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 368, Guide me, O thou great Redeemer …
Archives for 2021
Trinity 9: The Bread of Life
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 August 2021.
Sunday worship for 25 July 2021, Trinity 8
On this Sunday when at last we can resume congregational singing in church, our worship will open – as it does in this online Liturgy of the Word – with hymn 334, All people that on earth do dwell …
Trinity 8: The extravagance of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 July 2021.
Sunday worship for 18 July 2021, Trinity 7
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we enjoy music and singing from Chester, Cambridge, Kansas and Westminster Abbey, opening our worship with hymn 52, O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness …
Trinity 7: One shepherd of Israel, for all of humanity in all ages and lands
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 July 2021.
Sunday worship for 11 July 2021, Trinity 6
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. This week we open our worship at another All Saints, the Royal Garrison Church in Aldershot, with hymn 377, Immortal, invisible, God only wise …
Trinity 6: Time for us to trust radically in the Lord
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 July 2021.
Rev’d Donald Strachan, RIP
Rev’d Donald Strachan passed away on Saturday 3 July 2021. Donald served in the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway as Rector of St John the Evangelist, Coatbridge, Prison Chaplain at Barlinnie and Diocesan Supernumerary between 1973 and 1994. He lived out his retirement in North Uist and latterly was a resident in Trianaid Care Home in…
Sunday worship for 4 July 2021, Trinity 5
This week’s online Liturgy of the Word is complemented by hymns from Worcestershire, Hammersmith and Guildford, a psalm from Westminster Abbey, and a wonderful organ voluntary from Scarsdale, New York. We open our worship with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Trinity 5: Called forth and sent out
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 July 2021.
Commentary: Time to review where we are and where we are going
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…
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…
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 worship for 30 May 2021, Trinity
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: Released into a new vocation of life
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 30 May 2021.
Sunday worship for 23 May 2021, Pentecost
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word for Pentecost our musical itinerary includes visits to London, Los Angeles and Moscow. We open our worship with hymn 137, Come down, O Love divine …
Pentecost: The seal of God’s promise to His people
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 May 2021.
Sunday worship for 16 May 2021, Easter 7
In this week’s online Liturgy of the Word we celebrate Jesus’ ascension with music from Britain, Nigeria and the United States, ending with a majestic organ voluntary, Alexandre Guilmant’s Grand Choeur in D major. We open our worship with hymn 130, Hail the day that sees Him rise …
Easter 7: Raised on high
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 May 2021.
Sunday worship for 9 May 2021, Easter 6
We open this week’s online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 366, God of mercy, God of grace …
