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.’
Archives for 2021
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.’
Mediation steering group established for Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney
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…
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…
Sunday worship for 29 August 2021, Trinity 13
For this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we open our worship with hymn 349, Come, let us join our cheerful songs …
Trinity 13: Godly living found in personal holiness
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 August 2021. ‘Are there areas where our lives need amendment? Definitely. But if we are aware of this, then are there any areas of life where God cannot meet us in our needs? Definitely not.’
Sunday worship for 22 August 2021, Trinity 12
Once again we can enjoy congregational singing in church, and our worship will open – as it does in this online Liturgy of the Word – with hymn 238, New every morning is the love …
Trinity 12: Where else can we go?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 August 2021. ‘Paul’s teaching is different for we are there to hold the land that has already been won for us by Jesus. Our task is to stand.’
Sunday worship for 15 August 2021, Trinity 11
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Hornby in Lancashire, Guildford Cathedral, Windsor Castle and Westminster Cathedral, opening our worship with hymn 349, Come, let us join our cheerful songs …
Trinity 11: Called to become part of who He is
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 August 2021. ‘St Paul wrote that if we are blessed by being drawn into the death of Jesus, then how much more will we be blessed and glorified by being drawn into His resurrection.’
Sunday worship for 8 August 2021, Trinity 10
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Worcestershire, Guildford, Marlborough College, Hammersmith and Paris, opening our worship with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Trinity 10: Let us join the feast
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 August 2021.
‘To receive Jesus was to become the honoured guest at His banquet, where only the best would be provided. But equally, to receive Him was also to let Him into the deepest places of anger and rejection.’
