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Daily Post and Gospel: 29 April

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Today: Wed at 10.30am, Midweek Communion in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel. Wed at 8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Study.   Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83306729968?pwd=mVKnDXWs7Npn3aCnRPykJbJK7THANM.1 A ssembly in Holy Trinity National School, on 28 April,  when Revd Suzanne and Alan's baby grandson Fintan and his mum Rachel  visited school and talked with the children on a 'Roots of Empathy' theme.   (See  https://rootsofempathy.org/ .)  Baby Fintan got to show off his developmental milestones and his first two teeth! Thanks to Leone for this photo and to Mrs Brickenden and the school staff for the warm welcome. Today's gospel   John 12:44-50 Then Jesus cried aloud: ‘Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world, ...
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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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