Lent Day 4, Gospel Reading, 8 March

 



 Sunday Club team: Paul, Steffi, Shirley

Luke 5:27-32 (NRSV)

After this he [Jesus] went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up, left everything, and followed him.

Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax-collectors and others sitting at the table with them.The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?’ Jesus answered, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance.’


Jesus calls Levi
by William Hole, early 1900s
Public domain 


You can find a gentle reflection to start / enrich/ end your day here, with Sacred Space:

https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2025-03-08/



This weekend in the Aughaval Parishes:

You're welcome!


  • Saturday 8 March, 7pm in Turlough, Service of Holy Communion 


Sunday 9 March, The First Sunday in Lent

  • 12 noon, Service of Holy Communion for Holy Trinity Westport, in St Mary's Church, Westport (South Mall, F28 FD00) followed by tea in Carrowbeg House (next door to the church)
  • 12 noon, Westport Sunday Club, starting in the service and moving to Carrowbeg House 

  • 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer 


This weekend's bulletin with lectionary readings and notices can be found at this link:

https://www.scribd.com/document/836618555/BULLETIN-Lent-IC-9-March-2025




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