Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Services this weekend in the Aughaval Parishes: Sat 9 May  - Turlough Church, 7pm, Evening Prayer, followed by a meeting of the Select Vestry Sunday 10 May  - Christ Church Castlebar, Morning Prayer, 10am, followed by tea  - Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion, 11.30am, followed by tea.  Sunday Club gathers in the church at 11.30am, moving to the school for activities. (See poster.) - St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer, 3pm. Today's Gospel      John 15:18-21 ‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world,  the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, “Servants  are not greater than their master.” If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kep...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Services this weekend in the Aughaval Parishes: Sat  - Turlough, 7pm, Evening Prayer, followed by a meeting of the Select Vestry Sunday  - Castlebar, Morning Prayer, 10am, followed by tea  - Westport, Holy Communion, 11.30am, followed by tea.     With Sunday Club - Achill, Evening Prayer, 3pm. Love One Another by Inter Church Lectio John 15:12-17 [Jesus said] ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants  any longer, because the servant  does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.    You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fru...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices.  Coming very soon to Westport:  Louisburgh Voices   A concert for  Holy Trinity Westport,  in  Holy Trinity Westport, on Wed 27 May, 7.30pm. Today's Gospel reading      John 15:9-11 [Jesus said] As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. Sacred Space Y ou can find a helpful prayer guide here: https://sacredspace.com/daily-prayer/2026-05-07 Thought for the Day Recommended BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day , 5 May 2026, by Revd Lucy Winkett, on the sculpture (image below) attributed to Banksy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0njl916 Statue: Man Marching, Blinded By The Flag Photo: Architecture & Design,  arch...