St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

Special Lent Devotions take place on Friday evenings in St Mary’s at 6.30 pm. Most weeks the format is Eucharist, Meditation and Compline. On 19 March there will be Choral Evensong for St Joseph.

The services on Ash Wednesday will be at 1230 pm and 7.30 pm. The evening service will be a Choral Eucharist and the setting is Byrd’s Four Part Mass.

The Feast of Candlemas will be celebrated with a Eucharist at 0930 on 2 February. The readings and music at Evensong at 6.30 pm on 31 March will also reflect Candlemastide.

The early history of this congregation has been kept pretty vague for more than two centuries. Roger Edwards has been trawling through early records, and will explain his unexpected findings at a social evening in the Synod Hall on Saturday 30th January at 7.30 pm.

There will be a special service on New Year’s Day 2010 – the Feast of the Holy Name at 11 am.

Organ Recital and Choral Evensong

The Requiem for All Souls will take place on 2 November 2009 at 7.30 pm. The full choir will sing Fauré Requiem. Those attending are invited to submit names to be remembered at this service to the Cathedral Office.

There will be the opportunity to explore different ways of praying in a series of Saturday morning group meetings led by Betty Jeanrond and Caroline McKillop on 3 October 2009, 24 October 2009, 7 November 2009 and 21 November 2009. Subjects will include: stillness, the prayer of awareness, holy reading (lectio divina), imaginative contemplation and prayers of petition & intercession.

There will be a special Festival Choral Evensong to mark the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul on 28 June 2009. The service begins at 6.30 pm and includes the Gloucester Service canticles by Howells.

There was a guided tour of the cathedral church after the 1030 service on 15 February 2009. Members of serveral Flickr groups were also invited and some of their work can now be seen on the St Mary’s Flickr Pool