Aughaval Group of Parishes

Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Susie Fry (Castlebar) and Revd Carole Reynolds (Oughterard, Galway) at yesterday's Faith in Bloom: Church Return to Nature conference Today:  Sunday 23 August, 10am, Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion Sunday, 11.30am,  Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion Sunday, 3pm,  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Next weekend in the parishes, 5-6 September:  Blessing of the schoolbags, backpacks and laptop bags and their bearers - Children and young people are invited to bring their schoolbags to the front of the church before or at the start of the service.  Today's Gospel       Gospel Reading     Matthew 16: 21-28 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took hi...

  Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend:  Saturday 29 August.  Faith in Bloom: Church Return to Nature Conference,  10am - 3pm at  Knock Shrine.  Saturday, 7pm, Turlough Parish Church, Evening Prayer Sunday 23 August, 10am, Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion Sunday, 11.30am,  Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion Sunday, 3pm,  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Next weekend in the parishes, 5-6 September: Blessing of the schoolbags, backpacks and laptop bags and their bearers . Children and young people are invited to bring their schoolbags to the front of the church before or at the start of the service.  Today's Gospel       Mark 6:17-29 For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod  had married her. For John had been telling Herod, ‘It is not ...