Today's gospel, 9 Sept: Jesus prays, discerns, appoints, heals.

 






Season of Creation 2025 (1 Sept - 4 Oct)
This year's theme: Peace with Creation


Today's gospel reading    Luke 6:12-19

Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.


Sacred Space

A gentle prayer guide and meditation may be found here:

https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2025-09-09/


Christian Art

https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/luke-6-12-19-2025/



What's On?

Tomorrow, Wed 10 Sept.

  • Midweek Holy Communion, Westport, 10.30am in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (James Street).  
  • Online Prayer and Bible Reading (Compline), 8pm. Link to follow or text the Rector. 
  • Diocesan Council meeting, 7.30pm in Clairemorris 


Sat 13 Sept
  • Turlough, 7pm, Evening Prayer


Sunday 14 Sept   Harvest Thanksgiving Services


  • Castlebar - 10am in Christ Church, followed by tea
  • Westport - 12 noon in St Mary's Church (presently hosting Holy Trinity Westport), followed by tea in Carrowbeg House
  • Dugort, Achill - 3pm in St Thomas's Dugort, followed by tea in St Thomas's Hall

Sat 20 Sept, 7pm, Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving Service
Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator. Followed by tea and treats.




Pastoral care and enquiries:  


Revd Suzanne Cousins  

083 800 3233    

Email  aughaval@tuam.anglican.org

Aughaval Parishes' Website   aughaval.tlk.ie

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