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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 ...

   Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. This week in the parishes: Wed 16 Sept: 10.30am, Holy Communion in  Holy Trinity, Westport, followed by coffee in Clew Bay Hotel; 8pm, Online prayer and Bible Reading Friday 18 Sept : Culture Night Concert, by  Mist,  in Holy Trinity, Westport, at 7pm. (Please see more, below.) Today's Gospel  reading Raising of the Widow of Nain's Son by Иконописная мастерская, 2011 CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52176869   Luke 7: 11-17 Soon afterwards  he [Jesus] went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.  As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from the town. When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, ‘Do not weep.’ Then he came forward and touched the bier, and the ...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel , news,  notes and notices. 'God So Loved the World' at Turlough Parish Church's Harvest Festival of Flowers, by the children of Turlough Church (with a little help from a few parents and teachers!)  Today's Gospel  Reading      John 3:13-17 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.  And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. ‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. God So Loved the World John Stainer (1840 - 1901) Wikimedia Commons,  from Choral WIKI" at:  http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/God_so_loved_the_world_(John_Stainer...