Aughaval Group of Parishes

"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. ...