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Today's gospel: An unsettling parable, featuring rejection, usurpation and violence

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. This week in Castlebar: Carra Singers in concert,  Thurs 4 June  at 7.30pm,  in Christ Church Castlebar, in aid of  Mayo Pink Ribbon .  Please note that there will be no midweek service on Wed 3 June in Holy Trinity Westport. Rather, the church will be open for private prayer. There will be online prayer and Bible reading at 8pm as usual. Today's gospel  Mark 12:1-12 Then he [Jesus] began to speak to them in parables.   ‘A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watch-tower; then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. And again he sent another slave to them; this one they beat over the head and insulted. Then he se...
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Today's Gospel, Trinity Sunday

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    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Today's services, Sunday 31 May      - Christ Church Castlebar,  10am      - Holy Trinity Westport,  11.30am      - St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, 3pm Trinity icon  by Andrei Rublev possibly between 1425 and 1427  / possibly  1412 Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54421 Today's gospel     Matthew 28: 16-20     Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to...
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