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Today's Gospel and notices, 26 March. Picking up stones...

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Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices, including for Holy Week and Easter.   Today's Gospel      John 8:51-59 Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.’ They said to him, ‘Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, “Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.” Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be?’ Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, “He is our God”, though you do not know him. But I know him; if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep his word. Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.’ Then the Jews said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’  Jesus said...

Today's Gospel in Lent, 24 March, plus notices.

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. The Gospel Reading      John 8:21-30 Again he [Jesus] said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.’ Then the Jews said, ‘Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, “Where I am going, you cannot come”?’ He said to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.’  They said to him, ‘Who are you?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Why do I speak to you at all?  I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.’ They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.    So Jesus said, ‘When you have lifted up t...

Today's Gospel in Lent, plus notices. An attempt to trap Jesus

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. Christ and the Sinner Andrey Mironov, 2011 Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30518018 The Gospel Reading    John 8:1-11  ...while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them.    The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them,  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”  They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.    When they kept on questi...