael Nicosia served on the Board and eventually became Chairman, raising visibility for the ECC especially in the Denver area and northern Colorado. Bishop Kae Madden has continued to be an ECC presence as an Adjudicator but is not a member of the Board. 

The region is looking for someone to take Fr Nicosia’s place. Although many representatives to CCC are clergy, being ordained is not a requirement. If interested, please contact Tom Moos (970 219-9441 or tjmoos@aol.com) or Mother Rosean.

301 Faith Partners

Adult Education

America the Beautiful?

History and faith as guides to understanding

the United States on its 250^th anniversary

October 29, 2026, 7-8:30pm

Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 East Stuart, Fort Collins, CO 80525

The 301 Faith Community will offer an Adult Education Evening Seminar

co-led by two members of Mary of Magdala, ECC: Ruth M. Alexander,

Professor Emerita of History (CSU) and Jared Orsi, Professor of History

(CSU).  

Jared and Ruth will share historical and ecumenical Christian perspectives

that deepen understanding of the complexity and contradictions in US

history, the existential challenges of the present day, and reasons to remain

committed to communities of faith and civil society. They will reference the

materials below. Participants are invited to review them in advance. (Click on each link.)

• “America the Beautiful,” by Katherine Lee Bates, song, 1911
• “Guilty of our own Innocence,” Cornel West, video, 2026
• “How Solzhenitsyn Found Faith," Gary Saul Morson, article, 2026
• “I Have a Dream,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speech in audio and transcript,1963

Please RSVP to motherrosean@gmail.com

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Suggestions and Recommendations for Adult Education:

Is there a topic you’d like our community to address in an Adult Education gathering in 2027? Please send a brief description of your idea(s) to Ruth Alexander and Mother Rosean at ruthalexander323@gmail.com and motherrosean@gmail.com

Save the Date for the November 15th Annual Turkey Roundup & Food Drive!

This year our 301 Faith Partners Annual Turkey Roundup will once again include a food drive. 

As usual, all turkeys must be received rock hard frozen!

All food donated must be non-perishable, and no glass containers. Please consider items that will fit into our Little Sidewalk Pantry. 

Last year, we knocked the collections out of the ball park! We collected 110 turkeys weighing over 1,492 pounds and over 450 pounds of non-perishable food for our Little Pantry and the Food Bank for Larimer County! 

Our collection will be on Sunday, November 15 from 8:15 AM to 12:35 PM.

Those attending November 14 Saturday afternoon Trinity service may leave their turkey in the kitchen freezer.

Preschool Sale on October 25th and November 1st

As we continue to re-home the supplies and materials from the Preschool, all 301 Members are invited to a sale on Sundays, October 25 and November 1 from 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

Up until this point, internal ministries (like our faith formation committee, Sunday School, small groups, etc) have had the chance to claim items to use for their ministry.

Now it's your turn to claim some items for your home! Come see what treasures you can find for your home, your children, your grandchildren, or any other children you know!

Fall Cleanup 2026 at Trinity

Please join the 301 Faith Partners for the annual Fall Cleanup on Saturday, November 14, from 9 am-12 pm. 

There will be tasks for all skill levels, please plan to 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 plan to bring cleaning supplies and hand vacuums for interior room cleaning. 

301 Quilters 

On Sunday, October 18 at the joint service, part of the service will be a Blessing of the Quilts.

Each year, before we take all the quilts made in the previous year to Denver to be shipped to Minneapolis, we pray over the quilts.

Then, the following weekend, October 24 and 25, we’ll have a Quilting Bee after each service.

You are invited to join us in the fellowship hall to tie knots into a quilt to help finish it.

All ages can participate; if you can tie a shoe, you can help!

Everyone, and we mean EVERYONE, can be part of this ministry. You can pray with us on Oct.18; you can tie knots on Oct. 24 or 25; you can donate fabric or bed sheets, you can take a kit home to sew a to;, you can come any Friday to Room 2 and help.

We thank you for your support of this ministry.

Men's Spirituality Group

The men's spirituality group will continue meeting on 
Mondays at 6:30 PM in Room 5.

Carrying on the work of Fr. Richard Rohr (book reference) and Illuman, we will utilize the power of ritual, image, and story to expand the depth and breadth of love in ourselves to make a difference in the world, using a circle of structured sharing.

For anyone interested, please reach out to Peter here.

Chapter Two Book Club

Here are our upcoming dates and books. All meetings will be at 6 PM in the Fireside Room at 301 E Stuart St.

