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Today's Gospel, 8 June. Blessings and suffering

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    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. This week: Wed, 10.30am Midweek Holy Communion in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel. Wed, 8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Study. Link below.  Thurs, 11am, Diocesan Annual School Service in St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam. Fri, 11am, Open church, Christ Church Castebar Sermon on the Mount Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1861 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Gospel Reading              Matthew 5:1-12 When Jesus  saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. ‘Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. ‘Blessed are the merciful, ...
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Today's gospel, 7 June

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Today, Sunday 7 June:      - Christ Church Castlebar, Holy Communion/The Eucharist,  10am        - Holy Trinity Westport, Blue Grass Gospel Hour,  11.30am,  part of this year's  Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival  (See poster, below)     -  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer, 3pm Healing of a bleeding woman Unknown author, 4th  century CE from Marcellinus-Peter-Catacomb Public domain, Wikimedia Commons The Gospel Reading             Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, th...
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