Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
9th. and 10th. March 2024.
“Fourth Sunday of Lent” – “Mother’s Day”
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 11th. to Sunday 17th. March 2024.
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30 a.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 16th. at 8.00p.m.
- Sunday 17th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Vigil – Saturday 16th. at 6.30p.m.
Pray For:
Tom Gorey, Barrettstown, who died during the week.
David Kenneally, Catstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 9th. March at 8.00p.m.
Patrick and Statia Fitzpatrick, Coolmore: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 10th. March at 10.00a.am.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
Catherine Barron,Catstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 16th. at 8.00p.m.
Mai Carroll,Kyleva: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 17th. at 10.00a.m
Rota for next week-end:
16th. and 17th. March – (Feast of St. Patrick)
Readers:
- Stoneyford: Saturday 6.30p.m. Sheila Raggett.
- Hugginstown: Saturday 8.00p.m. Deirdre Rohan. Sunday 10.00a.m. Mary Foran
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Pat Kenny.
Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. Teresa Broderick.
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Lillian Carr
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €580.00. Thank You.
First Penance 2024.
First Penance will be Celebrated for Stoneyford School on Wednesday 13th. March in Stoneyford Church at 7.00p.m. No Mass in Stoneyford on Wednesday.
Monroe School:
S. N. Móin Ruadh are now accepting enrolments for September 2024. Enrolment Forms can be downloaded from the website: snmoinruadh.wordpress.com or by emailing the office on snmoinruadh@gmail.com or calling the office on 056 776 8931.
Newmarket School:
Newmarket NS is now taking enrolments for September 2024 and for After-School Care. Please contact 089 257 2031 or mbrennan@newmarketns.ie
Diocesan Lenten Programme:
“Ministers of God’s Word”. In our parishes and in our Liturgies, men and women are living out the ministry of proclaiming God’s word for us. This is a special and sacred ministry. All are entrusted with the task of sharing God’s word in way that is fitting so that people may come to know him. We are inviting new and existing Ministers of the Word to join with Fr Chris Hayden, Spiritual Director at St Patrick’s National Seminary, Maynooth, for two evenings to explore this sacred ministry. Venue: St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny.
On Wednesday, 13th. March at 8.00p.m, and Wednesday, 20th March. at 8.00p.m,
“Catholic Education in Ireland”
By Alan Hynes; (CEO of the Catholic Education Partnership) on Thursday 14th. March at 7.30p.m. in St. Kieran’s College.
Reflection on the importance of ethos in shaping our Catholic School today
“Faith, Hope and Love” Lenten Retreat in Kilkenny City Parishes:
In St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish on Monday 18th. March at 7.30p.m
In St. Patrick’s Parish on Tuesday 19th. March at 7.30p.m
In St. John’s Parish on Wednesday 20th. March at 7.30p.m
In St. Canice’s Parish, Lenten Penitential Service on Thursday 21st. March at 7.30p.m
“Lenten Tweets” Follow @Ossory Diocese for a simple thought each day for Lent.
Glow Sports for Girls
This is a new initiative for teenage girls, funded by Kilkenny Recreation and Sports Partnership. Starting Friday March 1st. at 8.00p.m. and running for 6 weeks. All will have a chance to try out different sports, wearing fluorescent bibs and using equipment that glows under UV light when the main lights are off. This is a great opportunity for girls that maybe have never played sports, or that dropped out for any reason.
Contact Adele for more information 087 938 4521.
Children’s Charity Tractor Run!!!
Children’s Charity Tractor Run in aid of Crumlin Children’s Hospital will be held on Monday 18th. March at 2.00p.m.; starting at Hugginstown Church and going around the Walking Track on the G.A.A. Grounds, followed by Tea/Coffee & Pastries in the Centre. All are welcome Kids Tractors; Trikes; Go-Carts; but no big bikes please.
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 4th. March 2024 Numbers: 08; 20; 24; 15.
- No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- One Jackpot Winner:
€5,100.00 Winner:
Kitty Dwyer, Baysrath
€200.00 Seller of Jackpot Ticket:
- Pat Dwyer
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Teresa Fitzgerald;
- Pat Power;
- Eilis Rohan.
Next Draw on Monday 11th. March. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €5,000.00. (4 Numbers)
Community Radio, Kilkenny:
Are you interested in radio? Have you some spare time to do some volunteering? Why not think about volunteering with Community Radio Kilkenny City 88.7FM
You might even learn a new skill along the way. We need people for research, reception, presenting on air or just to come and help out. If this interests you why not give a call to 056 776 2777 or by email at info@crkc.ie
South Kilkenny Historical Society:
A Lecture on “The Army Mutiny of 1924” will be given by Mr. John Dorney
On Friday, 22nd. March in Mullinavat Hall at 8.00p.m. All are welcome.
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 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 Chronicles:
All the heads of the priesthood, and the people too, added infidelity to infidelity, copying all the shameful practices of the nations and defiling the Temple that the Lord had consecrated for himself in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their ancestors, tirelessly sent them messenger after messenger, since he wished to spare his people and his house. But they ridiculed the messengers of God, they despised his words, they laughed at his prophets, until at last the wrath of the Lord rose so high against his people that there was no further remedy.
Their enemies burned down the Temple of God, demolished the walls of Jerusalem, set fire to all its palaces, and destroyed everything of value in it. The survivors were deported by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon; they were to serve him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. This is how the word of the Lord was fulfilled that he spoke through Jeremiah, ‘Until this land has enjoyed its sabbath rest, until seventy years have gone by, it will keep sabbath throughout the days of its desolation.’
And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfil the word of the Lord that was spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to issue a proclamation and to have it publicly displayed throughout his kingdom: ‘Thus speaks Cyrus king of Persia, “The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; he has ordered me to build him a Temple in Jerusalem, in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him! Let him go up.”’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not!
By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps.
O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not!
For it was there that they asked us, our captors, for songs, our oppressors, for joy. ‘Sing to us,’ they said, ‘one of Zion’s songs.’
O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not!
O how could we sing the song of the Lord on alien soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!
O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not!
O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not,
if I prize not Jerusalem above all my joys!
O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not!
Second Reading:
A Reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Ephesians
God loved us with so much love that he was generous with his mercy: when we were dead through our sins, he brought us to life with Christ – it is through grace that you have been saved – and raised us up with him and gave us a place with him in heaven, in Christ Jesus.
This was to show for all ages to come, through his goodness towards us in Christ Jesus, how infinitely rich he is in grace. Because it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith; not by anything of your own, but by a gift from God; not by anything that you have done, so that nobody can claim the credit. We are God’s work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he had meant us to live it.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son:
everyone who believes in him has eternal life.
Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
Gospel
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. John:
Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal
life. For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so
that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will
be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,
because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.
On these grounds is sentence pronounced: that though the light has come into
the world men have shown they prefer darkness to the light because their
deeds were evil. And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and
avoids it, for fear his actions should be exposed; but the man who lives by the
truth comes out into the light, so that it may be plainly seen that what he does
is done in God.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
