The Episcopal Synod, comprising all seven diocesan bishops, met online this morning to consider the setting up of an independent mediation process to help the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney move forward from its current difficulties. • Read more on this topic The Synod voted to meet in private and then unanimously agreed to set…
Archives for September 2021
Trinity 17: Has the Lord’s arm been shortened?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 September 2021. ‘He will seek and save those who are lost, find and revive those who are wounded, comfort those who are broken and give life to those who are ready to give up.’
Commentary: The Lord of hosts is with us
We had chartered a boat out of Largs and were sailing for West Loch Tarbert, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, the wind light and in the south west. But it grew lighter and fainter until the wind died away altogether and we were left in the middle of the Inchmarnock Water bouncing around on a moderate…
Sunday worship for 26 September 2021, Trinity 17
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 433, O worship the King …
Sunday worship for 19 September 2021, Trinity 16
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 7, Hills of the North, rejoice …
Trinity 16: The suffering innocent
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 September 2021. ‘For Jesus, leading meant caring for the other and putting their interests ahead of His own’.
News from the Diocesan Office: September 2021
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Sunday worship for 12 September 2021, Trinity 15
For this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we head to Nigeria to open our worship with hymn 365, God moves in a mysterious way …
Trinity 15: Who do you say that I am?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 September 2021. ‘No being or doctrine would ever rival the kingdom of God – even if many were going to try as hard as they could.’
College of Bishops publishes the Torrance review of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney
The publication today of the Torrance Report comes after a period of difficult and lengthy consideration by the College of Bishops. In publishing the report, the College expresses its thanks to Professor Iain Torrance for his work in receiving submissions and compiling the report, which contains a number of useful findings which will help the…
Sunday worship for 5 September 2021, Trinity 14
For this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we open our worship with hymn 476, Ye servants of God, your masters proclaim …
Trinity 14: Jesus the Outsider
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 September 2021. ‘Perhaps it is the sense that Jesus Himself was also an outsider that gives us that freedom to welcome and to forgive others.’
Commentary: The unearned blessings of God received by personal faith in Jesus Christ
It was once a common response to any kind of annoyance or disturbance that ‘There should be a law against it’, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. The strange thing is that these days, there probably is. Any perceived insult, any critical comment, any expression of dissent outside the norms of progressive opinion, and there is a…
