Aghaviller Parish Newsletter
Stoneyford
Hugginstown, Newmarket and Stoneyford.
5th. and 6th. July 2025.
“Fourteenth Sunday of 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 7th. to Sunday 13th. July. 2025
- Hugginstown:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30a.m.
- Vigil –
- Saturday 12th. at 8.00p.m.;
- Sunday 13th. at 10.00a.m.
- Stoneyford:
- Vigil – Saturday 12th. at 6.30p.m.
- Tuesday 8th. Feast of St. Kilian;
- Friday 11th. Feast of St. Benedict:
Pray For:
Anniversary Mass:
- Patricia Neville: Oldtown: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 5th. July at 6.30p.m.
- Julie Cox, Coolmore
Anniversary Masses next weekend:
- Miriam Brennan, Lawcus: Mass in Stoneyford Church on Saturday 12th. July at 6.30p.m.
- Ellen Doyle, Hugginstown: Mass in Hugginstown Church on Sunday 13th. July at 10.00a.m.
Rota for next week-end:
12th. and 13th. July. – (Fifteenth Sunday of the Year)
Reader
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Sheila Raggett
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00p.m. Valerie Farrell:
- Sunday 10.00a.m. Deirdre O’Shea
Eucharistic Ministers:
- Stoneyford:
- Saturday 6.30p.m. Barbara Smolen.
- Hugginstown:
- Saturday 8.00pm. Mary Cahill;
- Sunday 10.00am. Ruth Crowley
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.
June Collection:
Many thanks for your very generous contribution during the past few weeks.
Parish Contributions:
The “Holy Father’s” Collection on last weekend end amounted to €290.00
The Church Door Contributions on last weekend amounted to €520.00. Thank You.
Date to Remember in the Parish for 2025:
- Mass will be celebrated in Sheepstown Cemetery on Friday 18th. July at 7.30p.m.
- Mass will be celebrated in Stonecarthy Cemetery on Friday 1st. August at 7.30p.m.
Stoneyford Text Alert AGM
On Wednesday the 3rd. of September, Stoneyford Text Alert will hold their AGM at 7.30p.m. in the Community Centre and everyone is invited to attend. Existing committee members are stepping down and a new committee will be elected on the night.
Lotto: –
Aghaviller Parish and Carrickshock G. A. A.
Draw: Monday 30th. June 2025 Numbers: 32; 24; 22; 13.
- No Winner of First 3 Numbers Drawn:
- No Jackpot Winner:
€30.00. Winners:
- Emmet Dunphy, “On-Line”:
- Aislinn Power, Kingsmountain.
- Pat Cleary, Hugginstown;
- Aoife O’Shea, Mullinbeg;
- Eileen Lalor, c/o Teresa Fitzgerald.
3 x €15.00 (Sellers):
- Teresa Fitzgerald;
- Pat Power;
- Pauline Doyle.
Next Draw on Monday 7th. July. Please submit returns by 8.30p.m. Draw at 9.00p.m.
Next week: Match 3: €500.00; (First 3 Numbers Drawn). Jackpot: €10,100.00. (4 Numbers)
Thomastown Library: – “Opening Times”
- Tuesdays: 10.00a.m. to 1.00p.m. and 2.00p.m. to 5.00p.m.
- Wednesdays: 10.00a.m. to 1.00p.m.: 2.00p.m. to 5.00p.m.: 5.30.m. to 8.00p.m.
- Thursdays: 10.00a.m. to 1.00p.m. and 2.00p.m. to 5.00p.m.
- Fridays: 10.00a.m. to 1.00p.m. and 2.00p.m. to 5.00p.m.
- Saturdays: 10.00a.m. to 1.30p.m. (closed on Saturday of Bank Holiday weekends)
- “Creative Writing Group”
The Thomastown Library Creative Writing Group takes place on the 2nd. and 4th. Thursday of each month and starts at 11.00a.m. These are Guided Creative Writing Sessions – All you need is some paper, a pen and your imagination, and new members are always welcome!
2. “Weekly Craft and Storytime”
Our weekly Craft and Storytime; hosted by Library Staff each Saturday at 11.30 a.m. will continue throughout the summer months. There is no booking required.
3. “Smartphone Classes”
Community Education Kilkenny will be hosting Smartphone Classes in Thomastown Library on Thursday 10th. and Friday 11th. of July from 2.00p.m. to 4.30p.m. Participants can attend both sessions. Places are limited and booking is essential.
4. “Snap-on Bracelet Making”
We will be hosting a Snap-on Bracelet Making Workshop at Thomastown Library on Wednesday 16th. July from 6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. The workshop is suitable for ages 5+ and booking is essential.
5. “Cois Nore Information Table”
‘Cois Nore’ will be at Thomastown Library with an information table on Thursday July 17th. from 12.00p.m. to 1.00p.m. to chat about the services they provide to people with cancer and their families who are living in the county of Kilkenny and the surrounding area. No booking required – All are welcome to pop in.
6. “Summer Stars Reading Adventure”
The National Summer Stars Reading Challenge continues, and it is a great incentive for the younger library members to keep up their reading over the summer months! Pop into the team at Thomastown Library to find out more, and to get signed up.
For more information on any of the above, or to book a place on one of the classes or workshops, please contact Thomastown Library – thomastown@kilkennylibrary.ie.
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Contact: Telephone: 056 776 8693 or email: liamcassin@ossory.ie
First Reading
A Reading from the Prophet Isaiah:
Rejoice, Jerusalem, be glad for her, all you who love her!
Rejoice, rejoice for her, all you who mourned her!
That you may be suckled, filled, from her consoling breast,
that you may savour with delight her glorious breasts.
For thus says the Lord: Now towards her I send flowing peace, like a river,
and like a stream in spate the glory of the nations.
At her breast will her nurslings be carried and fondled in her lap.
Like a son comforted by his mother will I comfort you. And by Jerusalem
you will be comforted. At the sight your heart will rejoice, and your bones
flourish like the grass. To his servants the Lord will reveal his hand.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Response: Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
Cry out with joy to God all the earth,
O sing to the glory of his name.
O render him glorious praise.
Say to God: ‘How tremendous your deeds!
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
‘Before you all the earth shall bow;
shall sing to you, sing to your name!’
Come and see the works of God,
tremendous his deeds among men.
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
He turned the sea into dry land,
they passed through the river dry-shod.
Let our joy then be in him;
he rules for ever by his might.
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
Come and hear, all who fear God.
I will tell what he did for my soul:
Blessed be God who did not reject my prayer
nor withhold his love from me.
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
Second Reading:
A Reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians:
The only thing I can boast about is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. It does not matter if a person is circumcised or not; what matters is for him to become an altogether new creature. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, who form the Israel of God. I want no more trouble from anybody after this; the marks on my body are those of Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brothers. Amen.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
I call you friends, says the Lord, because I have made known to you
everything I have learnt from my Father. Alleluia!
Gospel:
A Reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Luke:
The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit. He said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.‘Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!” And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.‘Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you.” But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, “We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near.” I tell you, on that day it will not go as hard with Sodom as with that town.’The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
