Aughaval Group of Parishes

Please scroll down for today’s gospel reading, notices, invitations and information. Please note there will be no  Midweek service on Wed 31 December and  no  Online Prayer and Bible Reading.  Today's gospel reading is often referred to as the Christmas Gospel. John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life,  and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world ...

  Please scroll down for general information and notices. Please note there will be no  Midweek service on Wed 31 December and  no  Online Prayer and Bible Reading.  The Purification or The Presentation in the Temple Far Bibliothèque municipale Stanislas,  Nancy - La Purification ou la Présentation au Temple  (Ms. 1874, fol. 30v°), CC BY 2.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29759248 Today's gospel reading      Luke 2:36-40 There was also a prophet, Anna  the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day. At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child  to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. When they had finished everything required...

Please scroll down for general information and notices. Today's gospel      Luke 2:22-35 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ‘Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord’), and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons.’ Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon;  this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.  Guided by the Spirit, Simeon  came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law, Simeon  took him in his arms and praised God...

Worship in the Aughaval Parishes on Sunday 28 December Castlebar 10am in Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer read by Susie Fry and Jenni McCormack (LLLMs/Parish Readers). Preacher, Rev’d John Wesley. Westport 11.30am in Holy Trinity Westport, Morning Prayer read by Benita Stoney  (LLLM/Parish Reader). Everyone welcome! Please scroll down for today's gospel and devotional resources, plus notices and more information.  Christmas Eve on Achill,  at St Thomas’s Church, Dugort  Today’s gospel    Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’    Then Joseph  got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt,and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what had been spoken by the Lord through the pr...

  Please scroll down for notes, notices and invitations. The Feast of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist 27 December Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist Codexaureus 25 Public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108039 Today's gospel      John 20:2–8 So she [Mary Magdalene] ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”    Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.    Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a plac...