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  Today:  St Brigid's cross-making fun workshop  11am - 1pm, in Christ Church Castlebar. Open from 10am.  This is a free all-age event. All welcome. ( Children to be accompanied.)  Please scroll down for notes and more notices. Jesus Calming the Storm Vicente Soler Mundo, 1986,  CC BY-SA 4.0  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4600058 Today's gospel      Mark 4:35-41 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a de...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices, plus photos from 23 January. This weekend: St Brigid's cross-making fun workshop Sat 31 January 2026, 11am - 1pm, in Christ Church Castlebar.  This is a free all-age event. All welcome. Children must be accompanied.  Church and Glebe wardens, Christ Church Castlebar: Trevor Ardil, Susie Fry and John Browne Today's gospel      Mark 4:26-34 He [Jesus] also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the s...

  Please scroll down for photos, notes and notices.  Sunday Club Light Party, 2024 The next Sunday Club is on 8 Feb,  starting in the service at 11.30am in Holy Trinity Westport. Today's gospel      Mark 4:21-25 He [Jesus] said to them,  ‘Is a lamp brought in to be put under the bushel basket, or under the bed, and not on the lampstand? For there is nothing hidden, except to be disclosed; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’  And he said to them, ‘Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.’ Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-01-29 Christian Art https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/mark-4-21-25-2026/ Notes and Notices YOUTH Diocesan ...