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Worship for 30 August 2020

This Sunday there are two services in church and there is Online Worship that has been prepared by Bishop Kevin who leads it from St Mary’s. There are elements of the Online Worship that will be part of the 11 am service in the Cathedral.

The Online Worship for 30 August 2020 led by Bishop Kevin will appear on Youtube at 11 am on Sunday morning on this page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtv9H_4N4c3JKM57zOj7GXw

The sermon at the services in church is preached by the Provost and this will also be put online once it has been edited, after it has been preached.

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah and Sophie Agrell and by Christine Walker. Organizers of Young Church would love to hear from members. Send artwork, questions and ideas to youngchurch@thecathedral.org.uk.

Offertory

If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable the ministry of St Mary’s Cathedral, please do so.

To give to St Mary’s directly from your bank account, please set up payments to the Clydesdale Bank, sort code 82-20-00 account number 30185232, account name “Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin”.

To set up a standing order, please fill in a Bank Standing Order and send it to your bank. If you are a UK tax payer, please also fill in a Gift Aid Declaration as it enables the Cathedral to claim back the tax that you have already paid on the money that you are giving.

You can give by PayPal directly through this website by going to the Paypal Giving Page.

If it is possible for you to do so, please use a form of payment directly to the Cathedral bank account in order to avoid payment fees on PayPal.

If you would like details of how to give by other methods, please contact the Cathedral Office to be put in touch with the Gift Aid Recorder, Alan McCulloch.

Thank you for your offering. If you usually put cash on the plate, please, if you can, find a way of giving electronically at this time to enable the ministry of the Cathedral to continue.

Welcome card and feedback

If you are finding a way into this congregation and would like to make contact, please use the Welcome Card which can be found online here:
https://thecathedral.org.uk/welcome-card/

If you would like to contact the Provost and the Vice Provost to give feedback on this worship or for any other reason, please use the following form.

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If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive futher details about the online worship please do so at this sign-up page:
http://phplist.thecathedral.org.uk/?p=subscribe&id=3

Seats can be reserved for the services in church from 12 noon on Tuesday at https://thedatabase.thecathedral.org.uk

Please share this page and these resources widely on social media and in any other ways you can think of.

Worship for 16 August 2020

This Sunday there are two services in church and there is online worship on this website. There are elements of the online worship that will be part of the 11 am service in the cathedral and the same sermon will be preached both in the online worship and at the services in church.

The online worship consists of three videos that make up a service of Holy Communion.

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • A hymn: Tell Out My Soul
  • A video for members of the Young Church and their households

The Vice Provost leads this service from the Cathedral and the Provost is the preacher. This week we are marking the Feast Day of the Cathedral, which is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. Sister Helena Barrett OSB leads some of the prayers, Christine Walker sings the anthem – Ave Maria by Simon Lindley, Magnus Walker sings the communion setting by Greening and Frikki Walker plays both the organ and piano. Pat Bennett leads the intercessions and Franny Mawditt reads the first reading.

The images used in the service come from the Getty Open Content Program and more details of each picture is available in the transcript.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship – 16 August 2020

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please do so.

To give to St Mary’s directly from your bank account, please set up payments to the Clydesdale Bank, sort code 82-20-00 account number 30185232, account name “Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin”.

To set up a standing order, please fill in a Bank Standing Order and send it to your bank. If you are a UK tax payer, please also fill in a Gift Aid Declaration as it enables the Cathedral to claim back the tax that you have already paid on the money that you are giving.

You can give by PayPal directly through this website by going to the Paypal Giving Page.

If it is possible for you to do so, please use a form of payment directly to the Cathedral bank account in order to avoid payment fees on PayPal.

If you would like details of how to give by other methods, please contact the Cathedral Office to be put in touch with the Gift Aid Recorder, Alan McCulloch.

Thank you for your offering. If you usually put cash on the plate, please, if you can, find a way of giving electronically at this time to enable the ministry of the Cathedral to continue.

Communion

Hymn – Tell Out My Soul

Young Church

The following video has been prepared for members of the Young Church by Christine Walker.

Welcome card and feedback

If you are finding a way into this congregation and would like to make contact, please use the Welcome Card which can be found online here:
https://thecathedral.org.uk/welcome-card/

If you would like to contact the Provost and the Vice Provost to give feedback on this worship or for any other reason, please use the following form.

