Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome to the Aughaval Parishes Sunday 24 August  Saint Bartholomew’s Day The Tenth Sunday after Trinity Saint Bartholomew  Riseberg Free image via Pixabay   Hymns 360 - Let all the world in every corner sing 655 - Loving Shepherd of your sheep 80 - Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father 228 - Meekness and majesty Collect  Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your word: Grant that your Church may love that word which he believed and may faithfully preach and receive the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Isaiah 43: 8-13 A reading from the Book ‘Isaiah’, chapter 43, beginning at verse 8: Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes,    who are deaf, yet have ears! Let all the nations gather together,    and let the peoples assemble. Who among them declared this,    and foretold to us the former things? Let them bring their w...

  Today’s gospel "Humanity has a noble task, that of prayer and love." (John Vianney, 1786-1859, quoted in Sacred Space , link below)   Matthew 22:32-46 “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”? He is God not of the dead, but of the living.’ And when the crowd heard it, they were astounded at his teaching. When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘   “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment.And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’ Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ‘What do you think of the Messiah? ...

  Wed 20 August. Coffee in the Clew Bay   Join the small group that will meet in the Clew Bay Hotel, James Street Westport, from 11am. The coffee/tea is on us, the company is good, and the chat is healthy and hearty! Everyone is welcome.  Today's gospel         "T he last will be first, and the first will be last.” Matthew 20:1-16      “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; and he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’  So they went. When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, ‘Why are you stand...