Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  The Hem of His Garment Painting, Magdala Centre, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee Photo: Author, November 2017 Today’s Gospel      Matthew 9:18-26 While he [Jesus] was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue  came in and knelt before him, saying, ‘My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.’ And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples.   Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, for she said to herself, ‘If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well.’ Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, ‘Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.’ And instantly the woman was made well.   When Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute-players and the crowd making a commotion,...

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Services on Sunday 5 July:  Christ Church Castlebar, 10.00am, Holy Communion  Holy Trinity, Westport, 11.30am, Holy Communion, followed by tea St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, 3pm,  Holy Communion Everyone welcome!  Children and young people are especially welcome. Presiding and preaching, Revd Canon Cecil Mills. Thank you to Canon Cecil also for taking yesterday evening's service in Turlough. “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance..."  The Fifer, 1866 by Édouard Manet  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=103589 Today's Gospel       Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 [Jesus said] ‘But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;   we wailed, and you did not mourn.”  ...