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Today's Gospel, 25 March, plus notices. The Annunciation

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. Wednesday  25 March  Today is  The Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary ,  sometimes known as Lady Day.  Holy Communion at  10.30 am in Holy Trinity Church, Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue Bakery (beyond Lidl). All welcome.   Wed weekly  online prayer 8pm.   Please note, there will be no online meeting on 25 March, due to Adult Safeguarding training. Annunciation  Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1472 Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76613573 The Gospel Reading      Luke 1: 26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.  And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ But sh...

Today's Gospel in Lent, 24 March, plus notices.

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. The Gospel Reading      John 8:21-30 Again he [Jesus] said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.’ Then the Jews said, ‘Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, “Where I am going, you cannot come”?’ He said to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.’  They said to him, ‘Who are you?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Why do I speak to you at all?  I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.’ They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.    So Jesus said, ‘When you have lifted up t...

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...