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Blessing of the animals

This year’s blessing of the animals will be on 4 October 2025 at 10.30 am.

Funeral for Janey Godley

The funeral service for Janey Godley will took place on 30 November 2024 at 10 am.

The homily and the whole service are available on YouTube.

Good Friday Reflections 2024

Reflections on The Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross given on Good Friday 2024 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

The Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross

The seven phrases spoken by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion as recorded in the four Gospels of the New Testament.

1

‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing’
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson

2

‘Today you will be with me in paradise’
The Rev Canon Audrey O’Brien Stewart

3

‘Behold your son: behold your mother’
The Rev Canon Prof John Riches

4

‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’
The Rev Canon Chinemerem Uche

5

‘I thirst’
The Rev Dr Maggie McTernan

6

‘It is finished’
The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth

7

‘Father, into your hands, I commend my Spirit’
The Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon

Good Friday Reflections 2023

Reflections given at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow on Good Friday, 7 April 2023

Reflection 1
Matthew 26.36-46
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson

Reflection 2
Matthew 26.47-56
The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth

Reflection 3
Matthew 26.57-68
The Rev Canon Prof John Riches

Reflection 4
Matthew 27.1-10
The Rev Canon Audrey O’Brien Stewart

Reflection 5
Matthew 27.11-31
The Rev Maggie McTernan

Reflection 6
Matthew 27.32-56
The Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon

Photograph of Kelvin Holdsworth

Photograph of Kelvin Holdsworth in St Mary’s Catthedral, Glasgow – no attribution needed

Midweek Services

A midweek service is now held every Tuesday at 11 am

At the current time the 11 am service on Sundays and evening Choral Eucharists on feast days are livestreams. Upcoming and recent livestream services can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@stmaryscathedralglasgow/streams

Choral Service for Epiphany

There will be a choral service for the Feast of the Epiphany on Friday 6 January 2022 at 7.30 pm.

Open to the public. No need to book. There’s room for everyone. Admission free.

Livestream link

Light and Dark: An Advent Visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery

If you can get to Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum, St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow offers a unique opportunity this Advent. Dr Deborah Lewer, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, has recorded a self-guided audio tour exploring seasonal themes of light and dark. You can walk around the gallery at your own pace and go on this ‘retreat’ whenever it’s convenient for you.

About the Tour

At the darkening time of the year, as the clocks go back and nights lengthen, join Dr Deborah Lewer to explore the play of light and shade in art and faith. Artists know that light and darkness – what the Italians call ‘chiaroscuro’ – bring art to life. Biblical and spiritual tradition is rich in images of light and dark. In deep paradoxes of ‘luminous darkness’, artists, psalmists, poets, prophets, and contemplatives have found beauty, hope, meaning – and humour too – beyond the ‘light of the world’. For the Advent season, this visit will be an opportunity to engage with a vivid range of art in the rich collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and to think in new ways about shadows and light in a life of faith and in times of darkness.

Debbie is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow and a congregation member at St Mary’s. She is a regular speaker in churches, theological colleges and at festivals and retreats on the rich relationship between art and faith.