Aughaval Group of Parishes

Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Sunday: 10am - Service of Holy Communion, Christ Church, Castlebar. 11.30am -  Service of Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Westport, with guest preacher, the Revd Dr Christine O'Dowd (CFO Diocese) 2.30pm - Funeral of Mr Tom Bennett, in Christ Church,  Castlebar, followed by Committal in Turlough Churchyard 3pm - Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, led by Barbara Sheppard Today's Gospel      The Gospel Reading       Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’ Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offence when they heard what you said?’ He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone; they are ...

Welcome Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. Today, Saturday The Big Clean,   in Holy Trinity Westport, f rom 9am - 1pm. All help appreciated. 7pm, Evening Prayer, Turlough Parish Church  Sunday 10am - Service of Holy Communion, Christ Church, Castlebar. 11.30am -  Service of Holy Communion, Holy Trinity Westport 2.30pm - Funeral of Mr Tom Wesley Bennett, in Christ Church,  Castlebar, followed by Committal in Turlough Churchyard 3pm - Evening Prayer in St Thomas's Dugort, Achill The Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth by Carl Heinrich Bloc, 1866 Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel      Luke 1:39-56 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, ‘Blessed are you among women, an...