Aughaval Group of Parishes

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.”  ...

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Today, Sat 4 July: The funeral of Isobel Judge will take place at 2.30pm in Holy Trinity Church, Westport, followed by Committal at St Thomas's Knappagh. We express sincere sympathy on behalf of all in the parishes to Isobel's family on their great loss.  Today's Gospel      Matthew 9:14-17 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”    And Jesus said to them,   “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destro...