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Last

If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive futher details about the online worship please do so at this sign-up page:
http://phplist.thecathedral.org.uk/?p=subscribe&id=3

Please share this page and these resources widely on social media and in any other ways you can think of.

Re-opening Plans

Bishop Kevin has given approval for St Mary’s to begin to re-open from Sunday 16 August 2020. He has approved the re-opening plan that was prepared by the St Mary’s Compliance Group.

In the intial phase of re-opening there will be two services a week, both on a Sunday morning. These services will take place at 9 am and 11 am and will be kept this week as the Feast of the Assumption.

The capacity for these services will be 50 people. Those wishing to attend will need to book a space. Details of how to book will be made public on Friday. Before Friday, the People’s Warden will be trying to contact those whom we know who have had no internet access to services, to offer them a priority booking.

Online Worship will continue for those who do not feel they can attend in-person worship at this time.

After a couple of weeks of services taking place in the cathedral building, the next priority will be to enable services for those who have been waiting for a baptism for many months.

At this time it is still not possible to offer any events or activities in the Synod Hall.

More details of how to book for services and some more detail about what those services will be like on Friday 14 August 2020.

Information about booking will be sent to everyone on the cathedral email list. There is a sign-up form for this on this website.

Online Survey – August 2020

Congregational Survey - August 2020

A re-opening plan is currently being devised by members of the Vestry that will be submitted to Bishop Kevin in order to seek permission to re-establish some services in the cathedral building. The Scottish Government and the Scottish Episcopal Church require such things as hand sanitizer being available and used, 2 meter distancing in church, face masks being worn and clear protocols about entering and leaving the building and about receiving communion. At the moment, music can only be from instruments that are not blown by the mouth and only one singer is permitted. After a service a congregation is required to disperse. Church buildings have to be cleaned before and after use. Services are likely to be shorter than our busiest services used to be and will be limited to 50 people in the building at any one time.

It is clear that not everyone who used to attend the cathedral in person will feel able to come to services at the moment and some form of online worship will continue. Initially provision will focus on Sunday worship and services to allow the baptisms of those who have been waiting to be baptised. Re-opening other services and activities will be a gradual process. The re-opening activities will be kept under review and the pattern of what is possible in church will depend on the levels of the covid crisis, government and church guidelines and the capacity of both members of staff and volunteers.

This survey is to help in planning the next few months.

Please fill in this survey for yourself as an individual. If there is anyone else in your household who relates to St Mary's then please ask them to fill it in themselves.

Online Worship

I have engaged with the Cathedral's weekly offering of Online Worship
I find the online worship nourishes me spiritually
I will continue to engage with Online Worship, even when the building re-opens for public worship
It is important for Online Worship to be a service of Holy Communion
I am willing to contribute videos to Online Worship
I have watched the Young Church videos
Which of the following have you engaged with (check all that apply)
I have engaged with Online Worship from other congregations

Re-opening for Public Worship

If there were worship in church in the next few weeks
Before the Covid crisis, I attended St Mary's...

Other questions and comments

Submit this survey

I consent to data that I have provided being processed in accordance with the cathedral's privacy policy. (Version 1.1) *
The cathedral's privacy policy can be found at https://thecathedral.org.uk/privacy-policy/

Online Worship – 2 August 2020

The worship for 2 August 2020 can be found in several videos:

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • A Hymn – Alleluia Sing to Jesus
  • Videos for members of the Young Church and their households

The Vice Provost leads this service from the Cathedral. Other voices come from members of the congregation. This Sunday’s sermon is preached by the Provost. Michael Shanks reads from the Bible, and Taylor Driggers leads the Intercessions. Jennifer Taylor sings the Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus from the Mass for Sarum Use. At Communion, she sings O Mysterium ineffabile by Lallouette. Frikki Walker is the pianist and organist for this service.

The gospel for this service is the story of the five loaves and two fishes and images of bread have been contributed by David Coleman, Scott Banford, Roger Edwards, Gordon McDougall, David Hanson, Alan Richmond, Patricia Lynch, Christine McIntosh, Debbie Lewer, Elspeth Gibb, Pete Smith, Dawn Driggers, Nigel Raynor, Helen Leslie, Anne Jones, Suet-Lin Teo, Gillian Hollis, Stewart McFarlane and Franny Mawditt.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship – 2 August 2020

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please do so.

To give to St Mary’s directly from your bank account, please set up payments to the Clydesdale Bank, sort code 82-20-00 account number 30185232, account name “Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin”.

