Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. Today, Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.15); 8.00 - 8.30pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading. (Link below.) Friday 18 Sept:  Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in HTW, at 7pm. Free concert, with donations towards Church repairs.  Today's Gospel  reading  Luke 7:31-35 ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;    we wailed, and you did not weep.” For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vi...

A Harvest Festival of Flowers,  at  Turlough Parish Church,  in the Season of Creation 2026 ‘Keep me as the apple of Your eye;  Hide me under the shadow of Your wings.’ (Psalm 17:8)             'Olive's Apples' " Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these." (Luke 12)   Turlough Church  parishioners put together a wonderful array of floral displays and creatively themed arrangements of all kinds of produce, for this year's Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, on Saturday  12 September 2026. The hope was to welcome visitors from far and wide into the church, both for the joy of doing so and as an expression of the love and hospitality of God, as well as to raise some funds towards the ongoing upkeep of the church. Our hopes were not disappointed, with a steady flow of kindly visitors in the afternoon, and a full church in the ...

   Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. This week in the parishes: Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in Clew Bay Hotel; 8pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading Friday 18 Sept : Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in Holy Trinity, Westport, at 7pm. (Please see more, below.) Today's Gospel  reading Raising of the Widow of Nain's Son by Иконописная мастерская, 2011 CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52176869   Luke 7: 11-17 Soon afterwards  he [Jesus] went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.  As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from the town. When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, ‘Do not weep.’ Then he came forward and touched the bier, and the ...