twenty-ninetH sunday in ordinary time (B)
READINGS FOR THE TWENTY-NINETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B)
First Reading – (Isaiah 53:10-11) – This reading tells of a man who takes on himself all the sins and sorrows of the world in order to remove them. It found its fulfilment in Christ.
Responsorial Psalm – May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you.
Second Reading – (Hebrews 4: 14-16) – Jesus was like us in all things except sin. Hence, he knows our weaknesses. This should make it easy for us to approach him.
Gospel Reading – (Mark 10:35-45) – Jesus overturns all our values by declaring that the one who serves is the greatest. He lived this out to the full in his own life.
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PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
INTROUCTION: Dear brothers and sisters, on this Mission Sunday, the Church invites us to remember those who have taken the risk to live, preach and minister in countries other than their own. We now pray that the Holy Spirit may dwell in them and in us as we remember them today
The response is… Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for the Church: that we may pray unceasingly and be open to God’s invitations to greater discipleship. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for missionaries who serve Jesus and his Church in places of danger or in the face of persecution or under difficult political conditions: that God may help them to faithfully proclaim the Good News and console them in times of loneliness and discouragement. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for all Christians: that the celebration of World Mission Day may help us realise that we are not only receivers but proclaimers of God’s word. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for Christians suffering persecution in many parts of the world: that they may have their human rights, equality and religious freedom recognised. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for all the sick of our families and our parish, those in hospital, in hospice or nursing home and those for whom we are asked to pray: that God may give them strength and fortitude, and bless those who care for them. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for the souls of all those whose anniversaries, months mind and birthday remembrances we are asked to recall, as well as those who have recently died: that they may receive the reward of their faith and enjoy the happiness of heaven. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
CONCLUSION: God our Father, we thank you for the gift of faith in your Son Jesus. Help us to confess our faith at all times and to bring more and more people to the joy of believing in him. We make this prayer and all our prayers through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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PLEASE REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE
IN YOUR PRAYERS THIS WEEK
SICK – Ann McKenna, Mary McKenna, Rose Gallagher, John Hegarty, Robert Kielty, Thérèse McKeand, Mary McCafferty, Edward McCafferty, Stuart Mason, Martin McGuire, David O’Hare, Ann & James Hannaway.
I also ask your prayers for the sick and housebound
– those at home in our parish community, those in hospital,
and those in local nursing and care homes in Cambuslang, Halfway
& Blantyre and elsewhere. Our prayers for them
not only help in their suffering and pain but also reassure them
that they are not forgotten by our community of faith.
Our prayers help relieve their feelings of isolation and loneliness.
To be remembered before the Altar of God
brings them comfort and consolation.
Almighty and Eternal God, you are the everlasting health
of those who believe in you.
Hear us for your sick servants
for whom we implore the aid of your tender mercy,
that being restored to bodily health,
they may give thanks to you in your Church.
Through Christ our Lord.
Our Lady, Help of the Sick, pray for them.
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BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE (LIVING) – Margaret McGuinness (80th Birthday).
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RECENTLY DEAD – Tom Fitzpatrick (Body Reception, Sunday 20th October 2024 at 5pm; Requiem Mass, Monday 21st October 2024 at 11am), Jim Cameron, Monica McQueenie, Barry Milne & Mary Waugh.
ANNIVERSARIES – Ann Holmes, Sadie McVey, James Scullion & James Callaghan.
BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE – Linda Wilson.
Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let Perpetual Light shine upon them.
May they Rest in Peace. Amen.
CLERGY ANNIVERSARIES – OCTOBER
Rev. Francis Thomas Misset 11/10/1956
Rev. James Butler 10/10/1958
Very Rev. Patrick Canon Keating 13/10/1963
Very Rev. Edmund Canon Macdonald 16/10/1963
Rev. Thomas Kelly 18/10/1963
Rt. Rev Mgr. Alexander Hamilton 22/10/1963
Rev. Lawrence Connelly 03/10/1964
Rev. Peter Murphy 31/10/1969
Very Rev. John Canon Battel 13/10/1978
Very Rev. William Canon Duddy 08/10/1986
Rev. Michael Houlihan 15/10/1986
Very Rev. Daniel Canon O’Doherty 07/10/1992
Rev. Bartholomew O’Regan 22/10/1997
Rev. Francis Kelly 26/10/1999
Rev. Thomas Connelly 16/10/2000
Rev. Augustine McCauley 26/10/2006
Rev. Richard Higgins 06/10/2015
Very Rev. Cornelius Canon O’Leary 22/10/2020
May the Lord who chose them to serve him as priests,
number them among his chosen in heaven.
