The Liturgy of the Word, with music by the choirs and musicians of St Edmundsbury, Liverpool Metropolitan and Wakefield Cathedrals and Hedvig Eleonora Church in Stockholm; the morning’s lessons read by David Suchet; and a reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland.
Archives for April 2020
Easter 3: Did not our hearts burn within us?
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 April 2020.
Commentary: The end of the beginning
As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus we are also confronting what must be the most persistent and intractable of fears: death. Today it is the great taboo, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, to be laughed off like a trifle if anyone were so indelicate as to mention it out of place. Yes, we meet it…
Sunday worship for 19 April 2020, Easter 2
The Liturgy of the Word, with music by the choirs and musicians of St Edmundsbury, Exeter and Hereford Cathedrals and Selwyn College, Cambridge; the morning’s lessons read by David Suchet; and a reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland.
Easter 2: Peace be with you
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 April 2020.
Sunday worship for 12 April 2020: Easter Day
The Liturgy of the Word, with music by the choirs and musicians of York Minster, Westminster Abbey, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Canterbury Cathedral; the morning’s lessons read by David Suchet; and a reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland.
Easter Day: God had acted gloriously
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 April 2020.
An Easter Message from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Many religions have festivals which celebrate light overcoming darkness. Such occasions are often accompanied by the lighting of candles. They seem to speak to every culture, and appeal to people of all faiths, and of none. They are lit on birthday cakes and to mark family anniversaries, when we gather happily around a source of…
News in Brief
Vestry meeting + Coffee Morning and Plant sale cancelled + Christian Aid Spring Fayre + Tea and Talk + West End Festival
New bishop to be instituted ‘by deed’
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, currently Bishop of Argyll & the Isles, will become Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway on July 1 ‘by deed’ – that is, by agreement of his fellow bishops – with his scheduled consecration at St Mary’s Cathedral having been ruled out by measures to combat Covid-19. The current acting Bishop…
Church leaders united in response to Covid-19 pandemic
In an unprecedented move, Church leaders came together on Wednesday 1st April 2020. The morning video conference included senior religious leaders from around Britain and Ireland who shared the situation in each of their jurisdictions. The initiative originated with Archbishop Justin Welby who wanted to offer an opportunity for leaders to hear and support one…
Palm Sunday: A cynical and angry nihilism stalks the land
Reflection by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 April 2020.
Commentary: Death holds no horrors
In my notes for the magazine for February I commented that we were living in a lull and while I felt that something was coming, I had no idea what it would be, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Now we know – at least in part. Whereas war is violent, noisy and dramatic, this Covid-19 is…
