Worship
Our current regular pattern of worshipCalendar of services
Sunday
7.30 am Morning Prayer
A short, reflective of readings from Scripture and prayers based on the Scottish Prayer Book (traditional language). It lasts about 25 minutes, leading to the early Mass.
8.00 am Holy Communion
A fairly short celebration of the Eucharist using the Scottish Liturgy 1970 (traditional language) with a brief homily. It lasts about 40 minutes.
10.00 am Sung Mass
The principle act of worship each week, using the Scottish Liturgy 1970 (traditional language) with organ, robed choir or cantors, hymns, sung psalm, mass setting, communion motet, and incense. It normally lasts about 80 minutes Service booklet (with commentary) (PDF, 195 KB)
6.00 pm Evening Prayer
A short, reflective service with sung hymn, psalms and canticles, based on the Scottish Prayer Book (traditional language). It lasts about 30 minutes.
Once each month this is fully sung, with incense, and Benediction following. It then lasts about 50 minutes in total.
Monday to Saturday
Monday
7.30 am Morning Prayer
8.00 am Holy Eucharist
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
Tuesday
9.00 am Morning Prayer
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
6:00 pm Holy Eucharist
Wednesday
9.00 am Morning Prayer
9.30 pm Holy Eucharist
5.30 pm Evening Prayer
9.00 pm Sung Compline
Thursday
9.00 am Morning Prayer
12.15 pm Holy Eucharist
5.30 pm Holy Eucharist
Friday
7.30 am Morning Prayer
8.00 am Holy Eucharist
5.30 pm Holy Eucharist
Saturday
11.00 am Morning Prayer
11.30 am Holy Eucharist
5.30 Evening Prayer
Scottish Episcopal liturgies
We regularly use both the 1970 and 1982 Scottish Liturgies at services of Holy Eucharist. Find out more on the Scottish Episcopal Church liturgies page.
SEC digital calendar
Useful resource that allows you to subscribe to or import the Scottish Episcopal calendar (including saints days and readings) into your digital calendar.
Sacraments
The Anglican tradition generally recognizes two Sacraments of the Gospel: baptism and the Eucharist. Eastern and Western churches have, however, discerned a special sacramental quality in other rites that have long been experienced as sources of supernatural grace. The Western church highlights seven such rites which continue to be formative in Anglo-Catholic identity and spirituality and are therefore central to the witness to the Christian life at All Saints’, especially the daily celebration of the Eucharist, often called Holy Communion, or the Mass.
Baptism
Baptism (Christening) is the sacrament which welcomes a person into the fellowship of the Church, making him or her a member of God’s family and a part of the body of Christ and regenerating the person in the image of God and the likeness of Christ.
Baptisms normally take place within the Sung Mass (10.00 am) on Sundays but can be arranged at other times or — in emergencies — immediately.
Parents, or adults seeking baptism for themselves, should contact the Rector.
Weddings
Christian Marriage is the sacrament by which two people become one flesh and commit themselves to mutual love and care for their whole lives, under God’s blessing and guidance.
Please contact the Rector about weddings.
Confession & Absolution
Also known as the sacrament of Reconciliation, the assurance of making confession to God with the support of a priest can be a deeply healing experience for those troubled by their failings or as a regular spiritual discipline.
Please contact the Rector about confession.
Funerals
When someone we love dies we are beset with many powerful feelings. The funeral service seeks to minister to this delicate situation by committing the departed person into God’s hands, using the Church’s liturgy to express our own complex emotions in an atmosphere of faith, hope and love.
Please contact the Rector if you need practical or spiritual advice when bereaved.