Aughaval Group of Parishes

        Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.      Walled Garden,  Gordon Castle  Services this weekend in the parishes: Saturday 7pm, Evening Prayer in Turlough Sunday 10am, Morning Prayer  in Christ Church, Castlebar,   11.30am, Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity, Westport 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Today’s Gospel      Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying:   ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil....

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Christ the Good Shepherd window  Rosemary Street First Presbyterian Church, Belfast June 2026 Today’s Gospel       Matthew 10:16-23 [Jesus said to his disciples]   ‘See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues; and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles.    When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; and ...