The charge of All Saints is now in vacancy following the retiral of Rev Sydney Maitland as Priest-in-Charge, with his final Eucharist taking place on Sunday, August 31. The Diocese and Vestry will now work on determining the church’s future.
Tea & Talk, October 2: Alan Jeffries
Actor and former policeman Alan Jeffries will be the guest speaker at our next Tea & Talk from 2-3 pm on Thursday, October 2. He’ll be speaking on the theme ‘Life’s hard enough – let’s not take it too seriously!’. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome. You can read a thorough account of Alan’s…
Forthcoming ‘Tea and Talk’
Having passed the 100-session mark earlier this year, All Saints monthly Tea and Talk afternoons have been planned for the year ahead by Eileen Maitland. They take place from 2-3 pm on the first Thursday of the month, admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Trinity 11: The rat race
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 August 2025. ‘The drive to success is all very well but when it is the person least well placed in this striving for recognition who loses out then the game begins to go off.’
How gloriously He will meet us!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland at Evensong on Saturday 30 August 2025. ‘We want a sign and it is given. Its shape is the cross and its name is Jesus.’
Trinity 10: Asking the people to get real
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 August 2025. ‘God is a consuming fire and will indeed burn up any false religiosity, any self-promotion, or misleading doctrines to lead people away from their lives of faith in God.’
Trinity 9: Asking for help
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 August 2025. ‘This is where the letter to the Hebrews presents us with heroes of the faith. It invites us to reject the things that hold us back and to look towards Him for our life and identity.’
Trinity 8: Right with God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 August 2025. ‘For us also, it is still a matter of holding to the things of God before all else. These define our attitude to each other, to our lives and money and relationships.’
Trinity 7: Why we need each other so much
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 August 2025. ‘Setting the mind on the things of God, letting go of the things that must die, looking to a renewed identity in the knowledge and in the image of God Himself.’
Trinity 6: We have all been in times of great testing …
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday July 27 2025. ‘Having received Jesus as Lord, then we must continue in Him: rooted and grounded in Him, secure in His love and in His purposes even when the way ahead of us is unsure.’
Trinity 5: Setting priorities
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 July 2025. ‘Above all, it is letting His love come into our lives – and especially where we most need His truth and His healing.’
All Together now …
The Diocese has introduced a new monthly email newsletter entitled ‘Together’. The first edition can be seen here, and there’s a sign-up form here. Bishop Nick Bundock writes in introduction: The word “together” matters. It’s more than a sentiment—it’s the heart of who we are called to be as Christians. In a culture that too…
Trinity 4: ‘Fear not’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 July 2025. ‘Our national values and institutions are more and more founded on sentiment and appearance, on feeling and emotion. But the death and resurrection of Jesus are facts, even though we now receive them and respond to them in faith.’
Trinity 3: He has already overcome sin and death
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 July 2025. ‘He is still sending us out as His messengers, and that message is there in how we are and how we speak of Him: gently but with great confidence.’
Trinity 2: The path of discipleship
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday June 29 2025. ‘The Lord wants us to win and not to lose – unlike some of our more sensational media. If we fail, we start again. If we fall, we get up again. If we hesitate, He will restore our confidence.’
Renowned Egyptologist guest at 100th Tea & Talk
Archaeologist, Egyptologist, author and lecturer Dr Bill Manley spoke on the theme ‘Ancient Egyptian Sense of Self and Others’ at All Saints’ 100th Tea & Talk on Thursday June 26. Dr Manley, honorary president of Egyptology Scotland, is best known for devising popular forms of access to the study of Ancient Egypt. Bill’s books have…
Trinity 1: Our God is a listening God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 June 2025. ‘This is the kind of mercy with which the Lord seeks to bless us and in which He waits to be gracious to us.’
Trinity: Why the difficulty?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 June 2025. ‘This is the presence of God the Son, Jesus Christ, now made present to us in every land by the presence and movement of the Holy Spirit. He who only takes what He receives from Jesus and gives it to us.’
Pentecost: Just as Jesus was tempted, so are we
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 June 2025. ‘The disciples of the Lord have been granted spiritual gifts and areas of serving, by which the gospel may be proclaimed and the life of the body of believers edified and enhanced.’
Scottish Episcopal Church Synod wrestles with fallout after return of Bishop Dyer
The fallout over the return to work of the Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, meant that this week’s meeting of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s General Synod had been “assailed by words even before we gathered”, members were told on Thursday, the Church Times reports. Later on Friday, a lay member…
Ascension 1: Jesus’ prayer and vision
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 June 2025. ‘Jesus was never looking at the church as an organization, with rules and structures and orders of ministry. What was needed would come to be so long as it served the needs of the gospel, rather than the personal ambitions of its members – or the state.’
Ascension Day: The purposes of God which have yet to be shown to us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Thursday 25 May 2025. ‘The task entrusted to the apostles and all who follow them shows Jesus’ confidence in those apostles, and a mixed bunch they were…’
New Bishop to attend Ascension Day service: Thursday 29 May
Newly-installed Bishop Nick Bundock will be the celebrant at a special Ascension Day Eucharist at All Saints at 7 pm on Thursday May 29. The service is at the behest of the North West Regional Council. Rev Sydney Maitland will preach while Jordanhill Liturgical Choir and choristers from other churches in the North West Regional…
Commentary: The ministry of the church was to be Christ-centred
It is interesting how the great festivals of the church follow the rhythm of the seasons, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Christmas is our midwinter celebration, while Easter is the start of the lambing season and the Harvest Festival speaks for itself: the final ingathering. But Pentecost is also important, in being the celebration of the…
Easter 6: Pull down the barriers
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 May 2025. ‘And so day by day, event by event, meeting by meeting we are called to allow Him to draw closer to us.’
General Synod 2025 agenda published
The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church will meet at St Paul’s & St George’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, from Thursday 5 June to Saturday 7 June. The agenda and papers have now been sent to members and published here on the Scottish Episcopal Church website, detailing the business scheduled. Proceedings will begin on the…
Easter 5: Jesus’ New Commandment to His disciples
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 May 2025. ‘He sees us in terms of wiping every tear from the eyes of His people. Death, mourning, crying and pain have no meaning or significance. The Lord is seeing to that one, personally.’
Anglican church leader urged to resign as bullying scandal drags on
The most senior figure within Scotland’s Anglican church is facing calls to resign over claims he “misled” clergy about a safeguarding scandal. The Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) is mired in crisis over the future of the Right Rev Anne Dyer, Scotland’s first woman bishop, who was suspended in 2022 amid accusations of bullying. She was…
Easter 4: ‘I know My sheep and they know Me’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 May 2025. ‘They know His Name and rejoice in it; they hear His word and they follow it; they honour one another who are also His sheep. They have that instinctive sense of being in His presence when they are with others who also seek His face.’
Easter 3: Called into the service of His gospel
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 May 2025. ‘He was there so that we also might be part of that great company of praise in heaven: animated not by our sins and memories but empowered by His mercy.’
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