Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Let us Beat Swords into  P lowshares, sculpture by Yevgeny Vuchetich, 1959. Gift of the Soviet union to the United Nations.  Photo by Neptuul, Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32412758     Swords into Ploughshare sculpture, Benburb Priory, Co Tyrone Artist unknown  Today's Gospel reading      Matthew 10:34-11:1 ‘Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me i...

        Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.      Walled Garden,  Gordon Castle  Services this weekend in the parishes: Saturday 7pm, Evening Prayer in Turlough Sunday 10am, Morning Prayer  in Christ Church, Castlebar,   11.30am, Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity, Westport 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Today’s Gospel      Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying:   ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil....