Aughaval Group of Parishes

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. ...

  Please join us for a Community Prayer Gathering for the Middle East and Global Events, on  Sunday 8 March at 6.30pm in Holy Trinity Church, Westport.  Everyone is warmly invited and truly  welcome.  The gathering will last between 30 and 45 minutes.    Information: Email aughaval@tuam.anglican.org, or text or call 083 800 3233.

  Please scroll down for notes and notices. Today's gospel  reading is Jesus' parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus and has similarities with the parable of the  Rich Fool.  Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus by Utica artist Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880 Luke 16:19-31 ‘There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.  The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.  He called out, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.”    But Abraha...