Aughaval Group of Parishes

'Save the date' Important notices Everyone is invited and welcome.  Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving  Service, Sat 20 Sept, 7pm:  Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator. Followed by tea and treats. Music: Michele Gill, organist.  Bishop Michael will preside at the Eucharist in  Turlough Parish Church , .on Sat 27 Sept, 7pm.  Holy Baptism:  Sunday 21 Sept, 10am in Christ Church Castlebar. Holy Baptism:  Sat 4 October, 7pm in Turlough Parish Church.  Inishbiggle  Harvest Thanksgiving,  Sat 25 October. Details to follow.    An important message from Archbishop John McDowell: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19U1RCu61F/   A village standing among the ruins of Magdala, Holy Land Mary Magdalene's birthplace and hometown. Photograph  of al-Majdal,  taken c. 1900. Author unknown Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Holy Women at Christ's Tomb   by Anni...

  Filled with love and gratitude Església de Santa Magdalena, Esplugues by Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca, 2012 Creative Commons Attribute https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltb/6804933889, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18315172 Today's gospel reading      Luke 7:36-50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.  Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.”  Jesus spoke up and...

  Sitting in the market place Today's gospel      Luke 7:31-35 [Jesus said]  ‘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 vindicated by all her children.’ ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;  we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ Sacred Space You can find a helpful prayer guide and short reflection here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2025-09-17/ Christian Art You can find a helpful  reflection here: https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/luke-7...

Harvest Thanksgiving 2025  The Season of Creation Christ Church Castlebar, porch Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen. Photos A few images from Christ Church Castlebar, St Mary’s Church for Holy Trinity Westport, and St Thomas’s Dugort, Achill. The g uest preacher was Mr Alan Cousins,  SAT 7.  Music was provided by Organist, John Dexter and Soloist, Tenor, Hubert Francis.  Please note the dates of Harvest Thanksgiving services in Turlough and on Inishbiggle: Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving  Service,  Sat 20 Sept, 7pm:  Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator.  Music: Organist, Michele Gill. Soloist, Henry GawleyFollowed by tea and treats. Inishbiggle  Har...

  This week:  Tomorrow, Wed 17 September: Midweek Holy Communion,  10.30am  Westport: Midweek Holy Communion in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel Online Prayer.  Please note that this week's Online Prayer is at 7pm (not 8pm on this occasion).  Link below.  Other notices Westport-Dugort Select Vestry Meeting, Wed 17 Sept, 7.30pm in Carrowbeg House Sat 20 Sept, 7pm, Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving Service:  Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator. Followed by tea and treats. Holy Baptism: Sunday 21 Sept, 10am in Christ Church Castlebar An important message from Archbishop John McDowell: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19U1RCu61F/ Today's gospel The raising of the widow's son in Nain Jan Verhas, 1860 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons 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 appr...

  Today's gospel, Monday 15 Sept. Season of Creation The Garden of Peace John 12: 27-36a ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’     Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.   Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people   to myself.’He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.     The crowd answered him, ‘We have heard from the law that the Messiah   remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’   Jesus said to them, ‘The light...

  Harvest Thanksgiving  2025  in the Aughaval Group  Season of Creation Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Luke 12: 16-30   Then he [Jesus] told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced
 abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not ric...