Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
7th. and 8th. June 2025.
“Feast of Pentecost”
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 9th. to Sunday 15th. June. 2025
- Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil –
- Saturday 14th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 15th. at 10.00a.m.
- Stoneyford:
- Vigil – Saturday 14th. at 6.30p.m.
- Monday 9th. Feast of St. Columba:
- Wednesday 11th. Feast of St. Barnabas
- Friday 13th. Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
Pray For:
- Jackie McMullin, Donegal Town,
- Pamela Kelly, Ballyhale.
Anniversary Mass:
- Jim Doran, Stoneyford: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 7th. June at 6.30p.m.
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
- Maura Roche: Lawcus: Mass in Stoneyford Church on 14th. June at 6.30p.m.
- Martin Cleary, Hugginstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Saturday 14th. June at 8.00p.m.
Mission Awareness Programme:
Priest from The Spiritans will speak at all Masses in the parish this weekend.
Rota for next week-end:
14th. and 15th. June. Feast of The Most Holy Trinity
Reader
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Margaret Ryan
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. Pat Power:
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Deirdre O’Shea
Eucharistic Ministers:
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Natalia Smolen.
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00pm. Marion Barron;
- Sunday 10.00am. Ruth Crowley
Note: New Rota for Hugginstown Church, please collect in Sacristy.
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 2nd. June 2025 Numbers: 15; 21; 27; 32.
- No Winner of First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- Darragh Beagan, “On-Line”
- James Duggan, Boolyglass
- Jackie and Éanna, Ballinteskin;
- Martin Irish, Huggingtown;
- Eamon Ryan,“On-Line”
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Kathleen Fennelly;
- Teresa Fitzgerald;
- Tommy Hoyne
Next Draw on Monday 9th. June. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn). Jackpot: €9,700.00. (4 Numbers)
Newmarket School:
A book celebrating the Centenary of Newmarket School is available to purchase in Fitzgerald’s Shop, Hugginstown..
June Collection:
The “June Collection 2025” for the support of the priests of the Parish and the Diocese will be taken up during the months of June/July. Envelopes for this collection are available at the back of the Church. (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)
Examination Time:
Best wishes to all pupils sitting public examinations this year
Parish Contributions:
The Church Door Contributions on last weekend amounted to €530.00. Thank You.
Monroe School Got Talent:
Calling all Singers, Dancers and Performers: Showcase your talent and help support school development. Talent Show in Malzards, Stoneyford on 18th. October 2025..
Closing Date for entry 6th. June. Contact; Mairead on 086 783 9122
“Dare to Hope”:
This event is for Young Adults from the age of 18-35 and it will take place in the Youth Village, Knock on 14th. June this year. It is a follow on from the “Into the Deep” event which took place in Clongowes on Saturday 22nd. June last year. This event is for all Young Adults but there will be a special welcome for those who are travelling to Rome for the Jubilee of Youth and will be part of their preparation, however it is open to all Young Adults.
Dates to Remember in the Parish for 2025:
Cemetery Masses:
- Mass will be celebrated in Kilkeasy Cemetery on Friday 20th. June at 8.00p.m.
- Mass will be celebrated in Stoneyford Cemetery on Friday 4th. July at 8.00p.m.
- Mass will be celebrated in Hugginstown Cemetery on Saturday 5th. July at 8.00p.m.
- Mass will be celebrated in Sheepstown Cemetery on Friday 18th. July at 7.30p.m.
Workshop on Synodality:
A special weekend workshop on Synodality, will take place on 28th. and 29th. June 2025 at the Focolare Centre in Prosperous, Co. Kildare. This event is inspired by the international formation programme coordinated by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre at Sophia University Institute (Italy), in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod in Rome and will offer both theological depth and practical tools for fostering a synodal Church at local level. The workshop is open to all clergy, religious, lay leaders, pastoral council members and parishioners.
Ossory Diocesan Forum:
The revised Constitution for the Ossory Diocesan Forum was published recently. The greater involvement of laity in the life of the Church in Ossory at parish, pastoral area and diocesan level is the main theme of the new Constitution.
Newsletter:
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Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie
First Reading
A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles:
When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.
Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely’ they said ‘all these men speaking are Galileans? How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya round Cyrene; as well as visitors from Rome – Jews and proselytes alike – Cretans and Arabs; we hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Response: Send forth your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.
Bless the Lord, my soul!
Lord God, how great you are,
How many are your works, O Lord!
The earth is full of your riches.
Send forth your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.
You take back your spirit, they die,
returning to the dust from which they came.
You send forth your spirit, they are created;
and you renew the face of the earth.
Send forth your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.
May the glory of the Lord last for ever!
May the Lord rejoice in his works!
May my thoughts be pleasing to him.
I find my joy in the Lord.
Send forth your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans:
People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.
So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live. Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’ The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of God. And if we are children we are heirs as well: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to share his glory. The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Alleluia!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. John:
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘If you love me you will keep my commandments. I shall ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you for ever.
‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him,
and we shall come to him and make our home with him.
Those who do not love me do not keep my words.
And my word is not my own: it is the word of the one who sent me.
I have said these things to you while still with you;
but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.
The Gospel of the Lord.
