Aughaval Group of Parishes

Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Photo by Merdal, via Turkish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121469, adapted Today's Gospel    Matthew 15:1-2,10-14 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.’ Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’  Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offence when they heard what you said?’ He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind.  And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’      ...

    Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Following the baptism of Joe, Sunday 2 August 2026 in Holy Trinity, Westport Today's Gospel         Matthew 14:22-36 Immediately he [Jesus] made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray.  When evening came, he was there alone, but by this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land,  for the wind was against them. And early in the morning he came walking towards them on the lake. But when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified, saying, ‘It is a ghost!’ And they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said, ‘Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.’ Peter answered him, ‘Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.’ H...