Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's Bible reading plus notices. Jonah and the Whale , sculpture by  Samuel Rothbort,  ca. 1930s,  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ida Rothbort, daughter https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/jonah-and-whale-35110 Today's Gospel      Luke 11:29-32 When the crowds were increasing, he [Jesus] began to say, ‘This generation is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise at the judgement with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here! 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, somethi...

  Please scroll down for today's Bible reading plus notices. Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch by Мастер Георгий, authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople) from the Menologion of Basileiou  - 11th century illuminated Byzantine manuscript. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8914456 Acts 8:26-40   Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went.  Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over to this chariot and join it.’ So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’...

Please scroll down for today's gospel plus this weekend's notices. The Sam Maguire Cup, at Holy Trinity National School with players Conal and Rory, on 9 October 2026, plus (L-R) Bishop Michael, Revd Suzanne, and Principal Orla Brickenden. Rory will be with us in HTW this Sunday, 11 Oct at 11.30am. Please join us for the occasion, or afterwards for tea. Today's Gospel      Luke 11:27-28 While he [Jesus] was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!’ But he said, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!’ Comment on the gospel The meaning of "the word of God" is understood primarily in two ways in Christian thinking: first, there is  Christ, the Living Word of God; and second, there is the Bible, the written Word.  How is my relationship with these? This morning's Psalm      Psalm 105 1   O give thanks to the Lord ...