To set up a standing order, please fill in a Bank Standing Order and send it to your bank. If you are a UK tax payer, please also fill in a Gift Aid Declaration as it enables the Cathedral to claim back the tax that you have already paid on the money that you are giving.

You can give by PayPal directly through this website by going to the Paypal Giving Page.

If it is possible for you to do so, please use a form of payment directly to the Cathedral bank account in order to avoid payment fees on PayPal.

If you would like details of how to give by other methods, please contact the Cathedral Office to be put in touch with the Gift Aid Recorder, Alan McCulloch.

Thank you for your offering. If you usually put cash on the plate, please, if you can, find a way of giving electronically at this time to enable the ministry of the Cathedral to continue.

Communion

Hymn – Alleluia Sing to Jesus

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah and Sophie Agrell. Organizers of Young Church would love to hear from members. Send artwork, questions and ideas to youngchurch@thecathedral.org.uk.

Welcome card and feedback

If you are finding a way into this congregation and would like to make contact, please use the Welcome Card which can be found online here:
https://thecathedral.org.uk/welcome-card/

If you would like to contact the Provost and the Vice Provost to give feedback on this worship or for any other reason, please use the following form.

First
Last

If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive futher details about the online worship please do so at this sign-up page:
http://phplist.thecathedral.org.uk/?p=subscribe&id=3

Please share this page and these resources widely on social media and in any other ways you can think of.

Online worship for 19 July 2020

The worship for 19 July 2020 can be found in two videos:

  • A Communion Service led by Bishop Kevin from St Mary’s Cathedral
  • Videos for members of the Young Church and their households

This week the Eucharist takes the form of a service led by Bishop Kevin from the altar of St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow. This is the service which that is being offered for the whole of the Scottish Episcopal Church today. It has been prepared by a member of staff of the General Synod Office in Edinburgh – which is why it is in a slightly different format to our usual services and also why it will not be available until 11 am on Sunday.

The readers are Anne Jones, Marion Noble from the diocesan office and the Provost, the intercessions are led by Robert Mawditt. Music comes from Frikki Walker, Magnus Walker and Rosamond Thomas.

The Service

Offertory

If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please do so.

To give to St Mary’s directly from your bank account, please set up payments to the Clydesdale Bank, sort code 82-20-00 account number 30185232, account name “Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin”.

To set up a standing order, please fill in a Bank Standing Order and send it to your bank. If you are a UK tax payer, please also fill in a Gift Aid Declaration as it enables the Cathedral to claim back the tax that you have already paid on the money that you are giving.

You can give by PayPal directly through this website by going to the Paypal Giving Page.

If it is possible for you to do so, please use a form of payment directly to the Cathedral bank account in order to avoid payment fees on PayPal.

If you would like details of how to give by other methods, please contact the Cathedral Office to be put in touch with the Gift Aid Recorder, Alan McCulloch.

Thank you for your offering. If you usually put cash on the plate, please, if you can, find a way of giving electronically at this time to enable the ministry of the Cathedral to continue.

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah and Sophie Agrell. Organizers of Young Church would love to hear from members. Send artwork, questions and ideas to youngchurch@thecathedral.org.uk.

Re-opening St Mary’s

The Provost and Vice Provost have begun a series of conversations about how to try to re-open the cathedral for face-to-face worship. This will involve the Leadership Group, the Vestry, the Compliance Group and many individuals who will have roles to play in bringing this about. The guidelines on re-opening churches were published on Tuesday this week and can be read here:
https://www.scotland.anglican.org/revised-guidance-for-phase-3-out-of-lockdown/

This is not a trivial task and is particularly difficult for larger congregations. St Mary’s normally has around 200 people present for worship on Sundays. The number of people who can be seated at 2 meter distancing in the pews is 44. This gives some idea of how complicated re-opening will be.

A video has been prepared by the Scottish Episcopal Church giving some idea of what can be expected once churches do re-open. This is worth watching and can be seen here:

Welcome card and feedback

If you are finding a way into this congregation and would like to make contact, please use the Welcome Card which can be found online here:
https://thecathedral.org.uk/welcome-card/

If you would like to contact the Provost and the Vice Provost to give feedback on this worship or for any other reason, please use the following form.

First
Last

If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive futher details about the online worship please do so at this sign-up page:
http://phplist.thecathedral.org.uk/?p=subscribe&id=3

Please share this page and these resources widely on social media and in any other ways you can think of.