Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and parish notices. Betrayal of Christ , 1494 Painting in Holy Cross Church, Platanissa, Cyprus by unknown medieval painters  See Andreas Stylianou and Judith A. Stylianou:  The Painted Churches of Cyprus . Trigraph, London 1985  Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19448211 Today's Gospel      John 7:1-2,10,25-30 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish  to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths  was near. But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were  in secret. Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, ‘Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? ...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, devotional resources and notices. Today's Gospel      Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a ... and Jacob [was] the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah. Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took...

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading and devotional resources, plus notices. Wed 18 March: Please note that there is no midweek service today, 18 March, in Westport. However, there will be Online Prayer as usual at 8pm, link as below.  Christ in the Wilderness The Hen Stanley Spencer, 1939-40 from Christ in the Wilderness series https://www.wikiart.org/en/stanley-spencer/christ-in-the-wilderness-the-hen   Today's gospel      John 5:17-30 But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.’ For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and h...