Aughaval Group of Parishes

Please scroll down for today's gospel reading and resources, plus notices. Please note that today's (midweek, 10.30am) Service of Holy Communion is in St Mary's Church, Westport, followed by coffee in Cornrue. Next Sunday's Westport service (18 Jan), for the Holy Trinity congregation and visitors, will also be in  St Mary's, at 12 noon.   There will be a special (ecumenical) service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and to c elebrate the return to Holy Trinity Westport ('HTW'), on Friday 23 Jan at 7.30pm in HTW. Followed by tea and refreshments in Carrowbeg House, South Mall. Please see below. You're welcome! Online prayer and Bible reading - this evening, Wed, 8-8.30pm. Link below. Today's gospel      Mark 1: 29-39 As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand ...

  In memoriam It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of Caroline Fitzgerald (Dr Caroline Anne Fitzgerald), faithful and committed Westport parishioner, former Parish Reader, and a kind and generous friend to many.  May she rest in peace and rise in glory + Our prayers and sympathy are with all Caroline's family: in particular,  her husband Rob, son Cullan, sister Pen, sister-in-law Joan, Caroline's cousin Mary, and her nephews and grand-nieces.  Funeral arrangements are below, as published on RIP.ie. Caroline Fitzgerald Rosmoney, Carrowholly, Westport, Co. Mayo   Caroline, died peacefully at Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar, on Sunday 11th January, 2026, after a short illness, with her family and friends by her side.   She will be sadly missed by all her loving family, her husband Rob, son Cullan, sister Pen, sister-in-law Joan, her cousin Mary, nephews, grand-nieces, neighbours and wide circle of friends.   Reposing in Navin's F...

  Please scroll down for general information and notices. Please note there will be no  Midweek service on Wed 31 December and  no  Online Prayer and Bible Reading.  The Purification or The Presentation in the Temple Far Bibliothèque municipale Stanislas,  Nancy - La Purification ou la Présentation au Temple  (Ms. 1874, fol. 30v°), CC BY 2.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29759248 Today's gospel reading      Luke 2:36-40 There was also a prophet, Anna  the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day. At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child  to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. When they had finished everything required...

This weekend in the parishes: Turlough, Sat at 7pm, Holy Communion, Eve of the Feast of Christ the King Castlebar, Sun at 10am, Morning Prayer Westport (in St Mary's, for Holy Trinity and friends), Sun at 12 noon, Morning Prayer Funeral of Sue Fabby, Sun at 2pm in Holy Trinity Westport. Committal at St Thomas's Knappagh graveyard.  (See  https://rip.ie/death-notice/sue-fabby-mayo-westport-611966.) Dugort, Achill, Sun at 3pm, Evening Prayer led by Kenn McLaughlin and Brad Thien (LLLMs/Parish Readers)   Please scroll down for more notices Flowers in Holy Rosary Church, Castlebar at the Ecumenical Prayer Service for Those Bereaved by Suicide, Friday 21 November Today's gospel      Luke 20:27-40 Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him [Jesus] and asked him a question,   ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man  shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brot...