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LGBT History Month Exhibition

St Mary’s is hosting an online badge exhibition for LGBT History Month. A badge a day will be posted for the month of February.
See the badges here:
https://thecathedral.org.uk/lgbt-history-month-online-badge-exhibition/

LGBT History Month – #19 – Some bishops are gay – get on with it!

For as long as there have been bishops in the church, some of them have presumably been gay. What has been less common through the church’s history than appointing bishops who happen to be gay is being honest about doing so.

The first bishop in the Anglican Communion who was appointed in the full knowledge that he was in a same-sex partnership was the the Rt Rev Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire in the USA. Bishop Gene visited St Mary’s to celebrate the eucharist and preach the gospel on 3 August 2008, during a Lambeth Conference. At the time, Bishop Gene was barred from attending the conference (supposedly the international gathering of all Anglican bishops). He was also barred from celebrating the Eucharist at every altar in the Church of England.

He was welcomed with much joy in St Mary’s.

Anxiety about the sexuality of candidates for the Episcopate remains a problem in very many parts of the church. There is now no bar to someone becoming a bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church who is married to a same-sex partner. This was resolved in 2017, only when the church passed legislation enabling same-sex couples to marry in church.

LGBT History Month – #15 – Love means Love

This badge celebrates a statement made by the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Bishop Mark Strange.

The statement can be read online here: https://www.scotland.anglican.org/primus-addresses-anglican-communion-primates-meeting-scottish-episcopal-churchs-decision-change-canon-marriage/

After the General Synod voted for marriage equality in 2017, the primates of the Anglican Communion sanctioned the Scottish Episcopal Church by excluding members of the church from representing the Anglican Communion ecumenically and from holding a small number of offices for three years. Bishop Mark responded to this by saying that he would do everything he could to rebuild relationships “but that will be done from the position our church has now reached in accordance with its synodical processes and in the belief that Love means Love.”

LGBT History Month – #13 – OUT

Coming out is often presumed to be some kind of once in a lifetime event. The reality for most LGBT people is that they have to come out again and again in life in situation after situation in which their identity is not the norm.

This includes coming out at school, college, to a doctor, to parents, to a spouse, from the pulpit, to a friend, to an enemy or rival, in a sports club, to a sibling and countless occasions when false assumptions have been made.

Many find the experience of coming out a liberating one in the end. However, it also has to be acknowledged that coming out can be a traumatic experience. No-one ever knows how another person will behave if one comes out to them. Sometimes people have lost their home, their children, their job as a result of coming out.

Ultimately, coming out is about living as a person of integrity and truth.

Sometimes LGBT people like to meet in LGBT spaces precisely because they want to meet in social spaces where coming out is completely unnecessary.

Sermon preached by the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon on 29 November 2020

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.

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.

Annual Report 2020

View and download the Cathedral’s 2020 Annual Report here.

Sermon preached on 15 November 2020 by the Rev Canon Prof John Riches

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