Aghaviller Parish Newsletter

Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.

5^th. and 6^th. October 2024.

“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

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Mass Times in Aghaviller Parish: –

Monday 7^th. to Sunday 13^th. October 2024

Hugginstown:

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

• Vigil –
  • Saturday 12^th. at 8.00p.m.;     
• Sunday 13^th. at 10.00a.m.

Stoneyford:

• No Mass on Wednesday   
• Vigil –
  • Saturday 12^th. at 6.30p.m.

1. Monday 7^th. Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary   
2. Friday 11^th. Feast of St. Canice and St. John XX111 (Pope)  

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Pray For:

Tom Cassin, Ballyhale, late of Ballygerdra.

Anniversary Masses:       

Anastasia and James Hurley, Ennisnag: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 5^th. October at 6.30p.m.

Larry and Sheila Murphy, Gowlawn:   Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 5^th. October at 8.00p.m.

Anniversary Masses next week:   

Kit Doran, Stoneyford:  Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 12^th. October at 6.30p.m. 

Tom and Cathy Noonan, Aghaviller:  Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 12^th. October at 8.00p.m. 

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Rota for next week-end:

12^th. and 13^th. October (28^th.  Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Readers:

Stoneyford:    

• Saturday 6.30p.m.
  • Catherina Roche:

Hugginstown:

• Saturday 8.00p.m.
  • Deirdre Rohan;     
• Sunday 10.00a.m.
  • Mary Foran

Eucharistic Ministers:

Stoneyford:     

• Saturday 6.30p.m.
  • Mary O’Grady.        

Hugginstown: 

• Saturday 8.00p.m.
  • Teresa Broderick;  
• Sunday 10.00a.m.
  • Ann Power

October Stations:

The October Station Envelopes 2024 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).

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“First Saturdays Conference”:

There will be a special First Saturdays Conference on Saturday, October 12^th. from 10.00a.m. to 4.00p.m. in the Firgrove Hotel in Mitchelstown.  St. Lucia of Fatima explained the importance of this devotion by saying that whether there is peace or war in the world depends on the practise of this devotion. We sure live in very turbulent and troubled times. There will be Mass and four speakers: Dr. Katrina Layden, Fr. Jaimie Twohig, Christine O’Hara and Fr. Marius O’Reilly. We will also pray the Rosary and do the 15 minute Meditation together. Bring your own lunch or eat in the hotel carvery. For more details see firstsaturdays.ie

Taizé Prayer Service:

On October 11^th. A Taizé Prayer Service will be held in St. Mary’s Cathedral at 7.00p.m.

In communion with the ecumenical prayer in Rome, we are gathering around the Taizé Cross to pray in communion with Rome and others gathering around the world.  Come join us for a short time in prayer, silence and chant.

Taizé Youth Programme 2025

A youth trip to Taizé in France organised by Ossory Youth will take place from Sunday 29^th. June to Sunday 6^th. July 2025. A week in the Taizé Community is an opportunity for

reflection and contemplation and a little step back from daily life. But bringing people together is also the essence of Taize and it is a week of meeting young people from different countries and cultures where new friendships are made. Tens of thousands of young people from around the world, including 25 from Kilkenny, will made the trip to Taizé next year. The programme, which runs from November 2024 to July 2025 is open to Transition year, 5^th. year and Leaving Cert students. Closing date for applications is Friday 25^th. October ‘24 

For additional information, including cost and application forms, contact Patrick Bookle, Ossory Youth at 056 776 1200 or at 087 212 9006 or pbookle@ossoryyouth.com

Pilgrimage to Lourdes:

The Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2025 will take place from Monday 19^th. to Saturday 24^th. May 2025. Further information later.

Mission Sunday 2024:

Mission Sunday will be celebrated this year on Sunday 20^th. October. The Holy Father has chosen the theme “Go and Invite everyone to the Banquet”.  Mission, he says, is a tireless going out to all men and women in order to invite them to encounter God. 

An extra Mission Collection will be held at all Masses on that weekend.

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Lotto: –

Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.

Draw: Monday 30^th. September 2024 Numbers: 23; 15; 13; 28.

• No Winner First 3 Numbers Drawn:
• No Jackpot Winner:

€30.00. Winners:  

1. Mai Brennan, Keatingstown;
2. Jim Brennan, Lawcus:
3. John Fitzgerald, Hugginstown: 
4. \“L.P.J.”  c/o James Irish: 
5. Paula Kenneally, Kingsmountain

3 x €15.00 (Sellers):  

1. Teresa Fitzgerald;
2. Kathleen Fennelly;
3. Mary Carroll.

Next Draw on Monday 7^th. October. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.

Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn)      Jackpot: €6,400.00. (4 Numbers)

Parish Contributions:    

The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €560.00. Thank You.

Older Peoples Information Service;

Kilkenny Older Peoples Council has arranged a series of information presentations,

to be professionally provided, for people aged 55 and over, in the Mayfair Library,

Parliament Street, Kilkenny. The Presentation given byH.S.E on “Age Friendly Healthy Homes Services” on Friday 18^th. October.  Time 11.00a.m. to 1.00p.m. 

There will be plenty of time for questions and answers and a cup of tea. Booking is

not required. When there, why not avail of an opportunity to see the new modern

Library facilities that Kilkenny has to offer? All are welcome.

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

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First Reading

A Reading from the Book of Genesis:

The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:

‘This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh!

This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man.’

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife,

and they become one body.

The Word of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm

Response:   May the Lord bless us all the days of our life.

O blessed are those who fear the Lord

and walk in his ways!

By the labour of your hands you shall eat.

You will be happy and prosper.

May the Lord bless us all the days of our life.

Your wife like a fruitful vine

in the heart of your house;

your children like shoots of the olive,

around your table.

May the Lord bless us all the days of our life.

Indeed thus shall be blessed

the man who fears the Lord.

May the Lord bless you from Zion

in a happy Jerusalem

all the days of your life!

May you see your children’s children.

On Israel, peace!

May the Lord bless us all the days of our life.

Second Reading:

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews:

We see in Jesus one who was for a short while made lower than the angels and is now crowned with glory and splendour because he submitted to death; by God’s grace he had to experience death for all mankind.

As it was his purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering, the leader who would take them to their salvation. For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are sanctified, are of the same stock; that is why he openly calls them brothers.

The Word of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation   (Please stand)

Alleluia, alleluia!

Your word is truth, O Lord:

consecrate us in the truth.

Alleluia!

Gospel:

A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Mark: 

Some Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, ‘Is it against the law for a man to divorce his wife?’ They were testing him. He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ ‘Moses allowed us’ they said ‘to draw up a writ of dismissal and so to divorce.’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘It was because you were so unteachable that he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. This is why a man must leave father and mother, and the two become one body. They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then, what God has united, man must not divide.’ Back in the house the disciples questioned him again about this, and he said to them, ‘The man who divorces his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another she is guilty of adultery too.’

People were bringing little children to him, for him to touch them. The disciples turned them away, but when Jesus saw this he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. I tell you solemnly, anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.’ Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and gave them his blessing.

The Gospel of the Lord.

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