St Bride's Episcopal Church, Glasgow

15/06/2026

A simple and yet so beautiful arrangement at the shrine of Our Lady over the weekend.

13/06/2026

SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
RSCM MUSIC SUNDAY
10.30 am, Choral Eucharist
Scottish Liturgy 1970

The Gospel
Matthew 9. 35 – 10. 8

Sermon
Revd Peter Bradley
MUSIC
Director of Music: Alan Tavener

Voluntary before the service: Franck, Pastorale

Setting of the Mass: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, The St Helen’s Service

Motet: Anthony Baldwin, When, in our Music, God is glorified

Voluntary after the service: Robert Prizeman, Songs of Praise

Refreshments will be served after the service.

All are most welcome.

Today we join churches across the country in marking RSCM Music Sunday.
The music for this Sung Mass has been chosen to reflect the day, including the
Mass setting, the anthem, and the final voluntary. St Bride’s Choir is affiliated
with the Royal School of Church Music, and we are delighted that this service
forms part of the Society’s Music Sunday celebrations. Further details may be
found on the RSCM events page, on line at
https://www.rscm.org.uk/events/choral-eucharist-for-rscm-music-sunday/



St Bride’s Episcopal Church is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC01

Image: Jacques-Joseph Tissot, ‘These twelve Jesus sent out’, from La Vie
de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ. Opaque watercolour over graphite on paper.
Brooklyn Museum, New York. Public domain.

12/06/2026

Welcome to the St Bride's weekly newsletter for the week beginning Sunday 14 June, the Second Sunday after Trinity.

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus looks upon the crowds and is moved with compassion, ‘because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd’. He then sends out the Twelve, commissioning them to proclaim the kingdom and to share in his own ministry of healing and restoration. The calling of the apostles recalls the vocation first given to Israel (Exodus 19). Israel’s identity did not rest upon land, power, or political strength, but upon God’s promise and God’s presence among them. They were called to be a holy nation and a kingdom of priests, a people through whom the knowledge of God might be made known to the world.

Like Israel in the wilderness, the Church often finds itself in a precarious position, sustained not by earthly securities but by the promises of God. The events of recent days remind us how fragile our institutions and possessions can be. Yet the Church's identity does not rest upon buildings, treasures, or worldly strength, but upon the God who calls, gathers, and sends his people.

SERVICES and other activities at St Bride's, Saturday 13 June to Sunday 21 June
Saturday 13 June
9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
12 Noon. Low Mass with Anointing of the Sick

Sunday 14 June: Trinity II
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
10.30 a.m. Sung Mass
6.00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
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Monday 15 June
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
6.00 p.m. Mass
7.00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
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Tuesday 16 June
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
1.00 p.m. Mass
5.00 p.m. Evening Prayer

Wednesday 17 June
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
8.15 a.m. Low Mass (Scottish Liturgy 1982)
5.00 p.m. Evening Prayer

Thursday 18 June
12.00 noon–2.00 p.m. Knit and Natter Group

Saturday 20 June
Please note that there are no services today. The ordination of Tosh Lynch will be taking place at the cathedral at 11 a.m. Tosh was on placement at St Bride's, as an ordinand, between Advent and Easter.

Sunday 21 June: Trinity III
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
10.30 a.m. Sung Mass
12 noon St Bride's Lunch — all welcome (£2.50 per person suggested donation)
3.30 p.m. Choral Evensong and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
6.00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom

Jacques-Joseph Tissot, ‘These twelve Jesus sent out’, from La Vie
de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ. Opaque watercolour over graphite on paper.
Brooklyn Museum, New York. Public domain.

11/06/2026

The last in the current series of Sing for Your Life was such good fun!!!

See you and many more next series!!

Thank You for your support!

10/06/2026

On Friday we will be observing the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus with a Low Mass at 08:15 a.m.

This is a popular devotion which dates back to the middle ages, flowered in France in the seventeenth century as a result of the visions of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. It recalls the mystery of God, who is love, and honours the heart of Jesus as the source and centre of the incarnate love of God.

Devotion to the Heart of Jesus is also expressed in the writings of medieval saints including Bernard of Clairvaux, Gertrude the Great, and the English mystic, Mother Julian of Norwich.

