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Today's gospel, 21 May. Love and unity

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices, and for times of services in the churches. You're welcome! Christ on the Mount of Olives by Josef Untersberger (1864-1933),  Austrian Artist  who usually signed his paintings Giovanni. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      John 17:20-26 [Jesus prayed] ‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,  so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.   Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my g...
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Today's gospel, Wed 20 May. Jesus prays for his disciples

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and mores notices. Today, Wednesday 20 May Midweek Holy Communion, 10am in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Clew Bay Hotel, James Street, Westport. Everyone welcome. Please note that there will be no online meeting this evening.  The Tower Door entrance at Holy Trinity, Westport,  through which hundreds of visitors pass every year. Today's gospel      John 17:11-19 [Jesus said] And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that  you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,  so that the scripture might be fulfilled.   But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete...
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