Today's gospel, 8 August, plus this weekend's services
Services this weekend: - Saturday, 7pm in Turlough Church, The Service of Holy Communion, Canon Cecil Mills to preside; -Sunday, 10am in Christ Church, Castlebar, and 12 noon in Westport (for the Holy Trinity Westport congregation and visitors, in St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church on South Mall), The Service of Holy Communion, with Canon Cecil Mills presiding; - Sunday, 3pm in St Thomas’s Dugort, The Service of Holy Communion at which Bishop Michael TLK will preside, followed by tea in St Thomas’s Hall. Everyone is welcome. Come as you are! Christ the Redeemer , statue Rio de Janeiro Image: Pixabay Matthew 16:24-28 Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return fo...