Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Today's gospel, Monday 15 Sept. Season of Creation The Garden of Peace John 12: 27-36a ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’     Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.   Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people   to myself.’He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.     The crowd answered him, ‘We have heard from the law that the Messiah   remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’   Jesus said to them, ‘The light...

  Harvest Thanksgiving  2025  in the Aughaval Group  Season of Creation Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Luke 12: 16-30   Then he [Jesus] told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced
 abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not ric...

  Taken at Hopeman, Moray, Scotland Luke 6:43-49 ‘No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. ‘Why do you call me “Lord, Lord”, and do not do what I tell you? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.  But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of th...

 The Parable of the Mote and the Beam Interior of the Church of Saint Katherine’s Daniel Hopfer, circa 1530 Public domain via  Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel reading      Luke 6:39-42 He [Jesus] also told them a parable: ‘Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, “Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye”, when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye. Christian Art " True discipleship begins not with judging others but with allowing Christ to open our own blinded eyes...Jesus invites us to let ourselves be led by God's wisdom and other people who are good for...

  Today's gospel reading      Luke 6:27-38 ‘But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to others as you would have them do to you. ‘If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.  Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most Hig...

The Sermon on the Sea of Galilee   by Jan Brueghel, 1597 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons What's On?  Wed 10 September: Midweek Holy Communion , Westport, 10.30am in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (James Street).   Online Prayer  (Compline), 8pm. Link below.   Meeting ID and Passcode available on request (0838003233). Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76460311534?pwd=vKBtGoH89ad1j8ft2Gy80X3SJu0VOg.1 Harvest Thanksgiving Services in this Season of Creation Sunday 14 Sept:   Guest speaker Mr Alan  Cousins, SAT 7.  Music - Organist John Dexter, and Tenor Francis Hubert  ( https://www.rncm.ac.uk/news/qa-with-tenor-hubert-francis/ ) 10am - Christ Church Castlebar 12 noon - St Mary's Church Westport (South Mall) for Holy Trinity and friends 3pm -  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Services followed by  tea. Everyone is invited and welcome. Harvest Thanksgiving in Turlough Sat 20 Sept, 7pm, follo...

  Season of Creation 2025  (1 Sept - 4 Oct) This year's theme: Peace with Creation Today's gospel reading      Luke 6:12-19 Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out fro...

  8 September: The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary Madonna im Gärtchen (Madonna in the Garden) Anonymous, early 16th century, Dutch Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152365 Collect  Almighty God,  who looked upon the lowliness of the blessed Virgin Mary  and chose her to be the mother of your only Son:  Grant that we who are redeemed by his blood  may share with her in the glory of your eternal kingdom;  through Jesus Christ our Lord. Matthew 1:1-16,18-23 An account of the genealogy  of Jesus the Messiah,  the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon ...