Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
1st. and 2nd. March 2025.
“Eighth 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 3rd. to Sunday 9th. March. 2025
Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m. Wednesday at 7.30p.m.
- Vigil –
- Saturday 8th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 9th. at 10.00a.m.
Stoneyford:
- Wednesday 5th. at 7.00p.m.
- Vigil –
- Saturday 8th. at 6.30p.m.
Wednesday 5th. Ash Wednesday (Day of Fast and Abstinence)
Mass Times:
- Stoneyford Church at 7.00p.m.
- Hugginstown Church at 7.30p.m.
Blessing and Distribution of Ashes will take place during Masses on Wednesday
Distribution of Ashes will take place in the Parish Schools also on Wednesday.
- Friday 7th. Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Falicity First Friday
Visitation with Holy Communion will take place as usual on Friday. Please let us know if you would like to receive Holy Communion in your home for the First Fridays or at any other time.
Pray For: .
Anniversary:
- Ollie and Seamie Ryan, Lawcus. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 1st. March at 6.30p.m.
- William and Margaret O’Meara and Julia Morrissey, Croan. Anniversary Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 2nd. March at 10.00a.m.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
- Nellie O’Shea, Boolyglass. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 9th. March at 10.00a.m.
- Margaret Cleary, Hugginstown. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 8th. March at 8.00p.m.
Rota for next week-end:
8th. and 9th. March. (First Sunday of Lent)
Reader
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Neill O’Grady.
- 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. Margaret Kenneally.
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Lillian Carr.
Guidelines for Lenten Penance:
- Abstaining from meat or some other food on Fridays;
- Abstaining from alcoholic drink or smoking;
- Making a special effort at involvement in Family Prayer;
- Visit to the Blessed Sacrament;
- Making the Stations of the Cross;
- Helping the poor, the sick, the old or lonely.
Safeguarding in the Diocese of Ossory:
Diocesan Designated Liaison Person:
- Ms. Ailish Higgins Tel: 087 100 0232.
Aghaviller Parish Representatives are:
- Deirdre Rohan and Catherina Roche.
Eucharistic Adoration:
The Apostolate of Eucharistic Adoration National Pilgrimage to Knock will take place on Sunday 6th. April 2025. Bus will leave from Woodies Car Park in Kilkenny at 7.30a.m. Please contact 086 1666547 to book a place on the bus.
Newmarket National School:
St. Brendan’s School is now taking enrolments for September 2025. Afterschool and Breakfast Clubs are also available. Contact the Principal by email: mbrennan@newmarketns.ie or at 056776 8919
Newmarket School will celebrate its Centenary on 22nd. May this year.
A book of articles and photographs is being planned. If anyone has stories or old photographs that they would like to share and included, please ring 056 776 8919 or email: mbrennan@newmarketns.ie
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €540.00 Thank You
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 24th. February 2025 Numbers: 13; 28; 21; 02.
- No Winner of First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- Marie Neville, Stoneyford;
- Frankie McNamara, Harristown;
- Vivion Fennelly,
- “On Line”;
- Norah O’Dwyer,
- “On Line”;
- Maggie Kenneally, Catstown.
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Tommy Hoyne;
- John Power;
- James Irish..
Next Draw on Monday 3rd. March. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €8,300.00. (4 Numbers)
St. Patrick’s Day Parade:
Call for all clubs and organisations to join this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Kilkenny. As part of the ongoing celebrations for St. Patrick’s Festival, the organisers invite local businesses, community groups, clubs, and charities to participate in this year’s Grand Parade on Monday March 17th. Local communities are the heart of the St Patrick’s Day Parade, and it’s a fabulous opportunity to showcase your talent. The process is quick and easy; fill out a short online application, and remember, there are prizes for the best displays!
Online: https://stpatricksfestivalkilkenny.com/
The theme is “Bí Beo, Bí Linn”: “Be Alive, Be With Us” – to embrace a vibrant, community-driven display from your town or village in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations.
Kilkenny Pilgrimage to Medjugorje;
Direct Flight to Mostar Medjugorje from 4th. to 11th. June 2025 (Month of the Sacred Heart and includes Pentecost Sunday) Hotel close to the Church;
For bookings – contact Ann on 086 199 1620 or 086 882 5622
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 Book Ecclesiasticus
In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind,
so too the defects of a man appear in his talk.
The kiln tests the work of the potter,
the test of a man is in his conversation.
The orchard where a tree grows is judged on the quality of its
fruit, similarly a man’s words betray what he feels.
Do not praise a man before he has spoken,
since this is the test of men.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Response: It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning
and your truth in the watches of the night.
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
The just will flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a Lebanon cedar.
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
Planted in the house of the Lord
they will flourish in the courts of our God,
still bearing fruit when they are old,
still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is just.
In him, my rock, there is no wrong.
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians:
When this perishable nature has put on imperishability, and when this mortal nature has put on immortality, then the words of scripture will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at the Lord’s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation (Please stand)
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord, to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Luke:
Jesus told a parable to his disciples: ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,” when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.
‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
