Today's gospel: An unsettling parable, featuring rejection, usurpation and violence
Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. This week in Castlebar: Carra Singers in concert, Thurs 4 June at 7.30pm, in Christ Church Castlebar, in aid of Mayo Pink Ribbon . Please note that there will be no midweek service on Wed 3 June in Holy Trinity Westport. Rather, the church will be open for private prayer. There will be online prayer and Bible reading at 8pm as usual. Today's gospel Mark 12:1-12 Then he [Jesus] began to speak to them in parables. ‘A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watch-tower; then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. And again he sent another slave to them; this one they beat over the head and insulted. Then he se...