Waiting can be extremely tedious, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Waiting for a bus, an appointment, a letter or just for the rain to stop. It is a pastime immersed in incredible boredom, unless relieved by having something to read or to think about. But then there is another kind of waiting, such as in a…
Archives for June 2021
Sunday worship for 27 June 2021, Trinity 4
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Salisbury, Oxford, Warsaw and St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, opening our worship with hymn 338, At the name of Jesus …
Trinity 4: A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 July 2021. • First Reading: 2 Samuel 1: 1, 17-27 (David’s lament for Saul and Jonathan)• Psalm 30• Epistle: 2 Corinthians 8: 7-15 (Exhortation to generosity in giving)• Gospel: Mark 5: 21-43 (Jesus heals a haemorraging woman and a sick girl) Sermon He was an unknown…
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for July 2021
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Myanmar. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Sunday worship for 20 June 2021, Trinity 3
This week we enjoy music and singing from Peterborough Cathedral in 1967, St Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth in 1989 and Sweden just three years ago. But we open our worship at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2012, marking the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ setting of the Old Hundred for hymn 334, All people that on earth do dwell …
Trinity 3: Jesus was there to hear and to act
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 June 2021.
News from the Diocesan Office: June 2021
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Sunday worship for 13 June 2021, Trinity 2
This week we enjoy music and singing from Germany, Nigeria … and Troon. We open our worship with hymn 145 All hail, adored Trinity …
Trinity 2: The growth of the seed is the gift of God in creation
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 June 2021.
2021 General Synod roundup
General Synod members gathered online on June 10 and 11 for the annual meeting of the governing body of the Scottish Episcopal Church + Joint St Andrew Declaration with the Church of Scotland approved + Missionary Jane Haining, murdered at Auschwitz Birkenau, added to the Church’s liturgical calendar + Climate change guidance plan
Sunday worship for 6 June 2021, Trinity 1
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 for Trinity Sunday with Hymn 146, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty …
Trinity 1: The Way, the Truth and the Life
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 June 2021.
Commentary: Steadfast in our duty before Him
The plea goes up for justice – and that ‘our claim is just’, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. The cynic might say that nobody openly makes a claim that they know to be unjust and even WW2 began with Hitler’s demand for the restoration of the Danzig corridor to German control as if it had been…
Sunday readings and prayers for June 2021
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month, with links to ‘Poirot’ actor David Suchet reading the Bible passages. We also remember those whose Year’s Mind falls this month, and those who we’re called to hold before God in the Diocesan and Anglican Cycles of Prayer.
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for June 2021
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Myanmar. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
