Today's gospel. "Power came out from him and healed all of them."

 

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Today's gospel: Christ the Healer



Jesús sana a los enfermos, 
Rodrigo Fernández, 1940
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Today's gospel reading     Luke 6:12-19

Now during those days he [Jesus] went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.


Comment

Empowered by spending time in prayer, Jesus chooses his friends and disciples and sets to work, teaching and healing. 



Sacred Space

You can find a gentle prayer guide and reflection here:

https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2025-10-28/


Collect 


Blessed Lord, 

who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: 

Help us to hear them, to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them 

that, through patience, and the comfort of your holy word, 

we may embrace and for ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, 

which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.




Today is also the Feast Day of Apostles Simon and Jude:


    Courtesy of Church of England



Sandford and St Philip's Choral Union, 
with Conductor John Dexter, Organist and Director David O'Shea, 
and Rector of the Group of Parishes, and Canon Sonia Gyles.
Photo taken following last Saturday's stunning performance of Faure's Requiem



Notices 

  • Wed 29 October, 10.30am, Midweek Holy Communion in Westport, in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel from 11am.  

St Mary's RC Church continues kindly to accommodate Holy Trinity Westport services while HTW is closed for safety repairs.  

 

  • Wed 29 October, 8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Reading (Compline). Link below. ID and Passcodes on request.




Pastoral care and enquiries:  

Revd Suzanne Cousins, Rector  
Email: aughaval@tuam.anglican.org  
Tel. +353 83 800 3233  
Aughaval Parishes' Website aughaval.tlk.ie
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AughavalParishes 


 

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