Aughaval Group of Parishes

Westport Sunday Club Team Paul Kirubakaran, Steffi Jebaraj, Shirley Larkin. Westport Sunday Club (Sunday school) restarts on 7 September. Details below. Wednesdays in Westport Tomorrow, 3 September, we return to our weekly pattern: - Wednesday at 10.30am - Midweek Service of Holy Communion, in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel. Everyone is invited and welcome. - Wednesday 8pm, online Prayer and Bible Reading - link to follow.  Everyone welcome.  Today's gospel reading      Luke 4:31-37 He [Jesus] went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath. They were astounded at his teaching, because he spoke with authority.  In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, ‘Let us alone! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus rebuked him, saying...

  Jesus Unrolls the Book in the Synagogue J. J. Tissot between  1886 and 1894 Brooklyn Museum Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel reading      Luke 4:16-30 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,    because he has anointed me      to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives    and recovery of sight to the blind,      to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’ And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has...

  This weekend in the Aughaval Group of Parishes: Back to School Sunday, with Blessing of the Backpacks Saturday, 7pm in Turlough Church Sunday, 10am in Christ Church Castlebar Sunday, 12 noon in St Mary's Westport (for Holy Trinity Westport and friends), followed by tea in Carrowbeg House Sunday, 3pm in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, with Holy Communion Photo by Brad Thien, Castlebar August 2025 The Gospel Reading Luke 14: 1, 7-14 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honour, he told them a parable.  ‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honour, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, “Give this person your place”, and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But w...

  This weekend in the Aughaval Group of Parishes: Back to School Sunday, with Blessing of the Backpacks Sat, 7pm in Turlough Church Sunday, 10am in Christ Church Castlebar Sunday, 12 noon in St Mary's Westport (for Holy Trinity Westport and friends) Sunday, 3pm in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, with Holy Communion Parable of the Talents Kunstenaar: Jan Frearks van der Bij, 1962 by Ytzen, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31463462 Today's gospel reading      Matthew 25:14-30 [Jesus said] ‘For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents,  to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.  The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received the one talent...