Aughaval Group of Parishes

  Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend:  Saturday 29 August.  Faith in Bloom: Church Return to Nature Conference,  10am - 3pm at  Knock Shrine.  Saturday, 7pm, Turlough Parish Church, Evening Prayer Sunday 23 August, 10am, Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion Sunday, 11.30am,  Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion Sunday, 3pm,  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Next weekend in the parishes, 5-6 September: Blessing of the schoolbags, backpacks and laptop bags and their bearers . Children and young people are invited to bring their schoolbags to the front of the church before or at the start of the service.  Today's Gospel       Mark 6:17-29 For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod  had married her. For John had been telling Herod, ‘It is not ...

  Welcome!  Please scroll down for today's Gospel reading, notes and notices. This weekend:  Saturday 29 August.  Faith in Bloom: Church Return to Nature Conference,  10am - 3pm at  Knock Shrine.  Saturday, 7pm, Turlough Parish Church, Evening Prayer Sunday 23 August, 10am, Christchurch Castlebar, Holy Communion Sunday, 11.30am,  Holy Trinity Westport, Holy Communion Sunday, 3pm,  St Thomas's Dugort, Achill, Evening Prayer Next weekend in the parishes: Blessing of the schoolbags, backpacks and laptop bags and their bearers . Children and young people are invited to bring their schoolbags to the front of the church before or at the start of the service.  The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (detail) Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1850 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today's Gospel       Matthew 25:1-13 [Jesus said]  ‘Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids  took their lamps and w...