Aughaval Group of Parishes

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and some photos from recent events.  Today's Gospel      Matthew 16: 13-19 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah,  the Son of the living God.’   And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter,  and on this rock  I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and some photos from recent events.  Services, Sunday 28 June:  Christ Church Castlebar, 10.30am,  followed by tea Holy Trinity, Westport, 11.30am, followed by tea St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, 3pm Today's Gospel      Matthew 10:37-42 [Jesus said] Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. ‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one...