Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Services this weekend: Turlough - Sat 7pm, Holy Communion, Turlough Church Castlebar - Sun 10am, Morning Prayer in Christ Church, followed by tea/coffee Westport - Sun 12 noon, Holy Communion and Sunday Club, this week in St Mary's, followed by tea/coffee in Carrowbeg House Achill - Sun 3pm, Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort       You are warmly invited. Please scroll down for more notices and information. Christ Rescuing Peter from Drowning Lorenzo Veneziano, 1370 Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15131850 Today's gospel      Mark 6:45-52 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray. When evening came, the boat was out on the lake, and he was alone on the land. When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came tow...

  Please scroll down for notices and information. Courtyard of the Church of the Multiplication in Tabgha, Israel, the site where many Christians believe the feeding of the five thousand  to have taken place. Photo by David Shankbone CC BY-SA 3.0  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3343929 Today's gospel      Mark 6:34-44 As he [Jesus] went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now very late; send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”  But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?” And he said to them, “How many loaves have you? Go...

  Please scroll down for notices and information, including concerning today's services. Christ Healing the Blind Philippe de Champaigne, 1655 Public domain via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19042290 Today's gospel      Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 Now when Jesus  heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: ‘Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali,    on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— the people who sat in darkness    have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death    light has dawned.’ From that time Jesus began to proclaim, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Jesus  went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and p...