Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
10th. and 11th. June 2023.
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 12th. to Sunday 18th. June 2023.
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 17th. at 8.00p.m.
- Sunday 18th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 14th. at 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 17th. at 6.30p.m.
Tuesday 13th. Feast of St. Anthony of Padua.
Friday 16th. Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Saturday 17th. Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Mass of Thanksgiving: – (Golden Jubilee)
The members of the Parish Pastoral Council would like to invite all to Fr. Liam’s Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood on this Saturday June 10th. There will be Con-Celebrated Mass of Thanksgiving in Hugginstown Church at 7:30pm.
We welcome Bishop Niall Coll, to celebrate Mass with our Parish Community.
Mass will be followed with refreshments in the Community Centre, Hugginstown. Everyone is very welcome.
Cemetery Masses: for 2023:
- 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.
As the Cemetery Masses are about to take place we would appreciate if families could attend to their family graves before these Masses are celebrated.
Sunday 11th. June:
Feast of “Corpus Christi”: Eucharistic Procession will take place around the Church Grounds, Hugginstown after the 10.00a.m. Mass; Invitation for all to take part.
Pray for:
Johnny Culleton, Raheenarran, Kilmoganny; died during the week.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
- Patricia Neville, Norelands. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 17th. June at 6.30p.m.
- Michael Brennan, Keatingstown. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 17th. June at 8.00p.m.
Rota for next week-end:
17th. and 18th. June. (Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time)
Readers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Tom King.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m Valerie Farrell. Sunday 10.00am Noreen Kenneally
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Kitty Wallace.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cahill. Sunday 10.00a.m. Ruth Crowley.
June Collection:
The “June Collection 2023” for the support of the priests of the Parish and the Diocese will be taken up during the months of June/July. Envelopes for this collection are available at the back of the Church.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions last weekend amounted to €545.00. Thank You.
Hugginstown Cemetery:
Tremendous work was done on the clean-up needed around the boundary walls of the old cemetery. Up to twenty volunteers worked on Thursday evening for three and half hours to remove most of the rubble. You are capable to moving mountains!!!! Thanks to Larry Fitzpatrick who took the initiative to begin this work and provided machinery; to Doyle’s Concrete for providing machinery; to John Fitzgerald for arranging volunteers and to many others who provided tractors and trailers and managed the machinery to great effect. A Special Thank You to all involved.
Stoneyford School:
Meeting of the Board of Management will be held in Stoneyford school on Wednesday 14th. June at 8.00p.m.
Monroe School:
The school is holding a ‘Family Fun Table Quiz’ in the school on Wednesday 14th. June at 7.00 p.m. Your support would be very much appreciated.
Safeguarding Contacts:
Diocesan Designated Liaison Person: Ms. Kathleen Sherry Tel: 087 100 0232.
Aghaviller Parish Representatives are: Teresa Broderick and Carmel O’Toole.
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land:
Pilgrimage will be led by Ossory Adult Faith Development:
- Visit the places we hear of each time we read the Scriptures: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Garden of Gethsemane, Calvary, the River Jordan, Mount of Temptation, Jericho, Cana, the Mount of Beatitudes, Sea of Galilee, Capernaum and so much more…
- Pilgrimage leaders are Fr. Dermot Ryan and Fr. Kieran O’Shea, (Priests of the Ossory Diocese) They will help to deepen our understanding of the Scriptures and the life of Jesus Christ.
- Travelling on 19th. February and return 26th. February 2024.
- For all further information and bookings please contact Kieran and Laura Troy on 057 935 5050 or email info@myriam.ie
Newsletter:
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Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie
First Reading
A Reading from the Book of Deuteronomy;
Moses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had known, to make you understand that man does not live on bread alone but that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
‘Do not become proud of heart. Do not forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery: who guided you through this vast and dreadful wilderness, a land of fiery serpents, scorpions, thirst; who in this waterless place brought you water from the hardest rock; who in this wilderness fed you with manna that your fathers had not known.’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!
He has strengthened the bars of your gates
he has blessed the children within you.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
He established peace on your borders,
he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
He makes his word known to Jacob,
to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Second Reading:
A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians
The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven,
says the Lord.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.
Alleluia!
Gospel
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. John:
Jesus said to the crowd: ‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’
Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied: ‘I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not
have life in you. Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has
eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me and I live in him. As I, who am sent by the living Father,
myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors
ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’
The Gospel of the Lord.