Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 May 2021.
Archives for 2021
Two Covid-19 updates from Advisory Group now available
The Advisory Group of the Scottish Episcopal Church has published new guidance on the calculation and display of the Physical Distance Based Capacity (PDBC) in church buildings, as pandemic restrictions are eased. The Group has also produced an updated Frequently Asked Questions document. Both of these resources are available here. When using the index of Advisory…
Sunday worship for 2 May 2021, Easter 5
Our music accompanying this week’s Liturgy of the Word comes from Newcastle and Ely Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey and finally from Milwaukee and Manhattan with choral and organ renditions of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ traditional tune Kingsfold – I heard the voice of Jesus say. We open our worship with hymn 102, A brighter dawn is breaking …
Easter 5: As we love and serve each other …
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 May 2021.
General Synod 2021 to take place over two days
General Synod will again take place online this year, as it did in 2020. However, the schedule will cover two days on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 June, instead of the single day event that was held last December. Business will start at 9am each day and is expected to run until approximately mid to…
Sunday worship for 25 April 2021, Easter 4
Today we are joined in church by Bishop Kevin Pearson, who will celebrate the Eucharist and preach. We open our worship with hymn 117, The Day of Resurrection …
Bishop will visit All Saints this Sunday
We welcome Bishop Kevin Pearson to All Saints at 10.30 am this coming Sunday, April 25, when he will preach and be celebrant at the Eucharist.
Sunday worship for 18 April 2021, Easter 3
This week’s online Liturgy of the Word and our morning service in church have as their backdrop the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh – and the peace of the risen Christ. We open our worship with hymn 119, The strife is o’er, the battle won …
Easter 3: Peace be with you
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 April 2021.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Following the death of Prince Philip, our worship in church on Sunday April 11 will begin with the National Anthem and we shall be praying for the Queen and Royal Family at this time of bereavement and personal distress. Read more for statements and prayer from +Kevin Pearson, +Mark Strange and ++Justin Welby.
Sunday worship for 11 April 2021, Easter 2
We continue through Eastertide with a Liturgy of the Word for those who are not yet ready to mix in public and for our wider audience. This week we enjoy music from Chichester, Warwick, Durham, Landsberg am Lech in Germany and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where we open our worship with hymn 117, The Day of Resurrection …
Easter 2: The life and resurrection of Jesus in our own lives
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 April 2021.
Sunday worship for 4 April 2021, Easter Day
Christ is risen! A happy Easter to everyone! The music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word presents two exceptional performances – of This Joyful Eastertide by a young man beautifully singing all four parts, and of Charles-Marie Widor playing his own Toccata at St Sulpice in Paris, in 1932. We open with hymn 120, Thine be the glory …
Easter Day: A close encounter of the most personal kind
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 April 2021.
Maundy Thursday: An eternity of loving the Lord – and one another
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Thursday April 1 2021.
Commentary: Much is being torn down, little is being built in its place
We have just resumed our worship in church after a lockdown of some three months, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. For some of us it has been tedious as we are denied the company of friends and the pursuit of out of home activities. But in coming together again there is that sense of regathering, renewal,…
News from the Diocesan Office: March 2021
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Sunday worship for 28 March 2021, Palm Sunday
Although at last we’re able to celebrate the Eucharist together again today, some will not feel able to do so and others will miss the music which should make Palm Sunday joyous. I hope that this online Liturgy of the Word, book-ended by wonderful singing from a virtual choir of four from an Episcopal church in Boulder, Colorado, and a gathered one of 250 at St Andrew’s Kirk in Chennai, India, will compensate! We open our worship with hymn 352, Crown Him with many crowns …
Sunday worship for 21 March 2021, Passion Sunday
At last, the end of lockdown is in sight and we hope to meet again in church next Sunday. Meantime, in this week’s Liturgy of the Word we travel musically from King’s College, Cambridge, to Dundee Parish Church, beginning with hymn 90, O sacred head, sore wounded …
Passion Sunday: Where is ‘self-affirmation’ when presented with the story of Jesus’ self-giving and self-denial?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 March 2021.
All Saints will reopen on Palm Sunday
Sunday services will resume at All Saints on March 28, Palm Sunday, following the Scottish Government’s easing of anti-Covid restrictions.
Sunday worship for 14 March 2021, Lent 4 and Mothering Sunday
As our advance through Lent is punctuated by Mothering Sunday, let’s reflect in this week’s Liturgy of the Word on motherhood and the Church. We open our worship with hymn 457, The King of love my shepherd is …
Lent 4, Mothering Sunday: The Church is a spiritual home
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 March 2021.
Sunday worship for 7 March 2021, Lent 3
This week our progress through Lent takes us musically from Guildford Cathedral in 1966 to Westminster Cathedral, All Saints Margaret Street in London, the Irish Cultural Heritage Center in Milwaukee for a wonderful rendition of ‘I heard the voice of Jesus say’, and to the Westerkerk in Amsterdam for organ music by Sigfrid Karg-Elert. We begin with hymn 414, O for a closer walk with God …
Lent 3: God does not have to be proved, but He does have to be trusted
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 March 2021.
Commentary: Learning in testing times
It is really strange seeing the signs of springtime appearing while the life of the church and much of the city has been stilled, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Conditions in almost all aspects of life are still highly unpredictable, in terms of the weather, progress of the Covid pandemic, the restarting of our national life,…
Sunday worship for 28 February 2021, Lent 2
As we advance through Lent, this week’s Liturgy of the Word includes music from Singapore and from the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. We open our worship with hymn 74, O for a heart to praise my God …
Lent 2: Speaking out when others are silent about a fashionable social and cultural evil?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 February 2021.
Bishop’s Lent Appeal 2021: Aberlour Child Care Trust
Bishop Kevin Pearson writes: This year my Lent Appeal is for the outstanding work undertaken by the Aberlour Child Care Trust, a charity that has longstanding links with our Scottish Episcopal Church, a charity dear to my heart, and a charity that is there for Scotland’s hidden children, whose considerable difficulties have been hugely exacerbated…
Sunday worship for 21 February 2021, Lent 1
As Lent begins we ask God to give us grace to discipline ourselves in submission to His Spirit, that as He knows our weakness so we may know his power to save. We open our worship with hymn 67, Forty days and forty nights …
