Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Wed in the parishes: 10.30am, Midweek Service of Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue Bakery ( New Rd, The Demesne, Westport, Co. Mayo).  8pm, Online Prayer and Bible Study (A Late Evening Office), link as below. Christus und die Kananäerin ( Christ and the Canaanite Woman ) Adolf Hölzel, before 1926 Public domain,  via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H%C3%B6lzel-ChristusUndDieKanan%C3%A4erin.jpg Today's gospel      Mark 7:24-37 From there he [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre.  He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.  Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her ...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Today's gospel reading      Mark 7:1-13 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands,  thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;  and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. ) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live  according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, “This people honours me with their lips,    but their hearts are far from me; in vain do...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Jesus Heals the Sick Rodrigo Fernández, 1940 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46682211 Mark 6:53-56 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the market-places, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-02-09 This week's Collect Almighty God,  you have created the heavens and the earth  and made us in your own image:  Teach us to discern your hand in all your works  and your likeness in all your children;  through Jesus Chris...