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Today's Gospel in Lent, plus notices. An attempt to trap Jesus

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. Christ and the Sinner Andrey Mironov, 2011 Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30518018 The Gospel Reading    John 8:1-11  ...while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them.    The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them,  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”  They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.    When they kept on questi...
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Today's Gospel, 22 March, plus notices

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. The Raising of Lazarus Free image, Pixabay The Gospel Reading    John 11: 1-45 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, ‘Lord, he whom you love is ill.’ But when Jesus heard it, he said, ‘This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.’ Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, ‘Let us go to Judea again.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there ...
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Today's Gospel, 21 March. Nicodemus, Part Two

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Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices.   Nicodemus and Jesus by Providence Lithograph Company, 1904    Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9666300 John 7:40-52 When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This [Jesus] is really the prophet.” Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some asked, “Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he? Has not the scripture said that the Messiah is descended from David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” So there was a division in the crowd because of him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. Then the temple police went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not arrest him?” The police answered, “Never has anyone spoken like this!” Then the Pharisees replied, “Surely you have not been deceived too, have you? Has any one of ...
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