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.
Knowing Me, Knowing You
An evening of conversation with the Provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth.
This event takes place in the Synod Hall on Monday 26 January 2009 at 8 pm. Limited to 20 places to ensure that the conversation flows. To book a place, contact Alistair Fulton via the Cathedral Office.
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.
Cathedral AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Congregation of the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin will take place on 23 November 2008 at 12 Noon.
The annual report can be downloaded here: Annual Report – AGM 2008
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.
All Saints – All Souls
The Rev Richard Coles will be the preacher for the All Saints service which will be held on 2 November 2008 at 1030. Richard is a broadcaster, priest and former popstar as one half of the Communards. He will lead a workshop on “The Best of Times, the Worst of Times” on 1 November from 11 until 3 pm.
The All Souls Requiem will take place on Sunday 2 November 2008 at 6.30 pm. At this service, people who have died will be remembered by name in prayer. Names should be added to the list in church or e-mailed to the Cathedral Office.
Big Sing
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 event begins at 7.30 pm. All Welcome.