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Please scroll down for photos, notes and notices and an appeal. Order of Malta representatives in Carrowbeg House, Westport, following the Service of Thanksgiving for the Reopening of Holy Trinity Church, on Friday 23 January 2026.  Photo: Jessica Priddy. Jesus Preaches in a Ship James Tissot, between 1886 and 1894 Public domain, via  Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel        Mark 4:1-20 Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since ...

Please scroll down for notes and notices. 27 January is known internationally as Holocaust Memorial Day.  Today's Gospel      Mark 3:31-35 Then his [Jesus'] mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters  are outside, asking for you.’ And he replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’ Sacred Space https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-01-27 Christian Art https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/mark-3-31-35-2026/ Bishop Michael's sermon You can listen to Bishop Michael's sermon preached at the Reopening of Holy Trinity Westport, here: https://www.mixcloud.com/TLKCOMMS/bishop-michael-westport-23jan26/ Holocaust Memorial Day HMD 2026 See   https://...

Please scroll down for notes and notices. Building together and building each other up Christ Church, Castlebar children's talk Jenní NicCormaic (LLLM/ 'Parish Reader') and Revd Suzanne Today's Gospel       Mark 3:22-30 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, ‘He [Jesus] has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.’ And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered. ‘Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes aga...