Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Services today Everyone is welcome.  Children and visitors are especially welcome. Sun, 10am, Morning Prayer in Castlebar, followed by tea. Donations for tea/coffee today will go towards this year's Pancakes & Prayer Appeal (see below). Sun 11.30am, The Holy Communion, in Westport,  followed by tea.  Donations for tea/coffee today will go towards this year's Pancakes & Prayer Appeal (see below). Sun 3pm,  The Holy Communion, in Dugort, Achill Please note that next Sat, 28 Feb, is our All-age service in Turlough Church at 7pm. You're welcome!  Poem, by Revd Cathy Hallisey Today's Gospel   Matthew 4: 1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’  But h...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices.   Today's gospel      Mark 7:24-30 From there he [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”  So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and short reflection here:  https://sacredspace.com/da...

  Please scroll down for notices. Today's Gospel     Mark 3:20-21 And the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.When his [Jesus'] family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’ Scared Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and devotional thought here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-01-24 Thank you! Thank you to everyone who by one means or another supported the Service of Thanksgiving for the Reopening of Holy Trinity Westport in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.  A joyful, prayerful and uplifting time was had, both at the church and over tea in Carrowbeg House.  Special thanks to Bishop Michael for a pertinent and encouraging sermon which impressed on us the importance of patience , as is demonstrated by the long road towards ecumenical understanding between the churches. (See ' Key dates in the history of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity',  below.) B...