Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and some photos from recent events.  The Mall, Castlebar, Friday 26 June  This weekend in the parishes : Saturday 27 June 7pm in Turlough Church , The Service of Holy Communion Sunday 28 June  10am in Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer 11.30am in Holy Trinity, Westport,  Morning Prayer 3pm in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Today's Gospel      Matthew 8:5-17 When he [Jesus] entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, appealing to him and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying at home paralysed, in terrible distress.’ And he said to him, ‘I will come and cure him.’ The centurion answered, ‘Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, “Go”, and he goes, and to another, “Come”, and he comes, and to my slave, “Do this”, ...

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes, notices and some photos from recent events.  Gentle Friendship Walk at Turlough, August 2025 SC, Valerie Raitt, Dorothy Shaw, Susie Fry Today's Gospel      Matthew 7:21-29 [Jesus said] ‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord”, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?” Then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.” ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolis...