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Today's Gospel and notes, 13 Oct. What's inside?

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    Please scroll down for today's Bible reading plus notices. Artist and Subject Benita Stoney and Rory Brickenden 11.10.26 Today's Gospel      Luke 11:37-41 While he was speaking, a Pharisee invited him to dine with him; so he went in and took his place at the table. The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not first wash before dinner. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? So give for alms those things that are within; and see, everything will be clean for you. Sacred Space You can find a prayer guide and short reflection here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-10-13/ Christian Art https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/matthew-5-1-12a-2026-2/ Prayer requests If you have prayer requests, please email us at aughaval@tuam.anglican.org. Notes and Notices Subj...

Today's Gospel, 12 Oct.

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  Please scroll down for today's Bible reading plus notices. Jonah and the Whale , sculpture by  Samuel Rothbort,  ca. 1930s,  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ida Rothbort, daughter https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/jonah-and-whale-35110 Today's Gospel      Luke 11:29-32 When the crowds were increasing, he [Jesus] began to say, ‘This generation is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise at the judgement with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here! The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, somethi...

Today's reading, 11 October, St Philip the Deacon

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  Please scroll down for today's Bible reading plus notices. Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch by Мастер Георгий, authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople) from the Menologion of Basileiou  - 11th century illuminated Byzantine manuscript. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8914456 Acts 8:26-40   Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went.  Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over to this chariot and join it.’ So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’...