Aughaval Group of Parishes

  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...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel, notes and notices. Happy St Patrick's Day Come and celebrate St Patrick in Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Tues 17 March at 10am:  The Eucharist (Holy Communion), followed by tea/coffee in the church. Organist John Dexter. Solos, Chris O'Malley (Westport Festival of Chamber Music), and Barbara Sheppard. Tá fáilte romhat! Please note.  There will be no Midweek Holy Communion service this Wed (18 March). The Online Prayer and Bible Reading will take place as usual, at 8pm. Link below. Matthew 13:24-32 He [Jesus] put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did ...

"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."                                        -  Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (Book V) The Prodigal Son Evelien Bauwens, 2016  Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51009424 Please scroll down for notes and notices. Today's gospel      Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him [Jesus]. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: Then Jesus  said, ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had an...