Requiescant in Pace.
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OCTOBER DEVOTIONS
The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary. According to an account by fifteenth-century Dominican, Alan de la Roch, Mary appeared to St. Dominic in 1206 after he had been praying and doing severe penances because of his lack of success in combating the Albigensian heresy. Mary praised him for his valiant fight against the heretics and then gave him the Rosary as a mighty weapon, explained its uses and efficacy, and told him to preach it to others. A plenary indulgence is granted when the rosary is recited in a church or oratory or when it is recited in a family, a religious community, or a pious association. A partial indulgence is granted for its recitation in all other circumstances.
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the world day of prayer for the missions
This Sunday (20th October 2024) we celebrate the World Day of Prayer and Giving for the Missions. We are asked to be earnest in our prayers that God’s word be brought to peoples in earth’s farthest corners who appear to be at a great distance from Christ. We are also encouraged to be generous in our contributions towards the work of the Missions. We have a marvellous record in St. Cadoc’s of helping the spread of the Faith in mission lands and I look forward to your continued generosity in our second collection at all Masses for the next two weekends. The amount gathered will go to support the Missions.
A box intended for the mission collections will be situated at the back of the church for the next two weeks beginning this weekend. Please find enclosed in today’s bulletin a copy of the letter from Fr. Vincent Lockhart, National Director of Mission Scotland, the Pontifical Mission Societies.
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month of the holy souls
During the month of November it is traditional in the Church to pray for those who have gone before us and whose loss we feel. We do this in many ways but the most common is to remember them at Mass. If you would like your dead loved ones to be remembered at Mass during this month of the Holy Souls, then please complete a November list provided with today’s bulletin and return it to the box provided at the back of the Church.
“The remembrance of the dead, the care for graves and prayers of repose are a witness of the confident hope, rooted in the certainty that death is not the final word on the human fate, since man is destined to a life without limits which has its roots and its fulfilment in God.” Please come to Mass more frequently during the month of November to pray for all the Faithful Departed. As we pray together for our deceased family members, relatives and friends, remembering also those who have no one to pray for them, we ask the Lord to continue to watch over and bless you, your family, and your friends.
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the annual mass census
The annual Mass census will take place during Masses at the weekend of Saturday 2nd/Sunday 3rd November 2024. I would like to thank all those who, through their presence Sunday after Sunday, faithfully and generously contribute to the spiritual and material welfare of Saint Cadoc’s parish. Please come and show your support to the parish by being present for any of that weekend Masses to register for our parish census.
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CALENDAR
The optional memorial of St. John Paul II is celebrated on Tuesday. Elected Pope in 1978, he began his ministry as universal Pastor of the Church, making 104 international apostolic journeys. His teaching as pope was shared through numerous encyclicals and apostolic exhortations, constitutions and letters, his Wednesday general audience as well as a number of books which he authored. On Wednesday we are permitted to remember St John of Capestrano, one of the great 15th century preachers and reformers of the Franciscan order, who earlier had been a married man, and in later life fought the Hussite heresy in Austria and the Turkish menace in Hungary. On Thursday we have St Anthony Mary Claret, 19th Century founder of the Claretian order of teachers and missionaries, Bishop of Havana and later chaplain to the Spanish Queen.
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mass for the deceased since november 2023
& November 2024
Mass for the Deceased of the parish over the last year will take place on Sunday 3rd November 2024 at 10am. All are welcome, especially those who have lost a loved one in the recent past. We will remember the names of those whose funerals took place in the parish since November 2023. If a family member, died elsewhere and you wish to have his or her name to be read, you are welcome to do so. Please submit the names to the priest by 30th of this month.
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enrolment mass
Some of our children from St Cadoc’s Primary School will be enrolling themselves for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, First Holy Communion & Confirmation at 10am Mass on Sunday 27th October 2024 and from St. Charles’ Primary School will be enrolling themselves for the Sacraments of Reconciliation & First Holy Communion at 11.30am on Sunday 27th October 2024. As Parish Community of St. Cadoc’s, let us support them through our prayers and example at this special time.
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gift-aid tax reclaim scheme
Weekly contributions from the 65 parishioners currently members of this scheme have, in the 2023-2024 tax year, enabled the parish to reclaim the sum of £7,828.59 (compared to 4,891.69 in 2022-2023) from HMRC.
Grateful thanks are extended to this group of parishioners for their commitment which generated much needed income for the parish at no extra cost to themselves, more especially when the current climate of increasing cost of living coupled with continually rising energy prices has impacted on the ability of the parish to financially make ends meet. Their practical support to the parish will provide much needed help and financial stability in the months to come.
The Gift Aid scheme can be utilised by parishioners who are taxpayers and contribute to the weekly collections. I would encourage those who may be eligible to give consideration to increasing the value of their normal weekly offerings by joining this worthwhile scheme. Gift Aid forms can be collected from the back of the church and when completed can be returned to Jim Cunningham or Father Cirilo. Thank you once again for your enduring generosity and support. We are also very grateful to Jim Cunningham, our Gift-Aid organiser, for giving his time to deal with Gift-Aid envelopes.
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CHILDREN’S LITURGY
The Children’s Liturgy of the Word will not be on for the next two weekends beginning today (because of October week holiday & Enrolment Masses) and will resume again on Sunday 3rd November 2024.
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CLASSROOMS FOR MALAWI
AFTERNOON TEA FUNDRAISER
Classrooms for Malawi afternoon tea fundraiser will be held on Wednesday 23rd October 2024 in the parish hall of St. Columbkille’s from 1pm – 4.30pm. Doors will be open from 12.45pm. Funds raised will be put towards purchasing bunk beds and mattresses for the pupils at Ngumbe Secondary as they are presently sleeping on the floor. Tickets cost £15 and include prosecco on arrival, afternoon tea and entertainment. They can be purchased by phoning Margaret Hamilton on 07853186528 or by emailing hello@classroomsformalawi.org
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ANNUAL INSURANCE FOR CHURCH & PRESBYTERY
Our annual insurance renewal premium invoice for the Church and House for the 29th September 2024 to 28th September 2025 is 3,118.59.
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FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HELP WITH RISING ENERGY BILLS (GAS & ELECTRICITY)
As we head into winter, we face an expensive but essential bill for heating our church. Keeping warm over the winter months is vital for both the well-being of those attending the church, regardless of how full or not the pews may be, as well as the protection of the fabric of the building from both surface and interstitial condensation. Irrevocably this means high heating bills.
Since the aftermath of Covid-19, the cost of living, from buying groceries to heating our church and presbytery, has been on the rise sharply every day. Overall, our expenditures have increased faster than income. Our parish relies entirely on your contributions to pay our bills. I kindly appeal to your generosity to add an extra pound or two to your weekly contributions to help defray, in particular this winter, the high costs of energy bills.
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LITURGY ROTA
Liturgy rota for Readers (October – December 2024) for 5pm (Saturday) &10am & 11.30am (Sunday) Masses is available in the sacristy. Please collect a copy before or after any of the Sunday Masses. Thanks to Mrs Anne Moran for giving her time to prepare the readers rota. If you are able to be part of this important ministry, then please contact Mrs. Anne Moran or Fr. Cirilo.
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parking in the streets
surrounding the church
Unfortunately, parishioners of St. Cadocs’ who drive to church are in a situation where there is no private parking within the church grounds. The streets surrounding the church therefore invariably become congested with parked cars especially at weekend Mass times. Whilst acknowledging the limitations of parking in relation to the church, I would ask those drivers attending services to consider the needs of local residents to have unimpeded access to their properties when choosing where to responsibly park. You can also use our car park which is situated behind the church. It can accommodate 6 cars.
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RIGHT TO LIFE UK: PRAYING FOR THE UNBORN
AND WOMEN FACING CRISIS PREGNANCIES
20th October 2024: “This Tuesday, we will celebrate the feast day of Pope St John Paul II, patron saint of the Pro-Life movement. We ask for his intercession as we the church seek to support all the vulnerable, especially those at the end of their lives, and that, like him, we would become models of support and charity to all in society.”
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an act of spiritual communion
(St. Alphonsus Liguori)
(This is a simple and loving act of Spiritual Communion we are called to make in these times,
while we are unable to attend Mass and receive the Eucharist)
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the
Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there
and unite myself wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.
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prayer to st. michael
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in the day of battle.
Be our safeguard against the wickedness
and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts,
by the power of God, cast into Hell Satan, and all the evil spirits
who prowl the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
Holy mary, mother of god,
st. Joseph,
st. Michael and holy angels,
ST. CADOC,
Pray for us