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 28 November 2021, Advent 1
This week we enjoy singing from the cathedrals of Ely, Lichfield, Salisbury and Sheffield, concluding with an organ voluntary by JS Bach from Goslar-Grauhof in Germany. We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 9, Lo He comes with clouds descending …
Advent 1: How long O Lord? Watch and pray
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 November 2021. ‘But this is a time for the church to take heart. It is a time to look up for the Salvation of the Lord is drawing near.’
Bishop John Taylor, RIP
The Right Reverend John Taylor, former rector of Holy Cross, Knightswood, and Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1991-96, has died at the age of 89. His funeral took place on November 26 at St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kirriemuir. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Christ the King: The hope in which we are pleased to rejoice
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 November 2021. ‘It is the proud conviction in which we look to the coming of Him who is indeed King of Kings and Lord of Lords.’
Sunday worship for 21 November 2021, Christ the King
On this Sunday of Christ the King there is, appropriately, some rousing music to accompany this online Liturgy of the Word and we open our worship with hymn 352, Crown Him with many crowns …
Reading the Bible like an Episcopalian: A four-part series in Advent
This series of four talks in the season of Advent will reflect upon ways in which Episcopalians understand Holy Scripture. Because we Episcopalians, like all Christians, read the Bible from our own perspective and within our own denomination, it is worth probing our own predilections. It is worth asking, in other words, what characterises an…
Armistice Day at the National Memorial Arboretum
This year the National Memorial Arboretum broadcast its annual Armistice Day Service of Remembrance live from the Armed Forces Memorial. The service commemorated the signing of the Armistice which brought an end to the First World War and remembered all those who gave their lives in service to their country since 1914.
Sunday worship for 14 November 2021, Remembrance
Let us begin our online Liturgy of the Word for this Remembrance Sunday with the words of Robert Laurence Binyon: ‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.’
Remembrance: He will never abandon us or forsake us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 November 2021. ‘It is the mark of a total and unyielding love, which will never let go of those who have committed themselves to Him.’
Sunday worship for 7 November 2021, All Souls
Our contemplation of All Souls in this Liturgy of the Word is aided by choral and organ music from the cathedrals of Lincoln, Guildford and Asaba in Nigeria, and from Milwaukee and New York, beginning with hymn 376, I heard the voice of Jesus say …
All Souls: Will we trust ourselves to His salvation?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 November 2021. ‘If All Saints is a celebration of the life of the church which is in the presence of God then All Souls is more personal and perhaps more searching.’
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for November 2021
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Eritrea, Pakistan, India and Myanmar. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Isa Lang, RIP
The funeral of Isa Lang, who died peacefully at Quayside Care Home earlier this month, will be at 3.30 pm on Wednesday 3 November at Clydebank crematorium. Isa was born in Finnieston and moved to Knightswood at the age of three. She was a lifelong member of Holy Cross, Knightswood, where she was also a…
Sunday worship for 31 October 2021, All Saints
During this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we travel musically from St Machar’s Cathedral in Aberdeen to Holland, by way of the Royal Albert Hall, opening with hymn 205, Christ is made the sure foundation …
All Saints: We are already with them as we worship Jesus as Lord
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 October 2021. ‘Death is no longer that great abyss of nothingness, full of terrors. Today we are celebrating life rather than death.’
Sunday worship for 24 October 2021, Trinity 21
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word in the company of the choirs and orchestra of St Andrew’s Kirk in Chennai, India, with hymn 362, Glorious things of Thee are spoken …
Trinity 21: Lord have mercy
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 October 2021. ‘It was the very simplicity of Bartimaeus’ prayer that had its effect. No special pleading or campaigning or accusation of others. We also have the same access to Jesus that Bartimaeus had.’
Commentary: COP26 – an evasion of the real issues
Next month the world’s attention will be directed to Glasgow, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, as the COP26 conference is held and world leaders try to agree measures to control emissions of carbon dioxide and at least moderate the warming of the global atmosphere. And yes, there will be visitors who are taking part in, observing…
Sunday worship for 17 October 2021, Trinity 20
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word in the company of the choir and congregation of First Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska with hymn 473, When morning gilds the skies, and end in Haarlem, Holland, with a wonderful video recording of JS Bach’s Prelude and fugue in C major …
Trinity 20: My sins, His death
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 October 2021. ‘He wants us to be victorious in our lives, but it is a victory entered only through Him and never apart from Him.’
University of Dundee agency appointed as mediators for Aberdeen and Orkney
Following the meeting of the Episcopal Synod on 30 September, the Mediation Steering Group appointed by the bishops has now taken the first steps towards setting up a mediation process for the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney. The Steering Group, comprising David Strang CBE, the Rev Liz Crumlish and Morag Hendry, have appointed the University…
Sunday worship for 10 October 2021, Trinity 19
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 264, All things bright and beautiful …
Trinity 19: With God, all things are possible
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 October 2021. ‘God came that we might thrive, and He died so that we might live.’
Sunday worship for 3 October 2021, Harvest
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 262, We plough the fields, and scatter …
Trinity 18, Harvest: Seek first the Kingdom of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 October 2021. ‘It was in a garden tomb that Jesus was buried and from which He rose again. And in Revelation the picture of the New Jerusalem is very much one of a new kind of garden.’
Diocesan Synod 2021
The Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway held its first-ever ‘virtual’ Synod by Zoom on 31 July this year. Full details of Synod business with documents can be found here. The main issues discussed and decided upon included: • The adoption of a new Constitution more appropriate to current times and Canons, with particular regard to the…
Sunday readings and prayers for October 2021
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 October 2021
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, India and China. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Mediation steering group established for Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney
The Episcopal Synod, comprising all seven diocesan bishops, met online this morning to consider the setting up of an independent mediation process to help the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney move forward from its current difficulties. The Synod voted to meet in private and then unanimously agreed to set up such a process and appointed…
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