Aughaval Group of Parishes

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Turlough House and Park   Today's Gospel reading     John 15:1-8 [Jesus said] ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed  by the word that I have spoken to you.  Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is ...

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Today, Sat 4 July: The funeral of Isobel Judge will take place at 2.30pm in Holy Trinity Church, Westport, followed by Committal at St Thomas's Knappagh. We express sincere sympathy on behalf of all in the parishes to Isobel's family on their great loss.  Today's Gospel      Matthew 9:14-17 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”    And Jesus said to them,   “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destro...