Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Reminder:  This evening, Tues 5 May,  Youth & Children's Team meeting,  7.30pm in the Rectory, Westport. T he Zoom link has been sent out for anyone who is unable  to attend in person.  Did I offer peace today? Henri Nouwen, as quoted i n  Mindful Christianity,  https://www.facebook.com/MINDFULCHRISTIANITY   Today's gospel reading      John 14:27-31 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, “I am going away, and I am coming to you.” If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.  And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.  I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Reminder:   Tues 5 May,  Youth & Children's Team meeting,  7.30pm in the Rectory, Westport. If you are unable to attend in person please contact Revd Suzanne for the Zoom link.  Giving thanks for almost 40 years of Westport Country Market . Please save the date, spread the word, and attend if you can. Followed by tea in the church. Today's Gospel Reading       John 14:21-26 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.’    Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, ‘Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word th...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Sunday 3 May in the Aughaval Parishes Visitors are particularly welcome.  10am, Christ Church Castlebar, Holy Communion 11.30am, Holy Trinity Westport, Morning Prayer , followed by tea 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  Evening Prayer Benita Stoney, who will be leading today's service  in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill. Photo: Jan 2025, In St Mary's Church, Westport Today's Gospel Reading    John 14: 1-14   ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.’      Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How ...