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Today’s gospel: 17 April. An abundance of grass and a miraculous meal

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   Miracle of the Bread and Fish , 1623, by  Giovanni Lanfranco  Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15462492 This weekend in the Aughaval Group of Parishes: Saturday 18 April:  4.30pm, Holy Trinity Westport,  Voices of Iberia & Eire  - concert by Cór Mhaigh Eo,  with visiting choir from Competa,  Spain.  7pm, Turlough Church, Evening Prayer Sunday 19 April: 10am, Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer. Preacher, Revd John Wesley 11.30am, Holy Trinity Westport,  Holy Communion 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  Evening Prayer Today's Gospel      John 6:1-15 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.   A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat dow...
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Today’s gospel: Jesus gives the Spirit without measure

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  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   Moray coast, Scotland Today's Gospel reading      John 3:31-36 [John the Baptist said] "The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified  this, that God is true. He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath."     First Council of Nicaea (325)  holding the Nicene Creed https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicaea_icon.jpg Icon author unknown. Public domain, via Wikimedi...
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Today’s gospel, 15 April. "The light has come into the world."

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Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   "Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window  at 6:41 p.m. EDT,  April 6, 2026,  during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon."  Image credit: NASA https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/art002e009288/ Today, Wed 14 April:  - 10.30 am Midweek Holy Communion in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee. - 8pm   Online Prayer and Bible reading, Zoom link below. Today's Gospel       John 3:16-21 ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. ‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgement...
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Today’s gospel, 14 April. Jesus and Nicodemus, continued

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Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   This weekend in  n Holy Trinity Church,  Westport Voices of Iberia & Eire a concert by Cór Mhaigh Eo and a visiting choir from Competa,  Spain,  4.30pm  on Saturday 18 April.  Proceeds are towards Holy Trinity Church, Westport.    Today's Gospel      John 3:7-15 Do not be astonished that I said to you, “You  must be born from above.” The wind  blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can these things be?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? ‘Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you  do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you...
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