Aughaval Group of Parishes

Welcome. Please scroll down for notes and notices. Penitent Magdalene,  by Donatello, ca 1454, Photo by I. Sailko, 2009. Creative Commons Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6832143 Today's Gospel      Luke 8:1-3 Soon afterwards he [Jesus] went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources. Sacred Space You can find a gentle prayer guide and devotional thought here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-09-18/ Christian Art You can find an interesting reflection on today's reading here with comment, from within the RC  tradition, on church growth. https://christian.art/dai...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. Today, Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (from 11.15); 8.00 - 8.30pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading. (Link below.) Friday 18 Sept:  Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in HTW, at 7pm. Free concert, with donations towards Church repairs.  Today's Gospel  reading  Luke 7:31-35 ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;    we wailed, and you did not weep.” For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vi...

A Harvest Festival of Flowers,  at  Turlough Parish Church,  in the Season of Creation 2026 ‘Keep me as the apple of Your eye;  Hide me under the shadow of Your wings.’ (Psalm 17:8)             'Olive's Apples' " Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these." (Luke 12)   Turlough Church  parishioners put together a wonderful array of floral displays and creatively themed arrangements of all kinds of produce, for this year's Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, on Saturday  12 September 2026. The hope was to welcome visitors from far and wide into the church, both for the joy of doing so and as an expression of the love and hospitality of God, as well as to raise some funds towards the ongoing upkeep of the church. Our hopes were not disappointed, with a steady flow of kindly visitors in the afternoon, and a full church in the ...