Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 February 2025. ‘But the personal faith of the church was in Jesus as a resurrected being and not as a memory or a historical figure. Either Jesus is alive or He is not. There are no alternatives.’
Epiphany 5: The blame culture on steroids
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 February 2025. ‘If we think our years are too advanced, then think of Moses, called to serve God as a youngster of 80.’
Patronal Festival at St Bride’s, Hyndland
St Brigit of Kildare, died 1500 years ago and this milestone has inspired an extended Patronal Festival at St Bride’s. Special choral services on Sunday 9 February will be preceded by a series of events on the previous day. Saturday 8th February 2025 12 noon – Ecumenical Service with participation from local churches Music from…
Epiphany 4, Presentation of Christ: Watching and praying
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 February 2025. ‘Maybe the church is also intended to come into its own, like the football stadium, when the game is on and the stands are full and there is that excitement and exuberance in the air.’
Epiphany 3: The church as the Body of Christ
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 January 2025. ‘And this is where we are: still needing the depth and the power and the glory of the Word of God in our lives…’
Date set for consecration of new Bishop
The consecration of the Rev Canon Dr Nicholas Bundock as Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway will take place on Saturday 3 May, at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow. Nick formally accepted his election today during a visit to the General Synod Office in Edinburgh, having been elected last Saturday. The Bishop-elect said: “As I…
Commentary: More joy in heaven …
The New Year’s Honours list gives due recognition to those who have excelled in sport, entertainment or public service, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. And yes, we are duly respectful of their honours and the public recognition of their success. And yet, I wonder: we may admire success – but somehow failure seems to be more…
New Bishop elected for Glasgow & Galloway
The Rev Canon Dr Nicholas John Bundock was elected yesterday (18 January) as the new Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. He will be consecrated and take his new post later in the year. Nick becomes Bishop-elect following the retirement of the Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, who served the Diocese as Bishop for five years. The…
Epiphany 2: A magnificent and abundant provision
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 January 2025. ‘Where our humanity seems to fail, the Lord is able to fulfil and supply: magnificently and far beyond our imaginations.’
Baptism of Jesus: A confidence in personal faith
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 January 2025. ‘Jesus’ promise is very clear that He will hear our prayers and answer them. And we need it in order to fulfil the ministries that He wishes us to pursue.’
Epiphany: A Godly regimen
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 January 2025. ‘As we reflect on the coming of the Magi, perhaps there are things in which we can make our personal response…’
Christmas 1: The life of the church as a family
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 December 2024. ‘All of this is simple and undramatic. Not the dramatic stuff of soap operas. But it is all part of the way we grow up and grow together: growing in stature, and wisdom; growing and strengthening in our relationships with one another and with God.’
Christmas Day: O Come, Let us adore Him!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2024. ‘For Jesus is indeed the radiance of the Glory of God and the exact representation of His being, and with John we in the later years of the church, still say ‘We have seen His glory.’’
Advent 4: ‘Tell out, my soul …’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 December 2024. ‘The celebration of Mary and the promise of Micah are not vested in a new system of social or economic order. They are both looking to One anointed by God – a Messiah. One who is directly and personally of God and in God and yet who is also wholly human.’
Advent 3: Let Jesus be real in our generation
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 December 2024. ‘This is never a matter of treating the church as a museum: very interesting but of no relevance in the home or the street. More, it is the workshop of the soul, the place where hearts and spirits are raised up before God in joyful expectation.’
Advent 2: The last of the Old Testament prophets
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 December 2024. ‘John knew for a certainty that there was One other. He did not know who this was, but he would know Him when he saw Him.’
Advent 1: The Lord has placed us here because He believes in us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 December 2024. ‘He has given us the message of His love for God and for one another, and for our neighbours. And now is the time to stand up, for our salvation is very close.’
Commentary: Trust in Him
The last several months have seen an increasing tempo in the challenges to our ways of life and thinking, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. The rulers of more and more countries around the world seem to prefer the allure of the dictatorships and are opposed to those where the rule of law prevails, and there is…
Bishop accused of bullying begins return to work
Scotland’s first female bishop – who has been accused of bullying – has begun a phased return to work. The Scottish Episcopal Church’s Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, the Right Reverend Anne Dyer, was suspended in 2022 and was due to face a disciplinary tribunal after three complaints were made against her. However, following a…
Christ the King: The King who is coming back
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 November 2024. ‘Now we wait for Him to return and claim what is His own and to remodel it in His own fashion.’
Trinity 25: Our great High Priest
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 November 2024. ‘And so we are also called into that great tradition of faith in Jesus Christ and trust in His atonement.’
Remembrance: Complete trust in and dependence on God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 November 2024. ‘We are … remembering those whose devotion to duty cost them their lives – maybe not always willingly offered. But they still went forth anyway.’
All Saints: A life for the here and now
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 November 2024. ‘There are many burdens that we carry in this world. The fear of sin and death need not be among them’
Commentary: A majesty that draws us into itself
‘Our preparations for All Saints, Remembrance and Christ the King all have a relevance far beyond the here and now. All of them look beyond. But then as we know, All Saints is a thin place where the barriers between here and there are indeed known to shimmer.’
Trinity 22: Lord have mercy
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 October 2024. ‘Jesus would not be coming this way again, and this was Bartimaeus’ last chance…’
Trinity 21: Stay with God – or leave?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 October 2024. ‘These are realities for every generation in every land. Their form and circumstances may change but the central issues do not.’
‘No prospect’ of my resigning, writes Bishop Dyer after pressure is applied
The Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, said on Friday that some of her episcopal colleagues had chosen to “threaten” her in an “unprofessional and un-Christian manner” by asking her to resign. “For the avoidance of doubt, there is no prospect that I will allow them to pressure me into quitting…
Four Scottish bishops urge Dyer to consider her position
Four of the six diocesan bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, including the Primus, have urged the Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, to consider whether she is the right person to lead the diocese, in light of the response to her reinstatement. On Thursday afternoon, the Primus, the Most Revd…
Trinity 20: The High Priest already in the heavens and praying for us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 October 2024. ‘In the Holy Spirit, He comes to us with His personal life and experience, His own wisdom and His ability to see and perceive. To discern and give counsel.’
Angry parishioners cut Scottish Episcopal Church from their wills after bullying claims against its first female bishop are dropped
Members of the Scottish Episcopal Church are threatening to leave while others have vowed to remove it from their wills after bullying complaints against its first female bishop were dropped. Some claimed the decision by its independent procurator that it was not in the public interest to pursue a tribunal has made a ‘mockery’ of the…
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