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Online Worship – 3 May 2020

The worship for 3 May 2020 can be found in several videos:

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • Videos for members of the Young Church and their households
  • A candle lighting liturgy for use in the home

This week’s worship focuses on the gospel reading in which Jesus repeatedly uses images of a shepherd and sheep to describe the relationship between God and God’s people.

As access to the cathedral building is restricted, this week’s worship takes the form of a house eucharist hosted by the members of the Companions of Our Lady and St Mungo, Sister Helena and Sister AJ, from their own home. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. This Sunday’s sermon is preached by the Rev Matthew Little. Jim McKillop reads the Gospel, Franny Mawditt leads the Intercessions, and the organ voluntary, March from Richard III by William Walton, is played by Frikki Walker. Magnus Walker (tenor) sings the Gloria and Sanctus from a setting of the mass by Anthony Greening. Music at communion is ‘The King of Love My Shepherd Is’ which is also sung by Magnus Walker.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Transcript – Online Worship for 3 May 2020

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

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 enable the ministry of the cathedral to continue.

Communion

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell. Subtitles are provided – click on CC (Close Captions) on the video.

A Lucernarium for Easter

A candle-lighting liturgy for use at home during the COVID-19 pandemic


Find the Order of Service along with a downloadable PDF with musical responses here.

Feedback form

If you would like to contact the Provost and the Vice Provost, please use the following form. They will see messages sent from this form on Thursday 7 May 2020 when they return from annual leave.

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Online Worship – 19 April 2020

The worship for 19 April 2020 can be found in several videos:

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • An anthem from the choir
  • Videos for members of the Young Church and their households
  • A Podcast for Easter from Dr Deborah Lewer

As access to the cathedral building is restricted, this week’s worship takes the form of a house eucharist hosted by the Vice Provost from his own home, with the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth joining from his home. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. This Sunday’s sermon is preached by the Rev Dr Ellen Barrett. Beth Routledge reads the Gospel, Pat Bennett leads the Intercessions, and organ solos are played by Steven McIntyre on the organ at Dunblane Cathedral. Music for the Eucharist comes from the Walker family (Magnus Walker, tenor and Frikki Walker, organ). Music at communion is ‘O Filli et Filliae’ sung by Morven Bremner, soprano. The postlude is Voluntary in G (VII) by William Goodwin.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship – 19 April 2020 – 2 Easter

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

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 enable the ministry of the cathedral to continue.

The Communion

The Anthem

A recording of Prayer for Peace by Frikki Walker from the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow remembering that when Jesus appeared to his disciples, he said to them – “Peace be with you”.

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell, with a special stop-motion video by Zoe Shepard Reese. Closed captioning provided.


UPDATE: Looking for signs of hope and spring, a beautiful blue sky today and the buds are getting bigger and paler but no leaves yet!

Buds on a tree

Podcast for Easter from Dr Deborah Lewer


In this third and final podcast of the series, Dr Deborah Lewer explores a work of the German expressionist sculptor Ernst Barlach, a piece entitled Das Wiedersehen (1926), which depicts an encounter between Thomas and the risen Jesus. Video produced in partnership with the Iona Community. Music: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84, No. 5: Improvisation in C Sharp Minor by Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Catriona Mairi Mackenzie, piano

Download a transcript of the Podcast for Easter here.

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Podcast – the Risen Jesus

In this third and final podcast of the series, Dr Deborah Lewer explores a work of the German expressionist sculptor Ernst Barlach, a piece entitled Das Wiedersehen (1926), which depicts an encounter between Thomas and the risen Jesus. Video produced in partnership with the Iona Community. Music: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84, No. 5: Improvisation in C Sharp Minor by Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Catriona Mairi Mackenzie, piano.

Transcript:
Podcast script for Reunion

Easter Day Online Worship

The worship for Easter Day can be found in several videos:

  • The Exsultet – Sung by the Vice Provost – audio only
  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • An anthem from the choir
  • Videos for members of the Young Church and their households including an animation of Mary Magdelene’s experience of the first Easter.
  • A video for the young choristers teaching them a Hallelujah

The Exsultet

The Service

The service is led by the Provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth who is also the preacher today. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. The Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon reads the Gospel, Lisa Curtice leads the Intercessions, and organ solos are played by Steven McIntyre on the organ at Dunblane Cathedral. Music for the Eucharist comes from the Inns family. Music at communion is The Call by Ralph Vaughan Williams sung by Magnus Walker and accompanied by Frikki Walker. The postlude is Praeludium in C (BuxWV 137) – D. Buxtehude.

