St Mary’s Cathedral Choir is looking for boys and girls aged between 7 and 14 to join the hugely successful ranks of young choristers. Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings. Trebles sing one Sunday morning and one Sunday evening each month, and concerts, broadcasts and recordings. For more details, see the choir recruitment page.

To find out more about the Scottish Episcopal Church, sign up for online updates at www.inspires.org.uk/subscribe

A digest of the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Vestry is now available online. (Note that the link was not correct in the last newsletter).

The annual report is available here. Hard copies will be available in church prior to the AGM which takes place after the Sung Eucharist on 22 Nov 2009.

The Ash Wednesday services will take place on 25 February 2009 at 1230 and 1930. The evening service will be a Choral mass. The setting will be Lotti’s Missa Brevis and the psalm will be Allegri’s haunting Miserere.

The new St Mary’s Knitting Group meets on the second Monday of the month at 7.30 pm from now until Easter.

The Trebles of the Cathedral Choir celebrate their first birthday since being formed a year ago. They sing Evensong in St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh on 25 October 2008 and will be singing in St Mary’s, Glasgow on 26 October.

News from around the diocese of Glasgow and Galloway is available in the following file:

Glasgow and Galloway Diocesan News September 2008

A report on the meeting of the Vestry of St Mary’s Cathedral in August is contained in the following file:

vestry-report-august

NB that the file is in pdf format. You need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to read it.

The latest West End Acts Crossword is now available. Entries need to be by 30 September 2008. Entries need to be in by the end of September.