Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford
23rd. and 24th. July 2022.
“Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time”
“World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly”
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 25th. to Sunday 31st. July 2022.
Hugginstown Church:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
Vigil – Saturday 30th. at 8.00p.m.
Sunday 31st. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford Church:
Wednesday 27th. at 7.00p.m.
Vigil – Saturday 30th. at 6.30p.m.
- Monday 25th. Feast of St. James, (Apostle).
- Tuesday 26th. Feast of Ss. Joachim and Anne (Parents of the Virgin Mary)
- Friday 29th. Feast of Ss. Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Pray For:
Anna Murphy, The Rower;
Mike Donoghue, Ennisnag;
Benny Burke, Knocktopher.
Anniversary Masses:
Miriam Brennan, Lawcus; Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 23rd. July at 6.30p.m.
Johnny and Kathleen Maher, Boolyglass; Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 24th. July at 10.00a.m.
Anniversary Mass next weekend:
James and Josephine O’Shea, Croan: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 31st. July at 10.00a.m.
Rota for next week-end:
30th. and 31st. July 2022 (Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time).
Readers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Margaret Ryan.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Deirdre Rohan.
Sunday 10.00a.m. Mary Foran.
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford:
Saturday 6.30p.m. Natalia Smolen.
Hugginstown:
Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Murphy. Sunday 10.00a.m. Kay Power.
Cemetery Mass:
Mass will be celebrated in Sheepstown Cemetery on this Thursday 28th. July at 8.00p.m.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €540.00. Thank You.
June Collection:
Many thanks for your very generous support to the “June Collection 2022”. This collection is for the support of the priests of the Parish and the priests of the Diocese.
Youth Summer Festival:
Join over 1000 young people between 16 and 35 this August at the Youth 2000 Summer Festival. The festival takes place in Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co Kildare from Thursday 11th. August to Sunday 14th. August 2022. For more information and to book your place go to www.youth2000.ie
Reek Sunday:
Reek Sunday 2022 will take place this year on next Sunday 31st. July. Holy Mass will be celebrated on the Summit every hour from 8.00a.m. to 2.00p.m. For more information: www.westportparish.ie
Lotto:
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Tuesday 19th. July 2022 Numbers: 18; 16; 03; 17.
- No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
5 x €30.00 Winners:
- Lily Burke, Croan;
- Angela and Marie Barron, Romansvalley
- Fred Malzard, Stoneyford;
- Mai Brennan, Keatingstown;
- Jimmy Sheehan, Stonecarthy.
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Deirdre Rohan;
- Trish Power;
- Willie Walshe
Next Draw on Monday 25th. July 2022. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €6,600.00. (4 Numbers in any order)
Newsletter:
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The Newsletter is also 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
Reflection:
In the prayer Jesus gave us (The Our Father), the focus is not on getting God to do what we want, but on trying to be open to what God wants: ‘Your kingdom come’. That openness implies a trust that what God wants for us is our good. But it can be helpful at times to pray the Lord’s Prayer with one eye on what we see lies ahead for us in the day. Spend a moment thinking of what we have to do and then take each phrase of the Lord’s Prayer and see how that speaks to our agenda.
“Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – 24th. July 2022.
First Reading:
A Reading from the Book of Genesis:
The Lord said, ‘How great an outcry there is against Sodom and Gomorrah! How grievous is their sin! I propose to go down and see whether or not they have done all that is alleged in the outcry against them that has come up to me. I am determined to know.’ The men left there and went to Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Approaching him he said, ‘Are you really going to destroy the just man with the sinner? Perhaps there are fifty just men in the town. Will you really overwhelm them, will you not spare the place for the fifty just men in it? Do not think of doing such a thing: to kill the just man with the sinner, treating just and sinner alike! Do not think of it! Will the judge of the whole earth not administer justice?’ the Lord replied, ‘If at Sodom I find fifty just men in the town, I will spare the whole place because of them.’
Abraham replied, ‘I am bold indeed to speak like this to my Lord, I who am dust and ashes. But perhaps the fifty just men lack five: will you destroy the whole city for five?’ ‘No,’ he replied ‘I will not destroy it if I find forty-five just men there.’ Again Abraham said to him, ‘Perhaps there will only be forty there.’ ‘I will not do it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the forty.’ Abraham said, ‘I trust my Lord will not be angry, but give me leave to speak: perhaps there will only be thirty there.’ ‘I will not do it’ he replied ‘if I find thirty there.’ He said, ‘I am bold indeed to speak like this, but perhaps there will only be twenty there.’ ‘I will not destroy it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the twenty.’ He said, ‘I trust my Lord will not be angry if I speak once more: perhaps there will only be ten.’ ‘I will not destroy it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the ten.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm:
Response: On the day I called, you answered me, O Lord.
I thank you, Lord, with all my heart: you have heard the words of my mouth.
In the presence of the angels I will bless you. I will adore before your holy temple. R.
I thank you for your faithfulness and love, which excel all we ever knew of you.
On the day I called, you answered; you increased the strength of my soul. R.
The Lord is high yet he looks on the lowly and the haughty he knows from afar.
Though I walk in the midst of affliction you give me life and frustrate my foes. R.
You stretch out your hand and save me, your hand will do all things for me.
Your love, O Lord, is eternal, discard not the work of your hands. R.
Second Reading:
A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Colossians:
You have been buried with Christ, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead. You were dead, because you were sinners and had not been circumcised: he has brought you to life with him, he has forgiven us all our sins.
He has overridden the Law, and cancelled every record of the debt that we had to pay; he has done away with it by nailing it to the cross.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Word was made flesh and lived among us: to all who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God.
Alleluia!
Gospel
A Reading from th8e Holy Gospel according to Luke:
Once Jesus was in a certain place praying, and when he had finished one of his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘Say this when you pray: “Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come; give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us. And do not put us to the test.”’
He also said to them: ‘Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him in the middle of the night to say, “My friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine on his travels has just arrived at my house and I have nothing to offer him”; and the man answers from inside the house, “Do not bother me. The door is bolted now, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up to give it you.” I tell you, if the man does not get up and give it him for friendship’s sake, persistence will be enough to make him get up and give his friend all he wants.
‘So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened to him. What father among you would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? Or hand him a snake instead of a fish? Or hand him a scorpion if he asked for an egg? If you then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’
The Gospel of the Lord.