Aughaval Group of Parishes

   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  1st May/ ' May Day'/ Bealtaine - a new month and the beginning of summer. A photo and a poem for the day that's in it:  This weekend in the Aughaval Parishes...  You're welcome! Sat 2 May, Turlough, All-age Service at 7pm Sunday 3 May 10am, Christ Church Castlebar, Holy Communion 11.30am, Holy Trinity Westport, Morning Prayer , followed by tea 3pm, St Thomas's Dugort, Achill,  Evening Prayer Today's gospel      John 14:1-6 ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe  in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.’     Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do ...

  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Coming soon to the parishes - 'Muddy Church' Today's gospel      John 13:16-20 Very truly, I tell you, servants  are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But it is to fulfil the scripture, “The one who ate my bread  has lifted his heel against me.” I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am he.  Very truly, I tell you, whoever receives one whom I send receives me; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.’ Sacred Space Y ou can find a helpful prayer guide here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-04-30   Christian Art https://christian.art/daily-gospel-reading/john-13-16-20-2026/   Serving  Mindful Christian...

  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Today’s gospel        John 10:22-30 At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah,  tell us plainly.’    Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand.  The Father and I are one.’ Calvary , by Pietro Sassi, circa 1870 Oil painting depicting t...

  Welcome!   Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Icon of the Good Shepherd Late 20th C. Author unknown Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today’s gospel      John 10:11-18 ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.    I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.   For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No on...