St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

There will be an evening of celebrations on 23 November 2008 to mark the 10th anniversary of Bishop Idris’s consecration. The evening will begin with Choral Evensong at 6.30 pm and continue with a ceilidh in church to the music of the Jiggers Ceilidh Band from 7.30 pm. Members of the Cathedral congregation will be joined by friends from all around the diocese.

The music planned for the service of Choral Evensong will include Rose Responses, Canticles by Stanford in Eb, Handel’s Zadok the Priest and O Thou the Central Orb by Charles Wood.

This artistic and musical event is taking place in St. Mary’s Cathedral during the last week of October and the weekend 1st and 2nd of November 2008. 23 artists have agreed to create pictures Illustrating biblical or historical events which show God’s grace in action, and these will be exhibited at St. Mary’s.

The weekend of 20 & 21 September was Doors Open Weekend in Glasgow and St Mary’s was open to visitors.

Many local people took the chance to come inside the doors and look at the stunning murals and to find out more about the congregation.

The Rt Rev Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire was celebrant and preacher at St Mary’s on 3 August 2008 at the 1030 service.

This was the first time that Bishop Gene has visited Scotland since becoming the Bishop of New Hampshire in 2004 and the first chance to hear his reflections on the Lambeth Conference.

The sermon can be seen and heard here. A video of Bishop Gene presiding at the Eucharist can be found on the Provost’s Blog.

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Most Rev Fred Hiltz will be the preacher at the 1030 service at St Mary’s on 13 July 2008. Archbishop Fred is visiting the Diocese along with other bishops from around the Anglican Communion who will then make their way to Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference.