Inter-faith Chaplaincy Events
Inter-faith Chaplaincy Events
Services in Memorial Chapel, Semester 1 2025/2026
Tues 23 September 2025: Taizé Service
Tues 30 September 2025: Anglican Evensong
Tues 14 October 2025: Anglican Eucharist
Tues 21 October 2025: Choral Contemplations
Tues 28 October 2025: Anglican Evensong
Tues 4 November 2025: Choral Contemplations
Sunday 9 November 2025: Remembrance Day Service
Tues 11 November 2025: Anglican Eucharist
Tues 18 November 2025: Iona Style Service
Tues 25 November 2025: Choral Contemplations
Tues 2 December 2025: Anglican Advent Evensong
Sunday 7 December 2025: Lessons and Carols Service
Tues 9 December 2025: Carols in the Cloisters
Saturday 13 December 2025: Carol Service at Chrichton Campus
Tues 16 December 2025: Anglican Eucharist
Exploring Prayer as a Spiritual Practice (new 6-session course, beginning 2 October 2025)
Exploring Prayer as a Spiritual Practice: An experiential exploration of different types of prayer methods. Come along and join the chance to learn some new approaches to praying and to live with them for a few weeks at a time. Thereafter, you’ll have the chance to reflect either personally or in a group on your experience.
Thursday 2 October - Memorial Chapel 5:15 pm: An evening exploring an introduction to the contemplative prayer tradition by exploring Centring Prayer.
Thursday 16 October - Memorial Chapel 5:00 pm: A chance to reflect upon previous prayer experience. Thereafter, the introduction of the Prayer of Examen/Review of Consciousness.
Thursday 30 October - Memorial Chapel 5:00 pm: A chance to reflect upon previous prayer experience. Thereafter. the introdcution to the tradition of praying from scripture known as 'Lectio Divina'.
Thursday 13 November - Memorial Chapel 5:00 pm: A chance to reflect upon previous prayer experience. Thereafter, the introduction to the tradition of Imaginative Praying with Scripture.
Thursday 27 November - Memorial Chapel 5:00 pm: A chance to reflect upon previous prayer experience. Thereafter, Fiona Fidgin, Member of the Iona Communty, will introduce the tradition of Praying with the Labyrtinth.
Thursday 11 December - Memorial Chapel 5:00 pm: A chance to reflect upon previous prayer experience. Thereafter, Sister Andrea Fraile will introduce the concept of using our bodies as a means of prayer.
Sisters Together, November 2025
Sisters Together is a space for students to meet other women studying at UoG, to make inter-cultural connections and friendships.
We have two gatherings coming up in November:
1. Visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum – Thursday, 13th November 2-3pm – we’ll meet at the Museum entrance on the side that faces back towards the University, **not** the Argyle Street side! We’ll spend around an hour there catching the highlights (it’s a big place!), and perhaps even grab a hot drink in the café there at the end.
2. Christmas Craft session – Friday 28th November, 1-2pm in the Memorial Chapel – we’ll be making papercraft gift tags, led by Charlie Meiklejohn. She’s the Community Engagement and Fundraising Manager for a charity called Christian Aid, but also an avid crafter, and we’re delighted to welcome her along to the University!
We’ll look forward to seeing you at one or both of these sessions – as always, no need to register beforehand. And feel free to bring along any other women studying at Glasgow.
Sisters Together is a collaboration between the Inter-faith Chaplaincy and the International Student Support team.
If you would like more information, please contact chaplaincy@glasgow.ac.uk.
Calligraphy as Meditation Sessions with the International Study Group: Inter-faith Room, Tuesdays 12-2pm, August-November 2025
Honorary International Chaplains, Yushin and Fumi from Japan Desk Scotland, will be delighted to welcome you to the Interfaith Room on Tuesdays 12-2pm for Calligraphy as meditation.
These free sessions will run every Tuesday from 5 August until 25 November (excluding 11th November) before taking a break over December.
In 2026, sessions will re-start on 20 January through to 17 March, inclusive, then from 21 April to 23 June.
All materials provided.
To find the Interfaith Room: from the West Quadrangle, enter door adjacent to the Chapel (where the Chaplaincy welcome sign is), then turn immediate left and down the stairs. We look forward to seeing you!
Death Cafe, Semester 1 2025/2026
The Inter-faith Chaplaincy offers a monthly Death Cafe which aims to provide a safe space for students to talk about matters related to death and dying, in an informal environment. We meet in the rear of the Memorial Chapel and enjoy tea/coffee and cake together before engaging in a participant-led conversation. All students are welcome.
Death Cafe will return in Semester 1 of 2025/26 on the dates below. See you then!
- Thursday 9 October, 1.30pm
- Thursday 6 November, 1.30pm
- Thursday 4 December, 1.30pm
In the meantime, if you would prefer to have a one to one conversation with a Chaplain about death and bereavement, please contact us by email and we can set up a supportive conversation with you: chaplaincy@gla.ac.uk
Mindfulness with Amy, Semester 1 2025/2026
Join us in the Chaplaincy lounge* for FREE mindfulness sessions, where you will be welcomed by Amy Copsey, a trained mindfulness and compassion teacher with the Mindfulness Association.
Dates of sessions for Semester 1 of 2025/2026:
- Wednesday 1 October 2025, 2-2.45pm
- Wednesday 29 October 2025, 2-2.45pm
- Wednesday 26 November 2025, 2-2.45pm
No previous experience or equipment needed - just come along and learn to breathe and relax. For more information, please contact chaplaincy@glasgow.ac.uk
*Chaplaincy lounge is room 259 in the Chaplaincy offices, next to the Memorial Chapel in the main Gilbert Scott building.
