Aughaval Group of Parishes

    Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Tomorrow, Sat 15 August:  The Big Clean,   in Holy Trinity Westport, f rom 9am - 1pm. All help appreciated. Marriage at Cana Diocese at Manzini, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, online Today's Gospel      Matthew 19:3-12 Some Pharisees came to him [Jesus], and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?’ He answered, ‘Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning “made them male and female”, and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’  They said to him, ‘Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?’ He said to them, ‘It was because you were so hard-hearted that ...

  Welcome!    Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Westport parishioners John and Alison Dexter (right),  with their very talented mezzo-soprano daughter  Éilís   and her partner Michael, also a gifted musician.  Welcome home and warmest c ongratulations from all in the Aughaval parishes to  Éilís,  who has recently completed a Masters degree after two years in Zurich, Switzerland. Photo taken in the Clew Bay Hotel, Westport, Aug 2026. Today's Gospel      Matthew 18:21-19:1 Then Peter came and said to him [Jesus], ‘Lord, if another member of the church  sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?’   Jesus said to him, ‘Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven  times.  ‘For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.    When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousan...