CHRISTMAS EVE
24 December 2022
23:15 • MIDNIGHT MASS – LIVESTREAM
CHRISTMAS DAY
25 December 2022
11:00 • SUNG EUCHARIST – LIVESTREAM
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.
Audio Guide
Download an annotated Floor Plan
In the main hall of the Ground Floor
On the landing of the northeast stair, heading up from the Ground Floor
Link to image on Art UK website.
Along the northeast balcony of the First Floor
Link to image on Art UK website.
In the Dutch Art gallery
Link to image on Art UK website.
In the Scottish Colourists gallery
Link to image on Art UK website.
At the south end of the French Art gallery
Link to image of triptych’s left wing on Art UK website.
Link to image of triptych’s centre panel on Art UK website.
Link to image of triptych’s right wing on Art UK website.
You can also download and listen to the entire audio guide on Bandcamp.
Sound effects obtained from www.zapsplat.com
A Musical Celebration
On Friday 30 September at 7:30 pm, join the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow conducted by Frikki Walker, Director of Music, with Steven McIntyre, organ, and the Telemann Ensemble as they perform music of Monteverdi, Gibbons, Byrd, Handel, Bach, Mozart and Purcell. Music in this concert features the Cathedral’s new chamber organ.
FREE ENTRY
Donations received at this concert benefit the Cathedral Music Fund, which underwrites events like this one.
Student Welcome
The Provost and Vice Provost are two of the honorary chapains at the University of Glasgow and students from many of the different Higher Education institutions of the city are members of the congregation.
St Mary’s warmly welcomes students who are new to Glasgow.
To make contact, please use this form, which will send your message to the Vice Provost, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon.
Regular Services
Sunday Services take place at 9 am, 11 am and 5 pm. The morning services are communion services, the 5 pm service is Evensong which is sung by the choir except for the Sundays after Christmas and Easter and for 6 weeks in the summer – usually starting at the start of July.
Sung Evensong
Sung Evensong takes place at 5 pm every Sunday. Admission free. No tickets required.
Installation of the Rev Canon Stephen Hazlett
The Installation of the Rev Stephen Hazlett as a canon of St Mary’s Cathedral will take place on Sunday 27 January 2022 at 5 pm during a service of Choral Evensong.
This service is open to everyone and members of the diocese are particularly invited to attend. Bishop Kevin will lead the service and the sermon will be given by the Rt Rev Gordon Mursell.
Members of the clergy and lay readers are invited to robe – choir dress (black cassock, white surplice and black tippet/blue reader’s scarf).
Clergy and lay readers who are intending to robe are invited to let the cathedral office know that they are coming in order to help determine seating arrangements.
No-one needs to book in advance for this service.
Worship Livestream 6 February 2022
The Livestream link for 6 February 2022 is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDci2HKc21c
Donate to St Mary’s
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 the online worship or for any other reason, please use the following form.
If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive further 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.
Livestreaming 30 January 2022
The 11 am service on 30 January 2022 was livestreamed.
It can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tqpo2G8Hq0
Transcripts of the sermon and intercessions can be found here:
20220130 Jeremiah
20220130 Intercessions
Donate to St Mary’s
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 the online worship or for any other reason, please use the following form.
If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive further 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 23 January 2022
This page contains the online service for 23 January 2022 for St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow.
The Vice Provost, the Rev Canon Oliver Brewer-Lennon, is the Celebrant at this service, and the Rev Maggie McTernan is the Deacon and Preacher. Shona Maciver leads the Intercessions; Billy Scorgie reads the Gospel; and Lesley Buntain and Iain Milne lead some of the prayers. Magnus Walker sings the mass setting (Holy Trinity Service by Christopher Tambling) with Frikki Walker, organ. The voluntary at the end of the service is ‘Fiat Lux’ by Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) played by Steven McIntyre.
The video of the Sung Eucharist will also be available on Facebook and YouTube. The YouTube video might suit those who prefer to watch on a smart TV.
Download a transcript of the service here: Online Worship – 23 Jan 2022
Sung Eucharist
Donate to St Mary’s
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.
If you wish to join the cathedral electronic mailing list to receive further 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.