Aughaval Group of Parishes

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and some photos from recent events.  Gentle Friendship Walk at Turlough, August 2025 SC, Valerie Raitt, Dorothy Shaw, Susie Fry Today's Gospel      Matthew 7:21-29 [Jesus said] ‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord”, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?” Then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.” ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolis...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and some photos from recent events.  Wed, 10.30 in HTW - Midweek Holy Communion, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel, James Street, Westport. All welcome. Wed at 8pm , Online Prayer and Bible Reading, via Zoom. Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83306729968?pwd=mVKnDXWs7Npn3aCnRPykJbJK7THANM.1 * Please note that Midweek services (Wed morning in HTW and Wed evening online) will stop during July and August and resume in September. The Nativity of John the Baptist  by Jacopo   Pontormo, 1526  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel      Luke 1: 57-66, 80 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, ‘No...