As access to the cathedral building is restricted, this week’s worship takes the form of a house eucharist hosted by the Provost from his own home. As the paschal candle was delivered to the home of one of the sacristans, Sue Champion, the service will begin with Sue lighting the candle in her home for the congregation.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Transcript for Online Worship for Easter Sunday

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

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 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 enable the ministry of the cathedral to continue.

The Communion

The Anthem

A recording of Haec Dies by Herbert Howells from the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell. Closed captioning provided.

Hallelujah for Young Choristers

Choral Evensong

Members of the choir will be taking part in a special Royal School of Church Music Easter Choral Evensong this evening at 6 pm. Choristers from up and down the country will be singing along wherever they are. The service is open to everyone and will be livestreamed on Youtube. More details here: https://www.rscm.org.uk/online-resources/the-big-easter-evensong/

Feedback form

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Online Worship for Good Friday

This page contains the online worship offering of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow for Good Friday 2020

The worship for Good Friday can be found in several videos:

  • A reading of the Passion Gospel by the Provost
  • Good Friday meditations consisting of five reflections on the Kelvingrove Triptych
  • An activity for members of the Young Church and their households
  • The second podcast in the series entitled ‘Agony, Lamentation and Reunion’

Good Friday Meditations

It is our custom on Good Friday to reflect on the events of the first Good Friday by reading the Passion and by meditating on it. One of the ways we do this is to gather from 12 noon to 3 pm and hear sermons reflecting on the passion. We share silence and listen to music for meditation.

This year there are five meditations which are based on five scenes from Gwyneth Leech’s Kelvingrove Triptych which hangs in St Anne’s Chapel. Each meditation is accompanied by organ music from the cathedral organists Frikki Walker and Steven McIntyre.

The Passion

The first video is an audio only reading of the Passion Gospel by the Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth

The Meditations

About the Kelvingrove Triptych

Three panels, each seventeen feet high by seven feet wide, hanging on the north wall of St Anne’s Chapel in St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

The triptych depicts the Easter Passion set in Kelvingrove Park. First, the eye encounters the figures at the bottom of each panel—actual portraits of regular park users on a late summer afternoon when the shadows are long: Sikh gentlemen, a group of Muslim women and children, cyclists, dog walkers and the ubiquitous nursery nannies and their charges. Certain figures will be familiar to members of Saint Mary’s congregation—Alastair Young, a past verger of the Cathedral, and Oran the golden retriever both appear in the centre panel. The artist’s daughter appears twice in the same painting—once as a small baby in red in a pushchair and then as a toddler walking beside the pushchair, recording the span of time taken in the completion of the canvases. As the eye travels upwards, the viewer discovers the Easter story. The left panel is Gethsemane. Reclining figures in the park on a sunny afternoon become, at the top, the disciples who cannot stay awake. In the upper left is the Arrest of Jesus, with Judas embracing Christ in the centre of a crowd of soldiers wielding spears and torches. The centre panel is dominated by the Deposition. The male disciples have all run away; the women are taking Jesus down from the cross to lay him in the tomb. On the right is the Noli Me Tangere. Mary Magdalene encounters the Risen Christ in the garden and does not recognise him. When at last she knows who he is, he says “do not touch me” (noli me tangere). He is real yet transfigured. The composition of the three religious scenes is inspired by Italian frescoes of the early Renaissance: Giotto’s Arrest of Jesus in the Arena Chapel in Padua, a Deposition in the Lower Church of St Francis in Assisi and Fra Angelico’s Noli Me Tangere in the Monastery of San Marco in Florence.

The Kelvingrove Triptych

Download a PDF transcript of the meditations here:
20200410 Good Friday meditations transcript

Read about the artist at www.gwynethleech.com.

Young Church

The following video has been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell.

Podcast

In this second podcast in the series, art historian Dr Deborah Lewer examines ‘Pietà’ by Rogier van der Weyden. Video produced in partnership with the Iona Community. Music: ‘So much wrong’ translated and arranged by John L. Bell, Calum Woods (voice).

Podcast transcript:
Podcast script for Fri Sat (Lamentation)

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If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please see the stewardship page on this website. 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.

Online Worship for Maundy Thursday

This page contains the online worship offering of St Mary’s Cathedral for Holy Week 2020.

