The music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word includes some favourite hymns, one featuring a New York artist/chorister whose work is a much-loved part of our St Mary’s Cathedral. We open our worship with hymn 238, New every morning is the love …
Archives for June 2022
Trinity 2: The costs of discipleship
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 June 2022. ‘We do not have to be heroic figures like Elijah. Most of us are called to be Elisha figures – but this is no trivial thing and in the sight of God we also can be mighty in the land.’
Sunday worship for 19 June 2022, Trinity 1
‘O God our defender, storms rage about us and cause us to be afraid. Rescue your people from despair, deliver your sons and daughters from fear, and preserve us all from unbelief.’ We open our worship with hymn 146, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty …
Trinity 1: This sense of turbulence makes today’s lessons look very up to date
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 June 2022. ‘Whatever the battering we have had to face personally and as a church, the Lord still has a new plan and a new purpose for us.’
General Synod reports
What happened at the Scottish Episcopal Church’s ‘annual conference’, held earlier this month.
Trinity Sunday: And so we enter the mystery…
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 June 2022. ‘The whole of God is the total love and commitment of Father, Son and Holy Spirit to one another.’
Sunday worship for 5 June 2022, Pentecost
We open our Liturgy of the Word for Pentecost Sunday in the company of the choristers from of St Michael’s, Highgate, in London with hymn 137, Come down, O Love divine …
Pentecost: Is there more that we can ask for and expect to receive?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 June 2022. ‘The Holy Spirit is not a special gift for the specially holy: He is there for all who ask and who do so from within their own sense of need and even inadequacy.’
