Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Invitation: A mini-pilgrimage to Inishbiggle, with  Bishop Michael, on  Sat 8 August, with celebration of the Eucharist in the church (Holy Trinity, Inishbiggle). To book please contact us. More detail below. Today's Gospel    Matthew 15:21-28 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.  Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ But he did not answer her at all.  And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’  But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ She said, ‘Yes, Lord...

Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Photo by Merdal, via Turkish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121469, adapted Today's Gospel    Matthew 15:1-2,10-14 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.’ Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’  Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offence when they heard what you said?’ He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind.  And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’      ...