Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
(Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford).
6th. and 7th. July 2022. – “Nineteenth 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 8th. to Sunday 14th. August 2022.
Hugginstown Church: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
Vigil – Saturday 13th. at 8.00p.m. Sunday 14th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford Church: Wednesday 10th. at 7.00p.m. Vigil – Saturday 13th. at 6.30p.m.
Monday 8th. Feast of St Dominic; Tuesday 9th. Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Wednesday 10th. Feast of St Lawrence; Thursday 11th. Feast of St. Clare.
Pray For:
Anniversary Masses:
Jim McCarthy, Knockdrinna, and Jack Roche, Danganbeg: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 6th. August at 6.30p.m.
Nora Kenneally, Catstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 6th. August at 8.00p.m.
John Henebry, Mylerstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 7th. August at 10.00a.m.
Bridget Kelly, Lawcus, Stoneyford; Mary O’Donnell, Newmarket.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
Decan Fennelly, Oldtown: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 13th. August at 6.30p.m.
Maura Broderick, Croan: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 13th. August at 8.00p.m.
Rota for next week-end: 13th. and 14th. August 2022 (Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time).
Readers: Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Ronan Murphy
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Catherine Dwyer. Sunday 10.00a.m. Deirdre O’Shea.
Eucharistic Ministers: Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Kitty Wallace.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cahill. Sunday 10.00a.m. Ruth Crowley.
Cemetery Mass:
Mass will be celebrated in Aghaviller Cemetery on Friday 12th. August at 7.30p.m.
Lotto: – Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 1st. August 2022 Numbers: 31; 26; 23; 21.
No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn: No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00 Winners: Ryan Hayes, c/o Teresa Fitzgerald; Thomas McInerney Lismatigue.
Lucy McBride, Hugginstown; Liz O’Connor, Cork; Niamh Rohan, Carricketna
3 x €15.00 (Sellers): Deirdre Rohan; Tommy Murphy; Ann Power.
Next Draw on Monday 8th. August 2022. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €5,100.00. (4 Numbers in any order)
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €545.00. Thank You.
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
Mysticism in an Age of Calamity:
The Priory Institute will hold a two week online Summer School from 15th. to 26th. August. The course includes eight recorded presentations and two on-line zoom discussions and is very flexible as it is delivered entirely online. To find out more and register please contact The Priory Institute, Tallaght Village, D24 W410:
or Tel: 01 404 8129: www.prioryinstitute.com
Dunnamaggin G.A.A. Golf Classic:
The Dunnamaggin G.A.A. golf classic will take place in Callan Golf Club on Friday the 12th. and Saturday the 13th. of August. Over €3,500.00 worth of prizes inc. best Ladies Team. Cost for Team of 4 @ €140.00 inc. bbq and refreshments beside the 7th. tee box. For bookings please call any of our team below.
John Sheil 087 648 6668: Derek Delaney 087 634 3834: James Holden 085 196 7675. All are welcome.
Newsletter:
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The Newsletter is also available on the Stoneyford Website every weekend. (Stoneyford.ie:) News.
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Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie
“Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – 7th. August 2022.
First Reading:
A Reading from the Book of Wisdom:
That night had been foretold to our ancestors, so that, once they saw what kind of oaths they had put their
trust in, they would joyfully take courage.
This was the expectation of your people, the saving of the virtuous and the ruin of their enemies;
for by the same act with which you took vengeance on our foes you made us glorious by calling us to you.
The devout children of worthy men offered sacrifice in secret and this divine pact they struck with one accord:
that the saints would share the same blessings and dangers alike; and forthwith they had begun to chant the
hymns of the fathers. The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm:
Response: Happy are the people the Lord has chosen as his own.
Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just; for praise is fitting for loyal hearts.
They are happy, whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own. R.
The Lord looks on those who revere him, on those who hope in his love,
to rescue their souls from death, to keep them alive in famine. R.
Our soul is waiting for the Lord. The Lord is our help and our shield.
May your love be upon us, O Lord, as we place all our hope in you. R.
Second Reading:
A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews:
Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of the realities that at present remain unseen. It was for faith that our ancestors were commended.
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a country that was the inheritance given to him and his descendants, and that he set out without knowing where he was going. By faith he arrived, as a foreigner, in the Promised Land, and lived there as if in a strange country, with Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. They lived there in tents while he looked forward to a city founded, designed and built by God.
It was equally by faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive, because she believed that he who had made the promise would be faithful to it. Because of this, there came from one man, and one who was already as good as dead himself, more descendants than could be counted, as many as the stars of heaven or the grains of sand on the seashore.
It was by faith that Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice his only son even though the promises had been made to him and he had been told: It is through Isaac that your name will be carried on. He was confident that God had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively speaking, he was given back Isaac from the dead. The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake and stand ready, because you do not know the hour when the Son of Man is coming.
Alleluia!
Gospel
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke:
‘See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks. Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what hour the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house. You too must stand ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.’
Peter said, ‘Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?’ The Lord replied, ‘What sort of steward, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household to give them their allowance of food at the proper time? Happy that servant if his master’s arrival finds him at this employment. I tell you truly, he will place him over everything he owns. But as for the servant who says to himself, “My master is taking his time coming,” and sets about beating the menservants and the maids, and eating and drinking and getting drunk, his master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know.
The master will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful. The servant who knows what his master wants, but has not even started to carry out those wishes, will receive very many strokes of the lash. The one who did not know, but deserves to be beaten for what he has done, will receive fewer strokes. When a man has had a great deal given him, a great deal will be demanded of him; when a man has had a great deal given him on trust, even more will be expected of him.’ The Gospel of the Lord.
