Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices, and for regular times of services in the churches.  This weekend in the Aughaval Parishes: Sat 23 May  - Confirmation preparation, 10 - 11am in the Rectory, Westport - The Sacrament of Holy Baptism, 1.30pm in Christ Church Castlebar - Turlough Church, 7pm, Holy Communion Sunday 24 May  - Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer, 10am, followed by tea  - Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion, 11.30am, followed by tea - St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, 'Be Still & Know', 3pm. Contemplative Prayer and a Time to Heal, with tea in St Thomas's Hall Feed My Lambs (Pais mes brebis)  James Tissot, between 1886-1894 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel     John 21:15-19 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?’ He said to him, ‘Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices, and for times of services in the churches. You're welcome! Christ on the Mount of Olives by Josef Untersberger (1864-1933),  Austrian Artist  who usually signed his paintings Giovanni. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      John 17:20-26 [Jesus prayed] ‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,  so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.   Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my g...