Aghaviller Parish Newsletter

Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford

29th. and 30th.  July 2023.   

St.Ignatius of Loyola

“Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time”  

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 31st. July to Sunday 6th. August 2023.  

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

Vigil – Saturday 5th. at 8.00p.m.;       

Sunday 6th. at 10.00a.m.

Stoneyford:       

Wednesday 2nd. at 7.00p.m.       

 Vigil – Saturday 5th. at 6.30p.m.    

  • Monday 31st.     Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola;
  • Tuesday 1st.      Feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori
  • Friday 4th.         Feast of St. John Mary Vianney.            

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 Stonecarthy Cemetery on next Friday 4th. at 8.00p.m.  

Mass in Sheepstown Cemetery on Friday 11th. August at 7.30p.m.


Pray for:           

Helen Cummins, Faithlegg:  who died during the week.

Anniversary Masses:      

Jim McCarthy, Knockdrinna Mass in Stoneyford  Church on Saturday 29th. July at 6.30p.m.  

Jack Roche, Dagganbeg: Mass in Stoneyford  Church on Saturday 29th. July at 6.30p.m.  

Mary and Peggy O’Shea, Boolyglass:  Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 30th. July at 10.00a.m.                             

Anniversary Mass next weekend:  

Jack and Jim Wallace, Stonecarthy;  Mass in Stoneyford on Saturday 5th. August at 6.30p.m.

Months Mind Mass:  

Martin Cleary, Hugginstown:  Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 6th. August at 10.00a.m.                                   


Rota for next week-end:  

 5th. and 6th. August. (Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time)

Readers:           

Stoneyford:     Saturday 6.30p.m. Tom King.

Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m  Tommy Murphy.  Sunday 10.00a.m.  Marie Ryan.

Eucharistic Ministers:                  

Stoneyford:     Saturday 6.30p.m. Bernie Grace.

Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Murphy. Sunday 10.00a.m. Lillian Carr

June Collection:

Many thanks for your very generous contribution during the past two months.

Safeguarding Contacts:   

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

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

World Youth Day:

Celebrations will take place from 1st. to 6th. August in Lisbon this year. 

“Christ is alive! He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world, and everything he touches becomes young, new, full of life.  The very first words, then, that I would like to say to every young Christian are these: Christ is alive and he wants you to be alive”  –  Pope Francis.

Parish Contributions:

The “Church Door” Contributions last weekend amounted to €565.00. Thank You.  


Lotto:

Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.

Draw: Tuesday 25th. July 2023               Numbers: 09; 13; 15; 19.

No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn:                   No Jackpot Winner:

€30.00. Winners:  David Butler, c/o P. Crowley; Tammy Williams, c/o P. Crowley

Matty Duggan,  c/o T.  Power;     Pauline Doyle, Sheepstown;  

Lucy and  Lisa McBride, Hugginstown.

3 x €15.00 (Sellers):   Caitlin Roche;      Jimmy Walsh;        James Irish.  .

Next Draw on Monday 31st. July .   Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.

Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn)   Jackpot: €5,200.00. (4 Numbers)

“Mabs”:

South Leinster Money Advice & Budgeting Service: Kilkenny “MABS” 

4 The Parade, Kilkenny Tel: 0818 072610 Free, Independent and Confidential  Money Advice and Budgeting Service. Assisting people in dealing with their existing debts, mortgage arrears and helping them to begin to manage their resources 

St. Patrick’s Pontifical University:

Postgraduate Programmes in Theology and Philosophy at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth. Applications will be accepted up until August 14th.  

For more information contact pgadmissions@spcm.ie or call  01 708 3391

‘Anam Cara’:

National Child Bereavement Charity, ‘Anam Cara’, has launched the second instalment of its award nominated podcast series, ‘Conversations in Grief’, aimed at supporting parents who have lost a child. The episodes share the unique stories of parents who have experienced the death of a child, and how they have moved through the journey of grief, while holding the memory of their child with them. 

The podcast series, which can be found at www.anamcara.ie and on all major podcast apps, is part of a range of resources that ‘Anam Cara’ has developed to support parents, including information sheets, video resources, amongst others. ‘Anam Cara’ hosts group meetings and bereavement sessions around the country and online, and also provides one to one support. 

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 First Book of Kings

The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give you.’ Solomon replied, ‘O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership. Your servant finds himself in the midst of this people of yours that you have chosen, a people so many its number cannot be counted or reckoned. Give your servant a heart to understand how to discern between good and evil, for who could govern this people of yours that is so great?’ It pleased the Lord that Solomon should have asked for this. ‘Since you have asked for this’ the Lord said ‘and not asked for long life for yourself or riches or the lives of your enemies, but have asked for a discerning judgement for yourself, here and now I do what you ask. I give you a heart wise and shrewd as none before you has had and none will have after you.’

The Word of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm

Response:   Lord, how I love your law!

My part, I have resolved, O Lord,  is to obey your word.

The law from your mouth means more to me than silver and gold.

Lord, how I love your law!

Let your love be ready to console me by your promise to your servant.

Let your love come and I shall live for your law is my delight.

Lord, how I love your law!

That is why I love your commands more than finest gold,

why I rule my life by your precepts,  and hate false ways.

Lord, how I love your law!

Your will is wonderful indeed; therefore I obey it.

The unfolding of your word gives light and teaches the simple.

Lord, how I love your law!

Second Reading:

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

We know that by turning everything to their good, God co-operates with all those who love him, with all those he has called according to his purpose. They are the ones he chose specially long ago and intended to become true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers. He called those he intended for this; those he called he justified, and with those he justified he shared his glory.

The Word of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation   (Please stand)

Alleluia, alleluia!

I call you friends, says the Lord,

because I have made known to you

everything I have learnt from my Father.

Alleluia!

Gospel

A Reading from the Holy Gospel  of St. Matthew:

Jesus said to the crowds, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.

‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls; when he finds one of great value he goes and sells everything he owns and buys it.

‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea that brings in a haul of all kinds. When it is full, the fishermen haul it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

‘Have you understood all this?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ And he said to them, ‘Well then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom things both new and old.’                                                            

The Gospel of the Lord.



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