• Welcome to St. Columbkille's Catholic Church Rutherglen

    • Welcome to our parish website which we hope you will find to be informative about our church and the life of our parish community.

    • HISTORY

    • The present church building was opened in 1940 to replace the first St Columbkille's Church which was founded on the same site in 1851.

    • Our Parish Vision

    • We aspire to be a welcoming and faithful Eucharistic community, serving the Lord, spreading the truth of his Gospel, and helping all to respond to God's Universal call to holiness, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

    • St Columbkille's from on high

HOW WE SHOULD PRAY

The prayer life of believers is intrinsically linked to the prayer life of the Church herself. So, vocal prayer, meditation and contemplation, and the types of prayer – adoration, petition, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise are provided in the rich treasury of Church teaching. The ‘Our Father’ – the Lord’s Prayer – was given to us by Jesus to express the sum of all the good things which we must hope for and which our heavenly Father wants to grant us.

Various aspects of PRAYER, as outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) can be explored below.

God Calls Us to Pray (CCC 2558–2758)

The Foundations of Prayer   Prayer stands at the heart of our relationship with God. In prayer, a believer humbly seeks to grow in union with God, revealed in Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Prayer is a response of faith to God and reveals a divine-human dialogue of love, forgiveness, mercy and grace...

Jesus Taught Us to Pray (CCC 2558–2758)

The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father  Jesus teaches his disciples and us to pray in the words of the ‘Our Father’. The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect of prayers, containing all that we rightly desire before God. The ‘Our Father’ is at the heart of every personal and communal prayer...