This weekend in the parishes, 22-23 Feb 2025


Door into the Victorian Garden at Kylemore Abbey

You’re welcome!

Services this weekend in the Aughaval Group will include an All-age sermon:

• Turlough Church - Saturday at 7pm, Holy Communion

• Christ Church Castlebar - Sunday at 10am, Morning Prayer followed by tea and coffee

• Holy Trinity Westport – services temporarily in St Mary’s, Sunday at 12 noon, Holy Communion, followed by tea and coffee in Carrowbeg House

• St Thomas's Dugort, Sunday at 3pm, Evening Prayer


• Ecumenical Service of Prayer on 3rd Anniversary of War in Ukraine – Sunday at 2.15pm in St Mary’s Westport

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