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  Please scroll down for notices and information.  Jesus calls Levi William Hole (1846- 1917) From the book, The Life of Jesus of Nazareth. Eighty Pictures. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hole_jesus_calls_levi.jpg Today’s gospel      Mark 2:13-17 Jesus  went out again beside the lake; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner  in Levi’s  house, many tax-collectors and sinners were also sitting  with Jesus and his disciples—for there were many who followed him. When the scribes of  the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does he eat  with tax-collectors and sinners?’ When Jesus heard this, he said to them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who ...

  Please scroll down for notices and additional information. John Browne and Susan Fry, Christ Church Castelbar,  preparing for the St Brigid's Cross-making morning last year Today's gospel      Mark 1:40-45 A leper  came to him [Jesus] begging him, and kneeling  he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity,  Jesus  stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately the leprosy  left him, and he was made clean. After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus  could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter. Christ Healing an ...

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 ...