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  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. The Raising of Lazarus Free image, Pixabay The Gospel Reading    John 11: 1-45 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, ‘Lord, he whom you love is ill.’ But when Jesus heard it, he said, ‘This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.’ Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, ‘Let us go to Judea again.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there ...

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices.   Nicodemus and Jesus by Providence Lithograph Company, 1904    Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9666300 John 7:40-52 When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This [Jesus] is really the prophet.” Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some asked, “Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he? Has not the scripture said that the Messiah is descended from David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” So there was a division in the crowd because of him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. Then the temple police went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not arrest him?” The police answered, “Never has anyone spoken like this!” Then the Pharisees replied, “Surely you have not been deceived too, have you? Has any one of ...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. Betrayal of Christ , 1494 Painting in Holy Cross Church, Platanissa, Cyprus by unknown medieval painters  See Andreas Stylianou and Judith A. Stylianou:  The Painted Churches of Cyprus . Trigraph, London 1985  Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19448211 Today's Gospel      John 7:1-2,10,25-30 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish  to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths  was near. But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were  in secret. Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, ‘Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? ...