After two years of being hosted online, the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church will meet in person this year at St Paul’s & St George’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, from Thursday 9 June to Saturday 11 June 2022. The meeting has been arranged in hybrid format, to allow a small number of members…
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for June 2022
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, India and Afghanistan. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Sunday readings and prayers for June 2022
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month, with links to ‘Poirot’ actor David Suchet reading the Bible passages. We also remember those whose Year’s Mind falls this month, and those who we’re called to hold before God in the Diocesan and Anglican Cycles of Prayer.
Sunday worship for 29 May 2022, Ascension
We open our Liturgy of the Word this week in the company of the congregation of Chet Valley Churches in South Norfolk with hymn 130, Hail the day that sees Him rise …
Ascension: He rose so that we may open ourselves to His vision for our lives and church
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 May 2022. ‘Today, He is present with the soldiers of Ukraine facing the onslaught of their invaders, and with the starving of Africa as they lack simple access to food and water in the face of drought and civil war and the plundering incompetence of their own governments. He is there with every grieving parent, every crying child and trafficked soul, sold into a nightmare of exploitation and abuse.’
Sunday worship for 22 May 2022, Easter 6
This week we are in the company of musicians and singers from Los Angeles, Moscow and South India as well as Westminster Abbey and Ely Cathedral, opening our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 263, All creatures of our God and King …
Easter 6: A vision for the present of the church
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 May 2022. ‘This is what the release of the Holy Spirit was going to be about. He would be there in the person of Jesus in every time and place and situation.’
Commentary: Regather before God in the confidence that He will never fail us or forsake us
Writing these notes near the end of Eastertide, I am now looking towards the Ascension of Jesus and the Day of Pentecost, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. They are linked in that first of all the church was celebrating the ascension of Jesus to His place in heaven where He would be accessible to all believers…
Sunday worship for 15 May 2022, Easter 5
This week we are in the company of musicians and singers from Cambridge, Nigeria and Wisconsin, opening our Liturgy of the Word in Norfolk with hymn 130, Hail the day that sees Him rise …
Easter 5: Where we lack the wisdom on how to act, we can always ask
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 May 2022.
Sunday worship for 8 May 2022, Easter 4
We open our Liturgy of the Word this week in the company of the congregation of St Paul’s Cathedral with hymn 334, All people that on earth do dwell …
Easter 4: A matter of personal faith and personal relationship
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 May 2022. ‘If we start with God then our faith will increase as we come to know God better in Jesus Christ and as our relationships with one another also find a deeper foundation in Him.’
The Rt Revd Edward Luscombe RIP
The Rt Rev Edward Luscombe, former Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, has died at the age of 97 after a period of illness. Bishop Ted, as he was best known, was Bishop of Brechin for 15 years and served as Primus from 1985 until his retirement in 1990. He was ordained deacon at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow in 1963 . Previously he had held the posts of vestry member, lay representative and diocesan treasurer in Glasgow & Galloway.
Sunday worship for 1 May 2022, Easter 3
‘O God, your Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread. Open the eyes of our faith, that we may see him in his redeeming work.’ We open our worship with hymn 345, Christ is the King, O friends rejoice …
Easter 3: My way??
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 May 2022. ‘Jesus has personal agenda for each of us – and He looks to us to follow Him before all others and all else.’
Report from Glasgow & Galloway’s Diocesan Synod
Liturgical gender changes: ‘Rev the Hon Sydney Maitland was uneasy at the stripping away of ‘the sense of personality’ as regards the divine, and Rev Dom Ind suggested that on any Sunday in his charge the SEC should enable people to worship God in a variety of ways: SPB, 1970, 1982.’
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for May 2022
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, DR Congo, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and India. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Sunday readings and prayers for May 2022
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month, with links to ‘Poirot’ actor David Suchet reading the Bible passages. We also remember those whose Year’s Mind falls this month, and those who we’re called to hold before God in the Diocesan and Anglican Cycles of Prayer.
Sunday worship for 24 April 2022, Easter 2
‘Almighty and eternal God, the strength of those who believe and the hope of those who doubt, may we, who have not seen, have faith and receive the fullness of Christ’s blessing.’ We open our worship with hymn 117, The day of resurrection…
Easter 2: The central task of the church in every land and in every generation
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 April 2022. ‘Where the gospel message is honoured then we also are empowered. When it is not then we also falter.’
Sunday worship for 17 April 2022, Easter Day
‘Lord of life and power, through the mighty resurrection of your Son you have overcome the old order of sin and death and have made all things new in him. May we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, reign with him in glory.’ We open our worship with hymn 124, Ye choirs of new Jerusalem …
Easter Day: A message of life in its fullness
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 April 2022. ‘Whatever the world may throw at the disciples, it would never undo the power of Jesus’ resurrection.’
News from the Diocesan Office: April 2022
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Sunday worship for 10 April 2022, Palm Sunday
Assist us mercifully with your help, Lord God of our salvation, that we may enter with joy into the celebration of those mighty acts whereby you give us life and immortality. We open our worship in the company of the choir of St Andrew’s Kirk, Chennai, with hymn 509, All glory, laud and honour …
Palm Sunday: Passion Narrative
There is no sermon in church today, Palm Sunday. Instead, Rev Sydney Maitland and members of the congregation will be reading the Passion Narrative – Luke 23: 1-49. Here, we can enjoy the passage being read by the actor David Suchet …
Commentary: Every saint has a past and every sinner a future
I suppose that the astonishment we feel at the Russian invasion of Ukraine is matched most closely by the progressive collapse of the Iron Curtain during the autumn of 1989, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Every month another East European country shrugged off the communist straightjacket and emerged blinking into a new era of choice and…
Sunday worship for 3 April 2022, Passion Sunday
Almighty God, breathe upon us with the power of your Spirit, that we may be raised to new life in Christ and serve you in holiness and righteousness all our days. We open our worship with hymn 79, The royal banners forward go …
Passion Sunday: Looking forward
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 April 2022. ‘God’s future for us is that secured in Jesus Christ. God’s hope for us is found as we commit ourselves to Him and look for His purposes among us.’
Sunday readings and prayers for April 2022
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month, with links to ‘Poirot’ actor David Suchet reading the Bible passages. We also remember those whose Year’s Mind falls this month, and those who we’re called to hold before God in the Diocesan and Anglican Cycles of Prayer.
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for April 2022
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, India, Sri Lanka and Laos. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
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