Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Jesus Teaches in the Synagogue James Tissot   (1836–1902) Wikemedia Commons This week: Wed at 10.30 am in Holy Trinity, Westport - Midweek Holy Communion, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel Wed at 8pm, Online Prayer and Bible reading. Please scroll down for link. Sat, 3.30pm, Outdoor Service in St Thomas's Churchyard, Knappagh, with Bisop Michael Burrows Sat, 7pm, Back-to-School All-age Service, Turlough 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       Luke 4:16-30 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,  and the scroll of the prop...

  Harvest Thanksgiving Services  in the Aughaval Parishes           Fr Charlie McDonnell           ( Photo credit: Mayo News)                Alan Cousins                        Revd John Wesley              Revd Carole Reynolds   Sat 12 Sept   TURLOUGH Turlough Harvest Festival of  Flowers , church open from 4pm  Turlough  Harvest Thanksgiving Service, 7pm ,   with guest ecumenical preacher, Fr Charlie McDonnell, Athenry (formerly Westport). Sunday 4 October   CASTLEBAR Castlebar 10am -  Guest preacher, Diocesan Reader, Alan Cousins Sunday 11 October   WESTPORT and DUGORT             Westport  11.30am -  Guest preacher, Revd John Wesley Dugort  3pm -  Guest prea...

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...