The Sacred Heart is also the subject of a wonderful book by the English Puritan and pastor, Thomas Goodwin, who served as Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. His book, ‘The Heart of Christ in Heaven Towards Sinners in Earth’, is a profound meditation on Christ's compassion for struggling believers.

The religious communities of the Anglican Society of St Francis observe today as the Feast of the Divine Compassion in memory of the first Anglican Franciscan religious community, the Society of the Divine Compassion, which was founded in Plaistow, East London, in 1894. The SDC friars were committed to social justice for the often impoverished communities of the East End, perceiving them to be made in the image of Christ.

08/06/2026

Sing for your Life!
Thursday 11 June
2.00 for 2.15-3.15 p.m.
Free and open to all

In this final session before the summer break we'll be asking you to Accentuate the Positive, search for Pennies from Heaven and Always look on the Bright Side of Life. Pack up Your Troubles in your Old Kitbag because it's a Wonderful World. You'll never Walk Alone if you Bring me Sunshine and Simple Gifts.

Do come along and help us 'latch on to the affirmative' in song.

“This is not a choir and it's
not a rehearsal" - just friendly fun, followed by refreshments.

Comments received following the last session in May:’ It was just such fun!’ ‘I’ll definitely be coming back’. ‘I left the session in such a good mood!’

07/06/2026

06/06/2026

ST BRIDE’S SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Sunday 7 June 2026

FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
10.30 am, Choral Eucharist
Scottish Liturgy 1970

The Gospel
Matthew 9. 9 – 13,18 – 26

Sermon
Revd David Cameron
MUSIC
Director of Music: Alan Tavener

Voluntary before the service: Purcell, Voluntary on the Old Hundredth (words at NEH 334)

Setting of the Mass: Cabena, Mass in the Dorian Mode

Motet: Brian Coleman, arr John Barnard, As Water to the Thirsty

Voluntary after the service: Hendrik Andriessen, Theme and Variations

Refreshments will be served after the service.

All are most welcome.


St Bride’s Episcopal Church is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC012625

Image: Vittore Carpaccio, The Calling of Matthew (1502). Tempera on canvas. Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice (via Wikimedia Commons).

05/06/2026

Organ recital this Sunday 7 June at Bride’s:

7 June 2026
1:00-1:50pm

Guest Organist: Pavlos Triantaris
(Letchworth Traditional Anglican Church)

Please join us in this our final recital in our current series.

05/06/2026

This Sunday’s readings bring together the prophet Hosea and the ministry of Jesus. Through Hosea, the Lord God declares, ‘I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God and not burnt offerings’; and in the Gospel Jesus repeats those same words as he welcomes tax collectors, restores the sick, and raises the dead. The point is not that worship is unimportant, but that true worship must bear fruit in lives formed by God’s mercy. The sacrifices of the temple find their fulfilment in a people whose hearts have been transformed by God’s grace. Having received God’s love, we are called to show that same faithful love in our dealings with others, carrying the worship of the sanctuary into the life of the world.

SERVICES and other activities at St Bride's, Saturday 6 June to Sunday 14 June

Saturday 6 June
No services today

Sunday 7 June: Trinity I
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
10.30 a.m. Sung Mass
1.00 p.m. Organ Recital
6.00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/87551617482?pwd=fKWTywEBAK0xbeEyGUIvJhjx17YwrD.1
Meeting ID: 875 5161 7482
Passcode: 391698

Monday 8 June
7.00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 875 5161 7482
Passcode: 391698

Tuesday 9 June
No services today

Wednesday 10 June
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
8.15 a.m. Low Mass (Scottish Liturgy 1982)
5.00 p.m. Evening Prayer

Thursday 11 June
12.00 noon–2.00 p.m. Knit and Natter Group

Saturday 13 June
9.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
12 Noon Mass with Anointing of the Sick

Sunday 14 June: Trinity II
8.00 a.m. Morning Prayer
10.30 a.m. Sung Mass
6.00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom

Image: Vittore Carpaccio, The Calling of Matthew (1502). Tempera on canvas. Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice (via Wikimedia Commons).