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    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Shirley, Shirley and Richard, at last Saturday's Fete Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 12:38-42 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him [Jesus],   ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’    But he answered them,   ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was for three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.    The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!    The queen of the South will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends ...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Jesus Heals a Mute Possessed Man by James Tissot,  painted between  1886 and 1894   Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today’s Gospel         Matthew 9:32-38 After they had gone away, a demoniac who was mute was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the one who had been mute spoke; and the crowds were amazed and said, ‘Never has anything like this been seen in Israel.’ But the Pharisees said, ‘By the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons.’ Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers a...