Aughaval Group of Parishes

 Please scroll down for information and notices.  Jennifer McCormack LLLM (centre)  after Sunday’s service  in Christ Church, Castlebar, on All Saints’ Day,  with Rev’d John Wesley and the rector. Jen was licensed recently by the bishop  for Local Lay Liturgical Ministry,  along with five others  from the grouped (Aughaval) parishes.  Today’s gospel    Luke 14:12-14 He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Sacred Space   You can find a gentle prayer guide here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2025-11-03/ Christian Art https://christi...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices, and for a link to this evening's Online Prayer and Bible Reading.  On Inishiggle, 23 August 2025,  on the way to the outdoor service  in the churchyard and at the shore. Next visit and service:   Sat 25 October.  Today's gospel reading      Luke 11:42-46 ‘But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practised, without neglecting the others. Woe to you Pharisees! For you love to have the seat of honour in the synagogues and to be greeted with respect in the market-places. Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realising it.’ One of the lawyers answered him, ‘Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us too.’ And he said, ‘Woe also to you lawyers! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not lift a finger to ease...

  Services this weekend: - Saturday, 7pm in Turlough Church, The Service of Holy Communion, Canon Cecil Mills to preside; -Sunday, 10am in Christ Church, Castlebar,  and 12 noon in Westport (for the Holy Trinity Westport congregation and visitors, in St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church on South Mall), The Service of Holy Communion, with Canon Cecil Mills presiding; - Sunday, 3pm in St Thomas’s Dugort, The Service of Holy Communion at which Bishop Michael TLK will preside, followed by tea in St Thomas’s Hall. Everyone is welcome. Come as you are! Christ the Redeemer , statue Rio de Janeiro Image: Pixabay Matthew 16:24-28 Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return fo...