Aughaval Group of Parishes

Harvest Thanksgiving 2025  The Season of Creation Christ Church Castlebar, porch Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen. Photos A few images from Christ Church Castlebar, St Mary’s Church for Holy Trinity Westport, and St Thomas’s Dugort, Achill. The g uest preacher was Mr Alan Cousins,  SAT 7.  Music was provided by Organist, John Dexter and Soloist, Tenor, Hubert Francis.  Please note the dates of Harvest Thanksgiving services in Turlough and on Inishbiggle: Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving  Service,  Sat 20 Sept, 7pm:  Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator.  Music: Organist, Michele Gill. Soloist, Henry GawleyFollowed by tea and treats. Inishbiggle  Har...

  Harvest Thanksgiving  2025  in the Aughaval Group  Season of Creation Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Luke 12: 16-30   Then he [Jesus] told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced
 abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not ric...

  Rector’s Letter to the Aughaval Grouped Parishes Westport-Dugort Union, Castlebar, Turlough September 2025 Dear friends, I trust you are in good spirits and settling well in to the new term. We are now in the relatively new ‘Season of Creation’. Marked by many churches, like Harvest,  the Season of Creation provides an opportunity to reflect on the world’s environmental needs, as well as to thank God the Creator for the beauty of the earth, the bounty of its provision, and to consider the associated questions of justice and food security when it comes to the distribution of the earth's resources. We will do this ‘marking’ again this year in Harvest Thanksgiving services on 14 and 20 September. Locally, the season will conclude on Sat 4 October with the annual Ecumenical Blessing of the Animals at 2pm in Murrisk Carpark. Please do come along if you are able, with or without your pets. And if you would like to join the Westport Eco-Congregation committee to help represent our...