Aughaval Group of Parishes

        Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.      Walled Garden,  Gordon Castle  Services this weekend in the parishes: Saturday 7pm, Evening Prayer in Turlough Sunday 10am, Morning Prayer  in Christ Church, Castlebar,   11.30am, Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity, Westport 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Today’s Gospel      Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying:   ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil....

      Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and general information.  Gentle Prayer and Friendship Walk, 22 July meeting at 7pm in the carpark  of Turlough Museum and Country Park  Services this weekend in the parishes: Saturday 7pm, Evening Prayer in Turlough Sunday 10am, Morning Prayer  in Christ Church, Castlebar,   11.30am, Holy Communion, in Holy Trinity, Westport 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Today’s Gospel      Matthew 19:27-29 Then Peter said in reply, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will re...