Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Christ in the Desert William Hole, 1910 Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3222954 What's on today, Wed 11 March? 10.30am   Midweek Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue 8pm    Online Prayer and Bible Reading Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83306729968?pwd=mVKnDXWs7Npn3aCnRPykJbJK7THANM.1 Please scroll down for more notes and notices. Today's Gospel       Matthew 5: 17-19 [Jesus said] ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven....

Reminders: 1.  Tuesday 10 March: Easter Vestry Meeting - Castlebar, 7.30pm 2. Thursday 12 March: Bishop's Peregrinations: Bishop Michael will be with us in Castlebar on Thur 12 March at 10.30am and in Westport at 1pm .  The theme is Vintage Vehicles. If you have an old tractor or a classic car or motorbike , or an old jalopy that's precious to you, please bring it along. If you don't have a vehicle to bring, please come along anyway. There will be tea/coffee. Please scroll down for more notes and notices. "  Forgiveness It might be easy to print on a rock,  but entirely different to actually practice forgiveness ."  by JamesInOregon, 2011 CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>,  via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel      Matthew 18:21-35 Then Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?’Jesus said to him, ‘Not seven times, but, ...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices. Reminder concerning Easter Vestry Meetings : Castlebar  10 March, 7.30pm in Christ Church  Westport-Dugort  12 March, 7.30pm in Carrowbeg House Turlough  21 March, after 7pm service in the church Elijah Fed by the Raven by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, 1510 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      Luke 4:24-30 And he [Jesus] said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s home town. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers  in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.’   When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rag...