30TH sunday in ordinary time (C)
READINGS FOR THE THIRTY SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (C)
First Reading – (Ecclesiasticus 35:12-14, 16-19) – God is no respecter of persons. He shows no partiality for the rich and the powerful, but listens to the humble prayer of the just and the lowly.
Responsorial Psalm – The lowly one called, and the Lord heard him.
Second Reading – (2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18) – St. Paul, a prisoner in Rome, feels that his death is drawing near. But his confidence is unshaken and his hope of the ‘crown of glory’ is bright.
Gospel Reading – (Luke 18: 9-14) – This contains the great parable of Christ about the Pharisee and the tax collector.
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PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
INTROUCTION: Dear brothers and sisters, in today’s Gospel Jesus teaches us to be humble in our prayer, so that our hearts are truly open to God and his will for us. In this spirit, let us now pray to God our Father for all our needs, the needs of the Church and of all humankind.
The response is… Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for the Church: that we may recognise our need for God and resist relying upon our actions for salvation. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray at the conclusion of World Mission Awareness Week: that it may be renewed in its mission to bring the word of God to all his peoples. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for all our children who will be enrolling themselves for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, the Holy Eucharist and Confirmation today: that they may receive the grace offered in these Sacraments. Lord, hear us; Lord graciously hear us.
╬ We pray for each one of us here present: that as the tax collector humbled himself to receive God’s mercy, may mercy overcome human pride in our lives. 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, you never abandon those who call on you. Nourish our faith, strengthen our hope, and stir up our love. 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 – Anne Travers (Mother of Fr. James Travers), Eileen Macintyre, Thomas McCormick & James O’Hara.
ANNIVERSARIES – Elizabeth Phillips (First Anniversary), Helen Goodwin (Sixth Anniversary), John Coyle (Fifteenth Anniversary), Agnes Mitchell, James McLaughlin & James McPhillips.
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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SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS
Sunday (2nd November 2025) is the commemoration of the countless men, women and children of all times and places who are now with God in the New Jerusalem. Masses to celebrate the Feast of All Saints will be as follows: Vigil Mass at 5pm (Saturday) & Masses at 10am & 11.30am (Sunday).
[With effect from 2 December 2018, the First Sunday of Advent, the Bishops of Scotland have made some changes to our calendar of Holy Days of Obligation - the first amendments in 32 years – and have been approved by the Holy See. The days are: Feast of SS Peter and Paul (29 June) and Feast of the Assumption (15 August).Where the Holy Days of SS Peter and Paul and the Assumption fall on a Saturday or Monday they will be transferred to the Sunday. All Saints Day will move to the Sunday if it falls on a Saturday, but not if it falls on a Monday, this is to ensure that All Saints and All Souls fall on consecutive days.]
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ALL SOULS DAY
The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed takes place on Monday (3rd November 2025). Mass will be celebrated at 10am & 6pm.
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THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE MISSIONS
This will be the last weekend if you would like to contribute 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 I look forward to your continued generosity in our second collection at all Masses this weekend. The amount gathered will go to support the Missions. A box intended to support the collection for the missions is situated at the back of the church.
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calendar
Tuesday we have the feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude. They are associated in their feast and Church dedications because of a late (6th C) tradition that they went on a joint mission to Persia and were there martyred. Simon is called ‘the Zealot’ possibly because of an early association with a strict Jewish sect. Jude’s name is given as author of a late Epistle deploring divisions among Christians, and (perhaps because the likeness of his name to that of Judas diminished his popularity) he is invoked for seemingly hopeless cases.
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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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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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second collection for church building
& maintenance fund next weekend
Next Sunday (2nd November 2025), being the first Sunday of the month, the normal second collection will be taken up at all Masses to help support our Church Building and Maintenance Fund for the month of November. A box intended for the Church Building & Maintenance Fund Collection will be situated at the back of the church for the next two weeks beginning next weekend. Please be generous towards our second collection as this greatly helps pay for essentials such as continued maintenance and much needed repairs to our parish buildings and existing facilities.
The Church Building and Maintenance Fund Collection is dedicated to ensuring the structural integrity and safety of the church building. This includes things like roof repairs, heating system, electrical work, and other essential maintenance tasks. The usual weekly offertory collection helps us cover the day-to-day costs of running the church, such as utilities (electricity, heating, water), insurance, church services, general maintenance of church properties, administrative needs and various sundry expenses.
On the other hand the undertaking of any of the major repair works previously mentioned, when needed, plus other essential costs associated with the running of the parish, would not be possible without your additional help and support. Your parish church dedicated to St. Cadoc’s very much depends on your contributions and generosity.
Once again, I thank all those who, over the years, have attended this church of St. Cadoc’s and I appreciate the many contributions that have been and continue to be made to the parish, and I look forward to your ongoing assistance in the future.
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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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children’s liturgy
The Children’s Liturgy of the Word will resume next Sunday 2nd November 2025 at 10am Mass.
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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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 26th 2025 – “We pray for all those with disabilities, including the unborn. We pray for protection for them and their mothers from the pressures of assisted suicide and abortion, and that they would instead experience overwhelming support from all who surround them.”
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Holy mary, mother of god,
st. Joseph,
st. Michael and holy angels,
ST. CADOC,
Pray for us