Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 June 2017.
Trinity Sunday: Offside? Knock-on? Mast abeam?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 June 2017.
Statement on same-sex marriage
Statement by Rev Sydney Maitland in response to alterations to Canon 31 to permit the solemnisation in church of same-sex marriage. You will have heard that the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church has agreed to amend Canon 31, which concerns the solemnisation of marriage, to delete the definition of marriage as being between…
Scottish Episcopal Church votes to allow ‘equal marriage’
The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today voted in favour of altering the church’s Canon on Marriage to remove the definition that marriage is between a man and a woman and add a new section that acknowledges that there are different understandings of marriage which now allows clergy to solemnise marriage between same…
Pentecost: Evensong
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 June 2017.
Pentecost: The Life of Jesus Christ among us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 June 2017.
Commentary: Beware a sense of grievance
The hymn ‘Love Unknown’ has the line ‘O who am I that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh and die?’ We have all had those ‘Who am I?’ moments when we questioned almost everything about ourselves. And in some ways these questions are still with us but in a more powerful and…
Easter 5: A holy people
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 May 2017.
Easter 4: The sheepfold and the shepherd
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 May 2017.
Commentary: Pray for those with whom we disagree
The calling of the general election definitely caught me on the hop and the thoughts I had hoped to explore now would be out of place. As governments extend themselves into ever more intimate and personal aspects of our lives, so more and more aspects of our lives have become political. Yet Jesus had a…
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