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Today's gospel, Thurs 17 Sept. Love and forgiveness and love...

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  Welcome.  Please scroll down for notes and notices. Mary Anoints Jesus' Feet by Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca, 2012 Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Esplugues Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltb/6804933889, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18315172 Today's Gospel    Luke 7:36-50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.  Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is w...
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Today's gospel, news, notes and notices, Wed 16 Sept.

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  Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. Today, Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.15); 8.00 - 8.30pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading. (Link below.) Friday 18 Sept:  Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in HTW, at 7pm. Free concert, with donations towards Church repairs.  Today's Gospel  reading  Luke 7:31-35 ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;    we wailed, and you did not weep.” For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vi...
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Harvest at Turlough, 12 Sept 2026, and A Brief History

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A Harvest Festival of Flowers,  at  Turlough Parish Church,  in the Season of Creation 2026 ‘Keep me as the apple of Your eye;  Hide me under the shadow of Your wings.’ (Psalm 17:8)             'Olive's Apples' " Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these." (Luke 12)   Turlough Church  parishioners put together a wonderful array of floral displays and creatively themed arrangements of all kinds of produce, for this year's Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, on Saturday  12 September 2026. The hope was to welcome visitors from far and wide into the church, both for the joy of doing so and as an expression of the love and hospitality of God, as well as to raise some funds towards the ongoing upkeep of the church. Our hopes were not disappointed, with a steady flow of kindly visitors in the afternoon, and a full church in the ...
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