Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. The Calling of Saint Matthew by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1621 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel     Matthew 9:9-13 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner  in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting  with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?’  But when he heard this, he said, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’ Sacred Space You can find a helpful prayer guide with a short reflection here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-09-21/ Prayer requests If you have pra...

Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. Today, Sunday 20 Sept 10am, Holy Communion in Christchurch Castlebar 11.30am, Morning Prayer in Holy Trinity Westport, led by LLLMs Kenn McLaughlin and Brad Thien. Followed by tea. 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  led by LLLMs Kenn McLaughlin and Brad Thien 5pm, Commissioning of Diocesan Readers in St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe, by the Rt Revd Michael Burrows, Bishop of Tuam, Limerick & Killaloe. This will also be the occasion for the graduation of Certificate in Christian Studies students. Visitors and all children and young people are especially welcome.  Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard Codex Aureus Epternacensis by unknown artist, from the Middle Ages (1050) Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10315166 Today's Gospel     Matthew 20: 1-16   [Jesus said]  ‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the m...

Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. The Parable of the Sower Hortus Deliciarum, Das Gleichnis vom Sämann, 1160 Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Today's Gospel         Luke 8:4-15 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him [Jesus], he said in a parable:  ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of moisture. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.’ As he said this, he called out, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’ Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, ‘To you it has been given to know the secrets  of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak  in parables, so that “looking they may not perceive,   ...

Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. Penitent Magdalene,  by Donatello, ca 1454, Photo by I. Sailko, 2009. Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6832143 Today's Gospel      Luke 8:1-3 Soon afterwards he [Jesus] went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and devotional thought here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-09-18/ Christian Art You can find an interesting reflection on today's reading here with comment, from within the RC  tradition, on church growth. https://christian.art/dai...