Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
29th. and 30th. March 2025.
“Fourth Sunday of Lent”. —– “Mother’s Day”
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 31st. March to Sunday 6th. April.
- Hugginstown:
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil –
- Saturday 5th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 6th. at 10.00a.m.
- Stoneyford:
- Vigil – Saturday 5th. at 6.30p.m.
- Friday 4th. 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.
- Service of Forgiveness and Healing:
Service of Healing and Penitential Service will be celebrated in preparation for Easter during Masses next weekend: on Saturday 5th. April in Stoneyford and Hugginstown Churches and on Sunday 6th. April in Hugginstown Church.
First Penance 2025.
For the pupils of Monroe and Newmarket Schools on Wednesday 2nd. April in Hugginstown Church at 7.00p.m.
Pray For:
Anniversary:
- Agnes Kenny, Lawcus Fields. Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 29th.March at 6.30p.m.
Anniversary Mass next weekend:
- Wazzie Kenneally, Catstown. Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 5th. April at 8.00p.m.
Rota for next week-end:
5th. and 6th. April. (Fifth Sunday of Lent)
Reader
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Sheila Lennon.
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. John Barron.
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Mary Carroll
Eucharistic Ministers:
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Jakub Smolen.
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. Marion Barron;
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Lillian Carr..
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)
Summer Time:
Summer Time begins. Clocks go forward one hour on this Saturday night 29th. March.
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.
Parish Contributions:
The “Church Door” Contributions on last weekend amounted to €575.00.
Thank You.
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.
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“
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 24th. March 2025 Numbers: 15; 07; 27; 01.
- No Winner of First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- Pat Fennelly, Ballycaum;
- Eugene O’Neill “On-Line”
- Caroline Raggett, “On-Line”.
- Brophy Family, Sheepstown;
- Katie Grace, Ballycaum
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Ger Carroll;
- Caitlin Roche;
- Catherine Duggan.
Next Draw on Monday 31st. March. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn) Jackpot: €8,700.00. (4 Numbers)
Conference on Strokes:
The 2025 National Conference on Stroke, organised by the South Tipperary Stroke Communication Group, will take place on Monday April 28th. from 9.30a.m. to 1.30p.m. at the Cashel Palace Hotel, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. 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
First Reading
A Reading from the Book of Joshua:
The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.’ The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From that time, from their first eating of the produce of that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer, the Israelites fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded.
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.
Glorify the Lord with me. Together let us praise his name.
I sought the Lord and he answered me; from all my terrors he set me free.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Look towards him and be radiant; let your faces not be abashed.
This poor man called, the Lord heard him
and rescued him from all his distress.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians:
For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God’s work. It was God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation. In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men’s faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus! I will leave this place and go to my
father and say: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.’
Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Luke:
The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he spoke this parable to them:
‘A man had two sons. The younger said to his father, “Father, let me have the share of the estate that would come to me.” So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.
‘When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch, so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. And he would willingly have filled his belly with the husks the pigs were eating but no one offered him anything. Then he came to his senses and said, “How many of my father’s paid servants have more food than they want, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your paid servants.” So he left the place and went back to his father.
‘While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly. Then his son said, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son.” But the father said to his servants, “Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it; we are going to have a feast, a celebration, because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found.” And they began to celebrate.
‘Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about. “Your brother has come” replied the servant “and your father has killed the calf we had fattened because he has got him back safe and sound.” He was angry then and refused to go in, and his father came out to plead with him; but he answered his father, “Look, all these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed your orders, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends. But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property – he and his women – you kill the calf we had been fattening.”
‘The father said, “My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.”’
The Gospel of the Lord.
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