Aghaviller Parish Newsletter

Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.

3^rd. and 4^th. September 2022.   – 

“Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time”

Priests Living within the Parish:

Liam Cassin (Parish Priest)            Telephone:    056 776 8693    or     Mobile 087 231 2354

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• Thursday 8^th.   Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 
• Friday 9^th.  Feast of St. Ciaran

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Pray For:       

Joseph Murphy, Thomastown and Stoneyford;  who died during the week.          

Anniversary Mass:

James and Ellen Duggan, Boolyglass:   Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 4^th. September at 10.00a.m.

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Rota for next week-end:     

10^th.  and 11^th. September 2022     (Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time).

Readers:        

Stoneyford:                 Saturday 6.30p.m. Sheila Lennon.

Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Deirdre Rohan.     Sunday 10.00a.m. Noreen Kenneally.

Eucharistic Ministers:        

Stoneyford:                 Saturday 6.30p.m. Pat Kenny.          

Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cahill.  Sunday 10.00a.m. Ruth Crowley.

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Parish Contributions:   

The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €560.00.  Thank You.                                                                      

St. Mary’s Cathedral Restoration Fund Draw:

The first draw for St. Mary’s Cathedral Restoration Fund 2022/2023 year is due to take place on Wednesday 28^th.September 2022.  The draw year 2022/20223 will run from September 2022 to August 2023. Draw will be held at 8.00p.m on the last Wednesday of each month. Tickets are available at the Parish House, Hugginstown: Telephone contact 056 776 8693.  All Tickets to be entered by Monday 26^th. September if you wish to be part of the First Draw on Wednesday 28^th.  Subscription €10.00 per month:  Prize Money €5,000.00 per month.

Roman Catholic Diocese and Parishes of Ossory – Registered Charity No. 20015831 

Newsletter:

If you wish to receive the weekly Newsletter by email, please drop your email address to liamcassin@ossory.ie 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

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Stoneyford Active Retirement Group:

Lotto:   

Camphill Jerpoint:

St. Josephs Home:

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“Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time”    –   4^th. September 2022.

First Reading:

A Reading from the Book of Wisdom:

What man indeed can know the intentions of God? Who can divine the will of the Lord?

The reasonings of mortals are unsure and our intentions unstable;

for a perishable body presses down the soul, and this tent of clay weighs down the teeming mind.

It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth, laborious to know what lies within our reach;

who, then, can discover what is in the heavens?

As for your intention, who could have learnt it, had you not granted Wisdom and sent your holy spirit from above?    Thus have the paths of those on earth been straightened and men been taught what pleases you, and saved, by Wisdom.                              

The Word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm:                       

Response:      O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next.

You turn men back to dust and say: ‘Go back, sons of men.’

To your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday, come and gone, no more than a watch in the night.       R.

You sweep men away like a dream, like the grass which springs up in the morning.

In the morning it springs up and flowers: by evening it withers and fades.                                                   R.

Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart.

Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever? Show pity to your servants.                                                                 R.

In the morning, fill us with your love;  we shall exult and rejoice all our days.

Let the favour of the Lord be upon us:  give success to the work of our hands.                                            R.

Second Reading:

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to Philemon:

This is Paul writing, an old man now and, what is more, still a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am appealing to you for a child of mine, whose father I became while wearing these chains: I mean Onesimus. I am sending him back to you, and with him – I could say – a part of my own self. I should have liked to keep him with me; he could have been a substitute for you, to help me while I am in the chains that the Good News has brought me. However, I did not want to do anything without your consent; it would have been forcing your act of kindness, which should be spontaneous. I know you have been deprived of Onesimus for a time, but it was only so that you could have him back for ever, not as a slave any more, but something much better than a slave, a dear brother; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, as a blood-brother as well as a brother in the Lord. So if all that we have in common means anything to you, welcome him as you would me.

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 according to Luke:

Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. ‘If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

‘And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and saying, “Here is a man who started to build and was unable to finish.” Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.’

The Gospel of the Lord.

Stoneyford Text Alert:

Subscriptions for 2022/2023 year are now due.  At only €10.00 this is a valuable and proven service. You can still pay your subscription by placing €10.00 and your name and mobile number in an envelope and dropping it into Willie’s Shop or Malzard’s Bar.  You can also pay directly to our bank account.  AIB, Kilkenny.  BIC: AIBKIE2D.  IBAN: IE26 AIBK 9331 9854 7180 95 referencing both your Name & Mobile Number. 

Go to Stoneyford Text Alert on Facebook for further information!

Kilkenny Bereavement Support:

Kilkenny Bereavement Support is running a Training Course for Volunteers commencing on Friday 16^th. September and running for 30 hours over a 5 week period. They have 3 places available on this course. The course will take place in Villa Maria, Talbot’s Inch, Kilkenny.  If interested, please phone 056 775 6538

or visit their website www.kilkennybereavementsupport.com for an application form.  Closing date: Sept 5^th.

Study Theology Online:

The Priory Institute provides Online Theology Courses to degree level. Attend Saturday lectures in Tallaght or from the comfort of your own home. Register before  September 13^th.  Find out more on our website,    prioryinstitute.com. Click to see a 2 minute introductory film.

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