Aughaval Group of Parishes

  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...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel, notes and notices. Peregrinations, with vintage vehicle theme Bishop Michael will be with us today, 12 March: 1030 in Castlebar and 1300 in Westport at 1pm Two Bugattis,  Photo by Liftarn,  CC BY-SA 3.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=178707   Today's Gospel      Luke 11:14-23   Now he [Jesus] was casting out a demon that was mute; when the demon had gone out, the one who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed.   But some of them said, ‘He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.’ Others, to test him, kept demanding from him a sign from heaven.   But he knew what they were thinking and said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself becomes a desert, and house falls on house. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? —for you say that I cast out the demons by Beelzebul. Now if I cast out the demons b...

  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....