Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's reading, plus notes and notices, and expressions of gratitude. Today, Wed: 10.30am Midweek Holy Communion in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel from 11.10am.  8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Study. Please scroll down for link.  Today's Gospel        Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-18 [Jesus said] ‘Beware of practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.     ‘And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to sta...

    Please scroll down for today's readings, notes and notices. Saint Barnabas by Sandro Botticelli, 1490 Public domain, via  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=159760904 Today and this weekend's events: Thurs, 11am, Diocesan Annual School Service in St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam. Fri, 11am, Open church, Christ Church Castlebar Fri, 7.30pm, Westport Children's Choir Summer Concert, in Holy Trinity Westport   Sat, 3pm, Goethe Choir in HTW, 'An Elegy of Two Queens'. (Please see below.) Sat, 7pm, Turlough Church, Holy Communion Sun, 10am, Morning Prayer in Christ Church Castlebar (Canon Cecil Mills) Sun, Confirmation, 3pm in HTW. The Rt Revd Michael Burrows will confirm, preach and preside at the Eucharist. Sun, 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Holy Communion (Canon Cecil Mills) Today's Gospel       Matthew 5:20-26 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ‘Yo...