The guest speaker at September’s Tea and Talk will be Louise Morgan, Director for Scotland of the charity Carers Trust, which works to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems. Louise’s talk takes place in All Saints at 2 pm on Thursday 1 September, with a presentation followed by questions and answers. Everyone is welcome.
Sunday readings and prayers for August 2022
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month, with links to ‘Poirot’ actor David Suchet reading the Bible passages. We also remember those whose Year’s Mind falls this month, and those who we’re called to hold before God in the Diocesan and Anglican Cycles of Prayer.
Sunday worship for 14 August 2022, Trinity 9
‘Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and sent into our hearts the Spirit of your Son. Give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that all people may know the glorious liberty of the children of God.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word in the company of a mass choir in Chennai, India, with hymn 484, The Church’s one foundation …
Trinity 9: A point of division
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 August 2022. ‘And so yes, Jesus is a line in the sand. Are we with Him or against Him? Indifferent and indulgent tolerance is not enough.’
Bishop’s suspension is confirmed then lifted
Canonical process confirmed in Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney + Bishop’s suspension is lifted after appeal lodged
Sunday worship for 7 August 2022, Trinity 8
‘Almighty God, you sent your Holy Spirit to be the life and light of your Church. Open our hearts to the riches of your grace, that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit in love, joy, and peace.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 333, All my hope on God is founded …
Trinity 8: Watch the signs of the times
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 August 2022. ‘It is when people are most indolent in their faith and most inclined to use the church as a vehicle for their political and cultural agendas that is most likely to be caught out and found to be at fault.’
Commentary: A new freedom and a new kind of wisdom
We will all have noted the European Championship success of the English women’s football team and I would heartily congratulate them, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Not being a particular enthusiast for athletics and ball-based sports, I am inclined to leave it at that. But there is one aspect that makes me think a little more…
Sunday worship for 31 July 2022, Trinity 7
‘Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom. Renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your true and living bread.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 359, Fight the good fight …
Trinity 7: There is even more to come
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 July 2022. ‘To be invested solely in the fleeting glamour of our times is to risk losing all of it – certainly at the end of life and possibly as the result of calamity in our own times.’
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for August 2022
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Mozambique, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Vietnam. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Trinity 6: Never give up
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 July 2022. ‘God is never deaf or blind. And it is not as if we are telling Him anything He does not already know: rather, we are placing ourselves in His hands so that He may meet us and feed us and fulfil us.’
Sunday worship for 24 July 2022, Trinity 6
‘O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: increase and multiply upon us your mercy, that with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 377, Immortal, invisible, God only wise …
Sunday worship for 17 July 2022, Trinity 5
‘Almighty God, your Son has opened for us a new and living way into your presence. Give us pure hearts and constant wills to worship you in spirit and in truth.’ Music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word includes hymns from two other All Saints churches – in Aldershot and Northampton – but we open our worship at Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Trinity 5: Ever-decreasing circles
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 July 2022. ‘The task of the church is to remain centred on Jesus and His teaching. It is still to focus on the salvation that He has wrought and which none other has or can.’
Trinity 4: A message for our time
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 July 2022. ‘If we love God with all that we have and are, with heart and soul, strength and mind, then we can’t possibly fail.’
Sunday worship for 10 July 2022, Trinity 4
We open today’s Liturgy of the Word in Westminster Abbey with the Abbey Choir and the Choristers of the Chapel Royal singing John Rutter’s anthem ‘This is the day the Lord has made’ at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton …
Sunday worship for 3 July 2022, Trinity 3
‘Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ has taught us that what we do for the least of your children we do also for him. Give us the will to serve others as he was the servant of all.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 7, Hills of the north, rejoice …
Trinity 3: The long haul
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 July 2022. ‘Paul warns the church that it can live for itself or for the name and purposes of Jesus. Its members can live for themselves and all their physical and emotional appetites, or they can be moved and empowered by the Spirit of the Lord.’
Leslie Macleod’s farewell
On Saturday 29th May 2022 a special Choral Evensong marked the retiral of Leslie Macleod as organist of All Saints.
Sunday readings and prayers for July 2022
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month, with links to ‘Poirot’ actor David Suchet reading the Bible passages. We also remember those whose Year’s Mind falls this month, and those who we’re called to hold before God in the Diocesan and Anglican Cycles of Prayer.
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for July 2022
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, DR Congo, Pakistan and India. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Sunday worship for 26 June 2022, Trinity 2
The music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word includes some favourite hymns, one featuring a New York artist/chorister whose work is a much-loved part of our St Mary’s Cathedral. We open our worship with hymn 238, New every morning is the love …
Trinity 2: The costs of discipleship
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 June 2022. ‘We do not have to be heroic figures like Elijah. Most of us are called to be Elisha figures – but this is no trivial thing and in the sight of God we also can be mighty in the land.’
Sunday worship for 19 June 2022, Trinity 1
‘O God our defender, storms rage about us and cause us to be afraid. Rescue your people from despair, deliver your sons and daughters from fear, and preserve us all from unbelief.’ We open our worship with hymn 146, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty …
Trinity 1: This sense of turbulence makes today’s lessons look very up to date
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 June 2022. ‘Whatever the battering we have had to face personally and as a church, the Lord still has a new plan and a new purpose for us.’
General Synod reports
What happened at the Scottish Episcopal Church’s ‘annual conference’, held earlier this month.
Trinity Sunday: And so we enter the mystery…
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 June 2022. ‘The whole of God is the total love and commitment of Father, Son and Holy Spirit to one another.’
Sunday worship for 5 June 2022, Pentecost
We open our Liturgy of the Word for Pentecost Sunday in the company of the choristers from of St Michael’s, Highgate, in London with hymn 137, Come down, O Love divine …
Pentecost: Is there more that we can ask for and expect to receive?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 June 2022. ‘The Holy Spirit is not a special gift for the specially holy: He is there for all who ask and who do so from within their own sense of need and even inadequacy.’
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