Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 October 2017.
Anglican Communion imposes ‘sanctions’ on Scottish Episcopal Church
Primates of the Anglican Communion, meeting at Canterbury, have sanctioned Scottish Episcopal Church following its decision in June to approve same-sex marriage. A communiqué from the Anglican Communion office issued today said: “We listened carefully to the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) and with sadness accepted that the consequences for our relationships agreed…
Trinity 16: Harvest Sunday: God loves a cheerful giver
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 October 2017.
Trinity 15: Total reliance on God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 September 2017.
Trinity 14: Forgive us our trespasses
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 17 September 2017.
Come & Sing Brahms’ German Requiem
More than 80 people joined Glasgow Cathedral Choral Society for their annual Come & Sing event at All Saints on Saturday 16 September, tackling Brahms’ lush and moving German Requiem.
Trinity 13: Love is urgent, radical and Christ-like
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 September 2017.
Tea & Talk: what do West End Street Pastors do?
How the Street Pastors help make sure that West End revellers on Friday and Saturday nights come to no harm.
Trinity 5: Everything about us is redefined and renewed
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 July 2017.
Trinity 4: A Charter of Freedom
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 July 2017.
Trinity 3: Life of flesh, life in the spirit
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 July 2017.
Bishop Mark Strange elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today elected the Rt Rev Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness as Primus. Bishop Mark said: “I am humbled by the confidence shown in me by my colleagues and I will seek to serve the church as Primus with love and strength. “I am deeply…
Trinity 2: Fear not, but take up the cross
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 June 2017.
Trinity 1: Sarah laughed
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 June 2017.
Trinity Sunday: Offside? Knock-on? Mast abeam?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 June 2017.
Statement on same-sex marriage
Statement to the All Saints congregation by Rev Sydney Maitland in response to alterations to Canon 31 to permit the solemnisation in church of same-sex marriage. (Updated on 9 July 2017.)
Scottish Episcopal Church votes to allow ‘equal marriage’
The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today voted in favour of altering the church’s Canon on Marriage to remove the definition that marriage is between a man and a woman and add a new section that acknowledges that there are different understandings of marriage which now allows clergy to solemnise marriage between same…
Pentecost: Evensong
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 June 2017.
Pentecost: The Life of Jesus Christ among us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 June 2017.
Commentary: Beware a sense of grievance
The hymn ‘Love Unknown’ has the line ‘O who am I that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh and die?’ We have all had those ‘Who am I?’ moments when we questioned almost everything about ourselves. And in some ways these questions are still with us but in a more powerful and…
Easter 5: A holy people
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 May 2017.
Easter 4: The sheepfold and the shepherd
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 May 2017.
Commentary: Pray for those with whom we disagree
The calling of the general election definitely caught me on the hop and the thoughts I had hoped to explore now would be out of place. As governments extend themselves into ever more intimate and personal aspects of our lives, so more and more aspects of our lives have become political. Yet Jesus had a…
Easter 2: His Peace, His Commission, His Holy Spirit
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 April 2017.
Lent 5: In Him was life
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 April 2017.
Commentary: Be ready to be Good Friday People
We are certainly living within a strange time of uncertainty, and this extends from the future of Scotland to that of the UK, Europe and indeed the whole concept of Western culture. It is there in our politics as new movements arise and generate much interest – possibly, more heat than light – and which…
Lent 4: ‘Once I was blind, now I see’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 March 2017.
Official report on Diocesan Synod 2017
The Dean, Very Revd Ian Barcroft presided at the Synod Eucharist and read the Bishop’s Charge on behalf of Bishop Gregor who could not be there as he was still recovering at home from a stroke. The elections to various positions were undertaken early in the agenda before the main topic on the agenda, changes…
Rev Sydney Maitland’s contribution to Diocesan Synod debate on same-sex marriage
‘This amendment may bring some a short-lived satisfaction but will cause great and long-term damage to the body of Christ as a whole. And to some, it will be fatal.’
Bishop Gregor Duncan opposes same-sex marriage in Diocesan Synod debate
‘Neither the Law of Scotland, nor anything in scripture, tradition or reason persuades me to depart from what Canon 31.1 still says about marriage.’
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