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Please scroll down for today's gospel reading and resources, plus notices. Please note that today's (midweek, 10.30am) Service of Holy Communion is in St Mary's Church, Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue. Next Sunday's Westport service (18 Jan), for the Holy Trinity congregation and visitors, will also be in  St Mary's, at 12 noon.   There will be a special (ecumenical) service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and to c elebrate the return to Holy Trinity Westport ('HTW'), on Friday 23 Jan at 7.30pm in HTW. Followed by tea and refreshments in Carrowbeg House, South Mall. Please see below. You're welcome! Online prayer and Bible reading - this evening, Wed, 8-8.30pm. Link below. Today's gospel      Mark 1: 29-39 As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand ...

  Today's gospel      Mark 1:21-28 They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he [Jesus] entered the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.    Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, ‘What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.’    But Jesus rebuked him, saying, ‘Be silent, and come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit, throwing him into convulsions and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching—with authority! He  commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.’    At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.   Ruins of the ancient Great Synagogue at Capernaum (or Kfar...

  Please scroll down for notices and additional information. Jesus and the Fishermen Free Bible Images https://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/yo-jesus-fishermen/ Today's gospel      Mark 1:14-20 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news  of God,  and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near;  repent, and believe in the good news.’ As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake—for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you fish for people.’ And immediately they left their nets and followed him.    As he went a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets. Immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and followed him.   The Calling of Peter and Andrew by ...

  Services on Sunday 11  January:      Castlebar  - Sun 10am, Morning Prayer in Christ Church, followed by tea/coffee, and a brief gathering for those wishing to explore Confirmation      Westport  - Sun 12 noon,  Holy Communion and Sunday Club , this week in St Mary's, followed by tea/coffee in Carrowbeg House (beside St Mary's, S.Mall)      Achill  - Sun 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort  Please scroll down for notices and additional information. Baptism of Chris, Christ Church Castlebar September 2025 Baptism of Christ,  icon Today's gospel     Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then he consented.   And when Jesus...