Aughaval Group of Parishes

    Please scroll down for today's readings, notes and notices. Saint Barnabas by Sandro Botticelli, 1490 Public domain, via  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=159760904 Today and this weekend's events: Thurs, 11am, Diocesan Annual School Service in St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam. Fri, 11am, Open church, Christ Church Castlebar Fri, 7.30pm, Westport Children's Choir Summer Concert, in Holy Trinity Westport   Sat, 3pm, Goethe Choir in HTW, 'An Elegy of Two Queens'. (Please see below.) Sat, 7pm, Turlough Church, Holy Communion Sun, 10am, Morning Prayer in Christ Church Castlebar (Canon Cecil Mills) Sun, Confirmation, 3pm in HTW. The Rt Revd Michael Burrows will confirm, preach and preside at the Eucharist. Sun, 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Holy Communion (Canon Cecil Mills) Today's Gospel       Matthew 5:20-26 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ‘Yo...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend: Sat 30 May       - Evening Prayer in Turlough Church, 7pm Sunday 31 May, Trinity Sunday       - Christ Church Castlebar,  10am      - Holy Trinity Westport,  11.30am      - St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, 3pm Today's gospel     Mark 11:27-33 Again they came to Jerusalem. As he [Jesus] was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him and said, ‘By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?’   Jesus said to them, ‘I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin? Answer me.’ They argued with one another, ‘If we say, “From heaven”, he will say, “Why then did you not believe him?” But shall we say, “Of huma...