Every Tuesday morning at 10am

Simply tune in on Zoom and enjoy a few moments of quiet, prayerful reflection as the week unfolds. It will last no longer than 10 minutes.

Meeting ID: 892 2955 4820 Passcode: 836488

A time to pause, pray, reflect and reconnect.

No preparation needed.

Time for conversation for those who can stay.

“….Waiting on God, learning to be passive in a way creative for your inner life, is not a question of thinking about God, but of growing in stillness. It has to do with prayer, and with music or from the simple contemplation of the world about you.” (Michael Mayne, ‘A Year Lost and Found’)

All Saints’ Day, is the day we remember all the saints and martyrs of the church, both known and unknown.

When I was a child, we worshipped each Sunday at St Albans Abbey, the church of the first British martyr. At the front of the nave above the altar was a stone rood screen, built by Abbot Thomas de la Mare, around the time of the Black Death (1349-51). It contained seven empty niches, where brightly coloured statues had once stood. But the statues were destroyed during the Reformation, and the niches left empty.

Today they are again filled with freshly coloured statues, commissioned by the Abbey from sculptor Rory Young. They depict seven martyrs, each carrying the martyr’s symbol of the palm branch. From left to right:

➡️Oscar Romero – Roman Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador, who stood up for the poor, assassinated during Mass in 1980

➡️St Alban Roe – imprisoned for a time in St Albans Abbey Gatehouse and hanged in London in 1642, having been found guilty of treason for being a Roman Catholic priest

➡️St Amphibalus – a Christian priest sheltered by St Alban, when Christianity was forbidden

➡️St Alban – The first British saint, beheaded in Roman Verulamium on the site of the Abbey in the third century AD

➡️George Tankerfield - burnt to death in 1555, in Romeland, an alley in St Albans, because as a Protestant, he refused the doctrine of transubstantiation

➡️St Elisabeth Romanova – a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and member of the Russian Royal Family and the Orthodox Church, becoming a nun and Abbess after her husband died. She was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918

➡️Dietrich Bonhoeffer– Lutheran pastor and theologian, sent to a Nazi concentration camp, and tried with neither witness nor defence. He was hung in April 1945.

These are the sort of people we remember on All Saints' Day. The Dean of the Cathedral writes that there are “martyrs in every age – probably more now than there have been for many years – and inspire us to be braver ourselves in standing up for what we believe.”

Click below to hear a hymn for All Saints Day.

On Remembrance Sunday we remember the sacrifice of those who defended our freedoms and protected our way of life, through two world wars and beyond. In particular, we remember the armed forces and their families, as well as the emergency services and those who have lost their lives as a result of conflict or terrorism.

But we will also remember those parts of the world which are being devastated by war even now, particularly Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and Sudan. Here life is being torn apart and people on all sides are losing those that they love.

The service will take place at Parque La Viña, Mollina (directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/x9A96fbgxNgfrnV97?g_st=am) and we will be joined by representatives of Royal British Legion Mollina Branch, Veterans and Blue Lighters. Together our task will be to remember all who have served and sacrificed, particularly British and Commonwealth soldiers, sailors, airmen and women.

We will commemorate the signing of the Armistice which brought an end to the First World War, a moment which is marked in the UK by a 2-minute silence, at 11am Greenwich Mean Time. We will join in this silence at the same time, namely 12 noon Central European Time.

After the service there will be a lunch. Please contact Mother Doreen or David Gray if you would like to attend.

There will also be a Remembrance Sunday service at St George's Church, Malaga, starting at 10:45am (details:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8530/service-and-events/events/1105878/).

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them”.
(from ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon)

Please note, There will be the normal Saturday service at 11.30am, 8th November, at Salinas.