The worship for Good Friday will be added on 10 April 2020.

The worship for Maundy Thursday can be found in several videos:

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • An activity for members of the Young Church and their households.
  • An audio narration of readings for The Watch
  • The first podcast in a special series for Holy Week entitled ‘Agony, Lamentation and Reunion’

The Service

The service is led by the Provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. The preacher is the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon. Robert Mawditt reads the Gospel, Caitlin Wakefield leads the Intercessions, and organ solos are played by Steven McIntyre. Music for the Kyrie and the Sanctus is from Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices sung by the Inns family. Music at communion is the Gregorian chant ‘Ubi caritas’ sung by Morven Bremner, soprano.

As access to the cathedral building restricted, this week’s worship takes the form of a house eucharist hosted by the Provost from his own home.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship Transcript – Maundy Thursday 2020

The Gathering


The Ministry of the Word


If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please see the stewardship page on this website. 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.

The Communion


Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell. Access a transcript of this video here:
Transcript of Young Church activity for Maundy Thursday 2020


The Watch

The audio file linked below contains narration by Brian Toal and Sophie Agrell of readings for The Watch. Please listen to this file after viewing the service above.

Download a transcript at Transcript of readings-for-the-watch-2020

Podcast

In this podcast, the first in a series of three entitled ‘Agony, Lamentation and Reunion’, art historian Dr Deborah Lewer examines ‘Agony in the Garden’ by sixteenth-century artist Albrecht Dürer. Video produced in partnership with the Iona Community. Music: ‘Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium’ (medieval hymn), Steven McIntyre (organ).


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Podcast for Maundy Thursday

In this podcast, the first in a series of three entitled ‘Agony, Lamentation and Reunion’, art historian Dr Deborah Lewer examines ‘Agony in the Garden’ by sixteenth-century artist Albrecht Dürer. Video produced in partnership with the Iona Community. Music: ‘Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium’ (medieval hymn), Steven McIntyre (organ).

Online Worship – Palm Sunday

This page has the online worship offering of St Mary’s Cathedral for Palm Sunday – 5 April 2020

The worship can be found in several videos—three that form a service and some more for members of the Young Church and their families.

The service is led by the Vice Provost, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. The preacher is Sister Helena Barrett OSB. As access to the cathedral building restricted, this week’s worship takes the form of a house eucharist hosted by the Vice Provost from his own home.

A PDF transcript of the service can also be downloaded:
Online Worship – 5 April 2020 Palm Sunday

The Service

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please see the stewardship page on this website. 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.

The Communion

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church. The first one is subtitled and the subtitles can be accessed by pressing the CC (Closed captions) button on the video.

This was a collaborative effort from a number of people including the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon, Sister Helena Barrett OSB, Lesley Buntain (Gospel), Steven McIntyre (organ), Robert Guthrie (tenor), Taylor Driggers (Intercessions), Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell (Young Church).

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Online Worship – 29 March 2020

Online Worship

This page has the online worship offering of St Mary’s Cathedral for 29 March 2020

The worship can be found in several videos – three that form a service and some more for for members of the Young Church and their families. All members of the church may enjoy the Young Church material, which this week includes a fabulous Animation about Ezekiel and the Dry Bones, Activities to try and some Choristers’ Singing Games to keep everyone on their toes.

The service is led by the Provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. The preacher is the Vice Provost, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon. As access to the cathedral building restricted, this week’s worship takes the form of a house eucharist hosted by the Provost from his own home.

A pdf transcript of the service can also be downloaded:
Transcript – Online Worship – 29 March 2020 – Passion Sunday

The Service

The Gathering

The Ministry of the Word

If you would like to make a financial contribution to enable this ministry, please see the stewardship page on this website. 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.

The Communion

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church. Subtitles for these files can be accessed by clicking on the CC (Closed Captions) button on the video.

There’s some information for adults in this pdf:
sheet-for-adults-29-mar-2020

The young choristers from the Cathedral Choir often learn through Singing Games. Here’s three such games prepared by Sarah for young (and older) singers to try.

This was a collaborative effort from a number of people including the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon, Steven McIntyre (organ), Frikki Walker (Organ), Magnus Walker (Singing), Sarah Weir (Singing games), Rosemary Hannah & Sophie Agrell (young church), Caitlyn Wakefield (Gospel reading), Pat Bennett (Intercessions) and Tim Haynes (many of the photographs).

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