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, August/September 2025
The next session of Sisters Together will be a 'Big Boardgames' session on Thursday 21st August at 3pm in the Fraser Building level 3.
Come and meet other women studying at UoG, to make inter-cultural connections and friendships.
Sisters Together is a collaboration between the Inter-faith Chaplaincy, International Student Support and the Wellbeing Team.
If you would like more information, please contact chaplaincy@glasgow.ac.uk.
Welcome Week
We will also have a special Sisters Together session during Welcome Week where we'll welcome new 'Sisters' to the group.
This will be a bracelet-making session (and the Big Boardgames may make a re-appearance too!) in the Memorial Chapel on Monday 15th September at 10am.
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).
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.
Tranquility Zone
Please note that Tranquility Zone is taking a break over the summer and will begin again in September 2025.
The Tranquility Zone is a calm, meditative space for UofG students and staff amongst the busyness of campus life. Join us to listen to relaxing instrumental music and hear inspirational quotations on the theme for the evening (such as love, truthfulness, generosity). You can bring quotations to share, or simply listen to others. Following this, you’re invited to stay on and have a cup of tea, some light refreshments and uplifting conversations about what you’ve just heard.
Each session will be led by Dr Cosma Gottardi, our Honorary Bahá’í Chaplain and will be held in room 259 of the Inter-faith Chaplaincy offices (If you are late and/or find the doors locked, please ring 0141 330 1888 so we can let you in.)
For more information, e.g. to find out what the next topic will be, please contact Cosma.Gottardi@glasgow.ac.uk
