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Here’s the Beta for the 3rd Sunday of Lent. We’re almost at the halfway mark! Would you and your groups join me this week in praying for our Alpha Day Away this weekend?

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

MQOA is participating in a parish-wide survey!

I hope your Lent has gotten off to a good start.

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Our pastor's weekly bulletin column

Welcome to Lent (almost)! The season kicks off with a short reading, like, really short… but FULL of imagery. I hope you enjoy digging in to your mental images of the characters in this Sunday’s Gospel and I pray that your conversations are amazing!

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Our pastor's weekly bulletin column

If I had to describe Jesus’ personality based only on the Gospel readings from the last couple of weeks, I’d say “it’s complicated.” The Jesus we read about is doing amazing things, but there’s a real humanness to him that comes through, I think. Kids’ coloring pages always present Jesus as this smiling, floaty figure, un-ruffled and cheery all the time, but here, he seems to be “in a MOOD.” This might be an interesting time to talk about how your group members think about Jesus, and whether their understanding of Him has changed since their childhood days of coloring pages, especially if they’ve been getting to know Him better through Beta-ing for a while. I pray, as always, for amazing conversations in your group this week!

Weekly message from Margo Morin, our Pastoral Associate

Our pastor's weekly bulletin column.

Hello beta leaders! I could have written 20 questions for this week’s beta, there’s a lot to dig into here. You probably know that at MQOA we have discerned a need for our parish to be a place of hospitality and healing, and both are featured in this reading! MQOA’s next night of Healing Prayer online will be Tuesday, February 9 at 7:00, please invite your small group members to check it out! You can learn more about how healing ministry works, view the Alpha Film Series video on healing, and (at the bottom of the page) find out more info on our monthly healing prayer nights: www.mqoa.org/healing