Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for information and dates.  Church of the Beatitudes, Israel, at traditional location of the Sermon on the Mount Photo by Bantosh, 2007.  Public domain, via  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1579448 Today's gospel      Luke 6:17-23 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. Then he looked up at his disciples and said: ‘Blessed are you who are poor,    for yours is the kingdom of God. ‘Blessed are you who are hungry now,    for you will be filled. ‘Blessed are you who weep now,    for you will laugh. ‘Blesse...

Please scroll down for notices. Today in the parishes:  Midweek Holy Communion, Wed, at 10.30am, in St Mary’s Westport (thanks to our friends there for accommodating us), followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel. All welcome  Online Prayer and Bible Reading every Wed at 8pm, via Zoom .  All welcome. Please scroll down for link. Today's gospel      Luke 14:25-33 Now large crowds were travelling with him [Jesus]; and he turned and said to them, ‘  Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, “This fellow beg...

Please scroll down for information and dates.  “Christ within me…”, from the Breastplate of St Patrick. Photo taken at the St Patrick Centre,  Downpatrick, Co Down   Today’s gospel      Luke 14:15-24 One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, ‘Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!’  Then Jesus  said to him,  ‘Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, “Come; for everything is ready now.”  But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, “I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my apologies.”  Another said, “I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my apologies.”  Another said, “I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.”  So the slave returned and reported this to his master. Then the owner of t...