Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Jesus Heals a Mute Possessed Man by James Tissot,  painted between  1886 and 1894   Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today’s Gospel         Matthew 9:32-38 After they had gone away, a demoniac who was mute was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the one who had been mute spoke; and the crowds were amazed and said, ‘Never has anything like this been seen in Israel.’ But the Pharisees said, ‘By the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons.’ Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers a...

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Services on Sunday 5 July:  Christ Church Castlebar, 10.00am, Holy Communion  Holy Trinity, Westport, 11.30am, Holy Communion, followed by tea St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, 3pm,  Holy Communion Everyone welcome!  Children and young people are especially welcome. Presiding and preaching, Revd Canon Cecil Mills. Thank you to Canon Cecil also for taking yesterday evening's service in Turlough. “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance..."  The Fifer, 1866 by Édouard Manet  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=103589 Today's Gospel       Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 [Jesus said] ‘But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;   we wailed, and you did not mourn.”  ...