Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Gentle Friendship and Prayer Walk, this evening, 7pm Please note the slight change concerning this evening's Gentle Friendship and Prayer Walk, this evening, Wed 22 July, 7pm :   It is recommended that drivers park their cars outside the park (National Museum of Ireland and Country Park, Turlough), to avoid getting their vehicles locked in at closing time, and that we meet at the gate, at 7pm. See you there and then. Children and young people are more than welcome! Weeping Mary Magdalene Entombment of Christ, statue, 1672 in Saint-Martin Church in Arc-en-Barrois (Haute-Marne, France). Vassil, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0> via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel reading     John 20: 1-2, 11-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So...

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Shirley, Shirley and Richard, at last Saturday's Fete Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 12:38-42 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him [Jesus],   ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’    But he answered them,   ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was for three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.    The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!    The queen of the South will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends ...