Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Services today Everyone is welcome.  Children and visitors are especially welcome. Sun, 10am, Morning Prayer in Castlebar, followed by tea. Donations for tea/coffee today will go towards this year's Pancakes & Prayer Appeal (see below). Sun 11.30am, The Holy Communion, in Westport,  followed by tea.  Donations for tea/coffee today will go towards this year's Pancakes & Prayer Appeal (see below). Sun 3pm,  The Holy Communion, in Dugort, Achill Please note that next Sat, 28 Feb, is our All-age service in Turlough Church at 7pm. You're welcome!  Poem, by Revd Cathy Hallisey Today's Gospel   Matthew 4: 1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’  But h...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Today's gospel      Mark 7:24-30 From there he [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”  So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and short reflection here:  https://sacredspace.com/da...

  Please scroll down for general information and notices. Please note there will be no  Midweek service on Wed 31 December and  no  Online Prayer and Bible Reading.  The Purification or The Presentation in the Temple Far Bibliothèque municipale Stanislas,  Nancy - La Purification ou la Présentation au Temple  (Ms. 1874, fol. 30v°), CC BY 2.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29759248 Today's gospel reading      Luke 2:36-40 There was also a prophet, Anna  the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day. At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child  to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. When they had finished everything required...