It wasn’t the best of days for this core service in the calendar of Glasgow’s ecumenical events, with a significant number of Orange Order walks going through the city centre to Glasgow Cathedral around the time the service was due to start and making travel for participants difficult. However, the commitment and determination of the […]

As part of the year long celebrations to mark the 850th anniversary of Glasgow becoming a burgh in 1175, the community of Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow Churches Together (GCT), and church and civic leaders came together on 11 May to celebrate the first Archbishop of Glasgow, Robert Blacader (or Blackadder). Before the service began, harpist Catherine […]

Commentary Ps 8 for Trinity Sunday           video:    Ps 8 Commentary – Small An audio commentary on Psalm 8 by Dr Noel Donnelly. audio of the psalm Words from Ps 8 (c) The Grail, England.    Recorded by Grace Buckley. Graphic (c) Netta Ewing   A very brief audio commentary  for […]

            Iona Abbey 1 from the Hymn of Columba:  words Bill McLaughlin and Pam Murray.  Tune: The Iona Boat Song.  Sung by the St Mungo Singers 2 Ps 15: You show your friends the path of life, give them the fullness of joy. Woods (c) The Grail,England.  Music Gerry Fitzpatrick; […]

Hymn: of St Columba with Iona Boat Song   Hymn of Columba: Words: (c)  Bill McLaughlin & Pam Murray. Recording of Verse 4 by The St Mungo Singers. Graphic (c) Netta Ewing       Hymn of Columba in D org – Full Score Columba Hymn Verse 1 Nis sabhailt’ air tir bheir sinn aoradh […]

The traditional prayer said by St Columba when he arrived on Iona, and the final words taken from Adamnan’s account.           Music of ‘My dearest Lord’ (c) Catherine Walker; sung by Helen Healy of the St Mungo Singers. ‘My dearest Lord, be thou a bright flame before me’. . . . […]

      graphic (c) Netta Ewing Columba-Cantata-piano Columba Cantata text Adamnan’s Law Newsflash-update Columba Cantata script : report ——————————— recording 1:  Hymn ‘God, our Creator (Highland Cathedral);  short welcome in Gaelic and English; reading from Adamnan’s Life; Ps 18:Their voice has gone out; short introduction to The Cantata; Scots Dance.   Glasgow schools at […]

Morning Prayer St Columba 2025 MP St Columba 2017 MP for St Columba’s Day is led by Gerry Fitzpatrick, with reader Pat Graham SND, with music by the St Mungo Singers with solo Helen Healy, cantor Grace Buckley My dearest Lord, be thou a bright flame before me, be thou a guiding star above me, […]

Ps 103 with Commentary for Pentecost by Dr Noel Donnelly     Psalm 103 is such a beautiful song. It is used in years A, B and C in the church’s Sunday liturgies and elsewhere of course, particularly in the Easter Vigil where it follows the first reading on the Genesis story on Creation. Now […]

Mass of the Ascension 2025             Mass – The Ascension-025 The Lord is wonderful, he is wonderful on high. Psalm 92 org and mel Ps 92: words (c) The Grail, England.  Music (c) Gerry Fitzpatrick.  Recorded by Grace Buckley graphic (c) Netta Ewing