Aughaval Group of Parishes

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading and devotional resources, plus notices. Wed 18 March: Please note that there is no midweek service today, 18 March, in Westport. However, there will be Online Prayer as usual at 8pm, link as below.  Christ in the Wilderness The Hen Stanley Spencer, 1939-40 from Christ in the Wilderness series https://www.wikiart.org/en/stanley-spencer/christ-in-the-wilderness-the-hen   Today's gospel      John 5:17-30 But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.’ For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and h...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel, notes and notices. St Patrick's Day St Patrick's Day, 17 March, will be celebrated in our grouped parishes with a special service  in Holy Trinity Westport at 10am,  to give thanks for our patron saint. Tea/coffee to follow.  Fáilte!  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. Benita Stoney, retiring from Select Vestry service after 25 years  and 8 years as Hon. Secretary, was presented with flowers on Sunday 15 March by the new Rector's Church Warden, Shirley Larkin. Today's Gospel      John 4:43-54 When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in the prophet’s own country). When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festiv...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel, notes and notices. Today's Gospel     Mark 12:28-34 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he [Jesus] answered them well, he asked him,  ‘Which commandment is the first of all?’    Jesus answered, ‘The first is, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” The second is this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.’    Then the scribe said to him, ‘You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that “he is one, and besides him there is no other”; and “to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength”, and “to love one’s neighbour as oneself”,—this is much more important than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrific...