Aughaval Group of Parishes

  In memoriam We extend our ongoing deepest sympathy on behalf of the parishes to Margery and the family of Thomas (Tom) Bennett, of Castlebar Parish, who died on 13 August.  May Tom rest in peace and rise in glory + Tom's funeral took place on 16 August in Christchurch Castlebar and was followed by the Committal in Turlough (Church of Ireland) graveyard.   Thank you to everyone who showed great kindness and support to Tom and his family during his illness, to the wonderful staff of Mayo Hospice, and to all who have supported Margery and the family since Tom's passing. 

  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend in the parishes: Saturday 22 August,  The  Marriage of Isaac Brickenden and Maisy Dunne.  1pm in Holy Trinity Church, Westport  Saturday, 7pm, Service of Holy Communion in Turlough Parish Church Sunday 23 August, 10am, Morning Prayer in Christchurch Castlebar Sunday, 11.30am,  Service of Holy Communion in Holy Trinity Westport Sunday, 3pm,  Service of Holy Communion in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill You're welcome! Today's Gospel      Matthew 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that he [Jesus] had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”  He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like i...

  The Blessing of a Marriage Glenn and José Wed 19 August  in Holy Trinity, Westport    Scripture readings  1 Corinthians 13 "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.   Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends.  But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it wil...

    Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Today's Gospel      John 2: 1-11   On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’  Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it.  When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water k...