The Episcopal Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today elected the Rt Rev Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness as Primus. Bishop Mark said: “I am humbled by the confidence shown in me by my colleagues and I will seek to serve the church as Primus with love and strength. “I am deeply…
Archives for June 2017
Trinity 2: Fear not, but take up the cross
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 June 2017.
Trinity 1: Sarah laughed
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 to the All Saints congregation by Rev Sydney Maitland in response to alterations to Canon 31 to permit the solemnisation in church of same-sex marriage. (Updated on 9 July 2017.)
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…
