Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
3rd. and 4th. August 2024.
“Eighteenth 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 5th. to Sunday 11th. August 2024
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 10th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 11th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 7th. at 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 10th. at 6.30p.m.
- Tuesday 6th. Feast of The Transfiguration of the Lord
- Thursday 8th. Feast of St. Dominic;
- Friday 9th. Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta
- Saturday 10th. Feast of St Lawrence.
Cemetery Mass:
- Stonecarthy Cemetery Mass on Friday 9th. August at 7.30p.m.
- Sheepstown Cemetery: Mass on Friday 16th. August at 7.30p.m.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €600.00. Thank You.
Pray For:
Anniversary Masses:
Declan Fennelly, Oldtown. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 3rd. August at 6.30p.m.
Richard and Mary Aylward, Boolyglass: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 3rd. August at 8.00p.m.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
Jack and Jim Wallace, Stonecarthy; Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 10th. August at 6.30p.m.
Nora Kenneally, Catstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 11th. August at 10.00a.m.
Rota for next week-end:
10th. and 11th. August. (19th. Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Readers:
Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m.
- Sheila Raggett:
Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m.
- Valerie Farrell;
- Sunday 10.00a.m.
- Mary Carroll.
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m.
- Barbara Smolen.
Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m.
- Mary Murphy;
- Sunday 10.00a.m
- Ruth Crowley.
New Rota: New Rota for Stoneyford Church available in Church Sacristy.
Medjugorie Pilgrimage:
Fully escorted pilgrimage will take place from 18th. to 25th. September 2024. Direct return flights from Dublin Airport. Full Religious Programme operated by Marian Pilgrimages. For more information please contact Ann Fitzpatrick 086 199 1620
Relics of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes:
Bishop Niall Coll welcomes the visit of the Relics of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes to the Diocese of Ossory. It is with joy that the Diocese of Ossory will host a visit of the Relics of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes on the weekend of 21st and 22nd September 2024. This is an initiative of United Irish Pilgrimages to Lourdes, which is a group comprising of Pilgrimage Directors from most Irish dioceses and of some Religious orders. Saint Bernadette‘s relics will visit each diocese in the country and some churches belonging to religious orders during the months of September and October 2024.
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, will kindly accommodate the visit of the Relics to Ossory Diocese. This is an initiative to bring a small piece of Lourdes to Ireland and make it possible for more people to experience something of what is close to the hearts of those who travel on our diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes each year.
St. Patrick’s University, Maynooth:
Considering a Postgraduate Study Programme? Check out the options in Theology, Philosophy, Youth Ministry, Church Music and more at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, sppu.ie/courses. Applications close 2nd August.
Safeguarding Contacts:
Diocesan Designated Liaison Person:
- Ms. Ailish Higgins Tel: 087 100 0232.
Aghaviller Parish Representatives are:
- Deirdre Rohan and
- Catherina Roche.
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 29th. July 2024 Numbers: 29; 28; 19; 17.
- No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- Aoife Crowley, Clare:
- Monica Poole/Molloy,
- “On Line” L.P.T. c/o James Irish;
- Kathleen Fennelly, Ballycaum;
- Mary Carroll, Harristown.
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Jimmy Sheehan;
- Eamonn Irish;
- James Irish..
Next Draw on Monday 5th. August. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €5,500.00. (4 Numbers)
Irish Blood Transfusion Service:
We will be returning to Carrick-on-Suir for our blood donation clinic on Wednesday 14th. August in The Carraig Hotel. All past donors will receive a text message letting them know we are back, but we are always looking to welcome new donors. The blood supply is currently low and with a high demand for blood from our hospitals nationally, it is imperative that we continue to maintain the blood supply.
Scoil Aireagail:
School is seeking host families for Spanish students who will be joining their school next year. Please contact info@scoilaireagail.ie or (056) 776 8632 for more details.
Newsletter:
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The Newsletter is also available on the Stoneyford Website every week.(www.stoneyford.ie)
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Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie
First Reading
A Reading from the Book of Exodus:
The whole community of the sons of Israel began to complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said to them, ‘Why did we not die at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we were able to sit down to pans of meat and could eat bread to our heart’s content! As it is, you have brought us to this wilderness to starve this whole company to death!’
Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Now I will rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people are to go out and gather the day’s portion; I propose to test them in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not.
‘I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel. Say this to them, “Between the two evenings you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have bread to your heart’s content. Then you will learn that I, the Lord, am your God.”’
And so it came about: quails flew up in the evening, and they covered the camp; in the morning there was a coating of dew all round the camp. When the coating of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was a thing delicate, powdery, as fine as hoarfrost on the ground. When they saw this, the sons of Israel said to one another, ‘What is that?’ not knowing what it was. ‘That’ said Moses to them ‘is the bread the Lord gives you to eat.’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
The things we have heard and understood, the things our fathers have told us,
these we will not hide from their children
but will tell them to the next generation:
The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
The glories of the Lord and his might and the marvellous deeds he has done,
Yet he commanded the clouds above and opened the gates of heaven.
He rained down manna for their food, and gave them bread from heaven.
The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
Mere men ate the bread of angels. He sent them abundance of food;
So he brought them to his holy land,
to the mountain which his right hand had won.
The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians:
I want to urge you in the name of the Lord, not to go on living the aimless kind of life that pagans live. Now that is hardly the way you have learnt from Christ, unless you failed to hear him properly when you were taught what the truth is in Jesus. You must give up your old way of life; you must put aside your old self, which gets corrupted by following illusory desires. Your mind must be renewed by a spiritual revolution so that you can put on the new self that has been created in God’s way, in the goodness and holiness of the truth.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, says the Lord;
No one can come to the Father except through me.
Alleluia!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. John
When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’
Jesus answered: ‘I tell you most solemnly, you are not looking for me because you have seen the signs but because you had all the bread you wanted to eat. Do not work for food that cannot last, but work for food that endures to eternal life, the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you, for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal.’ Then they said to him, ‘What must we do if we are to do the works that God wants?’ Jesus gave them this answer, ‘This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent.’ So they said, ‘What sign will you give to show us that we should believe in you? What work will you do? Our fathers had manna to eat in the desert; as scripture says: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ Jesus answered: ‘I tell you most solemnly, it was not Moses who gave you bread from heaven, it is my Father who gives you the bread from heaven, the true bread; for the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.’ ‘Sir,’ they said ‘give us that bread always.’ Jesus answered: ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst.’
The Gospel of the Lord
