Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 6 December, 2015. ‘The truth is that worshipping God is both highly personal and indeed deeply intimate, for it places before Him the deepest aspects of our lives.’
Archives for 2015
Advent 2: The Messenger
Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 6 December, 2015. ‘Most of all we have one another, we have the assurance of the Holy Spirit, and we have the complete salvation of the Lord.’
Christmas message from Bishop Gregor Duncan
At times it is hard to think that the world we live in is anything other than very dark, writes Bishop Gregor Duncan. All around us are threats to life – climate change, terrorism, civil wars, genocidal campaigns, corruption, failed and failing states, appalling abuse, not least of women and children – the list is…
A Collect for Growth
We pray that You will increase and strengthen the life and witness of Your people at All Saints, Jordanhill, That, increasing in numbers and being strengthened in faith, we may be fruitful in all the works of the Holy Spirit, and show forth the love of Your Son Jesus Christ in this, our own generation.
Commentary: We find, to our astonishment, that God has taken the blame
The question goes back at least to the Book of Psalms: “Why do the nations rage? And the people imagine a vain thing?” (Ps 2: 1) and probably a lot further than that as well, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. And there are (at least) two questions – one is about why politics is so violent,…
Advent 1: Be alert – do not be dismayed
Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 29 November, 2015. ‘The Lord is reassuring us that He holds us in the palm of His hand and the prayers that we make in His name are the prayers that He takes up and makes personal in the presence of the Father.’
Christ the King: A time for noting the darkness but celebrating the light
Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 22 November, 2015. ‘A time for encouraging one another, bearing burdens, sharing sorrows, relieving want, offering aid and support and comfort.’
Video: Archbishop Welby’s fury at cinema ban on ‘offensive’ Lord’s Prayer
Britain’s biggest cinema chains have banned the screening of a film in which the Archbishop of Canterbury and members of the public recite the Lord’s Prayer – because they say it could be offensive to movie-goers. Odeon, Cineworld and Vue have refused to show the one-minute film the Church of England planned to run in…
Only Christian faith will save Europe, Anglican bishop says after Paris attacks
A retired Anglican bishop who now works on behalf of persecuted Christians worldwide has a message for those who believe the answer to preventing more Islamic terrorism is promoting secular values: Only Christianity can save Europe from the radical Islamists threatening it. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, who is originally from Pakistan, writes at The Catholic Herald:…
Turning Syria’s hopeless, despairing and angry young people into Ambassadors for Peace
A Syrian Anglican priest has launched an innovative educational programme which is helping to turn young Syrian adolescents away from their feelings of hopelessness, despair and anger, and into Ambassadors for Peace who then help to teach younger generations of Syrians. The programme began last year in Lattakia, a town on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, and…
Congrats to All Saints from community website
Remedial work to the west wall of All Saints costing around £9,000 was completed in the autumn, prompting this generous message on the Jordanhill News community Twitter account. Thanks!
Diocese declares ‘Refugees Welcome’ with special event on November 28
A special evening of reflections, stories and hope on the theme of Refugees Welcome will be held at the request of Bishop Gregor Duncan from 7-9 pm on Saturday November 28 at St Mary’s Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9JB.
Second Sunday before Advent: Institutions overthrown
Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 15 November, 2015. ‘It is what we have become in Him that will last to eternity, as will the works that He has been able to do within us and through us.’
Commentary: Paris desacré
For most of us, French was the first foreign language we learned and our history lessons were full of our – often robust – relations with the French, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. In our own lives, we have visited France and of course have met French people. In our own church life, we are honoured…
Paris terrorist attacks: a statement by the Primus
The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, said: “The attacks in Paris are a callous and devastating assault on innocent people who were enjoying an evening out in a beautiful city. Our prayers are with all who have lost loved ones, with those who have been injured and with the many…
Bishops’ prayers and compassion after Paris terrorism
In the wake of a series of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday evening (13 November 2015) our two Anglican congregations in the French capital are planning special acts of worship on Sunday. There are two churches serving Central Paris, St George’s in Rue Auguste-Vacquerie and st Michael’s in Rue D’Aguesseau. Rev Andrew Bigg, Assistant…
Prayers and solidarity after Paris attacks
Church leaders around the world have offered prayers and messages of solidarity after the series of terrorist attacks in Paris last night which left at least 127 people dead and many more fighting for their lives. “I am deeply shocked by the terrible tragedy which has befallen the city of Paris,” the head of the…
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia sends message of support to the Archbishop of Paris
The President of the Bishops’ conference of Scotland, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, has sent a message of support to the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Vingt-Trois, expressing his “sadness at the horrific events which unfolded in Paris last night”. Archbishop Tartaglia’s message also promises to ” join with you in prayer, commending to God’s love and mercy all those who were killed,…
Third Sunday before Advent: Remembrance Sunday
Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 8 November, 2015. ‘One of the pleasures of pastoral visiting is the surprises that one can encounter …’
Barnabas Prayer Focus for November 2015
The Barnabas Fund’s monthly newsletter, asking us to pray for persecuted Christians in the Central African Republic, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt and Syria.
Video: Christianity Explored comes to All Saints
Following the success of our Discipleship Explored course during Lent this year, All Saints will continue its Mission Action by running Christianity Explored during Advent 2015 and Lent 2016.
Bishop Gregor Duncan: ‘We don’t need to await future glory to become saints. It can be happening now’
Bishop Gregor Duncan visited All Saints yesterday – appropriately, All Saints Day – to meet the congregation and review its first year of Mission Action. Preaching at the Eucharist beforehand, the Bishop said: “Saints … can be the great figures of our faith, beginning with the blessed virgin and the apostles, but they can also…
Trinity 22 and All Saints Day: Saintly works in progress
Sermon delivered by Bishop Gregor Duncan on Sunday 1 November, 2015. +Gregor was visiting All Saints to review the congregation’s first year of Mission Action.
Commentary: What endures to eternity
There is an aspect of our media that definitely likes to play on the dramatic, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. If it is not dramatic then it is not really news. So: crime figures are discussed with far more animation than data on the balance of payments. The disaster, especially if there are pictures, will draw…
Video: A conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury
A half-hour interview conducted by Tom Gjelten, Religion and Belief correspondent for NPR, for the Council on Foreign Relations, Justin Welby covers doctrine and how issues are perceived differently in the West and the Global South, with the ramifications of ordaining an openly gay bishop.
Trinity 21: Discipleship through Trial
Sermon delivered by Rev Sydney Maitland on Sunday 25 October, 2015.
Trinity 19 and Harvest Festival: Seek first the Kingdom of God
Sunday 4 October 2015. Sermon delivered by the Rev Sydney Maitland.
Young families give hope to Broomhill parish
The Roman Catholic parish church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, with which All Saints has many links, marks its 50th anniversary this year. This article from the Archdiocesan newspaper, Flourish, reports on a celebratory Eucharist. OUR Lady of Perpetual Succour parish in Broomhill was founded in 1962 and the church building opened three years…
Commentary: The power of positive faith
It must be some 40 or 50 years since the “Power of Positive Thinking” was published, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, and since then there has been a veritable flood of books and courses on self-improvement, positive thinking/being/ action and so on. “Spirituality” has become an exercise in self-improvement, and essentially inward-looking. Advertising has developed themes…
Trinity 18: Simplicity of living
Sunday 27 September 2015. Sermon delivered by the Rev Sydney Maitland.
