Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Services today Everyone is welcome.  Children and visitors are especially welcome. Sun, 10am, Morning Prayer in Castlebar, followed by tea. Donations for tea/coffee today will go towards this year's Pancakes & Prayer Appeal (see below). Sun 11.30am, The Holy Communion, in Westport,  followed by tea.  Donations for tea/coffee today will go towards this year's Pancakes & Prayer Appeal (see below). Sun 3pm,  The Holy Communion, in Dugort, Achill Please note that next Sat, 28 Feb, is our All-age service in Turlough Church at 7pm. You're welcome!  Poem, by Revd Cathy Hallisey Today's Gospel   Matthew 4: 1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’  But h...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   This evening in Westport: Social and Fundraiser  Table Quiz, at  7.30 for 8pm start, in the Clew Bay Hotel. Please come along, enjoy and support! You're welcome.  Today's Gospel       Matthew 9:14–15 Then the disciples of John came to him [Jesus], saying,  “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.                                  Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness,  by James Tissot,  painted between 1886 and 1894  Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2006.  Public domain, via  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10195821 Sacred Space You can find a gent...