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.
Archives for 2022
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 …
News from the Diocesan Office: August 2022
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Tea & Talk: Learning about caring
The guest speaker at September’s Tea and Talk will be Louise Morgan, Director for Scotland of the charity Carers Trust, which works to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems. Louise’s talk takes place in All Saints at 2 pm on Thursday 1 September, with a presentation followed by questions and answers. Everyone is welcome.
Sunday worship for 28 August 2022, Trinity 11
‘Author and Giver of all good things, graft in our hearts the love of your name, increase in us true religion, nourish us in all goodness, and of your great mercy keep us in the same.’ We open our worship with hymn 349, Come, let us join our cheerful songs …
Trinity 11: Seeing and being seen
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 August 2022. ‘One of the challenges of the times will be as we discover how much we belong to one another and what we can do to support one another.’
Episcopal Synod meets to agree appeal process
The Episcopal Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church met in Edinburgh yesterday to consider procedure relating to the appeal by the Rt Rev Anne Dyer against her suspension as Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney. • Read more on this topic Earlier this month, Bishop Dyer was suspended by the Primus following the lodging of formal…
Sunday worship for 21 August 2022, Trinity 10
‘Almighty God, we are taught by your word that all our doings without love are worth nothing. Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue.’ We open our worship with hymn 294, Just as I am …
Trinity 10: Never a burden, always a means of drawing close to God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 August 2022.
Sunday worship for 14 August 2022, Trinity 9
‘Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and sent into our hearts the Spirit of your Son. Give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that all people may know the glorious liberty of the children of God.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word in the company of a mass choir in Chennai, India, with hymn 484, The Church’s one foundation …
Trinity 9: A point of division
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 August 2022. ‘And so yes, Jesus is a line in the sand. Are we with Him or against Him? Indifferent and indulgent tolerance is not enough.’
Bishop’s suspension is confirmed then lifted
Canonical process confirmed in Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney + Bishop’s suspension is lifted after appeal lodged
Sunday worship for 7 August 2022, Trinity 8
‘Almighty God, you sent your Holy Spirit to be the life and light of your Church. Open our hearts to the riches of your grace, that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit in love, joy, and peace.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 333, All my hope on God is founded …
Trinity 8: Watch the signs of the times
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 August 2022. ‘It is when people are most indolent in their faith and most inclined to use the church as a vehicle for their political and cultural agendas that is most likely to be caught out and found to be at fault.’
Commentary: A new freedom and a new kind of wisdom
We will all have noted the European Championship success of the English women’s football team and I would heartily congratulate them, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Not being a particular enthusiast for athletics and ball-based sports, I am inclined to leave it at that. But there is one aspect that makes me think a little more…
Sunday worship for 31 July 2022, Trinity 7
‘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 …
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 …
