The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Archives for March 2021
Sunday worship for 28 March 2021, Palm Sunday
Although at last we’re able to celebrate the Eucharist together again today, some will not feel able to do so and others will miss the music which should make Palm Sunday joyous. I hope that this online Liturgy of the Word, book-ended by wonderful singing from a virtual choir of four from an Episcopal church in Boulder, Colorado, and a gathered one of 250 at St Andrew’s Kirk in Chennai, India, will compensate! We open our worship with hymn 352, Crown Him with many crowns …
Sunday worship for 21 March 2021, Passion Sunday
At last, the end of lockdown is in sight and we hope to meet again in church next Sunday. Meantime, in this week’s Liturgy of the Word we travel musically from King’s College, Cambridge, to Dundee Parish Church, beginning with hymn 90, O sacred head, sore wounded …
Passion Sunday: Where is ‘self-affirmation’ when presented with the story of Jesus’ self-giving and self-denial?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 March 2021.
All Saints will reopen on Palm Sunday
Sunday services will resume at All Saints on March 28, Palm Sunday, following the Scottish Government’s easing of anti-Covid restrictions.
Sunday worship for 14 March 2021, Lent 4 and Mothering Sunday
As our advance through Lent is punctuated by Mothering Sunday, let’s reflect in this week’s Liturgy of the Word on motherhood and the Church. We open our worship with hymn 457, The King of love my shepherd is …
Lent 4, Mothering Sunday: The Church is a spiritual home
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 March 2021.
Sunday worship for 7 March 2021, Lent 3
This week our progress through Lent takes us musically from Guildford Cathedral in 1966 to Westminster Cathedral, All Saints Margaret Street in London, the Irish Cultural Heritage Center in Milwaukee for a wonderful rendition of ‘I heard the voice of Jesus say’, and to the Westerkerk in Amsterdam for organ music by Sigfrid Karg-Elert. We begin with hymn 414, O for a closer walk with God …
Lent 3: God does not have to be proved, but He does have to be trusted
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 March 2021.
Commentary: Learning in testing times
It is really strange seeing the signs of springtime appearing while the life of the church and much of the city has been stilled, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Conditions in almost all aspects of life are still highly unpredictable, in terms of the weather, progress of the Covid pandemic, the restarting of our national life,…
