Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
25th. and 26th. February 2023.
“First Sunday of Lent”
‘Temperance Sunday’ is a Day of Prayer for all who live under the shadow of addiction.
We pray also for Counsellors and Staff in Primary Care Centres who help their relations towards recovery.
Mass on RTÉ TV & Radio at 11.00a.m. today will include prayers for all who are in treatment for addiction, for their families and for those who are
in recovery.
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 27th. February to Sunday 5th. March 2023.
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 4th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 5th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday and Friday at 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 4th. at 6.30p.m.;
- Wednesday 1st. Feast of St. David.
- Friday 3rd. First Friday
Visitation with Holy Communion will take place as usual on Friday. Please let us know if you would like to receive Holy Communion in your home for the First Fridays or at any other time.
Pray For:
Anniversary Masses:
Fr. Christy Dwyer, Croan. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 25th. February at 8.00p.m.
John Dwyer, Baysrath
James and Ellie Dalton, Boolyglass. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 26th. February at 10.00a.m.
John Walsh, Ballagh
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
David Kenneally, Catstown; Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 4th. at 8.00p.m
Mattie O’Shea, Mary, Kitty, Betty and John O’Shea, Boolyglass: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 5th. March at 10.00a.m.
Rota for next week-end:
4th. and 5th. March 2023 . (Second Sunday of Lent)
Readers:
- Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Parents.
- Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Tommy Murphy; Sunday 10.00a.m. Parents.
Eucharistic Ministers:
- Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Kitty Wallace.
- Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cuddihy; Sunday 10.00a.m. Ann Power.
First Holy Communion Preparation:
All children and families are invited to attend the weekend Masses during Lent as part of this preparation. Parents will be involved in the Readings and the Communion Reflection while the children will be involved in the Prayers of the Faithful and the Offertory Gifts.
Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 4th. March at 6.30p.m.
Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 5th. March at 10.00a.m.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €630.00. Thank You.
The “Turkey/Syria Appeal” on last weekend amounted to €2,040.00. Thank You.
Lenten Station Collection:
Envelopes for the Lenten Station Contribution are available in the Church. Your contribution is for the support of the priests of the Parish and the Diocese.
(To donate directly.) Use IBAN: IE19 AIBK 9330 9000 0561 20 (BIC: AIBKIE2D).
All Parish Property and Accounts are registered under the (Diocese of Ossory, Reg. Charity No. 20015831)
Ossory Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2023
Lourdes Pilgrimage will take place from May 23rd. to 28th. this year.
Accommodation in the Agena, Solitude and Padoue Hotels.
Price includes return bus journey to/from Loughboy Shopping Centre Car Park to Dublin Airport.
Return flights from Dublin to Lourdes; Transfer to/from Airport to Hotel;
Full board and hotel accommodation for the 5 nights.
For further information and bookings contact niamh@jwttravel.ie or Phone 01 685 2244
Online Lenten Retreat.
The Priory Institute is delighted to offer a free of charge Online Retreat ‘Reflecting on the Sunday Gospels of Lent as Stepping Stones on our Journey to Easter.
Visit the website: prioryinstitute.com or click on this link https://bit.ly/3DWrTkx to register/find out more.
Ossory Adult Faith Development – Lenten Programme:
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is very much to the forefront of our minds and, no doubt, people are asking questions about this from a Faith and Morality perspective. With this in mind the Adult Faith Development Group are organising an evening conversation to reflect on these questions in St Kieran’s College on Wednesday 1st. March at 7.30p.m.
At this gathering Prof. Tobias Winright and Rev. Dr. Michael Shortall both Moral Theologians in St Patrick’s Pontifical University will guide these reflections.
Trócaire:
Every year during Lent, Trócaire asks for your help to fund lifesaving programmes around the world. Please collect a Trócaire Box which is available in Church Porch.You can contribute Online at www.trocaire.org or By Phone: 1850 408 408. The contents of each and every Trócaire Box, no matter how small, come together to make a significant difference.
Reflection:
“Repent and believe the Good News” was the focal point of the message of Jesus. It was not a call to penance but to a change of heart, a change of attitude, leading to a change in behaviour. The kingdom of God is a kingdom of right relationships: with God, with one another, with creation, with ourselves. It is a change that leads to a fuller life. Have we ever found that a change in our attitude towards God, towards others, ourselves, or the world around us, has led us to a more fulfilled or more fruitful life?
Newsletter:
If you wish to receive the weekly Newsletter by email, please drop your email address to liamcassin@ossory.ie or
Telephone: 056 776 8693
The Newsletter is also available on the Stoneyford Website every week.(Stoneyford.ie.News)
All notices for the Newsletter to be left in by Thursdays at 5.00p.m. please.
First Reading
A Reading from the Book of Genesis:
The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being.
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. The Lord God caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden.
Now the serpent was the most subtle of all the wild beasts that the Lord God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, “You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death.”’ Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was desirable for the knowledge that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we have sinned.
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.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we have sinned.
My offences truly I know them;
my sin is always before me
Against you, you alone, have I sinned;
what is evil in your sight I have done.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we have sinned.
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.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Give me again the joy of your help;
with a spirit of fervour sustain me,
O Lord, open my lips
and my mouth shall declare your praise.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we have sinned.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Romans:
Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned. Sin existed in the world long before the Law was given. There was no law and so no one could be accused of the sin of ‘law-breaking’, yet death reigned over all from Adam to Moses, even though their sin, unlike that of Adam, was not a matter of breaking a law.
Adam prefigured the One to come, but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant free gift. The results of the gift also outweigh the results of one man’s sin: for after one single fall came judgement with a verdict of condemnation, now after many falls comes grace with its verdict of acquittal. If it is certain that death reigned over everyone as the consequence of one man’s fall, it is even more certain that one man, Jesus Christ, will cause everyone to reign in life who receives the free gift that he does not deserve, of being made righteous. Again, as one man’s fall brought condemnation on everyone, so the good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified. As by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!
Man does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!