Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   This weekend in the Aughaval Parishes Saturday 18 April:  4.30pm, Holy Trinity Westport,  Voices of Iberia & Eire  - concert by Cór Mhaigh Eo,  with visiting choir from Competa,  Spain.  7pm, Turlough Church, Evening Prayer Sunday 19 April: 10am, Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer. Preacher, Revd John Wesley 11.30am, Holy Trinity Westport,  Holy Communion, followed by tea 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  Evening Prayer You're welcome! Today's Gospel  ... [Jesus] said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” by Jim Padgett, 1984,  from Read'n Grow Picture Bible Illustrations,   Sweet Publishing,  CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons    John 6:16–21 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them....

  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   Moray coast, Scotland Today's Gospel reading      John 3:31-36 [John the Baptist said] "The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified  this, that God is true. He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath."     First Council of Nicaea (325)  holding the Nicene Creed https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicaea_icon.jpg Icon author unknown. Public domain, via Wikimedi...

Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   This weekend in  n Holy Trinity Church,  Westport Voices of Iberia & Eire a concert by Cór Mhaigh Eo and a visiting choir from Competa,  Spain,  4.30pm  on Saturday 18 April.  Proceeds are towards Holy Trinity Church, Westport.    Today's Gospel      John 3:7-15 Do not be astonished that I said to you, “You  must be born from above.” The wind  blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can these things be?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? ‘Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you  do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you...

  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.   Jesus and Nicodemus Providence Lithograph Company,  1904 Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9666300 John 3:1-8 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus  by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.’ Jesus answered him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?’ Jesus answered, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Do not be astonished that I said to you, “Yo...