Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down f or today's Bible reading plus notices.  You are warmly invited to join us for any of the services this weekend in the Aughaval parishes: Sat, 7pm in Turlough Church, Evening Prayer Sun, 10am in Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion Sun, 11.30am in Holy Trinity Church, Westport,  Holy Communion, followed by tea/ coffee.  Also,  SUNDAY CLUB, starting in the church at 11.30. (For more Info. - please contact Sunday Club leader Steffi Jebaraj, number below.) Christ Taking Leave of the Disciples (Farewell Discourse) 1308-1311 by Duccio di Buoninsegna Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7922656 Today's Gospel      Luke 12:8-12 [Jesus said]  ‘And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God;   but whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God.   And everyone who speaks a ...

Please scroll down f or today's Bible reading plus notices.  Today's Gospel      Luke 12:1-7 Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered in thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he [Jesus] began to speak first to his disciples, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops. ‘I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority  to cast into hell.  Yes, I tell you, fear him! Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more...

    Please scroll down f or today's Bible reading plus notices. The Christ Pantocrator ,  6th century AD Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai Unknown artist. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150833363 Today's Gospel    Luke 11:47-54 [Jesus said] Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed. So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; for they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, “I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute”, so that this generation may be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation. Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of k...