Having passed the 100-session mark earlier this year, All Saints monthly Tea and Talk afternoons have been planned for the year ahead by Eileen Maitland. They take place from 2-3 pm on the first Thursday of the month, admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Archives for August 2025
Retirement of Rev Sydney Maitland
The charge of All Saints is now in vacancy following the retiral of Rev Sydney Maitland as Priest-in-Charge, with his final Eucharist taking place on Sunday, August 31. The Diocese and Vestry will now work on determining the church’s future.
Trinity 11: The rat race
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 31 August 2025. ‘The drive to success is all very well but when it is the person least well placed in this striving for recognition who loses out then the game begins to go off.’
How gloriously He will meet us!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland at Evensong on Saturday 30 August 2025. ‘We want a sign and it is given. Its shape is the cross and its name is Jesus.’
Trinity 10: Asking the people to get real
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 August 2025. ‘God is a consuming fire and will indeed burn up any false religiosity, any self-promotion, or misleading doctrines to lead people away from their lives of faith in God.’
Trinity 9: Asking for help
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 August 2025. ‘This is where the letter to the Hebrews presents us with heroes of the faith. It invites us to reject the things that hold us back and to look towards Him for our life and identity.’
Trinity 8: Right with God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 August 2025. ‘For us also, it is still a matter of holding to the things of God before all else. These define our attitude to each other, to our lives and money and relationships.’
Trinity 7: Why we need each other so much
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 August 2025. ‘Setting the mind on the things of God, letting go of the things that must die, looking to a renewed identity in the knowledge and in the image of God Himself.’
