Aughaval Group of Parishes

    Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Services this weekend in the Aughaval Parishes: Sat 16 May  - Turlough Church, 7pm, Evening Prayer Ascension Sunday 17 May  - Christ Church Castlebar, Holy Communion, 10am - Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion, 11.30am, followed by tea  - St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  Holy Communion, 3pm Graham and Dolly (Holy Trinity Westport)  at the official opening of the Louisburgh Area Men's Shed on 15 May 2026  Today's gospel      John 16:23-28 On that day you will ask nothing of me.  Very truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.  Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. ‘I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly of the Father. On that d...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. "If you ask anything of the Father in my name,  he will give it to you." (John 16) The trypraying booklet, used by many churches  to encourage people to try praying  and to experience the kindness of God.  See do.trypraying.org Today's gospel      John 16:20-23 Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy. When a woman is in labour, she has pain, because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world. So you have pain now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. On that day you will ask nothing of me.  Very truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Sacred Space Y ou can fin...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Ascension Saint James the Greater Catholic Church, Concord, North Carolina Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel reading      Luke 24: 44-53 Then he [Jesus] said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’  Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah  is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses  of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.’ Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed ...