29TH sunday in ordinary time (C)
READINGS FOR THE TWENTY-NINETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (C)
First Reading – (Exodus 17:8-13) – This reading relates the first battle fought by the Israelites after their deliverance from Egypt. They are victorious, not through their own power, but through the power of God which comes to them as a result of the prayer of Moses.
Responsorial Psalm – Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Second Reading – (2 Timothy 3:14-4:2) – St. Paul instructs Timothy to abide in the sound doctrine which he has been taught since childhood, and to be zealous in preaching the message of Jesus.
Gospel Reading – (Luke 18: 1-8) – Jesus exhorts his disciples to pray continually and never to grow discouraged.
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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 – Baby Archie Thomson, Alex McLeod, Allan Sharp, Ron Docherty, Rona McPhee, Rose Gallagher, Thérèse McKeand, Martin McGuire, David O’Hare & 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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RECENTLY DEAD – Graham Doyle.
MONTHS MIND – Andrew Harkin.
ANNIVERSARIES – John Hegarty, Ann Holmes, James Scullion, James Callaghan,
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 (19th October 2025) is the World Day of Prayer and Giving for the Missions. You are asked to be earnest in your prayers that God’s word be brought to earth’s farthest corners and to people who appear to be at a great distance from Christ, and generous in your contribution for the work of the Missions. We have a marvellous record in St. Cadoc’s in helping the spread of the Faith in mission lands and we look forward to your continued generosity in our second collection at all Masses next weekend. The amount gathered will go to support the Missions. A box intended to support the collection for the missions will be situated at the back of the church for the next two weeks beginning next weekend.
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calendar
The optional memorial of St. John Paul II is celebrated on Wednesday. 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 Thursday 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 Friday we have St Anthony Mary Claret, 19th Century founder of the Claretian order, Bishop of Havana and later chaplain to the Spanish Queen.
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SEMI-ANNUALLY MASS CENSUS
Semi-annually Mass census will take place during Masses at the weekend of Saturday 1st/Sunday 2nd November 2025. 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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MASS FOR THE DECEASED SINCE NOVEMBER 2024
TO NOVEMBER 2025
Mass for the Deceased of the parish over the last year will take place on Sunday 9th November 2025 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 2024. 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 Wednesday 5th of November.
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ENROLMENT MASS
Some of our young people attending St Charles’ Primary School will be enrolling themselves for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, First Holy Communion & Confirmation at 10am Mass on Sunday 26th October 2025. Pupils from St Cadoc’s Primary School will be enrolling themselves for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, First Holy Communion & Confirmation at 11.30am also on Sunday 26th October 2025. As the Parish Community of St. Cadoc’s, let us support them through our prayers and example at this special time.
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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 2nd November 2025.
Thank you to our dedicated team of Children’s Liturgists (Elizabeth Gray, Marie Claire Faller, Anne-Frances McLaughlin, Bernadette Sheppard & Lucy Murdoch) who lead the Liturgy of the Word discussions with our young people on a weekly basis. Thank you also to the parents, guardians & carers who bring their children to our Sunday Mass on a regular basis.
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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 at the back of the church 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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GIFT AID TAX RECLAIM SCHEME
Weekly contributions from the 65 parishioners currently members of this scheme have, in the 2024-2025 tax year, enabled the parish to reclaim the sum of £7,484.34 (compared to £7,828.59 in 2023-2024) 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 consider 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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PARISH CHRISTMAS PARTY
Join us for a wonderful evening of festive cheer and fellowship at our Parish Christmas Party on Tuesday 2nd December 2025. The celebration will take place in church house (presbytery) from 6pm to 8pm. All parishioners and well-wishers of St. Cadoc’s Parish Community are warmly invited to the fellowship buffet. This will be a great opportunity to connect with fellow parishioners and well-wishers to celebrate the joy of the season. I look forward to celebrating the season with our parish family! There is no charge for the party, however, a donation would, if possible, be greatly appreciated. Raffle prizes (such as bottles of wine, spirits, chocolates, or any useful products you can donate) needed! It would be amazing if some of our wonderful parishioners and well-wishers could donate items to be used as raffle prizes.
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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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DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE GIFT-AID SCHEME
AND HELP THE PARISH
It’s so simple. If you are a tax payer, normally come to Church, and are prepared to put your money offering in a confidential numbered envelope (or pay by Standing order) and sign a simple form, then the parish can (at no cost to yourself) reclaim the tax you have already paid on that offering. For every pound you give, your parish will get back an additional 25 pence from the Inland Revenue. Thanks are extended to all those who have answered our appeal and have committed to gift-aid their offerings. Anyone wishing to join the scheme, please contact Jim Cunningham, our parish Gift Aid organiser or Fr. Cirilo. Alternatively, you can contribute to the Sunday Mass collections via a direct debit or standing order arrangement with your bank. Thank you once again for your enduring generosity and support.
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NEW PARISHIONERS
We would ask those who are new to the parish, or who are moving house within the parish, to record their name, address and telephone number on the registration card provided in the porch of the church. I would greatly appreciate your involvement in the parish. If you have any spare time, talents, or skills to share, I rely on the kindness and support of parishioners like you to help us grow and serve our community better. It is also very helpful if those moving from the parish let us know, so that our statistics can be kept up to date. Please be assured that any data we have (including the parish survey I undertook in 2016) will be held in a secure way and will never be shared or given to anyone else.
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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. Thank you for your kindness and cooperation.
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right to life uk: praying for the unborn
& women facing crisis pregnancies
October 19th 2025 – “This Wednesday, 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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Holy mary, mother of god,
st. Joseph,
st. Michael and holy angels,
ST. CADOC,
Pray for us