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Today's gospel, Friday 18 Sept. A few good women...

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Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. Penitent Magdalene,  by Donatello, ca 1454, Photo by I. Sailko, 2009. Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6832143 Today's Gospel      Luke 8:1-3 Soon afterwards he [Jesus] went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and devotional thought here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-09-18/ Christian Art You can find an interesting reflection on today's reading here with comment, from within the RC  tradition, on church growth. https://christian.art/dai...
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Today's gospel, Thurs 17 Sept. Love and forgiveness and love...

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  Welcome.  Please scroll down for notes and notices. Mary Anoints Jesus' Feet by Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca, 2012 Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Esplugues Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltb/6804933889, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18315172 Today's Gospel    Luke 7:36-50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.  Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is w...
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Today's gospel, news, notes and notices, Wed 16 Sept.

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. Today, Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.15); 8.00 - 8.30pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading. (Link below.) Friday 18 Sept:  Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in HTW, at 7pm. Free concert, with donations towards Church repairs.  Today's Gospel  reading  Luke 7:31-35 ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;    we wailed, and you did not weep.” For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vi...
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