Thursday, October 22nd

The Things We Never Say by Elizbeth Strout

Thursday, November 19th 

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

This is the chosen book for Fort Collins Reads in 2026. There is a local event with the author on November 8th. There are still tickets available for purchase here.

We won't have a December meeting because we have a longer book for January.

Thursday, January 28th, 2027

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Future Book

We don't have an assigned month to read it yet, but there is another local author event in April 2027 for Loveland Loves to Read with Marjan Kamali, the author of The Lion Women of Tehran. You can get tickets for the author event now. And we will read this together in either February or March 2027. Thanks to Bonnie for highlighting this one for us!

And a favor to ask: Madeline Fairfax won't be able to make it on the Nov. 19th date, so if there is someone who already has a key who would be able to unlock and relock the doors, or she can lend her key for the week if you don't already have one, she would greatly appreciate it! 

Thank you all for being so willing to participate in our small group and share your thoughts and book recommendations! Happy reading!

From our Larger Community

SafeLot Update

The Fort Collins City Council held a work session on September 8, 2026, in which changes to the code to allow safe parking in Fort Collins was discussed. Support was unanimous. You can watch the video here.

The City of Fort Collins is holding two open houses at the North Aztlan Center (112 E. Willow St.) to discuss Safe Parking in our city. SafeLot committee members, Fort Collins Police HOPE team, city staff, and Outreach Fort Collins will be in attendance.

• Monday, October 19 from 5:30 – 7:30pm (First United Methodist Church)
• Thursday, October 22 from 5:30 – 7:30pm (Trinity Lutheran Church)

The City Council will discuss the Safe Parking Pilot on November 3. Public comment will be allowed. You must sign up by 5:30 pm.

If the City votes to make code changes to allow safe parking to occur for licensed programs, they will develop a licensing procedure which specific locations will have to apply for.

ISAAC is proud to sponsor Teatro Latino’s fall events. Come and learn stories about our local Latino community. The Fort Collins Welcome Center is located at 7 Old Town Square, Suite 100.

Service Recordings

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The recording of readings and homily for October 4th can be found here. Mother Rosean Amaral presided and Tom Moos delivered the homily.

Missed a homily or readings? Here is the link to past recorded services.

Prayer Requests

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

+ Fr. Michael Seger, OSB, ECC

+ Diane Riley, mother of Linda O’Toole, member

+ Tyler Dahlquist, Kerrie Anderon's great niece's husband

+ Carlos Orsi, son of Jared Orsi, member

+ Fr. Don Sutton, Pastor Emeritus, St. Paul, ECC, Denver

+ Jennifer Geraci, for discernment, member

+ Sean Raynes, grandson of Sandra Life

+ Rachel Devlin, daughter of MaryLou and David Devlin, members

+ Audrey Coleman, mother of Laura Williams, friend of ECC

+ Cindy Cloyd, member

+ Peter Postma son of Sharon Troyer, friend

+ Karen Neuman friend of Lisa Jones, member

+ Yvonne Keefe, member

+ Hannah Zehner, daughter of Cheryl

Zehner, member of ECC, East Rochester, NY

+ Cathy Engel, member

+ Lili Grimm, niece of Rosanna Bateman, member

+Ryan Mayer, nephew of Denise Mayer, member

+Deborah Hughes, for healing, spouse of Laura Templet, member

+Len Russ, member

+Fr. Frank Quintana, ECC priest

+Zoe Wahl, sister of Kristina Bulik-Hocum, 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

+Julie Lucas, daughter of Bruce & Carol Yeazell

+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.

+ Lee E. Falk, II, partner of Fr. Michael Seger, OSB, ECC

+ Karen Johnson, member of Church of the Holy Family, ECC

+ Jim Barnes, spouse of Lynne Barnes, member

+ Audrey Coleman, mother of Laura Williams, friend of ECC

+Donna Colhour, mother of member Mark Colhour.

+Larry Johnson, father of Russ Johnson, member

+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

+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 Mass -

October 21 at 11:00 am

• In person in the Fireside Room
• No Zoom available
• Mother Rosean presiding

Sunday Mass

October 25 at 12:30 pm

• In the Sanctuary and on Zoom
• Rev. Jane Reina presiding

Wednesday Mass -

October 28 at 11:00 am

• In person in the Fireside Room
• No Zoom available
• Mother Rosean presiding

Sunday Mass

November 1 at 12:30 pm

• In the Sanctuary and on Zoom
• Presider TBD

Did you miss an article or announcement?



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

• October news from the Presiding Bishop here.
• August news from the House of Laity here.
• Read the 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.