Aughaval Group of Parishes

  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...

This weekend Sat 7 March 11am  Blessing of the new Coastguard Station, The Quay, Westport.  All welcome. Sun 8 March, Sunday Club, starting in the 11.30 am service in Holy Trinity Westport. Services  Sat 7pm, Evening Prayer in Turlough Church Sun, 10am, Morning Prayer  in Christ Church Castlebar, followed by tea/coffee Sun 11.30am, The Holy Communion  in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by tea/coffee Sun, 3pm,  Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, followed by tea/coffee Please scroll down for more notes and notices. The parable of the wicked workers of the vineyard AN Mironov, 2013 Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 ‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. ...