‘Hear us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we have sinn’d against thee.’ This moving piece derives from a hymn composed in the 10th century by Mozarabs, Iberian Christians living under Islamic rule in Andalusia.
Quinquagesima: The starting point for being the people of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 February 2023. ‘The Transfiguration of Jesus looks back at the law and the prophets and forward to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Above it all and overshadowing it is that cloud of unspeakable holiness and unapproachable glory from which comes the voice of God, and speaking of Jesus: Listen to Him.’
Sexagesima: We are living members of the kingdom of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 February 2023. ‘If life as a whole is precious to God – whether it is the birds of the air or the flowers of the field – then the life of those who seek His face and who serve His purposes are even more deeply loved.’
Epiphany 4 & Presentation of Christ: All we need to do is to ask
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 February 2023. ‘It is His simple humanity that encourages us to approach in faith and confidence, knowing that whatever we face, He also has seen in its essence.’
Epiphany 3: God says that He only looks for simple things
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 January 2023. ‘Those in power would never understand, in any generation. They still don’t.’
Drumchapel Mission closes
The Diocese reports that Drumchapel Mission – “this small and loving community of the Scottish Episcopal Church” – closed its doors after a special service held on Sunday 16th October 2022. “The four remaining members had asked Bishop Kevin for a swift closure because they no longer had the resources to continue. “Approximately 50 members…
Epiphany 2: Releasing people into a realm of finding themselves
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 January 2023. ‘Far from imposing a rule, God seeks to release His people within a commonwealth of His love and deliverance. It is a regime of enhancing His people to become what He had always wanted them to be. To fulfil the potential that was always there, waiting to flourish into their fullest expression.’
Baptism of Jesus: To fulfill all righteousness in the sight of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 January 2023. ‘The disciples who followed Him were not going to form a community spirituality circle in which members could pick and choose that which was to their taste and avoid the uncongenial.’
Epiphany: The life we are intended to live
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 January 2023. ‘But when we put together the law and the prophets with the gold, and the frankincense and the myrrh then they give each other life and meaning.’
Christmas 1: Death will never have the last word
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 January 2023. ‘This was the loving kindness of God in action. God taking personal responsibility for the whole of the human condition when none other could do so.’
Sunday readings and prayers for January 2023
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month. 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 25 December 2022, Christmas Day
‘God our Father, whose Word has come among us in the Holy Child of Bethlehem, may the light of faith illumine our hearts and shine in our words and deeds.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 42, While shepherds watched …
Christmas Day: Only the beginning
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 December 2022. ‘A new song for a new time. Glory to God – to be worshipped and adored like none other in human history.’
Barnabas Fund prayer focus for January 2023
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Mali, Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, Iraq, Myanmar and Laos. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Sunday worship for 18 December 2022, Advent 4
We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 11, O Come, O come Emmanuel …
Advent 4: The source of who we are and where we are going
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 December 2022. ‘Today faith seems to be a form of cultural bonding. It has its practices and conventions, its festivals and fasts. But the Christian hope is about trusting God above all others and in Jesus following His teaching and example.’
News from the Diocesan Office: December 2022
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway
Advent 3: A new and greater dimension
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 December 2022. ‘As we gather in worship we are doing far more than having a social bonding session. We are also being taken up with the things of God.’
Sunday worship for 11 December 2022, Advent 3
‘God of power and mercy, you call us once again to celebrate the coming of your Son. Remove those things which hinder love of you, that when he comes he may find us waiting in awe and wonder for him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.’ Our accompanying music videos this week take us from Accra to Omsk, but we open this Liturgy of the Word with hymn 7, Hills of the north, rejoice …
Advent 2: Encrusted with its own importance
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 December 2022. ‘It is still our task to keep that electricity of the gospel in being and to ask for the renewing work of the Holy Spirit among us.’
Sunday worship for 4 December 2022, Advent 2
We open this Liturgy of the Word with hymn 12, On Jordan’s banks …
Sunday worship for 27 November 2022, Advent Sunday
‘Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility, that on the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal.’ We open this Liturgy of the Word with hymn 9, Lo He comes with clouds descending …
Advent Sunday: The task is not to lose heart
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 November 2022. ‘The world still aches to see God and in the church it should be able to see Jesus. We have to make sure that it does.’
Commentary: Apocalyptic
One of the most misunderstood words around today must be ‘Apocalyptic’, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. It has been fashionable for some years now. The film about the war in Vietnam, ‘Apocalypse Now’ dealt with a dysfunctional mission to deal with a rogue officer. There is a full genre of fiction dealing with a ‘post-apocalyptic’ world…
Sunday readings and prayers for December 2022
Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings for Sundays this month. 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 December 2022
An update from the Barnabas Fund, which offers hope and aid to the persecuted church. News this month from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Please pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith.
Sunday worship for 20 November 2022, Christ the King
‘Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King: grant that the peoples of the earth, now divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his gentle and loving rule.’ We open our Liturgy of the Word with hymn 394, Let all the world in every corner sing …
Christ the King: This is the kind of King that we serve…
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 November 2022. ‘Jesus’ kingship is present among His disciples in every age and situation as they spread the word of His life and death and resurrection.’
Sunday worship for 13 November 2022, Remembrance
‘Almighty God, you sent your Son Jesus Christ to be the light of the world. Free us from all that darkens and ensnares us, and bring us to eternal light and joy’. We open our online Liturgy of the Word with hymn 417, O God our help in ages past …
Remembrance: Apocalypse now?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 November 2022. ‘This is the time to renew our lives of prayer, and to look again at the things of our faith. It is time to pray for those who already serve in our forces and civilian first responders, and for those who will serve or be called to other service for the nation. That may include some of you here today.’
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