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Online Worship – 29 Nov 2020

During Level 4 lockdown, regular in-person worship at the Cathedral is suspended. We pray for the wellbeing of the city by practising our faith in different ways and, in particular, by worshipping at home rather than in our building. Once the restrictions are lifted, the cathedral will re-open.

Online Worship for 29 November 2020 can be found in several videos.

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • A hymn: ‘Christ be our Light’
  • Two videos for members of the Young Church and their households

The Rev Canon Audrey O’Brien Stewart, Canon Missioner for the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway, leads this service from the Cathedral. The Vice Provost is the preacher. The Provost leads some of the prayers, Taylor Driggers-McDowall leads the Intercessions, and Zoe Johnson reads the Gospel. Frikki Walker plays the organ and piano at this service. Morven Bremner sings the mass setting (St Anne’s Mass by James MacMillan) and the music at Comminion (‘O Light of Life’ by Mack Wilberg) is sung by Christine Walker. The voluntary played on the Cathedral’s chamber organ at the end of the service is ‘Wachet Auf’ by Johann Walter.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship – 29 November 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 – ‘Christ be our Light’

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church by Rosemary Hannah and Sophie Agrell and Christine Walker.

This week, Rosemary and Sophie perform a creative puppet play called ‘Setting off with Abraham’. Christine teaches ‘Gabriel’s Message’, the first of four songs that will be part of the Crib Service this year.

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

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

A Blessing for Pilgrims

The following recording is of the ‘Irish Blessing’ by Bob Chilcott from a CD entitled ‘Listen’ by the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

It contains the words of a blessing appropriate for making a pilgrimage.

The pictures were taken by members of the congregation of roads around the city of Glasgow, as the March 2020 lockdown was imposed and the streets became quiet.


May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be ever at your back
May the sunshine warm upon your face
And the rain fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again
May God hold you, may God hold you
Ever in the palm of his hand

Worship for 13 September 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. Seats for worship in church can be booked at https://thedatabase.thecathedral.org.uk and are released each week at 12 noon on Tuesday.

The Online Worship for 13 September 2020 can be found in several videos.

  • Three videos that form a service of Holy Communion
  • A hymn: ‘Praise my soul the King of Heaven’
  • Videos for members of the Young Church and their households

The Vice Provost leads this service from the Cathedral. The Provost is the preacher. Joanna Russell leads some of the prayers, Robert Mawditt leads the Intercessions, and Ogochukwu Obiakor reads the first reading. Frikki Walker plays both the organ and piano at this service. Fergus Inns sings the anthem, ‘The Call’ by Vaughan Williams, and Rosamond Thomas sings a communion setting by Grayston Ives. The voluntary at the end of the service is by Martin How.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship 13 September 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 – Praise my soul the King of Heaven

Young Church

The following videos have been prepared for members of the Young Church this week by the Vice Provost and by Christine Walker. The first is posted in anticipation of Holy Cross Day which falls tomorrow. 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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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)
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Re-opening for Public Worship

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Online Worship for 5 July 2020

The worship for 5 July 2020 can be found in several videos:

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

The preacher at this week’s service is the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, the Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, who took up this role on Wednesday this week. Bishop Kevin and his wife Elspeth will join the online coffee hour and will be in conversation with the Provost there at 12 noon. Details of how to join have been sent to all on the Cathedral online mailing list. To sign up for this mailing list, please go to the online sign-up form.

The celebrant at this week’s service is the Provost, who conducts the service from the Cathedral. Other voices come from members of the congregation, some of whom are self-isolating at home. The Vice Provost, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon, assists with the service. David Nassar reads from the Bible and Pat Bennett leads the Intercessions. Magnus Walker sings the music for the Ordinary, a setting by Malcolm Archer. The music at communion is sung by the Vice Provost. The hymn, played by the Cathedral’s Director of Music, is ‘Praise to the Lord, the Almighty the King of Creation’ (Lobe den Herren).

This week’s photographs feature some of the places that Bishop Kevin will come to know well during his time as our bishop. During the Gloria, we go doon the watter; during the Sanctus and Benedictus, there are some photographs from the south of the Diocese.

The photo of the town of Moffatt is by James Johnstone and is used here under the license CC BY 2.0.

Download a PDF transcript of the service here:
Online Worship – 5 July 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

A Hymn – Praise to the Lord, the Almighty the King of Creation

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.