Aughaval Group of Parishes

Harvest Thanksgiving 2025  The Season of Creation Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen. Photos A few images from Christ Church Castlebar, St Mary’s Church for Holy Trinity Westport, and St Thomas’s Dugort, Achill. The g uest preacher was Mr Alan Cousins,  SAT 7.  Music was provided by Organist, John Dexter and Soloist, Tenor, Hubert Francis.  Please note the dates of Harvest Thanksgiving services in Turlough and on Inishbiggle: Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving  Service,  Sat 20 Sept, 7pm:  Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator.  Music: Organist, Michele Gill. Soloist, Henry GawleyFollowed by tea and treats. Inishbiggle  Harvest Thanksgiving Service,...

  This week:  Tomorrow, Wed 17 September: Midweek Holy Communion,  10.30am  Westport: Midweek Holy Communion in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel Online Prayer.  Please note that this week's Online Prayer is at 7pm (not 8pm on this occasion).  Link below.  Other notices Westport-Dugort Select Vestry Meeting, Wed 17 Sept, 7.30pm in Carrowbeg House Sat 20 Sept, 7pm, Turlough Harvest Thanksgiving Service:  Guest speaker Mrs Valerie Raitt, TLK Diocesan Spiritual Tourism and Pilgrimages Co-ordinator. Followed by tea and treats. Holy Baptism: Sunday 21 Sept, 10am in Christ Church Castlebar An important message Archbishop John McDowell: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19U1RCu61F/ Today's gospel The raising of the widow's son in Nain Jan Verhas, 1860 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons 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 approache...

  Today's gospel, Monday 15 Sept. Season of Creation The Garden of Peace John 12: 27-36a ‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’     Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.   Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people   to myself.’He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.     The crowd answered him, ‘We have heard from the law that the Messiah   remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’   Jesus said to them, ‘The light...

  Harvest Thanksgiving  2025  in the Aughaval Group  Season of Creation Collect 
Eternal God,  you crown the year with your goodness  and give us fruits of the earth in their season.
 Grant that we may use them to your glory,
 for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being:  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Luke 12: 16-30   Then he [Jesus] told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced
 abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not ric...

  Taken at Hopeman, Moray, Scotland Luke 6:43-49 ‘No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. ‘Why do you call me “Lord, Lord”, and do not do what I tell you? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.  But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of th...

The Sermon on the Sea of Galilee   by Jan Brueghel, 1597 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons What's On?  Wed 10 September: Midweek Holy Communion , Westport, 10.30am in St Mary's side chapel, followed by coffee in the Clew Bay Hotel (James Street).   Online Prayer  (Compline), 8pm. Link below.   Meeting ID and Passcode available on request (0838003233). Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76460311534?pwd=vKBtGoH89ad1j8ft2Gy80X3SJu0VOg.1 Harvest Thanksgiving Services in this Season of Creation Sunday 14 Sept:   Guest speaker Mr Alan  Cousins, SAT 7.  Music - Organist John Dexter, and Tenor Francis Hubert  ( https://www.rncm.ac.uk/news/qa-with-tenor-hubert-francis/ ) 10am - Christ Church Castlebar 12 noon - St Mary's Church Westport (South Mall) for Holy Trinity and friends 3pm -  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill Services followed by  tea. Everyone is invited and welcome. Harvest Thanksgiving in Turlough Sat 20 Sept, 7pm, follo...