Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and mores notices. Today, Wednesday 20 May Midweek Holy Communion, 10am in Holy Trinity Westport, followed by coffee in Clew Bay Hotel, James Street, Westport. Everyone welcome. Please note that there will be no online meeting this evening.  The Tower Door entrance at Holy Trinity, Westport,  through which hundreds of visitors pass every year. Today's gospel      John 17:11-19 [Jesus said] And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that  you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,  so that the scripture might be fulfilled.   But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  'Courage is contagious'  (WikiLeaks slogan, poster) by Emilio J. Rodríguez Posada Public domain, via   https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12088348 Today's gospel      John 16:29-33 His disciples said, “Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech! Now we know that you know all things, and do not need to have anyone question you; by this we believe that you came from God.”    Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me. I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!” Sacred Space Y ou can find a helpful prayer guide with a short reflection here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-p...

      Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Services today,  Ascension Sunday 17 May : - Christ Church Castlebar, Holy Communion, 10am - Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion, 11.30am, followed by tea  - St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  Holy Communion, 3pm Ascension of Jesus Christ Martin Schongauer (ca 1445-1491) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132608599 Today's gospel      Luke 24.44-53 Then he [Jesus] said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”      Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to...