Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
17th. and 18th. September 2022.
“Twenty-Fifth 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 19th. to Sunday 25th. September 2022.
Hugginstown:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m. (Note: No Mass on Tuesday)
- Vigil – Saturday 24th. at 8.00p.m.
- Sunday 25th. @ 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 21st. @ 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 24th. at 6.30p.m.
- Tuesday 20th. Feast of St. Andrew Kim and his Companions.
- Wednesday 21st. Feast of St. Matthew.(Apostle)
- Friday 23rd. Feast of St. Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
Pray For:
Anniversary Masses:
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.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
John Kelly, Lawcus; Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 24th. September at 6.30p.m.
Neddie and Joe Dwyer, Croan. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 24th. September at 8.00p.m.
Months Mind Mass:
The Months Mind Mass for Bishop Seamus Freeman will take place on Sunday, 16th. October at 5.30p.m. in St Mary’s Cathedral.
Rota for next week-end:
24th. and 25th. September 2022 (Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time).
Readers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Tom King.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Catherine Dwyer. Sunday 10.00a.m. Marie Ryan.
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Barbara Smolen.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Murphy. Sunday 10.00a.m. Kay Power.
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 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.
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Aghaviller Parish Social Club:
Stoneyford Active Retirement Group:
“Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time” – 18th. September 2022.
First Reading:
A Reading from the Prophet Amos:
Listen to this, you who trample on the needy and try to suppress the poor people of the country, you who say, ‘When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and the sabbath, so that we can market our wheat?
Then by lowering the bushel, raising the shekel, by swindling and tampering with the scales, we can buy up the poor for money, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and get a price even for the sweepings of the wheat.’
The Lord swears it by the pride of Jacob, ‘Never will I forget a single thing you have done.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm:
Response: Praise the Lord, who raises the poor.
Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!
May the name of the Lord be blessed both now and for evermore! R.
High above all nations is the Lord, above the heavens his glory.
Who is like the Lord, our God, who has risen on high to his throne
yet stoops from the heights to look down, to look down upon heaven and earth? R.
From the dust he lifts up the lowly, from the dung heap he raises the poor
to set him in the company of princes, yes, with the princes of his people. R.
Second Reading:
A Reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to Timothy:
My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our saviour: he wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence of this, sent at the appointed time, and I have been named a herald and apostle of it and – I am telling the truth and no lie – a teacher of the faith and the truth to the pagans.
In every place, then, I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer, with no anger or argument.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord, to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia!
Gospel
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke:
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘There was a rich man and he had a steward denounced to him for being wasteful with his property. He called for the man and said, “What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer.” Then the steward said to himself, “Now that my master is taking the stewardship from me, what am I to do? Dig? I am not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too ashamed. Ah, I know what I will do to make sure that when I am dismissed from office there will be some to welcome me into their homes.”
Then he called his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, “How much do you owe my master?” “One hundred measures of oil” was the reply. The steward said, “Here, take your bond; sit down straight away and write fifty.” To another he said, “And you, sir, how much do you owe?” “One hundred measures of wheat” was the reply. The steward said, “Here, take your bond and write eighty.”
‘The master praised the dishonest steward for his astuteness. For the children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.
‘And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into the tents of eternity. The man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted in great; the man who is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in great. If then you cannot be trusted with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? And if you cannot be trusted with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own?
‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
