Aughaval Group of Parishes

Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. The Parable of the Sower Hortus Deliciarum, Das Gleichnis vom Sämann, 1160 Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Today's Gospel         Luke 8:4-15 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him [Jesus], he said in a parable:  ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of moisture. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.’ As he said this, he called out, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’ Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, ‘To you it has been given to know the secrets  of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak  in parables, so that “looking they may not perceive,   ...

Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. Penitent Magdalene,  by Donatello, ca 1454, Photo by I. Sailko, 2009. Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6832143 Today's Gospel      Luke 8:1-3 Soon afterwards he [Jesus] went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and devotional thought here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-09-18/ Christian Art You can find an interesting reflection on today's reading here with comment, from within the RC  tradition, on church growth. https://christian.art/dai...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. Today, Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.15); 8.00 - 8.30pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading. (Link below.) Friday 18 Sept:  Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in HTW, at 7pm. Free concert, with donations towards Church repairs.  Today's Gospel  reading  Luke 7:31-35 ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;    we wailed, and you did not weep.” For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vi...