The funeral of Isa Lang, who died peacefully at Quayside Care Home earlier this month, will be at 3.30 pm on Wednesday 3 November at Clydebank crematorium. Isa was born in Finnieston and moved to Knightswood at the age of three. She was a lifelong member of Holy Cross, Knightswood, where she was also a…
Archives for October 2021
Sunday worship for 31 October 2021, All Saints
During this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we travel musically from St Machar’s Cathedral in Aberdeen to Holland, by way of the Royal Albert Hall, opening with hymn 205, Christ is made the sure foundation …
All Saints: We are already with them as we worship Jesus as Lord
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 October 2021. ‘Death is no longer that great abyss of nothingness, full of terrors. Today we are celebrating life rather than death.’
Sunday worship for 24 October 2021, Trinity 21
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word in the company of the choirs and orchestra of St Andrew’s Kirk in Chennai, India, with hymn 362, Glorious things of Thee are spoken …
Trinity 21: Lord have mercy
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 October 2021. ‘It was the very simplicity of Bartimaeus’ prayer that had its effect. No special pleading or campaigning or accusation of others. We also have the same access to Jesus that Bartimaeus had.’
Commentary: COP26 – an evasion of the real issues
Next month the world’s attention will be directed to Glasgow, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, as the COP26 conference is held and world leaders try to agree measures to control emissions of carbon dioxide and at least moderate the warming of the global atmosphere. And yes, there will be visitors who are taking part in, observing…
Sunday worship for 17 October 2021, Trinity 20
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word in the company of the choir and congregation of First Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska with hymn 473, When morning gilds the skies, and end in Haarlem, Holland, with a wonderful video recording of JS Bach’s Prelude and fugue in C major …
Trinity 20: My sins, His death
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 October 2021. ‘He wants us to be victorious in our lives, but it is a victory entered only through Him and never apart from Him.’
University of Dundee agency appointed as mediators for Aberdeen and Orkney
Following the meeting of the Episcopal Synod on 30 September, the Mediation Steering Group appointed by the bishops has now taken the first steps towards setting up a mediation process for the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney. The Steering Group, comprising David Strang CBE, the Rev Liz Crumlish and Morag Hendry, have appointed the University…
Sunday worship for 10 October 2021, Trinity 19
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 264, All things bright and beautiful …
Trinity 19: With God, all things are possible
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 October 2021. ‘God came that we might thrive, and He died so that we might live.’
Sunday worship for 3 October 2021, Harvest
We begin this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 262, We plough the fields, and scatter …
Trinity 18, Harvest: Seek first the Kingdom of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 October 2021. ‘It was in a garden tomb that Jesus was buried and from which He rose again. And in Revelation the picture of the New Jerusalem is very much one of a new kind of garden.’
