The bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church have rejected – on a split vote – an appeal by the Rt Rev Anne Dyer against her suspension as Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney following the lodging of formal complaints of misconduct.
Archives for September 2022
Muriel Draper, RIP
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Muriel Draper, a great friend of All Saints and the devoted and much loved wife for 66 years of the Rev Dr Ivan Draper.
Sunday worship for 25 September 2022, Trinity 15
Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered by your Holy Spirit into one, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your name. We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 237, Morning has broken …
Sunday worship for 18 September 2022, Trinity 14
Music accompanying this online Liturgy of the Word comes from as far afield as Huddersfield, Chennai and California. The organ voluntary concluding our worship is Handel’s Zadoc the Priest, and as well as a fine recording and video from the Basílica de Santa Maria de la Seu, near Barcelona, we have footage from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. We open with hymn 7, Hills of the north, rejoice …
Sunday worship for 11 September 2022, Trinity 13
We open our worship in church today by singing God Save the King. For this online Liturgy of the Word we can hear it sung for the first time for a living monarch since 1952, joining the congregation at the service of prayer and reflection which took place on Friday at St Paul’s Cathedral in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. Thereafter we will have music from Exeter, Cape Town, Dubai and Germany …
Trinity 13: A day of very mixed feelings
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 September 2022. ‘What God says to us He also says to our King: Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name; you are Mine.’
Queen Elizabeth: In Memoriam
Rev Sydney Maitland: “And now she has gone home. In the communion of saints she is only an eye blink away, and she is among those with whom we worship God, together with angels and archangels and the whole company of heaven.”
Prayers to mark the death of The Queen and accession of The King
The Liturgy Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church has produced three prayers, approved by the College of Bishops, to mark the death of the monarch, the repose of the deceased monarch, and the accession of the new monarch. They are as follows …
Tributes to Queen Elizabeth
The Archbishop of Canterbury + Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church + Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway + Moderator of the General Assembly + Roman Catholic Bishops
‘Our Faithful Queen: 70 years of faith and service’
Enjoy it in full online: Published earlier in 2022 to mark Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, this book includes many rarely seen photographs from her early life through to the present day, as well as prayers from a book of devotions given to the Queen to use in the days leading up to her coronation. It provides a powerful witness to the Queen’s enduring Christian faith.
Meeting of Episcopal Synod postponed
The meeting of the Episcopal Synod scheduled for today has been postponed. The meeting, which was arranged to consider the appeal by the Rt Rev Anne Dyer against her suspension as Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, has been rescheduled for Monday 19 September.
Trinity 12: Discipleship is a process and not just a state of being
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 September 2022. ‘Discipleship is a long and personal encounter with the love and mercy of God as He directs and prunes our lives so that we may become more of what we already are in His sight.’
Sunday worship for 4 September 2022, Trinity 12
The musical accompaniment to today’s online Liturgy of the Word comes from Westminster Abbey, Florida, California and Asaba in Nigeria, where the choir of the Cathedral Church of St Peter opens our worship with hymn 417, O God our help in ages past …
