The services for Palm Sunday on 29 March take place at 9 am, 11 am and 5 pm. Palms will be available at all services. Processions at 9 am and 11 am.
Maundy Thursday
The Maundy Thursday service takes place on 2 April 2025 at 7.30 pm. This will include footwashing, the stripping of the church and communion for everyone. A Watch will be kept until midnight.
Good Friday
Liturgy 9.30 am. Three hour devotions from 12 noon until 3 pm. Compline at the foot of the cross at 7.30 pm.
Organ Project
St Mary’s is currently engaged in an exciting project to restore and install a fine Willis pipe organ. More information: An Organ for Glasgow
Plainsong
The simple, glorious beauty of plainsong can be encountered on Sundays at 9 am and during the summer at the 5 pm services
New Vice Provost
The Rev Canon Sarah Shaw was installed at 5 pm on 8 June 2025. All welcome. Livestream recording: here.
Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong is sung in St Mary’s each Sunday at 5 pm. The most beautiful of music in the most beautiful of settings. All Welcome.
Easter Service Online
The Choral Mass for Easter Day with music from the Cathedral Choir and the Children’s Choir can be found online on YouTube.
Good Friday Reflections 2024
Reflections on The Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross given on Good Friday 2024 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow
The Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
The seven phrases spoken by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion as recorded in the four Gospels of the New Testament.
1
‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing’
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson
2
‘Today you will be with me in paradise’
The Rev Canon Audrey O’Brien Stewart
3
‘Behold your son: behold your mother’
The Rev Canon Prof John Riches
4
‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’
The Rev Canon Chinemerem Uche
5
‘I thirst’
The Rev Dr Maggie McTernan
6
‘It is finished’
The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth
7
‘Father, into your hands, I commend my Spirit’
The Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon
Nigerian Style Service
There will be a Nigerian Style Service on the first Sunday of next month at 11 am at 1464 Shettleston Rd, Glasgow G32 9AL