Aughaval Group of Parishes

Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Prayers today are for the people of Columbia... Notice of Select Vestry Meetings, provisional dates: Castlebar, Tues 1 Sept, 7.30pm Westport-Dugort, Thurs 3 Sept, 7.30pm  Turlough, Sat 5 Sept, 8pm (/following the 7pm service)  At Tenerife,  Christ of the Reconciliation sculpture Photograph by Mike Peel, 2021 Creative Commons Attribution, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=103473884 Today's Gospel      Matthew 18: 15-21 ‘If another member of the church  sins against you,  go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one.  But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to ...

    Welcome! Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Suffer Little Children Come to Me Anthony van Dyck, circa 1618-1620 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel      Matthew 18:1-5,10,12-14 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. ‘Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?...