Aughaval Group of Parishes

  This evening:  Westport-Dugort Select Vestry meeting, 7.30pm in Carrowbeg House Please scroll down for more notes and notices. Today's Gospel      Matthew 7:7-12 ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! ‘In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. Comment Today's gospel can be compared to  Luke 11:11-13, in which Jesus says, " Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fis...

  What's on today? Midweek Holy Communion   - Wed, 10.30am in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue Bakery from 11.10am (New Road, Demesne, Westport - past Lidl). You are welcome to either or both parts of the gathering.  8pm Online prayer and Bible Reading - link below. Please scroll down for more notes and notices. Jonah being swallowed by the fish Kennicott Bible Public domain,  via  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26085375 Luke 11: 29-32 When the crowds were increasing, he [Jesus] began to say, ‘This generation is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise at the judgement with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater...