Aughaval Group of Parishes

  ‘April is Autism Awareness Month’ Banner at Carrowbeg House, St Mary’s  Westport, like Castlebar, is taking seriously its commitment to actively catering for people with autism and neurodivergence issues. This commitment manifested itself recently, for example, on St Patrick’s Day, with a designated quiet area (along the bottom of James Street) in the parade. This practical demonstration of consideration seems to have been greatly appreciated by those directly concerned and affected. Well done and thank you to those behind this positive change and expression of care.

  The Resurrection of Christ Contemporary Greek icon, by Surgun100, own work Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8724640 Wed 2nd April, 10.30am: Midweek Holy Communion, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel. This week Canon Andrea Wills will preside. You're welcome! 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 he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gi...

  Midweek Holy Communion in Lent  Midweek Holy Communion, which usually takes place in Holy Trinity Church, Westport, will be at 10.30 a.m. again on Wed 2nd April, in St Mary's Church Westport.  Canon Andrea Wills will preside and this short and intimate service will be followed by tea/coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel.  Everyone is welcome!

  Stand up! Take up your mat and walk! Unknown author - Codex Egberti, Fol 36v  Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8096757 John 5:1-3; 5-16 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew  Beth-zatha,  which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed.  One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Stand up, take your mat and walk.’ At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man w...