Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices, including for Holy Week and Easter. Join us this weekend for  Palm Sunday worship: Sat, 7pm in Turlough Sun 10am in Christ Church Castlebar Sun 11.30am in Holy Trinity Westport Today's Gospel      John 10:31-42 They took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, ‘I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?’ The Jews answered, ‘It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.’ Jesus answered, ‘Is it not written in your law,  “I said, you are gods”? If those to whom the word of God came were called “gods”—and the scripture cannot be annulled— can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, “I am God’s Son”? If I am not doing the works...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. The Gospel Reading      John 8:21-30 Again he [Jesus] said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.’ Then the Jews said, ‘Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, “Where I am going, you cannot come”?’ He said to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.’  They said to him, ‘Who are you?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Why do I speak to you at all?  I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.’ They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.    So Jesus said, ‘When you have lifted up t...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. Christ and the Sinner Andrey Mironov, 2011 Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30518018 The Gospel Reading    John 8:1-11  ...while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them.    The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them,  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”  They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.    When they kept on questi...