Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend in the Aughaval Parishes: Sat 6 June      - Confirmation preparation, 10am in the Rectory, Westport      -  Evening Prayer in Turlough Church, 7pm     -  Bella Capella,  A Summer Serenade,  Christ Church Castlebar, 8pm Sunday 7 June      - Christ Church Castlebar, Holy Communion/The Eucharist,  10am        - Holy Trinity Westport, Blue Grass Gospel Hour,  11.30am,  part of this year's  Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival  (See poster, below)     -  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer, 3pm Lesson of the widow's mite  and Healing of two blind men  Dionisius (1444- 1502) Ferapontovo, Vologda Oblast, Russia Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel       Mark 12:38-44 As he [Jesus] taught, he said,   “Beware of the scrib...

  Please scroll down for today's gospel reading, notes and notices. Special events this weekend in the parishes: Sat 6 June  at 8pm in Christ Church Castlebar, Bella Capella,  A Summer Serenade Sat 6 June  at 10am, Confirmation Preparation in The Rectory, Westport Sun 7 June  at 11.30am in Holy Trinity Westport,   ' Gospel Hour', part of this year's  Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival. For everyone! Jesus Preaching in the Synagogue of Nazareth   Joakim Skovgaard, 1914 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's gospel       Mark 12:35-37 While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he said, ‘How can the scribes say that the Messiah  is the son of David? David himself, by the Holy Spirit, declared, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand,    until I put your enemies under your feet.’   ” David himself calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?’ And the large crowd was listening to him with del...