St Andrew’s Day has been marked with the signing of a joint Declaration between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Scotland during a special service at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. At the service the Most Rev Mark Strange, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and Lord Wallace, the Moderator of…
Archives for November 2021
Sunday worship for 28 November 2021, Advent 1
This week we enjoy singing from the cathedrals of Ely, Lichfield, Salisbury and Sheffield, concluding with an organ voluntary by JS Bach from Goslar-Grauhof in Germany. We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 9, Lo He comes with clouds descending …
Advent 1: How long O Lord? Watch and pray
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 November 2021. ‘But this is a time for the church to take heart. It is a time to look up for the Salvation of the Lord is drawing near.’
Bishop John Taylor, RIP
The Right Reverend John Taylor, former rector of Holy Cross, Knightswood, and Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1991-96, has died at the age of 89. His funeral took place on November 26 at St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kirriemuir. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Christ the King: The hope in which we are pleased to rejoice
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 November 2021. ‘It is the proud conviction in which we look to the coming of Him who is indeed King of Kings and Lord of Lords.’
Sunday worship for 21 November 2021, Christ the King
On this Sunday of Christ the King there is, appropriately, some rousing music to accompany this online Liturgy of the Word and we open our worship with hymn 352, Crown Him with many crowns …
Reading the Bible like an Episcopalian: A four-part series in Advent
This series of four talks in the season of Advent will reflect upon ways in which Episcopalians understand Holy Scripture. Because we Episcopalians, like all Christians, read the Bible from our own perspective and within our own denomination, it is worth probing our own predilections. It is worth asking, in other words, what characterises an…
Armistice Day at the National Memorial Arboretum
This year the National Memorial Arboretum broadcast its annual Armistice Day Service of Remembrance live from the Armed Forces Memorial. The service commemorated the signing of the Armistice which brought an end to the First World War and remembered all those who gave their lives in service to their country since 1914.
Sunday worship for 14 November 2021, Remembrance
Let us begin our online Liturgy of the Word for this Remembrance Sunday with the words of Robert Laurence Binyon: ‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.’
Remembrance: He will never abandon us or forsake us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 November 2021. ‘It is the mark of a total and unyielding love, which will never let go of those who have committed themselves to Him.’
Sunday worship for 7 November 2021, All Souls
Our contemplation of All Souls in this Liturgy of the Word is aided by choral and organ music from the cathedrals of Lincoln, Guildford and Asaba in Nigeria, and from Milwaukee and New York, beginning with hymn 376, I heard the voice of Jesus say …
All Souls: Will we trust ourselves to His salvation?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 November 2021. ‘If All Saints is a celebration of the life of the church which is in the presence of God then All Souls is more personal and perhaps more searching.’
