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.  Shirley, Shirley and Richard, at last Saturday's Fete Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 12:38-42 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him [Jesus],   ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’    But he answered them,   ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was for three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.    The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!    The queen of the South will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends ...