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Today's gospel, 12 Feb. "Let the children be fed first."

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  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Today's gospel      Mark 7:24-30 From there he [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”  So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and short reflection here:  https://sacredspace.com/da...

Today's gospel, 11 Feb. "He has done everything well..."

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  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Wed in the parishes: 10.30am, Midweek Service of Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue Bakery ( New Rd, The Demesne, Westport, Co. Mayo).  8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Study (A Late Evening Office), link as below. Christus und die Kananäerin ( Christ and the Canaanite Woman ) Adolf Hölzel, before 1926 Public domain,  via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H%C3%B6lzel-ChristusUndDieKanan%C3%A4erin.jpg Today's gospel      Mark 7:24-37 From there he [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre.  He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.  Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her ...

Today's gospel, Tues 10 Feb. Examining the heart

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  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Today's gospel reading      Mark 7:1-13 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands,  thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;  and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. ) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live  according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, “This people honours me with their lips,    but their hearts are far from me; in vain do...