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Today's Gospel, 28 August. A tale of ten bridesmaids

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  Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend:  Saturday 29 August.  Faith in Bloom: Church Return to Nature Conference,  10am - 3pm at  Knock Shrine.  Saturday, 7pm, Turlough Parish Church, Evening Prayer Sunday 23 August, 10am, Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion Sunday, 11.30am,  Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion Sunday, 3pm,  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Next weekend in the parishes: Blessing of the schoolbags, backpacks and laptop bags and their bearers . Children and young people are invited to bring their schoolbags to the front of the church before or at the start of the service.  The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (detail) Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1850 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel       Matthew 25:1-13 [Jesus said]  ‘Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids  took their lamps and w...
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Today's reading, 27 August. Words of encouragement

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  Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Today's New Testament reading      1 Corinthians 1: 1-9 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord  and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  I give thanks to my  God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— just as the testimony of  Christ has been strengthened among you— so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that yo...
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