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INVITATION You are warmly invited to this ecumenical service for the  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Friday 23 January at 7.30pm  in Holy Trinity Church, Westport:  A Service of Thanksgiving  for the  Reopening of Holy Trinity Church Preacher: The Rt Revd Bishop Michael Burrows  Please come along and bring others. You will be blessed! Service to be followed by refreshments in Carrowbeg House, South Mall (beside St Mary's Church)

What's on today, Wed 21 Jan? 10.30am, Midweek Holy Communion in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue. All welcome. 8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Study. Please scroll down for link. The Bible reading will be today's gospel, as below. Midweek Holy Communion is back in Holy Trinity Westport. Please scroll down for more notices and general information. Mark 3:1-6 Again he [Jesus] entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.  And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the...

  Please scroll down for notices and information.  Christ of the Cornfield by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1914 Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45611023 Today's Gospel      Mark 2:23-28 One sabbath he [Jesus] was going through the cornfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ And he said to them, ‘Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.’  Then he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.’ Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide here: https://sacredspace...

Please scroll down for notices and information. Scriptural Reasoning Event, Tuesday 3 Feb, 7.30 - 9pm, online.  Please see below for details and to book.  Mark 2:18-22 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day. “No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.” Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide on th...