Summer Open Roads - FDK.      Feast Day of Mary of Magdala July 22, 2022        From Jane K., Servant Leader of Mary of Magdala Inclusive Catholic Community: Happy Feast Day, everyone!  I hope you have time today to rejoice with Mary, Pillar of enduring and faithful love, witness to the Resurrection, and Apostle to the Apostles!  Here are two links for you to a powerful sermon given by Diana Butler Bass on the identity of Mary based on the research of Libbie Schrader.  The first is a link to the audio recording; the second provides it in text.  Some of you may already have received this.  What a difference an iota makes! https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/all-the-marys?utm_source=email#details https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/mary-the-tower?utm_source=email The video presented by Stephanie M. with her homily is here: https://vimeo.com/69995141

                                           

July 2022 SCHEDULE for EUCHARIST with MMICC:

• Sunday, July 10, 2022 – 10:00 am CST – Eucharist - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

• Saturday, July 19, 2022 -- 11:00 am CST -- Eucharist -- Memorial Liturgy for Patricia Cook, RCWP Canada priest
  

• Friday, July 22, 2022 -- 5:00 pm CST -- Eucharist -- Feast of Mary of Magdala -- In person; see details here.
  

• Sunday, July 24, 2022 – 10:00 am CST – Eucharist - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time and Feast of Mary of Magdala

• Sunday, July 31, 2022 -- 10 am MDT (10:00 am CST) Lethbridge Inclusive Catholic Community is planning a liturgy on Zoom
  

Sister ReAnne has provided detailed information about Papal Visit happenings in and from Regina.  Click here. Pope Francis at Ermineskin Cree Nation -- Maskwacis, Alberta Photo Album of viewing event at mâmawêyatitân centre - City of Regina Vatican News coverage of  Pope Francis' visit to Canada

In preparation for the visit of Pope Francis this month, we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada in prayer and with efforts that promote truth, justice and reconciliation.  For a  link to a resources page in the RCWP Canada Review that may be of interest to you in this regard, click here.   Our community Indigenous Relations Team proposes that we offer financial support for indigenous people who wish to travel to Edmonton for the papal visit.  You may direct contributions for this to our F.R.O.G. fund.

Assistance for displaced Ukrainian People Felix and Jane K. are pleased to say that we are helping Felix's cousins Halya and Tanya, displaced persons from Kalush, Ukraine, with their move to Regina.  They have now moved into their new apartment at Evergreen Estates. Thanks to Dara Lesuik a large warehouse on the Regina Exhibition Grounds has been acquired and is filling up with donations of furniture, dishes, clothes, toys, and other household necessities for the use of Ukrainian displaced persons. On behalf of MMICC charitable effort, the F.R.O.G team will establish sub-accout to receive donations to aid Ukrainian displaced persons. Finding a job appears to be our cousin's top priority, as probably with all newly arrived Ukrainians.  Please contact us if you know of job openings or if your friends know of job openings.  Halya has experience working in a large bakery, mainly in the office, but is willing to take an entry level job. Household items secured from the warehouse established for donations for Ukrainians new to Regina: 2 chairs 2 dovets 2 quilts dishes baking and cooking utensils student desk towels crock pot microwave tea kettle sofa lamps can opener blender iron ironing board vacuum cleaner step-stool Household items, furniture, and gift cards given by others: 2 beds shower curtain waste baskets bed sheets pillow cases electric grill rice cooker pole lamp bookcases dining table 4 chairs large mirror A large van to move household items A $150 Superstore gift card Household items still needed: bedside tables Any surplus items received or offered will be taken to the warehouse for others. Suggestion for support:  gift cards to Superstore (groceries, clothes) and Walmart (school supplies); Mastercard or Visa gift cards that can be used anywhere.

EVENTS SPONSORED BY MMICC MINISTRY TEAMS:

EVENTS SPONSORED BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:

For a variety of events that may be of interest to MMICC members on the topics of Church Renewal, Ecumenism, Environment, Indigenous Relations, Social Justice, Spirtuality, and Women's Flourishing, click on Events at the top of this Bulletin Board, or click here.

An event by a member of MMICC:

For biographies of André Roy and Gilles Denis, click here.

For advance tickets, click here.

DATES RESERVED FOR MINISTRY TEAM MEETINGS

(Ministry Team leaders are asked to reserve dates for meetings after checking here and above to see whether the dates conflict with dates already chosen by other Teams or dates of Community events.  Please send notice of dates by using the comments form below.)

PRAYER REQUESTS:
Please pray for my step-father, Ivor Brown, who passed away onThursday, June 30 - Hélène C.

Don M. ask for prayers for his niece, Marie, who underwent breast cancer surgery July 5th.

Prayer intentions from the Eucharist of July 10th

• For the family of Frank Young, the little 5 year old boy from Red Earth missing since April 19.  His body was recently found after an extensive search.   
• Jane K. asks for your prayers as she celebrates the 7th Anniversary of ordination as a priest, July 11th.  "Thank you all for being my companions on this wild and wonderful journey."
• For the Ukrainian displaced persons who arrived in Regina on Monday, July 4th, that they find a welcoming heart from us.
• For Uli in Germany who has covid.

• Please pray for displaced persons from Ukraine who have come to Regina and other places in Canada.
• From  Anne O & Claire R:  for Mary C. a good friend who is entering the palliative care stage of life and for Celeste I. another dear friend who is celebrating her 80th birthday today.

• We pray for the communities served by Roman Catholic Women Priests, wherever we gather, that we who proclaim the Gospel by our lives, will speak words of compassion, love and healing. And today we especially lift up the Mary of Magdala Inclusive Catholic Community, for the continuing commitment of its membership, and for others to feel welcomed to join with us as disciples of Jesus.

All: Loving God/de, we raise our prayer to you.

• We pray for our hearts to be opened to receive the healing grace of Christ in the way that Mary of Magdala did.

All: Loving God/de, we raise our prayer to you.

• Mary and the other women and men disciples persevered with Jesus, even when he was persecuted by his own religious leadership and government authorities. We pray for all those who are travelling to hear the apology of Pope Francis for the harm done by the Catholic Church to Indigenous Peoples, especially the survivors of residential schools.

All: Loving God/de, we raise our prayer to you.

• We pray for the people of Ukraine, and all the areas of the world where there are unjust wars, to be relieved of the oppression they suffer. We pray also for the oppressors to have a change of heart and compassion for the people they persecute. And we pray for generosity in donations for those refugees who have come to be part of our respective (safe) communities.

All: Loving God/de, we raise our prayer to you.

• We pray for those who have died and those who mourn their loss, that they be reassured in the knowledge that they have entered into their eternal home with Creator.

All: Loving God/de, we raise our prayer to you.

• For those who have asked us to pray for them and others – in the Chat, on the Bulletin Board, and in our own hearts.

All: Loving God/de, we raise our prayer to you.

CELEBRATIONS  / REMEMBRANCES

• June D. - June 1st
• Gerry G. - July 7th
• Jackie G. - July 12th
  

• Jackie and Gerry G. - anniversary of Marriage - July 15th
• Jane K. - 7th anniversary of ordination as Priest - July 11th
• Jane K. - 4th anniversary of ordination as Bishop - July 21st
• Will and Corey S. - 45th anniversary of Marriage