Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
(Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford).
7th. and 8th. October 2023.
“Twenty-Seventh 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 9th. to Sunday 15th. October.
Hugginstown: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9.30a.m.
Vigil – Saturday 14th. at 8.00p.m.; Sunday 15th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford: No Mass on Wednesday Vigil – Saturday 14th. at 6.30p.m.
Monday 9th. Feast of St. John Henry Newman.
Wednesday 11th. Feast of St. Canice and St. John XX111
Pray for:
Months Mind Mass: Maggie Walsh, Boolyglass, Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 8th. October at 10.00a.m.
Anniversary Masses: Kit Doran, Stoneyford: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 7th. October at 6.30p.m.
Larry and Sheila Murphy, Gowlawn. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 7th. October at 8.00p.m. Mary and Jack Glendon, Newmarket
Anniversary Mass next weekend:
Tom and Kathy Noonan, Aghaviller. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 14th. October at 8.00p.m.
Remembrance Masses for the Faithful Departed:
Remembrance Masses for the Faithful Departed will be celebrated on Saturday 4th.
November: In Stoneyford Church at 6.30p.m: In Hugginstown Church at 8.00p.m. Rota for next week-end: 14th. and 15th. October 2023 (Twenty-Eighth Sunday)
Readers:
Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Tony Roche.
Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Catherine Dwyer. 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. Ann Power.
October Stations:
The October Station Envelopes 2023 are available at the Church Porch. Your contributions are for the support of the priests of the Parish and the Diocese. Your envelopes can be left into the Collection Boxes at the Churches or you may donate
directly – Use IBAN: IE19 AIBK 9330 9000 0561 20 (BIC: AIBKIE2D).
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions last weekend amounted to €570.00. Thank You.
Monroe School:
Autumn School Clothes Collection taking place at the moment. Bags collected on Wednesday 11th. October; please leave bags into the school shed.
Lotto: Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 2nd. October 2023 Numbers: 18; 09; 30; 16.
No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn: No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners: Fred Malzard, Stoneyford; Richie Power, Lawcus
Bud Sadlier, Baysrath; Jim Cantwell, Lismatigue; Mary T. Power, Rathduff
3 x €15.00 (Sellers): Pauline Doyle; Teresa Fitzgerald; Ann Power.
Next Draw on Monday 9th. October. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €6,200.00. (4 Numbers)
Lotto Ticket is now €2.00.
Synod Update:
This past week saw the much awaited Synodal gathering start in Rome. Normally reserved to the bishops this synod, at the request of Pope Francis, invited lay faithful, priests and religious from around the world to come together to discern the promptings of the Holy Spirit for the Church today. This is a continuance of the synodal gatherings we had in Ossory and in every Diocese throughout the world. Our ideas are carried there by the Irish delegation. With such a variety of voices from every part of the world it was recognised that at this synod tensions will exist – as each one tries to make their views heard. The Dominican priest Fr Timothy Radcliffe has preached to all gathered in these opening days – he noted, in one of these addresses, that in English we say that “we fall in love but we make friends” reminding those gathered for the synod that difference is ok, variance is to be welcomed and that we won’t fall into agreement, we will have to work to make it happen. We pray for the Synod as the first week concludes, may they make harmony happen.
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Chapter House Bookshop:
The Shop is now open five days a week on Mondays from 9:30a.m. to 1:00p.m.
On Tuesdays to Fridays from 9:30a.m. to 5:00p.m.
In the wide range of products you can find religious gifts for any occasion and a selection of Parish supplies. We have a large variety of Candles, Holy Water Fonts, Crosses, Pictures and Statues of the Saints.
You will find a present for Baptism, Communion, Confirmation and many other occasions. We have now in stock a great choice of Prayer Books, Gospel Reflections and Calendars for the next liturgical year.
Faith Renewal Events at Knock Shrine:
‘What do we know about Jesus?’Adult Faith Formation Course with Fr Eugene Duffy. Began on 3rd. October but running for 8 weeks on Tuesday evenings at 8.00p.m.Booking required on Eventbrite (see knockshrine.ie for direct link to book)
Safeguarding Contacts:
Diocesan Designated Liaison Person: Ms. Kathleen Sherry Tel: 087 100 0232.
Aghaviller Parish Representatives are: Teresa Broderick and Carmel O’Toole.
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 Prophet Isaiah:
Let me sing to my friendthe song of his love for his vineyard.
My friend had a vineyardon a fertile hillside.
He dug the soil, cleared it of stones and planted choice vines in it.
In the middle he built a tower, he dug a press there too.
He expected it to yield grapes, but sour grapes were all that it gave.
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
I ask you to judge between my vineyard and me.
What could I have done for my vineyard that I have not done?
I expected it to yield grapes. Why did it yield sour grapes instead?
Very well, I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge for it to be grazed on, and knock down its wall for
it to be trampled on. I will lay it waste, unpruned, undug; overgrown by the
briar and the thorn. I will command the clouds to rain no rain on it.
Yes, the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel, and the men of
Judah that chosen plant. He expected justice, but found bloodshed,
integrity, but only a cry of distress. The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
You brought a vine out of Egypt;
to plant it you drove out the nations.
It stretched out its branches to the sea,
to the Great River it stretched out its shoots.
R. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
Then why have you broken down its walls?
It is plucked by all who pass by.
It is ravaged by the boar of the forest,
devoured by the beasts of the field.
R. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
God of hosts, turn again, we implore,
look down from heaven and see.
Visit this vine and protect it,
the vine your right hand has planted.
R. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
And we shall never forsake you again;
give us life that we may call upon your name.
God of hosts, bring us back; let your face shine on us and we shall be saved.
R. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians:
There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, fill your minds with everything that is true, everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that we love and honour, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise. Keep doing all the things that you learnt from me and have been taught by me and have heard or seen that I do. Then the God of peace will be with you. 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 chief priests and the elders of the people, ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third. Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them. “They will respect my son” he said. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance.” So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They answered, ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him when the season arrives.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures:It was the stone rejected by the buildersthat became the keystone.This was the Lord’s doingand it is wonderful to see?‘I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’ The Gospel of the Lord.
