Three favourite hymns accompany our Liturgy of the Word this Mothering Sunday – Tell out my soul, All things bright and beautiful, and to open our worship, hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Archives for March 2022
Mothering Sunday: A faith that lives, moves, breathes, hopes beyond hope, and continues in prayer
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 March 2022. ‘Now Jesus was looking for the care of His Mother. And Jesus entrusted her to the care of John, the beloved disciple who would indeed honour and look after her as he would his own mother.’
Sunday worship for 20 March 2022, Lent 3
Today’s music comes from Singapore, Chennai in India, Peterborough, Hereford and Dundee, opening our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 74, O for a heart to praise my God …
Lent 3: God knows our stories far better than we know them ourselves
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 March 2022. ‘This self-sufficiency ethic breeds its own doctrine of survival: defend everything you have with everything you can lay hands on. Let the weak perish and let truth wither. Morality redefines itself in terms of our own interests and is essentially Godless.’
Sunday worship for 13 March 2022, Lent 2
‘Almighty God, whose Son was revealed in majesty before he suffered death upon the cross, give us faith to perceive his glory, that being strengthened by his grace we may be changed into his likeness.’ We open our worship with hymn 417, O God our help in ages past …
Lent 2: The fog of war, the life of faith
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 March 2022. ‘Wherever we are, God still cares. He is still present and we may still approach Him with our own prayers and together as we worship.’
Evensong postponed
The service of sung Evensong scheduled for March 6 will be held instead at 6.30 pm on Sunday, March 13.
Sunday worship for 6 March 2022, Lent 1
We begin our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 67, Forty days and forty nights …
Lent 1: A personal conviction that our faith lies in Jesus Christ
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 6 March 2022. ‘There is no place for fear – for in Him we already have all things. And He will never fail us or forsake us.’
