Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for notes and more notices. Candlemas, 2 February, The Presentation of the Lord, 'Candlemas'  Blessing of candles on Candlemas  at Calvary Episcopal Church,   Rochester, Minnesota, 2017 by Jonathunder - Own work, GFDL 1.2,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55800233 Simeon and Anna Recognise the Lord in Jesus Rembrandt, 1627 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel      Luke 2:22-40 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord”), and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.” Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the...

  Please scroll down for notes and notices, plus photos from 23 January. This weekend: St Brigid's cross-making fun workshop Sat 31 January 2026, 11am - 1pm, in Christ Church Castlebar.  This is a free all-age event. All welcome. Children must be accompanied.  Church and Glebe wardens, Christ Church Castlebar: Trevor Ardil, Susie Fry and John Browne Today's gospel      Mark 4:26-34 He [Jesus] also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the s...

Please scroll down for photos, notes and notices and an appeal. Order of Malta representatives in Carrowbeg House, Westport, following the Service of Thanksgiving for the Reopening of Holy Trinity Church, on Friday 23 January 2026.  Photo: Jessica Priddy. Jesus Preaches in a Ship James Tissot, between 1886 and 1894 Public domain, via  Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel        Mark 4:1-20 Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since ...