Aughaval Group of Parishes

This weekend in the Aughaval Group of Parishes: Back to School Sunday, with Blessing of the Backpacks Sat, 7pm in Turlough Church Sunday, 10am in Christ Church Castlebar Sunday, 12 noon in St Mary's Westport (for Holy Trinity Westport and friends) Sunday, 3pm in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Today's gospel:  Watchful, prayerful, careful living Turlough Round Tower, Co Mayo Matthew 24:42-51 [Jesus said] Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. ‘Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives. Truly I...

  Matthew 23: 23-26 ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practised without neglecting the others. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel! ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,  so that the outside also may become clean. Christian Art You will find a helpful and interesting reflection on the text here: https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/matthew-23-23-26-2025/ Sacred Space You will find a helpful prayer guide and reflection  here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2025-08-26/ Notices Saturday 30 Aug in Turlough, and Sunday 31 August in CCC and HTW (in St Mary’s)  Back to School Services, with Bless...

  Welcome to the Aughaval Parishes Sunday 24 August  Saint Bartholomew’s Day The Tenth Sunday after Trinity Saint Bartholomew  Riseberg Free image via Pixabay   Hymns 360 - Let all the world in every corner sing 655 - Loving Shepherd of your sheep 80 - Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father 228 - Meekness and majesty Collect  Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your word: Grant that your Church may love that word which he believed and may faithfully preach and receive the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Isaiah 43: 8-13 A reading from the Book ‘Isaiah’, chapter 43, beginning at verse 8: Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes,    who are deaf, yet have ears! Let all the nations gather together,    and let the peoples assemble. Who among them declared this,    and foretold to us the former things? Let them bring their w...