Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Services this weekend in the Aughaval Parishes: Sat  - Turlough, 7pm, Evening Prayer, followed by a meeting of the Select Vestry Sunday  - Castlebar, Morning Prayer, 10am, followed by tea  - Westport, Holy Communion, 11.30am, followed by tea.     With Sunday Club - Achill, Evening Prayer, 3pm. Love One Another by Inter Church Lectio John 15:12-17 [Jesus said] ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants  any longer, because the servant  does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.    You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fru...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Coming very soon to Westport:  Louisburgh Voices   A concert for  Holy Trinity Westport,  in  Holy Trinity Westport, on Wed 27 May, 7.30pm. Today's Gospel reading      John 15:9-11 [Jesus said] As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. Sacred Space Y ou can find a helpful prayer guide here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-05-07 Thought for the Day Recommended BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day , 5 May 2026, by Revd Lucy Winkett, on the sculpture (image below) attributed to Banksy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0njl916 Statue: Man Marching, Blinded By The Flag Photo: Architecture & Design,  arch...

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Today, Wed 6  May, Midweek Holy Communion in Holy Trinity Westport at 10.30am, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.05am). You are invited and welcome.  Today's gospel reading      John 15:1-8 [Jesus said] ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.   You have already been cleansed  by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.   I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.   Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, t...