‘Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry with the bread of his life and the word of his kingdom. Renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your true and living bread.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 359, Fight the good fight …
Archives for July 2022
Trinity 7: There is even more to come
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 July 2022. ‘To be invested solely in the fleeting glamour of our times is to risk losing all of it – certainly at the end of life and possibly as the result of calamity in our own times.’
Trinity 6: Never give up
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 July 2022. ‘God is never deaf or blind. And it is not as if we are telling Him anything He does not already know: rather, we are placing ourselves in His hands so that He may meet us and feed us and fulfil us.’
Sunday worship for 24 July 2022, Trinity 6
‘O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: increase and multiply upon us your mercy, that with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 377, Immortal, invisible, God only wise …
Sunday worship for 17 July 2022, Trinity 5
‘Almighty God, your Son has opened for us a new and living way into your presence. Give us pure hearts and constant wills to worship you in spirit and in truth.’ Music accompanying today’s Liturgy of the Word includes hymns from two other All Saints churches – in Aldershot and Northampton – but we open our worship at Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Trinity 5: Ever-decreasing circles
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 July 2022. ‘The task of the church is to remain centred on Jesus and His teaching. It is still to focus on the salvation that He has wrought and which none other has or can.’
Trinity 4: A message for our time
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 July 2022. ‘If we love God with all that we have and are, with heart and soul, strength and mind, then we can’t possibly fail.’
Sunday worship for 10 July 2022, Trinity 4
We open today’s Liturgy of the Word in Westminster Abbey with the Abbey Choir and the Choristers of the Chapel Royal singing John Rutter’s anthem ‘This is the day the Lord has made’ at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton …
Sunday worship for 3 July 2022, Trinity 3
‘Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ has taught us that what we do for the least of your children we do also for him. Give us the will to serve others as he was the servant of all.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 7, Hills of the north, rejoice …
Trinity 3: The long haul
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 July 2022. ‘Paul warns the church that it can live for itself or for the name and purposes of Jesus. Its members can live for themselves and all their physical and emotional appetites, or they can be moved and empowered by the Spirit of the Lord.’
Leslie Macleod’s farewell
On Saturday 29th May 2022 a special Choral Evensong marked the retiral of Leslie Macleod as organist of All Saints.
