Aughaval Group of Parishes

Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Today, Saturday:  The Big Clean,   in Holy Trinity Westport, f rom 9am - 1pm. All help appreciated. Sunday: 10am - Service of Holy Communion, Christ Church, Castlebar. 11.30am -  Service of Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Westport 2.30pm - Funeral of Mr Tom Wesley Bennett, in Christ Church,  Castlebar, followed by Committal in Turlough Churchyard 3pm - Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill The Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth by Carl Heinrich Bloc, 1866 Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel      Luke 1:39-56 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. ...

    Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Tomorrow, Sat 15 August:  The Big Clean,   in Holy Trinity Westport, f rom 9am - 1pm. All help appreciated. Marriage at Cana Diocese at Manzini, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, online Today's Gospel      Matthew 19:3-12 Some Pharisees came to him [Jesus], and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?’ He answered, ‘Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning “made them male and female”, and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’  They said to him, ‘Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?’ He said to them, ‘It was because you were so hard-hearted that ...