Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Today,  Holy Trinity Westport Church Fete TODAY, Sat 18 July  12 noon - 3pm - Holy Trinity Westport Church Fete, i n the church grounds, with live music, teas, coffees, stalls and tables with all kinds of attractive goods for sale, plus an auction. All are invited and welcome! 7pm - Evening Prayer in Turlough Church Sunday 10am, Holy Communion, in Christ Church Castlebar 11.30am,  Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity Westport 3pm, Evening Prayer, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 12:14-21 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds  followed him, and he cured all of them, and he ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah: ‘Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,   ...

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.   When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.’    He said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice”, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son ...