Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
13th. and 14th. May 2023.
“Sixth Sunday of Easter”
Priests in 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 15th. to Sunday 21st. May 2023.
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 20th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 21st. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 17th. at 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 20th. at 6.30p.m
Tuesday 16th. Feast of St. Brendan.
First Holy Communion:
Congratulations to the Pupils from Stoneyford School who will receive their First Holy Communion on Sunday 14th. Also to Teachers and Parents who helped in the preparation.
First Holy Communion will be celebrated with the Pupils of Monroe and Newmarket Schools on Sunday 21st. May at 11.00a.m. in Hugginstown Church. (No 10.00a.m. Mass)
Pray For:
Anniversary Masses:
Fr. Jim Walsh, and Edward Walsh, Ballagh: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 13th. May at 8.00p.m.
Sean and Nellie Duggan, Hugginstown. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 14th. May at 10.00a.m.
Rota for next week-end:
20th. and 21st. May 2023. (Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord)
Readers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Tony Roche.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Pat Power; Sunday 11.00a.m. Parents.
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Barbara Smolen
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cahill; Sunday 11.00a.m. Ruth Crowley.
Eucharistic Ministers:
New Eucharistic Ministers needed in both Hugginstown and Stoneyford Churches for weekend Masses. Preparation Training can be done on-line in your own home with just a meeting in the local church for practical help. Please let me know if you can help.
It was suggested at the Parish Council Meeting recently that all present Eucharistic Ministers be contacted and to suggest that they partake in the new online preparation. We will then meet in both Churches to look at local details.
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.
Novena To Our Lady of Fatima:
Novena will take place from Saturday 13th. to Sunday 21st. May in the Black Abbey, Kilkenny. Preacher: Fr Colm Mannion OP. Saturdays at 10.00a.m. and 6.10p.m.
Sundays at 3.00p.m. Monday to Friday at 10.00a.m. and 7.00p.m. All are welcome.
Padre Pio National Pilgrimage:
Pilgrimage to Holy Cross Abbey, Thurles on Sunday 28th. May. Ceremonies will begin at 1.30p.m. If interested in travelling please contact: Kay Power 086 168 7073
or Lily Burke 056 776 8008
Cemetery Masses: for 2023:
- Mass in Calvary Cemetery on Friday 2nd. June at 8.00p.m.;
- Mass in Kilcasey Cemetery on Friday 16th. June at 8.00p.m.
- Mass in Hugginstown Cemetery on Saturday 1st. July at 8.00p.m.
- Mass in Stoneyford Cemetery on Friday 7th. July at 8.00p.m.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €595.00. Thank You.
South Kilkenny Historical Society:
Stoneyford 5k and 10k Challenge:
Newsletter:
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The Newsletter is also available on the Stoneyford Website every week.(www.stoneyford.ie) 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
First Reading
A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles:
Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
Cry out with joy to God all the earth,
O sing to the glory of his name.
O render him glorious praise.
Say to God: ‘How tremendous your deeds!
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
‘Before you all the earth shall bow;
shall sing to you, sing to your name!’
Come and see the works of God,
tremendous his deeds among men.
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
He turned the sea into dry land,
they passed through the river dry-shod.
Let our joy then be in him;
he rules for ever by his might.
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
Come and hear, all who fear God.
I will tell what he did for my soul:
Blessed be God who did not reject my prayer
nor withhold his love from me.
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
Second Reading:
A Reading from the First Letter of St. Peter
Reverence the Lord Christ in your hearts, and always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have. But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear conscience, so that those who slander you when you are living a good life in Christ may be proved wrong in the accusations that they bring. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.
Why, Christ himself, innocent though he was, had died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus said: ‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we shall come to him.’
Alleluia!
