Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Christ in the Desert William Hole, 1910 Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3222954 What's on today, Wed 11 March? 10.30am   Midweek Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue 8pm    Online Prayer and Bible Reading Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83306729968?pwd=mVKnDXWs7Npn3aCnRPykJbJK7THANM.1 Please scroll down for more notes and notices. Today's Gospel       Matthew 5: 17-19 [Jesus said] ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven....

  Please scroll down for notes and notices. Reminder concerning Easter Vestry Meetings : Castlebar  10 March, 7.30pm in Christ Church  Westport-Dugort  12 March, 7.30pm in Carrowbeg House Turlough  21 March, after 7pm service in the church Elijah Fed by the Raven by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, 1510 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      Luke 4:24-30 And he [Jesus] said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s home town. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers  in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.’   When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rag...

"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."                                        -  Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (Book V) The Prodigal Son Evelien Bauwens, 2016  Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51009424 Please scroll down for notes and notices. Today's gospel      Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him [Jesus]. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: Then Jesus  said, ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had an...