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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Reminder:  Thursday 28 May 11am in Holy Trinity Church, Westpoort.   A Service for the Community  to give thanks for 40 years of Westport Country Market.  Jointly organised by the Church of Ireland and St Mary's Church.  Today's gospel     Mark 10:28-31 Peter began to say to him [Jesus], ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you.’ Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news,  who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.’   Sacred Space Y ou can find a short prayer guide with a helpful reflection here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-p...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Lydia Monds (right) and Susie Fry (from Castlebar) in St Thomas's Dugort, following the 'Be Still & Know' Contemplative Prayer and A Time to Heal event in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill on Pentecost Sunday Today's gospel       Mark 10: 17-27 As he [Jesus] was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honour your father and mother.”   ’ He said to him, ‘Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.’ Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money  to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven;...