Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend in the parishes: Sat 8 August       - Inishbiggle  Pilgrimage, 10am - 2pm (approx.)       - 7pm in Turlough Church,  Holy Communion / The Eucharist Sunday 2 August       - 10am in Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer,  followed by tea      -   11.30am in Holy Trinity Westport,  Holy Communion /The Eucharist, followed by tea      - 3pm in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Christchurch Castlebar Services weekly on Sundays at 10am. Today's Gospel       M atthew 17:14-20 When they came to the crowd, a man came to him, knelt before him [Jesus], and said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; he often falls into the fire and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”...

  Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Christ Carrying the Cross by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1516 Public domain,  via  Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25475972 Today's Gospel        Matthew 16:24-28 Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life? ‘For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done. Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.’ Sacred Space You can find a prayer guide and short ref...