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Here’s this coming Sunday’s Beta lesson; this week the crowds following Jesus have some questions and demands. Can you relate (I can!)? I pray you’ll have wonderful conversations! And, please join us (and invite your group members/friends) to join us on Sunday for our online version of Beta, called MQOA Sunday! 10:00 Sundays at https://mqoa.online.church/ or you can download the podcast version.

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Our pastor's weekly bulletin column

This reading is one of Jesus’ “greatest hits,” is featured in all four gospels and one you’ve DEFINITELY heard before. We’ve already taped the MQOASunday episode for this Gospel (check it out on our website on Sunday morning at 10!) and had some really fun conversation around it, and as always, I pray you and your group will, too.

Weekly bulletin column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

Here is this coming Sunday’s Beta. The Gospel is a good one (aren’t they all?); Jesus invites his closest friends to step away for a bit and rest with him, and gets interrupted yet again; waylaid before he can get to his destination by the needs of others and, ultimately, by his own compassion. We hear it in the context of this in-between-time; in the midst of summertime, mid-covid, hurrying our way into an (even more than usual) unknown future. What’s the right response? To rest? Or to let ourselves follow where our interruptions lead us? I hope you have fruitful and beautiful conversations, and that you’ll join us at the end of this week for MQOA Sunday, an online version of Beta with yours truly (and Steven) as your host. We’d love to hear from you!

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

After last week’s rejection of Jesus from his own hometown kin, this week we hear Jesus send his disciples out two by two, and warns them that they, too, might face some pushback. This week is a great opportunity for beta groups to talk about how God is calling your group members to serve in the world, through some ministry in the Church or in the world. Maybe your whole group is being called to some new way of service together? I pray you’ll have wonderful, fruitful conversations.

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

I do not know if it because of my age or my skills . . . but I am the "tech" guy at work. I take my role seriously, trying to solve all tech problems around me. This leads to one task of mine - to promote all the great programs on social media and beyond.

Ahhh you know what they say… you can’t go home again! And this weekend’s Gospel would agree with that sentiment. Maybe you can relate to the idea of going home after many years and being regarded as the person who you were before you left? I think it’s a pretty human experience, and it comforts me that Jesus experienced this relatively minor, but true, the experience of human life. This week’s Gospel reading can spark some great conversation about Jesus’ Only Child Status. The Church has her teaching on this (no siblings) but some scholars hold space for the possibility, in one way or another… I think the interesting question for our groups is, would it matter? Does the idea of Jesus having siblings change the story for us? What might have been gained or lost in the Jesus story, if he’d had a bunch of siblings? I pray you to have wonderful conversations around this week’s Gospel, as always! And, again, I invite you to check out MQOA Sunday, debuting the 4th of July on our website: www.mqoa.org

Weekly bulletin column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

Weekly bulletin column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our Pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

Now that the dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass is being lifted, we are looking for ways to reach out to people online with the Word, while bringing everyone physically to the table every week is still our ultimate goal. So on Sundays, in place of the recorded weekend Mass, we’re putting together an interactive, engaging conversation centered around the Sunday Gospel. We’ll be using the weekly Beta lessons as the base of our conversations, and will take questions and prayer requests live. We think it’s going to be fun, approachable to people who aren’t ready to attend Mass in person and serve as a good connection point to people who can’t attend in person for whatever reason. We hope you’ll check it out, and that it will enhance your own experience of Beta, and of Mass! If your group says something brilliant that the world should hear, please share it with us! And, please invite your small group members to join us on Sundays at… time TBA. I pray blessings on your conversation this week!

Now that the dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass is being lifted, we are looking for ways to reach out to people online with the Word, while bringing everyone physically to the table every week is still our ultimate goal. So on Sundays, in place of the recorded weekend Mass, we’re putting together an interactive, engaging conversation centered around the Sunday Gospel. We’ll be using the weekly Beta lessons as the base of our conversations, and will take questions and prayer requests live. We think it’s going to be fun, approachable to people who aren’t ready to attend Mass in person and serve as a good connection point to people who can’t attend in person for whatever reason. We hope you’ll check it out, and that it will enhance your own experience of Beta, and of Mass! If your group says something brilliant that the world should hear, please share it with us! And, please invite your small group members to join us on Sundays at… time TBA. I pray blessings on your conversation this week!