The Vestry meeting scheduled for 2 Febrary 2009 has been postponed for 7 days and will take place on 9 February 2009.
Radio Broadcast
Sunday Worship on Radio 4 on 18 January came from St Mary’s Cathedral. Details of the music broadcast during the service can be found here.
The Feast of the Epiphany
The congregation kept the Feast of the Epiphany on 4 January 2009.
The Provost’s sermon is available in video on this website.
New Year’s Day Service
There will be a service in St Mary’s on Thursday 1 January 2009 at 11 am.
New Year’s Day is a Feast Day in the Scottish Episcopal Church – the Feast of the Holy Name, the day on which we remember the parents of Jesus confirming the name that they had been told by the angel Gabriel.
Comites Christi
Midnight Mass begins at 11.15 pm on 24 December 2008. The service will include popular Christmas Carols and the Messe de Minuit by Charpentier.
The Christmas Day service will be at 1030 am on 25 December 2008. It will be a Sung Eucharist with full choir.
26 November – Eucharist at 0930
27 November – Eucharist at 0930
First Sunday of Christmas – services at 0830 and 1030
The days following Christmas Day are special commemorations and these will be kept in full at St Mary’s this year.
There will be Eucharists at 0930 on the following days:
26 December 2008 – St Stephen’s Day (An ideal start to the day for anyone planning on a walk up a hill or a stomp through the park to clear away the cobwebs)
27 December 2008 – St John the Evangelist
29 December 2008 – Holy Innocents (Sometimes people who have particular sad memories at Christmastide find it appropriate to come to this service. It is also a service when we pray for those who are the victims of sudden violence or terrorism).
Note that there will be no Evensong on 28 December.
Advent Carol Service
The Advent Carol Service takes place on Advent Sunday 30 November 2008 at 6.30 pm. The full choir (adults and trebles) will be singing at this service.
All welcome at this service.
Evensong and Ceilidh
There will be an evening of celebrations on 23 November 2008 to mark the 10th anniversary of Bishop Idris’s consecration and the 40th anniversary of his ordination. The evening will begin with Choral Evensong at 6.30 pm and continue with a ceilidh in church to the music of the Jiggers Ceilidh Band from 7.30 pm. Members of the Cathedral congregation will be joined by friends from all around the diocese.
The music planned for the service of Choral Evensong will include Rose Responses, Canticles by Stanford in Eb, Handel’s Zadok the Priest and O Thou the Central Orb by Charles Wood.
Stations of Grace
This artistic and musical event is taking place in St. Mary’s Cathedral during the last week of October and the 1st of November 2008. 23 artists have agreed to create pictures Illustrating biblical or historical events which show God’s grace in action, and these will be exhibited at St. Mary’s. On 1st November there will be a musical event (similar to the “Big Sing” of two years ago) in which James McMillan, John Bell and Frikki Walker will lead congregational and choral Worship. The West End ACTS group is supporting the event, which is being planned by Brett Nicholls of West Glasgow New Church.
Doors Open Weekend
The weekend of 20 & 21 September was Doors Open Weekend in Glasgow and St Mary’s was open to visitors.
Many local people took the chance to come inside the doors and look at the stunning murals and to find out more about the congregation.
+Gene Robinson @ St Mary’s
The Rt Rev Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire was the celebrant and preacher at St Mary’s on 3 August 2008 at the 1030 service.
This was the first time that Bishop Gene has visited Scotland since becoming the Bishop of New Hampshire in 2004 and the first chance to hear his reflections on the Lambeth Conference.
The sermon can be seen and heard here. A video of Bishop Gene presiding at the Eucharist can be found on the Provost’s Blog.
Bishop Gene’s own reflections on the Lambeth Conference can be found on his blog:
Canterbury Tales from the Fringe
There is also a video blog called the Gene Pool