St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

Bishop Idris has taken leave of the diocese with a special service on 19 July 2009 to mark his retirement at the end of the month.

Sunday 28 June was the last day of the choir term. The Sunday morning service was a special jazz mass. The setting was Bob Chilcott’s Little Jazz Mass and was accompanied by piano, bass and drums. The sermon is now published – click the arrow at the bottom left of the video block to start. (Flash Player needed)

The Feast of Pentecost falls on 31 May 2009. On this day we remember the Holy Spirit descending on Jesus’s friends and setting them free to share the good news about him. The story is described in Acts Chapter 2. This is a day for remembering the power of God. In St Mary’s, beautiful red vestments are worn, recalling the flames of fire in the story. This is also a day for giving thanks for the powers of creativity that God has given to human beings. This year, St Mary’s will be particularly celebrating the fact that each of the people heard the good news of God’s deeds in their own tongue. Members of the congregation are invited to pray the Lord’s Prayer in their own first language on this feast day.

There will be two Eucharists on Ascension Day – one at 11 am and a Choral Eucharist at 7.30 pm.

The musical setting in the evening is Haydn’s Little Organ Mass and the service will be sung by the full choir of Adults and Trebles accompanied by string players from St Mary’s Sinfonia.

The Easter Vigil takes place on Easter Day at 0700 and will be celebrated by The Rt Rev Idris Jones. It will include a baptism and a confirmation, the lighting of the Easter Fire and the singing of the Exsultet. Holy Communion will be celebrated at 0830. A Festival Eucharist will be celebrated by the Provost at 1030 and will include Schubert’s Mass in G with Orchestra. The Hallelujah Chorus will be sung by the whole congregation as the Gradual Hymn. Festival Choral Evensong takes place at 1830. All Welcome

A member of St Mary’s, Isobel MacNaughtan is currently in India visiting projects that have recently been supported by the congregation through the Wells for India programme.
Isobel is keeping a blog of her journey which may be read here.

The Vestry meeting scheduled for 2 Febrary 2009 has been postponed for 7 days and will take place on 9 February 2009.

Sunday Worship on Radio 4 on 18 January came from St Mary’s Cathedral. The service featured the Cathedral Choir and was a service of Morning Prayer for the season of Epiphany. Details of the music broadcast during the service can be found here.

The congregation kept the Feast of the Epiphany on 4 January 2009.

The Provost’s sermon is available in video on this website.

There will be a service in St Mary’s on Thursday 1 January 2009 at 11 am.

New Year’s Day is a Feast Day in the Scottish Episcopal Church – the Feast of the Holy Name, the day on which we remember the parents of Jesus confirming the name that they had been told by the angel Gabriel.