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Today's gospel, 28 April. Jesus on a winter walk.

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Today’s gospel        John 10:22-30 At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah,  tell us plainly.’    Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand.  The Father and I are one.’ Calvary , by Pietro Sassi, circa 1870 Oil painting depicting t...
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Today’s gospel, 27 April. The Good Shepherd

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Icon of the Good Shepherd Late 20th C. Author unknown Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today’s gospel      John 10:11-18 ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.    I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.   For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No on...
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Today's Gospel, 26 April. The Gate and the Door for the Sheep

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   Today in the Aughaval Parishes Sunday 26 April: 10am, Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer,  followed by tea 11.30am, Holy Trinity Westport,  The Eucharist/ Holy Communion, followed by tea 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, The Eucharist/ Holy Communion Today's Gospel      John 10:1-10 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.”   Jesus used this figure of speech w...
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Today's Gospel, 25 April, Feast Day of St Mark the Evangelist

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   Saint Mark, Evangelist by Frans Hals, circa 1625-1630 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This weekend in the Aughaval Parishes Saturday 25 April: 7pm, Turlough Church, Evening Prayer, led by Alan Cousins (Diocesan Reader-in-training) Sunday 26 April: 10am, Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer,  followed by tea 11.30am, Holy Trinity Westport,  The Eucharist/ Holy Communion, followed by tea 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, The Eucharist/ Holy Communion Today's Gospel     Mar k 16:15-20 And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the good news  to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, ...
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