Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
12th. and 13th. June 2021
“The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time”
Priests Living within the Parish:
- Liam Cassin (Parish Priest)
- Telephone: 056 776 8693 or
- Mobile 087 231 2354
- Peter Hoyne (Retired)
- Telephone: 056 776 8678 or
- Mobile 086 373 8492
Mass Times in Aghaviller Parish:
Monday 14th. June to Sunday 20th. June 2021.
Hugginstown:
Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
Vigil – Saturday 19th. at 8.00p.m.
Sunday 20th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
Wednesday 16th. at 7.00p.m.
Vigil – Saturday 19th. at 6.30p.m.
Pray For:
Johannes De Haan, Coolmore;
Kitty Culleton, Ballygowan, Piltown.
Both died during the week.
Anniversary:
Maura Roche,Lawcus. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 12th. June at 6.30p.m.
Next Weekend:
Patricia Neville, Norelands. Mass in Stoneyford on Saturday 19th. June at 6.30p.m.
Covid-19:
Attendance at Religious Services is limited to 50 People, (including Funerals, Weddings, Baptisms etc.).
Proper protocols are in place in both Churches for the safety of all. Please use the seats that are marked for seating.
Holy Communion will be distributed on the hand only. In Hugginstown Church people are invited to come up the centre of the Church and return by the side. In Stoneyford Church Holy Communion will be distributed upstairs and throughout the Church; No need to leave your seats.
Please let us know before Mass if you are staying outside, as outside speaker can be turned on at the beginning of Mass in both Churches and Holy Communion given. There will be no Missalettes or the passing of collection bags. A Collection Box will be placed at the Church doors for your contribution.
Cemetery Mass 2021:
- Calvary Cemetery Mass on Friday 2nd. July at 8.00p.m.
- Hugginstown Cemetery Mass on Saturday 10th. July at 8.00p.m.
- Stoneyford Cemetery Mass on Friday 6th. August at 8.00p.m.
Collection:
The“Church Door”Contributions on last weekend amounted to €470.00. Thank You.
June Collection:
The “June Collection 2021”for the support of the priests of the Parish and the Diocese will be taken up during the months of June/July. Envelopes for this collection are available at the back of the Church.
Newsletter:
If you wish to receive the weekly Newsletter by email, please drop your email address to liamcassin@ossory.ie.
The Newsletter is available on the Stoneyford Website every weekend. (Stoneyford.ie:) News.
All notices for the Newsletter to be left in by Thursdays at 5.00p.m. please.
Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email:liamcassin@ossory.ie.
The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – 13th. June 2021
First Reading:
A Reading from the Prophet Ezekiel:
The Lord says this:
‘From the top of the cedar,from the highest branch I will take a shoot
and plant it myself on a very high mountain.
I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel.
It will sprout branches and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar.
Every kind of bird will live beneath it, every winged creature rest in the shade of its branches.
And every tree of the field will learn that I, the Lord,
am the one who stunts tall trees and makes the low ones grow,
who withers green trees and makes the withered green.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm:
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning and your truth in the watches of the night. R.
The just will flourish like the palm tree and grow like a Lebanon cedar. R.
Planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish in the courts of our God,
still bearing fruit when they are old, still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is just. In him, my rock, there is no wrong. R.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians 5:6-10
We are always full of confidence when we remember that to live in the body means to be exiled from the Lord, going as we do by faith and not by sight – we are full of confidence, I say, and actually want to be exiled from the body and make our home with the Lord.
Whether we are living in the body or exiled from it, we are intent on pleasing him. For all the truth about us will be brought out in the law court of Christ, and each of us will get what he deserves for the things he did in the body, good or bad.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
I call you friends, says the Lord, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
Alleluia!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Mark:
Jesus said to the crowds: ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man throws seed on the land. Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the crop is ready, he loses no time: he starts to reap because the harvest has come.’
He also said, ‘What can we say the kingdom of God is like? What parable can we find for it? It is like a mustard seed which at the time of its sowing in the soil is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.’
Using many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, so far as they were capable of understanding it. He would not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything to his disciples when they were alone.
The Gospel of the Lord.
