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Christmas Services 2023

24 December 2023
9 am – Plainsong Eucharist for the Fourth Sunday in Advent
11 am – Sung Eucharist for the Fourth Sunday in Advent
4 pm Christmas Crib Service for Children of any age
6.30 pm Christmas Carol Service with music from the Cathedral Choir
11.15 pm Midnight Mass with music from the Cathedral Choir

25 December 2023
11 am Christmas Day Service with music from the Cathedral Choir

26 December 2023
9.30 am Morning Prayer for the Feast of St Stephen
11 am Eucharist for the Feast of St Stephen

27 December 2023
9.30 am Morning Prayer for the Feast of St John the Evangelist

28 December 2023
9.30 am Morning Prayer for the Feast of the Holy Innocents

29 December 2023
9.30 am Morning Prayer

30 December 2023
9.30 am Morning Prayer

Sunday 31 December 2023
9.30 am Plainsong Eucharist
11.am Sung Eucharist

1 January 2024
9.30 am Morning Prayer
12.30 Eucharist for New Year’s Day with the Blessing of the Diaries

6 January 2024
5 pm Choral Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany

7 January 2024
9.30 am Plainsong Eucharist for the Feast of the Baptism of Christ
11 am Sung Eucharist for the Feast of the Baptism of Christ

Good Friday Reflections 2023

Reflections given at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow on Good Friday, 7 April 2023

Reflection 1
Matthew 26.36-46
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson

Reflection 2
Matthew 26.47-56
The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth

Reflection 3
Matthew 26.57-68
The Rev Canon Prof John Riches

Reflection 4
Matthew 27.1-10
The Rev Canon Audrey O’Brien Stewart

Reflection 5
Matthew 27.11-31
The Rev Maggie McTernan

Reflection 6
Matthew 27.32-56
The Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon

Photograph of Kelvin Holdsworth

Photograph of Kelvin Holdsworth in St Mary’s Catthedral, Glasgow – no attribution needed

Midweek Services

A midweek service is now held every Tuesday at 11 am

Livestream Services

At the current time the 11 am service on Sundays and evening Choral Eucharists on feast days are livestreams. Upcoming and recent livestream services can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@stmaryscathedralglasgow/streams

Choral Service for Epiphany

There will be a choral service for the Feast of the Epiphany on Friday 6 January 2022 at 7.30 pm.

Open to the public. No need to book. There’s room for everyone. Admission free.

Livestream link

Light and Dark: An Advent Visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery

If you can get to Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum, St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow offers a unique opportunity this Advent. Dr Deborah Lewer, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, has recorded a self-guided audio tour exploring seasonal themes of light and dark. You can walk around the gallery at your own pace and go on this ‘retreat’ whenever it’s convenient for you.

About the Tour

At the darkening time of the year, as the clocks go back and nights lengthen, join Dr Deborah Lewer to explore the play of light and shade in art and faith. Artists know that light and darkness – what the Italians call ‘chiaroscuro’ – bring art to life. Biblical and spiritual tradition is rich in images of light and dark. In deep paradoxes of ‘luminous darkness’, artists, psalmists, poets, prophets, and contemplatives have found beauty, hope, meaning – and humour too – beyond the ‘light of the world’. For the Advent season, this visit will be an opportunity to engage with a vivid range of art in the rich collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and to think in new ways about shadows and light in a life of faith and in times of darkness.

Debbie is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow and a congregation member at St Mary’s. She is a regular speaker in churches, theological colleges and at festivals and retreats on the rich relationship between art and faith.