• 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

Fourth Week of Advent (Year B)

 
 

The Gospel of the 4th Sunday of Advent proposes to us the account of the Annunciation (Lk 1:26-38), the mystery to which we return every day in reciting the Angelus. The prayer makes us relive the decisive moment at which God knocked at Mary’s heart and, having received her “Yes”, began to take flesh, in her and from her.  The Collect from today’s Mass is the same as the one we recite at the end of the Angelus.  With only a day until the Feast of Christmas, we a re invited to fix our gaze on the ineffable mystery that Mary treasured for nine months in her virginal womb: the mystery of God who is made man.

(Pope Benedict XVI)

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