The Tea and Talk meeting in the church on 4 April at 2 pm will be given by Dr Bill Manley, an archaeologist, Egyptologist, author and lecturer. His subject will be The Copts: Early Christian Egypt 300 – 800 AD. Dr Manley, honorary president of Egyptology Scotland, is best known for devising popular forms of…
Holy Week Services at All Saints
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday.
Dr Dee Bird is appointed new Secretary General
The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church will welcome a new Secretary General when Dr Dee Bird takes up the position this summer. Dr Bird joins the General Synod Office from Edinburgh Napier Students’ Association where she has been Chief Executive Officer since 2020.
Lent 5 / Passion Sunday: God’s cleansing agent
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 March 2024. ‘Jesus would carry the load than none could carry for themselves. He would be the atonement that none even dare imagine, and which no amount of self-appointed good works would ever satisfy.’
Lent 4 / Mothering Sunday: The work of the Holy Spirit
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 March 2024. ‘We find ourselves by looking to Him and as He leads us into those dimensions of His love which we never even imagined.’
Lent 3: The power of God over death
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 March 2024. ‘Is self the measure of all that we do and are? Is it humanity in its many forms of community and its political doctrines, each locality choosing its own model? Or might it be God?’
Bishop Kevin announces retirement
The Right Rev Kevin Pearson has announced today that he will retire as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway on 31 August 2024. Bishop Kevin became the 15th Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway in July 2020 upon his translation from the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles. Announcing his retirement to the Glasgow and Galloway Diocesan…
Lent 2: Walk before Me faithfully and be blameless
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 February 2024. ‘Jesus may have been following Abraham, but He was also leading the rest of humanity in general and the church in particular.’
Commentary: Escaping the silo of self-definition
I suppose that one of the most intriguing paradoxes of our time is the sense of self, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. We definitely live in a time of seeking to achieve and fulfil ourselves, to deepen our sense of our identity, achieve our ambitions and to live full and meaningful lives. Yet this set of…
Lent 1: Repent and believe
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 February 2024. ‘We can make a better sense of the things that hold us back – especially the things that do not have to.’
Quinquagesima / Epiphany 9: No alternative and no evasion
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 February 2024. ‘The Holy Spirit is still promised to us, to support us in need and to strengthen us in weakness. To bring us to the fulness of Jesus Christ and to support us as we seek to abide in Him.’
Lent Prose: a haunting hymn with its roots in 10th century Spain
‘Hear us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we have sinn’d against thee.’ This moving piece derives from a hymn composed in the 10th century by Mozarabs, Iberian Christians living under Islamic rule in Andalusia.
Epiphany 4 / Sexagesima: It is the Lord who desires to lead us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 February 2024. ‘His love and His direction are there to bless us and to enable us to share them with others. This is the focus of our lives as Christians – and if we let Him lead us in it then He surely will.’
New Priest in Charge appointed for St Bride’s, Kelvinside
Rev Peter Bradley has been appointed Priest-in-Charge of St Bride’s Church, Kelvinside, Glasgow. His licensing will be at 12 noon on Saturday, 9 March in St Bride’s Church, 69 Hyndland Road, Glasgow, G12 9UX. A former Dean of Sheffield, Peter says: “For the past three years, I have served in a Central London parish, and…
Commentary: Jesus and the poor
There is a question that has been niggling away at me for some time, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, and not one that has always come to a ready answer. This is the place of the poor and the dispossessed in the sight of Jesus. The conventional answer has been to refer to Jesus’ bias to…
Epiphany 3 / Septuagesima: Time is moving on …
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 January 2024. ‘It is when people are more uncertain that perhaps the gospel message can offer a different set of assurances. The peace of God can still live in us when others want to threaten.’
Church appoints new Procurator
A new Procurator has been appointed by the Scottish Episcopal Church, with immediate effect. Paul Reid KC takes on the position following the resignation of his predecessor Alan McLean KC. In November last year, the Preliminary Proceedings Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church concluded its investigation into complaints lodged under Canon 54 regarding Bishop Anne Dyer….
Epiphany 2: Called into realms of holiness
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 January 2024. ‘Are there areas of failure, guilt, regret, inadequacy, shame or anguish? Then we may lay them before the Lord, for we do not have to be defined by them.’
Catriona Montgomery McLaughlin, RIP
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death earlier this month of Catriona Montgomery McLaughlin (Catrìona NicGumaraid NicLachlainn), the distinguished poet and much-loved member of All Saints. Catriona’s funeral will be held in All Saints at 2 pm on Monday 29 January, with interment later on the Isle of Skye. May she…
Baptism of Christ: the Spirit of the Lord
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 January 2024. ‘What we need is the power of Jesus Christ in our lives – to endow us with His personal presence and authority.’
Epiphany: Mary and Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 January 2024. ‘This is a confident Mary, proud of her first-born, contented in her home. There is nothing defensive here, no cowering in fear.’
Christmas 1: More than a number
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 December 2023. ‘To know His Name in the worship and liturgies of the church is not enough. We also need to know Him for ourselves, and to let Him be named within us just as we also may be named within Him.’
Christmas Day: What defines us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2023. ‘What started life as a helpless baby became risen, glorious, triumphant over the very powers of sin and death. We also need to move on from our own mangers…’
Advent 4: A revealing of things long hidden
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 December 2023. ‘May God be glorified in every generation of the church, and therefore may the Body of Christ also be wholly committed above all else to the same gospel message and truths.’
Advent 3: Just what we are looking forward to?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 December 2023. ‘… And so Paul looks for the workings of the Holy Spirit: that the people may be filled with His grace and that they may live in His life.’
Commentary: The love that offers but does not demand
It must have been developing for some time, but it is now getting faster and faster, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. No, this is not about HS2 – another costly rail project for the Home Counties. More, it is the inversion of reality. Truth does not exist – except as perceived and promoted by certain interest…
Advent 2: God has not turned aside
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 December 2023. ‘The Lord is still at hand, and He comes: either when we are least expecting it, or in the fulfilment of our expectations, as we look to Him day by day. For the promises of the Lord are not given cheaply or as afterthoughts. They are given so that we may trust in them.’
Advent 1: The tension in the strings of the orchestra’s instruments
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 December 2023. ‘So also are the people of the Lord as an orchestra: living in and with a tension – but one in which Jesus Himself is the One who composes, conducts and leads.’
Christ the King: The One who has given his all for the Church
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 November 2023. ‘The theme of the intimacy of Jesus with His obedient disciples runs through the New Testament like a vein of gold in rock.’
Trinity 23: Nobody is unimportant
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 November 2023. ‘We may not feel that we have much to offer – but as we offer ourselves then we will find that the self that we do offer has already been blessed and enriched.’
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