Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
10th. and 11th. September 2022.
“Twenty-Fourth 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 12th. September to Sunday 18th. 2022.
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m. .
- Vigil – Saturday 17th. at 8.00p.m.
- Sunday 18th. @ 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 14th. @ 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 17th. at 6.30p.m.
- Wednesday 14th. Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- Thursday 15th. Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
- Friday 16th. Feast of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian.
Pray For:
John Carroll, Kingsmountain; died on Monday 5th.
Queen Elizabeth 11 of GB, died on Thursday 8th.
Anniversary Mass:
Margaret Duggan, Ballinteskin: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 10th. September at 8.00p.m.
William Carr, Barnadown:
Michael, Johanna and William Dunne, Stoneyford.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
Michael Fennelly, Ballycaum: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 17th. September at 6.30p.m.
Jimmy Walsh, Lismatigue: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 17th. September at 8.00p.m.
Toddy Tennyson, Mabbistown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 18th. September at 10.00a.m.
Rota for next week-end:
17th. and 18th. September 2022 (Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time).
Readers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Neill O’Grady.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. John Barron. Sunday 10.00a.m. Deirdre O’Shea.
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Kitty Wallace.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cuddihy. Sunday 10.00a.m. Ann Power.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €535.00. 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 28th.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 26th. September if you wish to be part of the First Draw on Wednesday 28th. Subscription €10.00 per month: Prize Money €5,000.00 per month.
Roman Catholic Diocese and Parishes of Ossory – Registered Charity No. 20015831
Poor Clares:
The Poor Clares, Galway, are hosting a Monastic Experience Day on Saturday 24th. September from 10.00a.m. to 5.00p.m. The day is designed to help young women who are exploring the possibility of a religious vocation to find out more about the Poor Clare way of life. If you are under 40 and would like to attend the day you can book a place at vocations@poorclares.ie.
Kilkenny Bereavement Support:
Kilkenny Bereavement Support is running a Training Course for Volunteers commencing on Friday 16th. 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 5th.
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 13th. Find out more on our website, prioryinstitute.com. Click to see a 2 minute introductory film.
Stoneyford Active Retirement Group:
Newsletter:
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“Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – 11th. September 2022.
First Reading:
A Reading from the Book of Exodus:
The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried “who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘I can see how headstrong these people are! Leave me, now, my wrath shall blaze out against them and devour them; of you, however, I will make a great nation.’ But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘why should your wrath blaze out against this people of yours whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with arm outstretched and mighty hand? Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, your servants to whom by your own self you swore and made this promise: “I will make your offspring as many as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I promised I will give to your descendants, and it shall be their heritage for ever.”’
So the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm:
Response: I will leave this place and go to my father.
Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness. In your compassion blot out my offence.
O wash me more and more from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. R.
A pure heart create for me, O God, put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence, nor deprive me of your holy spirit. R.
O Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall declare your praise.
My sacrifice is a contrite spirit. A humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn. R.
Second Reading:
A Reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to Timothy:
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, and who judged me faithful enough to call me into his service even though I used to be a blasphemer and did all I could to injure and discredit the faith. Mercy, however, was shown me, because until I became a believer I had been acting in ignorance; and the grace of our Lord filled me with faith and with the love that is in Christ Jesus. Here is a saying that you can rely on and nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them; and if mercy has been shown to me, it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the greatest evidence of his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who would later have to trust in him to come to eternal life. To the eternal King, the undying, invisible and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind, so that we can see what hope his call holds for us.
Alleluia!
Gospel
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke:
The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he spoke this parable to them:
‘What man among you with a hundred sheep, losing one, would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the missing one till he found it? And when he found it, would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders and then, when he got home, call together his friends and neighbours? “Rejoice with me,” he would say “I have found my sheep that was lost.” In the same way, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of repentance.
‘Or again, what woman with ten drachmas would not, if she lost one, light a lamp and sweep out the house and search thoroughly till she found it? And then, when she had found it, call together her friends and neighbours? “Rejoice with me,” she would say “I have found the drachma I lost.” In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing among the angels of God over one repentant sinner.’
The Gospel of the Lord.