Aghaviller Parish Newsletter

Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.

1st. and 2nd.  July 2023. 

St. Marie Goretti

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 3rd. to Sunday 9th. July 2023.  

Hugginstown:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.  

  • Vigil – Saturday 8th. at 8.00p.m.     
  • Sunday 9th. at 10.00a.m.

Stoneyford:

  • No Mass on Wednesday 5th.
  • Vigil – Saturday 8th. at 6.30p.m.  

Monday 3rd. Feast of St. Thomas (Apostle)

Tuesday 4th. Feast of St. Elizabeth of Portugal.  

Thursday 6th.  Feast of St. Maria Goretti

Friday 7th. First Friday   –   Home 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 on First Fridays or at any other time..  

Cemetery Mass: 

Mass will be celebrated in Stoneyford Cemetery on next Friday 7th. July at 8.00p.m.  Mass will be transferred to the Church if weather is not suitable. 

Cemetery Masses:   

Mass in Sheepstown Cemetery on Friday 21st. July at 8.00p.m.  

Mass in Stonecarthy Cemetery on Friday 4th. August at 8.00p.m.  


Pray for:

Maureen Landers, Stoneyford; 

Michael Reville, Croan

Anniversary Masses:      

Christina and Michael Ryan, Knockanore.  Mass in Stoneyford Church on  Saturday 1st. July at 6.30p.m.

Michael, Mary, Ellie and John Farrell, Kilkeasy.

Anniversary Masses next weekend:  

Miriam Brennan, Lawcus.  Mass in Stoneyford  Church on Saturday 8th. July at 6.30p.m.

Tom Butler, Boolyglass.  Mass in Hugginstown  Church on Saturday 8th. July at 8.00p.m.


Rota for next week-end:   

8th. and 9th. July. (Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time)

Readers:

Stoneyford:     Saturday 6.30p.m. Tony Roche.

Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m  Deirdre Rohan.  Sunday 10.00a.m. Mary Carroll

Eucharistic Ministers:    

Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Natalia Smolen.

Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Trisha Barron.  Sunday 10.00a.m. Lillian Carr.  


Parish Contributions:

The “Church Door” Contributions last weekend amounted to €460.00. Thank You.  

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. Many thanks to those who have already contributed.

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary:

Sr. Mary Shanahan of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary would like to extend her sincere gratitude to all for the warm hospitality extended to her last weekend 24th. and 25th. June.  Donations received for their Congregation amounted to €1,228.55

Safeguarding Contacts:   

Diocesan Designated Liaison Person:  Ms. Kathleen Sherry Tel: 087 100 0232.

Aghaviller Parish Representatives are:  Teresa Broderick  and Carmel O’Toole.


Lotto:

Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.

Draw: Monday 26th. June 2023 Numbers: 23; 13; 03; 24.

No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn: No Jackpot Winner:

5 x €30.00. Winners:    ‘L. P. J’ c/o James Irish;  Paddy Hudson, Aghaviller

Daniel Doyle, c/o James Irish; ‘L. P. J’ c/o James Irish;  Pat Duggan, Boolyglass.

3 x €15.00 (Sellers):   Ann Power; Deirdre Rohan; Tom Cassin.

Next Draw on Monday 3rd.  July.   Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.

Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn)   Jackpot: €7,000.00. (4 Numbers)

Carrickshock G. A. A. Club:

The Club would like to thank everyone who purchased Tickets for the Piltown Draw.

Thanks also to all those who supported our Golf Classic in Callan recently.  Your support is always very much appreciated.

Stoneyford Village Clean Up:

We are looking for your help on Monday July 3rd. to prepare the village ahead of the school holiday months. With all the sunshine and showers recently, the weeds have taken over! If you have an hour, please come along to the Community Centre at 6.00p.m. Many hands make light work! If you have a spade, hoe or strimmer, bring it along. We will provide gloves and bin bags as needed. For more details, contact Adele at 087 938 4521.

South Kilkenny Historical Society:

Members of the Society will join locals and others, on July 9th. for the annual climb of Tory Hill on Fraochan Sunday. This ancient tradition pre-dates Christianity and is associated with the ancient festival of Lughanasa. Michael Fortune of Folklore.ie will give a talk at the summit of the hill, on the traditions associated with Fraochan Sunday at 2.00p.m. Climbing/walking to the summit takes, on average, one hour. The society would like to thank Kilkenny County Council for financial assistance received for this event, under the Community Events Grants Scheme 2023.

Newsletter: 

If you wish to receive the weekly Newsletter by email, please drop us your email address.

The Newsletter is also available on the Stoneyford Website every week.(www.stoneyford.ie)    All notices for the Newsletter to be left in before 5.00p.m. on Thursdays please.

Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie


First Reading

A Reading from the Second Book Of Kings:

One day as Elisha was on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who lived there pressed him to stay and eat there. After this he always broke his journey for a meal when he passed that way. She said to her husband, ‘Look, I am sure the man who is constantly passing our way must be a holy man of God. Let us build him a small room on the roof, and put him a bed in it, and a table and chair and lamp; whenever he comes to us he can rest there.’ One day when he came, he retired to the upper room and lay down. He said to his servant Gehazi, ‘Call our Shunammitess. Tell her this: “Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us, what can we do for you? Is there anything you would like said for you to the king or to the commander of the army?”’ But she replied, ‘I live with my own people about me.’ ‘What can be done for her then?’ he asked. Gehazi answered, ‘Well, she has no son and her husband is old.’ Elisha said, ‘Call her.’ The servant called her and she stood at the door. This time next year,’ he said ‘you will hold a son in your arms.’

The Word of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm

Response:       I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord;

through all ages my mouth will proclaim your truth.

Of this I am sure, that your love lasts for ever,

that your truth is firmly established as the heavens.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

Happy the people who acclaim such a king,

who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,

who find their joy every day in your name,

who make your justice the source of their bliss.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

For it is you, O Lord, who are the glory of their strength;

by your favour it is that our might is exalted;

for our ruler is in the keeping of the Lord;

our king in the keeping of the Holy One of Israel.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

Second Reading:

A Reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans 

When we were baptised in Christ Jesus we were baptised in his death; in other words, when we were baptised we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too might live a new life.

But we believe that having died with Christ we shall return to life with him: Christ, as we know, having been raised from the dead will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. When he died, he died, once for all, to sin, so his life now is life with God; and in that way, you too must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.

The Word of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation   (Please stand)

Alleluia, alleluia!

Open our heart, O Lord,

to accept the words of your Son.

Alleluia!

Gospel

A Reading from the Holy Gospel  of St. Matthew:

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me. Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.

‘Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me; and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.

‘Anyone who welcomes a prophet will have a prophet’s reward; and anyone who welcomes a holy man will have a holy man’s reward.

‘If anyone gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, then I tell you solemnly, he will most certainly not lose his reward.’

The Gospel of the Lord.



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