Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
22nd. and 23rd. March 2025.
“Third Sunday of Lent”.
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 24th. to Sunday 30th. March. 2025
- Hugginstown:
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil –
- Saturday 29th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 30th. at 10.00a.m.
- Stoneyford:
- Vigil – Saturday 29th. at 6.30p.m.
- Tuesday 25th. Feast of the Annunciation of Our Lord
Pray For:
Anniversaries:
- Bridget and Betty McCarthy, Knockdrinna. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 22nd. March at 6.30p.m.
- Catherine Barron Catstown. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 22nd. March at 8.00p.m.
- Matty O’Shea and Mary, Betty and Kitty O’Shea, Boolyglass. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 23rd. March at 10.00a.m.
Anniversary Mass next weekend:
- Agnes Kenny, Lawcus Fields. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 29th. March at 6.30p.m.
Rota for next week-end:
29th. and 30th. March. (Fourth Sunday of Lent)
Readers
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Catherina Roche.
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. Deirdre Rohan.
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Noreen Kenneally
Eucharistic Ministers:
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Mary O’Grady.
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. Mary Cahill;
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Ann Power.
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.
Lenten Station Collection:
Envelopes for the Lenten Station Contribution are available in the Church. Your contribution is for the support of the priests of the Parish and the Diocese. (To donate directly.) Use IBAN: IE19 AIBK 9330 9000 0561 20 (BIC: AIBKIE2D). All Parish Property and Accounts are registered under the (Diocese of Ossory, Reg. Charity No. 20015831)
Ossory Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes:
The Pilgrimage to Lourdes will take place from 19th to 25th May. Bus transport from Loughboy Shopping Centre to Cork airport. Direct flights to Lourdes. Full religious programme. Bookings at JWT 01- 2410800 or email info@joewalshtours.ie.
Aghaviller Pastoral Council:
Meeting will be held in the parish House Hugginstown on Wednesday 26th. March at 8.00p.m.
First Penance 2025.
- For Monroe/Newmarket Schools
- on Wed. 2nd. April in Hugginstown Church at 7.00p.m.
- For Stoneyford School on
- Tuesday 8th. April in Stoneyford Church at 7.00p.m.
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 if you need to book a place on the bus.
School Boards of Management:
- Meeting will be held in Stoneyford School on Tuesday 25th. March at 7.30p.m.
- Meeting will be held in Monroe School on Thursday 27th. March at 8.00p.m.
Trócaire:
Every year during Lent, Trócaire asks for your help to fund lifesaving programmes around the world. Please collect a Trócaire Box which is available in Church Porch.You can contribute Online at www.trocaire.org or By Phone: 1850 408 408. The contents of each and every Trócaire Box, no matter how small, come together to make a significant difference.
St. Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for Men :
From Friday May 2nd. to Monday May 5th. a reflective time in An Tobar Retreat Centre, Ardbraccan, Navan, C15 T884. Cost €190 – includes all meals and en-suite single rooms. Call 087 348 2148 or email: iveireland@ive.org“
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €550.00 Thank You
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Tuesday 18th. March 2025 Numbers: 22; 11; 05; 14.
- No Winner of First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- Rory and Darragh Doyle, Carrickshock;
- Willie Walsh, Boolyglass;
- Shauna Kelly, Ennisnag;
- Sarah Kent; “On-Line”.
- E. K. T. Barron, Tuitstown
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Ger Carroll; James Irish;
- Kathleen Fennelly.
Next Draw on Monday 24th. March. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €8,500.00. (4 Numbers)
South Kilkenny Historical Society:
A Lecture on James Fogarty of Tibberaghny; will be given by Con Manning on Friday, 28th. March at 8.00p.m. in Mullinavat Parish Hall.
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 of Exodus:
Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. ‘I must go and look at this strange sight,’ Moses said, ‘and see why the bush is not burnt.’ Now the Lord saw him go forward to look, and God called to him from the middle of the bush. ‘Moses, Moses!’ he said. ‘Here I am,’ Moses answered. ‘Come no nearer,’ he said. ‘Take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your fathers,’ he said, ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ At this Moses covered his face, afraid to look at God.
And the Lord said, ‘I have seen the miserable state of my people in Egypt. I have heard their appeal to be free of their slave-drivers. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings. I mean to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that land to a land rich and broad, a land where milk and honey flow, the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.’
Then Moses said to God, ‘I am to go, then, to the sons of Israel and say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you.” But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them?’ And God said to Moses, ‘I Am who I Am. This’ he added ‘is what you must say to the sons of Israel: “I Am has sent me to you.”’ And God also said to Moses, ‘You are to say to the sons of Israel: “The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.” This is my name for all time; by this name I shall be invoked for all generations to come.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Response: The Lord is compassion and love.
My soul, give thanks to the Lord all my being, bless his holy name.
My soul, give thanks to the Lord and never forget all his blessings.
The Lord is compassion and love.
It is he who forgives all your guilt, who heals every one of your ills,
who redeems your life from the grave, who crowns you with love and
compassion,
The Lord is compassion and love.
The Lord does deeds of justice, gives judgement for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses and his deeds to Israel’s sons.
The Lord is compassion and love.
The Lord is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy.
For as the heavens are high above the earth so strong is his love for those who
fear him.
The Lord is compassion and love.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians:
I want to remind you, brothers, how our fathers were all guided by a cloud above them and how they all passed through the sea. They were all baptised into Moses in this cloud and in this sea; all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink, since they all drank from the spiritual rock that followed them as they went, and that rock was Christ. In spite of this, most of them failed to please God and their corpses littered the desert.
These things all happened as warnings for us, not to have the wicked lusts for forbidden things that they had. You must never complain: some of them did, and they were killed by the Destroyer.
All this happened to them as a warning, and it was written down to be a lesson for us who are living at the end of the age. The man who thinks he is safe must be careful that he does not fall.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God! Repent, says the Lord,
for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Luke:
Some people arrived and told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, ‘Do you suppose these Galileans who suffered like that were greater sinners than any other Galileans? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell and killed them? Do you suppose that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.’
He told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He said to the man who looked after the vineyard, “Look here, for three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the ground?” “Sir,” the man replied “leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down.”’
The Gospel of the Lord.
