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  Please scroll down for information and notices. Friday 5 December, 8pm in St Mary’s Church, Westport. Christmas Special Concert with the Roscommon Solstice Choir and guests Westport Children’s Choi r. A fundraising event for Holy Trinity Church repairs. Donations at the door. Please spread the word and come along! Today's gospel      Matthew 15: 29-37 After Jesus had left that place, he passed along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, where he sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the mute, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he cured them, so that the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel. Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, ‘I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them a...

Faith Alive! and Ecumenical Matters in Westport

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  Faith Alive!  Behold how good and how lovely it is  when brothers [and sisters] live together in unity. It is fragrant as oil upon the head... Psalm 133: 1 Monica Morley and Fr John Kenny Reopening of Holy Trinity Church, Westport, 30th November 2025, Advent Sunday Holy Trinity Church, Westport, reopened for services last Sunday after being closed due to damage from Storm Éowyn for the past 10 months. During this period of closure weekly services were held in St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, on Sundays and on Wednesday mornings, with use also being made weekly of Carrowbeg House for tea and coffee. Indeed, on more than one Sunday in Carrowbeg House, St Mary's friends even provided the refreshments, and helped serve and clean up afterwards. Revd Suzanne Cousins Church of Ireland Rector and Fr John Kenny ADM St Mary’s joined Monica Morley on Midwest Radio's Faith Alive to talk about how the two faith communities worked together during this time and the experience f...

Today's gospel, 2 Dec. Blessed to see the Son

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    Please scroll down for information and notices. Westport:  Please note that this week there will be no midweek service this Wednesday morning, 3 December.  However, the Online Prayer and Bible Reading will take place as usual, at 8pm.  Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83306729968?pwd=mVKnDXWs7Npn3aCnRPykJbJK7THANM.1 La psalmiste avec le Saint-Esprit  (The psalmist with the Holy Spirit)  by JARIKU les Ateliers  © alias Sébastien Charles Amar Hamideche  CC BY-SA 4.0  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113424221 Today's gospel     Luke 10:21-24 At that same hour Jesus  rejoiced in the Holy Spirit  and said, ‘I thank  you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.  All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is excep...