Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel, notes and notices. Peregrinations, with vintage vehicle theme Bishop Michael will be with us today, 12 March: 1030 in Castlebar and 1300 in Westport at 1pm Two Bugattis,  Photo by Liftarn,  CC BY-SA 3.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=178707   Today's Gospel      Luke 11:14-23   Now he [Jesus] was casting out a demon that was mute; when the demon had gone out, the one who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed.   But some of them said, ‘He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.’ Others, to test him, kept demanding from him a sign from heaven.   But he knew what they were thinking and said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself becomes a desert, and house falls on house. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? —for you say that I cast out the demons by Beelzebul. Now if I cast out the demons b...

  Christ in the Desert William Hole, 1910 Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3222954 What's on today, Wed 11 March? 10.30am   Midweek Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue 8pm    Online Prayer and Bible Reading Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83306729968?pwd=mVKnDXWs7Npn3aCnRPykJbJK7THANM.1 Please scroll down for more notes and notices. Today's Gospel       Matthew 5: 17-19 [Jesus said] ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven....

  Please scroll down for notes and notices. Reminder concerning Easter Vestry Meetings : Castlebar  10 March, 7.30pm in Christ Church  Westport-Dugort  12 March, 7.30pm in Carrowbeg House Turlough  21 March, after 7pm service in the church Elijah Fed by the Raven by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, 1510 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      Luke 4:24-30 And he [Jesus] said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s home town. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers  in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.’   When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rag...