Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Easter Communion Services The Easter story represents an important message of hope and joy which are for children too! Why not bring the children to church this weekend and let them hear the story in a way they will relate to and enjoy, for example, with extracts from the Rhyming Bible . Bob Hartman's Rhyming Bible Easter Communion Service times: Turlough Church  - Saturday 19 April, 7pm  Christ Church Castlebar - Sunday 20 April, 10am Holy Trinity Westport in St Mary's Church - Sunday 20 April, 12 noon, followed by tea and treats in Carrowbeg House  St Thomas's Dugort - Sunday 20 April, 3pm Holy Trinity Inishbiggle (weather permitting) - Monday 21 April, curragh leaving Dorian's Point Ballycroy at 10am.  (Please let us know by end of Sat 19 April if you wish to come along. Email aughaval@tuam.anglican.org.)  You’re welcome!

Lent, Holy Week and Easter  Everyone is warmly invited. Children and young people are especially welcome on Palm Sunday to come in traditional costume (tea towels, dressing gowns, etc.) and to bring suitable foliage and to help with the Palm Sunday procession.  Please come a few minutes early.  Palm Sunday, 13 April (also, Eve of Palm Sunday, 7pm in Turlough COI Parish Church) : The Liturgy of the Passion, with  The Mark Drama  which   is being organised by Kenn McLaughlin, Castlebar Parish, with others from across the parishes.  - Turlough Sat 12 April, 7pm in Turlough - Christ Church Castlebar, 10am on Sun 13 April - Westport, Holy Trinity congregation, 12 noon in St Mary's Westport, on Sun 13 April  - St Thomas’s Dugort, Achill, 3pm, with Palm Sunday Eucharist  Monday in Holy Week,14 April: - 11am, Monday on the Mountain.   Meet in Murrisk carpark for a gentle walk to the St Patrick statue, and prayers. Suitable for all ages....

Parents and grandparents:  The next Sunday Club is on 6th April, starting at 12 noon in the Holy Trinity service in St Mary’s Westport, and moving next door to Carrowbeg House. As previously advertised.  Please c ontact Steffi or Shirley for more information.  Numbers available via email: aughaval@tuam.anglican.org.  You're welcome! Sunday Club Team, Paul, Steffi and Shirley October 2024

  Dundrum Bay, Co. Down Today’s gospel    John 7: 1-2, 10, 25-30  After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish  to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths  was near.  But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were  in secret. Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, ‘Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?  Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah  comes, no one will know where he is from.’  Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.’...

    God says,  'As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you.' (Isaiah 66:13) The Gospel Reading      Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: Then Jesus said,  ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and travelled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living. When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. H...

Welcome to the Aughaval Group of Parishes  Lent IVC, 30 March 2025 The Fourth Sunday in Lent   Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday  offers a brief and welcome retrieve from the seriousness of Lent with colour, flowers and celebration.   Hymns are from this group: 528 - The Church's one foundation     Children’s song: 570 - Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning 587 - Just as I am, without one plea  231 - My song is love unknown  112 - There is a Redeemer   Collect Two Lord God, whose blessed Son our Saviour gave his back to the smiters and did not hide his face from shame: Give us grace to endure the sufferings of this present time with sure confidence in the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.   Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing that you have made and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we, worthily lamenting our sin...