Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Sunday 10am, Holy Communion, in Christ Church Castlebar 11.30am,  Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity Westport 3pm, Evening Prayer, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill A word of thanks: Holy Trinity Westport Church Fete The Westport-Dugort Select Vestry and Fete Organising Team expresses sincere gratitude on behalf of the parish for all who supported yesterday's Fete (18.07.26) at HTW. It was a great success from every perspective. Photos from the day and the total amount raised will be published here soon.  In the meantime you can read more on the parish's Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551852152848 Steffi Jebaraj  and Paul Kirubakaran Steffi and Paul help lead our Youth and Children's ministry, in particular the Sunday Club, which during school  term time (Sept-June), meets fortnightly.  Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 13:24-30 He...

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Today's Gospel reading     Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.   When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.’    He said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice”, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son ...