Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel plus notices and general information.  Services this weekend in the Parishes: Sat at 7pm, Turlough, Evening Prayer Sun at 10am, Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion/ The Eucharist Sun at 11.30am,  Holy Communion/  The Eucharist, Holy Trinity Westport, followed by tea/coffee You're welcome! Crucifixion Statue,  at St. Mark's (Glendale, California), 2008 Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17960759   Today's Gospel     Luke 17:26-37 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it ...

  We're making progress, by God's grace and with God's help!  Progress, thanks, and encouragement Holy Trinity Westport, St Thomas's Dugort, Holy Trinity city Inishbiggle, plus the closed but still consecrated St Thomas's Church, Knappagh The Office Bearers and Select Vestry of the Westport-Dugort Union of Parishes (- Holy Trinity Westport, St Thomas's Dugort, Holy Trinity city Inishbiggle, plus the closed but still consecrated St Thomas's Church, Knappagh) are pleased to report recent and considerable progress in the area of essential maintenance and repairs in the churches, over the last few months. This progress is thanks to a small army of workers and volunteers, and thanks to the regular, ongoing and generous giving by parishioners and visitors towards the upkeep of the churches.  Most recently, in September and October, St Thomas's Dugort churchyard has had a good tidy-up - grass-cutting and strimming - after the spring and summer months of heavy g...

  Steps and stops on an inter faith learning pilgrimage to Egypt 1-8 November 2026 A member of the recent IF Learning Pilgrimage group,  Nagla, at St Raphael School/ Sudanese Learning Centre, interpreting the writing  of a young Sudanese child refugee student. Inter faith farewells Inter Faith Farewells were exchanged in Cairo and at Dublin Airport, with a degree of sadness, on 8 November 2026, at the end of an immeasurably valuable and formative eight day Inter Faith Learning Pilgrimage.    The thoroughly engaging programme was organised by the Church of Ireland's Inter Faith Working Group (IFWG) in collaboration with the Church Missionary Society Ireland (CMS Ireland). The purpose of the pilgrimage was to enable the deepening of understanding between people of different faiths, through listening and engaging with one another and through a rich and diverse learning programme in the setting of Cairo, supported practically, logistically and prayerf...