Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week we enjoy wonderful renditions of Chrustmas music, opening with hymn 21, A great and mighty wonder …
Archives for 2020
Christmas 1: Commitment to the Gospel message
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 December 2020.
News from the Diocesan Office: December 2020
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Worship for 25 December 2020, Christmas Day
Christ, who by his incarnation gathered into one all things earthly and heavenly, fill us with his joy and peace! Our online Liturgy of the Word for Christmas Day includes the music which we would love to sing in church, presented through video by fellow Christians who have shared their gifts with the world. Do join them in song wherever you are! We open our worship with hymn 42, While Shepherds Watched – and end it with it too …
Christmas: Good news, great joy
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2020.
Sunday worship for 20 December 2020, Advent 4
As we approach Christmas, this week’s Liturgy of the Word features choral music from two other All Saints churches – in London and Northampton – as well as organ music from Hamburg. We open our worship with hymn 186, Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord …
Advent 4: The promises and purposes of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 December 2020.
Sunday worship for 13 December 2020, Advent 3
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week we enjoy music from Michigan, Ohio, Huddersfield, Cambridge and Epsom. We open our worship with hymn 12, On Jordan’s bank …
Advent 3: John – not me, Him
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 December 2020.
Join the Scottish Episcopal Virtual Choir
Music is especially important at this time of year, and so the team behind Provincial online broadcasts intends to produce a series of musical offerings for use during Advent and Christmas worship.
Sunday worship for 6 December 2020, Advent 2
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week’s music comes from a wide range of sources, including a parish church in Southampton, a Catholic community in Minnesota, and St Paul’s Cathedral. We open our worship with hymn 388, Jesus shall reign …
Advent 2: An opportunity for faith to shine forth
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 December 2020.
Primus’ Charge sets scene at General Synod 2020
The Primus’ Charge outlined the challenges and opportunities before the Scottish Episcopal Church at the start of the first-ever virtual General Synod on December 4. On a historic occasion at St Paul’s & St George’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, the General Synod was held online, with just a handful of core participants present in the…
A Nativity Quiz for Christmas
We grew up very familiar with the Christmas story, writes JB. The journey to Bethlehem as demanded by the census, the lack of accommodation when they got there and the subsequent birth of Jesus in a stable, and being laid in a manger because there was ‘no crib for a bed’. The star, angels announcing…
Sunday worship for 29 November 2020, Advent 1
This week we enjoy singing from the cathedrals of Ely, Lichfield, Lincoln and Sheffield, concluding with an organ voluntary from St Catherine’s Church in Hamburg, where JS Bach himself once played. We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 9, Lo He comes with clouds descending …
Advent 1: A time to reassert our place in the providence of God
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 November 2020.
Music for Advent on Spotify
Journey through Advent with hymn and song in this Spotify playlist created from suggestions by people of the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. To add yours email digitalmissioner@glasgow.anglican.org, comment and share!
Commentary: No need to give way to our fears
“I want, I want, I don’t know what I want.” I believe that these words come from a play, ‘The Insect’ by the Capeks. They somehow reflect a lot of what people feel today, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. We resent the salaries and bonuses paid to bankers but we still want our savings to be…
New Dean of Glasgow & Galloway appointed
Rev Reuben James Preston – Rector of St John’s, Johnstone and St Margaret’s, Renfrew – is the new Dean of Glasgow & Galloway. In making the appointment, Bishop Kevin Pearson paid tribute to Canon Gordon Fyfe, who has been acting Dean for the past two years following the resignation of Rev Ian Barcroft.
Sunday worship for 22 November 2020, Christ the King
As we enter a new phase of restrictions on our Sunday worship in church, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. On this Sunday of Christ the King there is, appropriately, some rousing music and we open our worship with hymn 352, Crown Him with many crowns …
Christ the King: Sheep and goats
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 November 2020.
Diocesan Quiet Day online
A Diocesan Advent Quiet Day will be held online over Zoom on Saturday, 12th December 2020, 10 am – 12.30 pm. Entitled ‘Going Out, Coming Home’, it will reflect on the exile of the Holy Family to Egypt and the return to Nazareth in the context of Covid-19.
Sunday worship for 15 November 2020, Second before Advent
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. We open our worship with hymn 139, Come, thou Holy Spirit, come …
Trinity 23: The Day of the Lord
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 November 2020.
Sunday worship for 8 November 2020, Remembrance
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. Please remember especially in your prayers Kenneth McCreadie, who passed away this week, and Brenda, and their family.
Remembrance: Commitment, conviction, consolation
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 November 2020.
Kenneth McCreadie, RIP
It is with deep regret that we announce that Kenneth McCreadie died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family and having received the final rites of the church.
A church built to be demolished
The Chapel of All Hallows in Bellahouston Park was envisioned by the people of the Scottish Episcopal Church for the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, 1938.
Sunday worship for 1 November 2020, All Saints
Although we can now share the Eucharist together at All Saints on a Sunday morning, we continue to publish this weekly online Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. Our musical journey today takes us to Salisbury Cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall, Enschede-Oost in Holland and Old St Paul’s in Edinburgh. We open our worship with hymn 197, For all the Saints …
All Saints: Sermon on the Mount
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 November 2020.
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