Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
17th. and 18th. August 2024.
“Twentieth 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 19th. to Sunday 25th. August 2024
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
Vigil –
- Saturday 24th. at 8.00p.m.;
Sunday 25th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 21st. at 7.00p.m.
- Vigil – Saturday 24th. at 6.30p.m.
- Tuesday 20th. Feast of St. Bernard.
- Wednesday 21st. Feast of St. Pius X
- Thursday 22nd. Feast of The Queenship of Mary
- Friday 23rd. Feast of St. Eugene.
- Saturday 24th. Feast of St. Bartholomew (Apostle)
Pray For:.
Anniversary Masses:
Richard (Dickie) Forristal, Danganmore, Dunnamaggin
Joe and Philip Murphy, Lawcus; Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 17th. August at 6.30p.m.
Pat Carr, Barnadown.
Adam Czekala, Castlemorris: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 17th. August at 8.00p.m.
Margaret and Joe Walsh, Boolyglass; Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 18th. August at 10.00a.m.
Anniversary Mass next week:
Jim McCarthy, Knockdrinna: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 24th. August at 6.30p.m.
Rota for next week-end:
24th. and 25th. August. (21st. Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Readers:
Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m.
- Sheila Lennon:
Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m.
- Pat Power;
- Sunday 10.00a.m.
- Noreen Kenneally.
Eucharistic Ministers:
Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m.
- Natalia Smolen.
Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m.
- Mary Cahill;
- Sunday 10.00a.m.
- Kay Power.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €570.00. Thank You.
Scoil Aireagail:
The school community is celebrating the official opening of their new buildings on Wednesday, 28th. August at 12.00Noon. All past pupils, parents, staff members, neighbours and friends are most welcome to attend. Please contact 056-7768632 or email info@scoilaireagail.ie to confirm attendance.
“The Waterboys”
Carrickshock G.A.A. wish to congratulate Jim Rohan and Gary Comerford, their short movie “The Waterboys” will be played on RTE2 on Monday 19th. Ausust at 23.40p.m.
Stoneyford Text Alert AGM
On Wednesday the 11th of September, Stoneyford Text Alert will hold their AGM at 7.30 in the Community Centre and everyone is invited to attend. The subscription for the year is €10 per mobile phone number, which can be paid on the night. Alternatively, you can put €10.00 (per mobile No), your name(s), address and mobile number(s) in an envelope and drop it into Willie’s Shop or Fred’s Bar. We hope to have a member of An Garda Síochána in attendance to speak to us about crime prevention, etc. New members can join on the night.
County Kilkenny Mass Paths and Holy Wells Survey:
Kilkenny County Council in partnership with Shanarc Archaeology and Wicklow Willow are conducting a survey of holy wells and mass paths in County Kilkenny. Holy wells have been visited for centuries around the county to provide cures, comfort and community. This survey seeks to record what remains in the landscape and in memory so that future generations will understand their importance in our spiritual, social and cultural heritage. Mass paths are an important and under-recorded part of our cultural heritage. They serve as reminders of the challenges faced by Catholics during the penal times, and also reminders of a later era when they were used by people in rural areas as pedestrian routes to mass, to visit neighbours and for going to school. If they are not recorded in the near future, their presence and value will have faded from the public memory.
Much of the knowledge of holy wells and mass paths rests in community memory around the county and Kilkenny County Council need your help to record this knowledge before it is too late. We also hope to hold workshops around the county over the coming months to hear your stories. To get involved in the project or to share information about your local holy well or mass path, please contact the Heritage Office at Kilkenny County Council at heritage@kilkennycoco.ie or 056 779 4923
Catholic Marriage Encounter in Ireland:
Friday 8th to 10th November 2024 – Focolare Centre, Prosperous, Co. Kildare.
The Catholic Marriage Enrichment program has been transforming marriages in Ireland for over 50 years and in 94 countries around the world. The programme involves a Weekend experience that transforms the way spouses communicate to deepen their love for each other. The Weekend experience allows one to develop a higher and broader understanding of what it means to be married. Sacramentally married couples are most welcome. While faith is a powerful part of this process, the focus of the Marriage Encounter experience is on the ups and downs of married life. Further information at: www.marriageencounter.ie
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 12th. August 2024 Numbers: 26; 03; 16; 32.
- No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- “Teresa & Tessie, c/o T. Fitzgerald;
- Pat O’Neill, Stonecarthy.
- Fennelly Family, Mullinahone;
- John Corcoran, Lawcus;
- Indie & Isla Hoyne
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- James Irish. Walshe’s Shop;
- Tommy Murphy.
Next Draw on Monday 19th. August. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €5,700.00. (4 Numbers)
Newsletter:
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Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie
First Reading
A Reading from the Book of Proverbs:
Wisdom has built herself a house,
she has erected her seven pillars,
she has slaughtered her beasts, prepared her wine,
she has laid her table.
She has despatched her maidservants
and proclaimed from the city’s heights:
‘Who is ignorant? Let him step this way.’
To the fool she says,
‘Come and eat my bread,
drink the wine I have prepared!
Leave your folly and you will live,
walk in the ways of perception.’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Response: Taste and see that the Lord is good.
I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise always on my lips;
in the Lord my soul shall make its boast.
The humble shall hear and be glad.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Revere the Lord, you his saints. They lack nothing, those who revere him.
Strong lions suffer want and go hungry
but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Come, children, and hear me that I may teach you the fear of the Lord.
Who is he who longs for life
and many days, to enjoy his prosperity?
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Then keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Turn aside from evil and do good;
seek and strive after peace.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians:
Be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people. This may be a wicked age, but you redeem it. And do not be thoughtless but recognise what is the will of the Lord. Do not drug yourselves with wine, this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit. Sing the words and tunes of the psalms and hymns when you are together and go on singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts, so that always and everywhere you are giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Word was made flesh and lived among us:
to all who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God.
Alleluia!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. John:
Jesus said to the crowd: ‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’
Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied: ‘I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him. As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’
The Gospel of the Lord
