It's Your Call! Vocation Sunday, plus Bulletin and Notices
Everyone is called. Everyone has a calling. What's yours?
This weekend is Vocation Weekend/ Vocation Sunday.
Watch the video here:
"Keep asking God, throughout your life, 'What do you want me to do?' "
https://youtu.be/ildk_FvvOtk?si=n1u446GecfpOh06O
This weekend's bulletin with readings, prayers and notices:
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
1st June 2025
Sunday after the Ascension Day: Vocation Sunday
It’s Your Call
See:
https://tlk.ie/vocation-sunday-2025/
https://youtu.be/ildk_FvvOtk?si=n1u446GecfpOh06O
Hymns
34 - O worship the King all-glorious above
Children’s song: Build up one another
459 - For all the saints, who from their labours rest (HTW in St Mary’s) – vvs 1,4,7,8
281 - Rejoice, the Lord is King!
303 - Lord of the Church, we pray for our renewing
Collect
O God the King of Glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Mercifully give us faith to know that, as he promised, he abides with us on earth to the end of time; who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
The First Reading Acts 16: 16-34
A reading from the Book of Acts, chapter 16:
One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, ‘These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.’ She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, ‘I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.’ And it came out that very hour.
But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, ‘These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.’ The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, ‘Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.’ The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ They answered, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’ They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.
At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
The Psalm Psalm 97
The Lord is king; let the earth rejoice :
let the multitude of islands be glad.
Clouds and darkness are round about him :
righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Fire goes before him :
and burns up his enemies on every side.
His lightnings light the world :
the earth sees it and quakes.
The mountains melt like wax before his face :
from before the face of the Lord of all the earth.
The heavens have proclaimed his righteousness :
and all peoples have seen his glory.
They are ashamed,
all those who serve idols and glory in mere nothings :
all gods bow down before him.
Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced :
because of your judgements, O God.
For you, Lord, are most high over all the earth :
you are exalted far above all gods.
The Lord loves those that hate evil :
the Lord guards the life of the faithful,
and delivers them from the hand of the ungodly.
Light dawns for the righteous :
and joy for the true of heart.
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous :
and give thanks to his holy name.
The Second Reading Revelation 22: 12-14, 16-17, 20-21
A reading from the Book ‘Revelation’, chapter 22:
‘See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’ Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.
‘It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.’
The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’
And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’
And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.
The one who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.
The Gospel Reading John 17: 20-26
‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
‘Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.’
Post Communion Prayer
Eternal Giver of love and power, your Son Jesus Christ has sent us into all the world to preach the gospel of his kingdom. Confirm us in this mission, and help us to live the good news we proclaim; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Collect Of The Word
Almighty God, whose blessed Son before his passion prayed for his disciples that they might be one, as you and he are one: grant that your Church, being bound together in love and obedience to you, may be united in one body by the one Spirit, that the world may believe in him whom you have sent, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
For the children:
@Crafting the Word
Service Pattern
· Turlough Parish Church: Saturdays weekly at 7pm. Holy Communion on 2nd and 4th of month; Morning Prayer on 1st and 3rd Sundays.
· Christ Church Castlebar: Sundays weekly at 10am – Holy Communion on 1st and 3rd of month; Morning Prayer, 2nd and 4th, followed by tea.
Holy Trinity Westport: Sundays weekly, currently in St Mary's Church, South Mall, at 12 noon, followed by tea/coffee in Carrowbeg House.
St Thomas's Dugort, Achill: Sundays weekly (April to Sept incl.) at 3pm
· Midweek Holy Communion, Wednesdays at 10.30am in St Mary’s Church. S. Mall, followed by coffee in Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.05 am).
· Open Church Weekly Drop-in, Christ Church Castlebar, Fridays 11am -1pm
Notices
Wednesday 28 May
· Midweek Holy Communion, 10.30am in St Mary’s Church. S. Mall, followed by coffee in Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.05 am).
· Online Prayer and Bible Study, 8pm. Link available in advance on the website (aughaval.tlk.ie), or on request. Contact details below.
Sunday Club and Holiday Club planning:
Thurs 5 June, 7pm in home of Steffi and Paul. For all Youth and Children’s team members from the Aughaval Parishes.
Movie Night at the Rectory, Westport
Friday 6 June, 7pm. Please let Revd Suzanne know if you plan to come along, for planning purposes.
Gentle Friendship Walk
Thurs 12 June, meeting at Christ Church Castlebar at 7pm. All welcome.
Holiday Bible Club
Sat 21 June, from 10am. A half day fun-and-faith-building event for children. Details to follow (after 5 June). Please save the date!
Pastoral care and enquiries: Phone 083 800 3233
Email aughaval@tuam.anglican.org Website aughaval.tlk.ie
See also the Aughaval Parishes Facebook page.
