Occurring
for 1 hour
Venue Address
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain
Today we hear the gospel story of the Transfiguration, a bizarre religious experience for Saints Peter, James & John, who, at the top of a mountain, see Jesus standing alongside Moses and Elijah. And yet when they come down, excited, exhausted and full of faith, they set about healing a sick boy, and they fail and the whole thing falls apart.

Sometimes we look back on distant religious, or just very touching, moments and we wonder if it was, in fact, real...or was it just that I was very sensitive that day, or I was particularly tired, or maybe I simply over-egged the whole thing....or dreamt it. I am sure that is how Peter, James and John must have felt. The vision is gone and life was back to its untidy and unspectacular normal. An amazing experience on one hand, and on the other all the mess, the ambiguity and perhaps disappointments of every day.

But when you hold these two things in your hand…, you are staring at the very heart of our faith, the very core of what it means to be a Christian. Because in Jesus Christ, the Word was made flesh, God spoke directly to human beings, he walked among us, ….and the world was changed as a result. Religious experiences did break through into human daily life, and they were made real and meaningful and incarnate, and people's lives were changed.

Our job as Christians is to re-live, and recreate, that incarnation, … now, in our world of today. It is to be the connection between those apparently disconnected things, to be the voice of that religious experience,.. but here in our everyday lives. It is to show how those such special moments can find real meaning, not in some fluffy other-world, but here, incarnate, in this one.

The picture shows a mosaic in the Church of the Transfiguration, Mount Tabor in Galilee

Salinas Anglican Congregation

WELCOME TO THE SALINAS ANGLICAN CONGREGATION THIS CHRISTMAS TIME🎄

At Christmas time we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem. We are all familiar with the story - the little town of Bethlehem, the shepherds watching their flocks, the herald angels singing, the 3 Kings from Persian lands afar, and the birth of a small baby to young & humble, yet delighted, parents.

But sometimes we forget what an amazing story it is. Listen to Sir John Betjeman read his famous poem, ‘Christmas’ here, with the powerful final verse:

“No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare –
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine”

Do join us if you would like to, for our Christmas Eucharist, here at Salinas Church, 4pm (Spanish time) on Christmas Eve. Details of other Christmas services, at our churches in Salinas and Malaga, can be found here.

Listen to Amy Grant sing her lovely Christmas song, ‘I want a Silent Night’, here.

For more information about the Salinas Anglican Congregation, visit our website: http://www.salinaschurch.es

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The Revd Doreen Cage

Local Priest
+34 711 013 169
Father Hilary Oakley, Assistant Priest
+34 744 471 207

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Saturday before Lent, Holy Eucharist, 10th February 11.30am

Occurring
for 1 hour
Venue
Salinas Anglican Congregation
Address
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain

Today we hear the gospel story of the Transfiguration, a bizarre religious experience for Saints Peter, James & John, who, at the top of a mountain, see Jesus standing alongside Moses and Elijah. And yet when they come down, excited, exhausted and full of faith, they set about healing a sick boy, and they fail and the whole thing falls apart.

Sometimes we look back on distant religious, or just very touching, moments and we wonder if it was, in fact, real...or was it just that I was very sensitive that day, or I was particularly tired, or maybe I simply over-egged the whole thing....or dreamt it. I am sure that is how Peter, James and John must have felt. The vision is gone and life was back to its untidy and unspectacular normal. An amazing experience on one hand, and on the other all the mess, the ambiguity and perhaps disappointments of every day.

But when you hold these two things in your hand…, you are staring at the very heart of our faith, the very core of what it means to be a Christian. Because in Jesus Christ, the Word was made flesh, God spoke directly to human beings, he walked among us, ….and the world was changed as a result. Religious experiences did break through into human daily life, and they were made real and meaningful and incarnate, and people's lives were changed.

Our job as Christians is to re-live, and recreate, that incarnation, … now, in our world of today. It is to be the connection between those apparently disconnected things, to be the voice of that religious experience,.. but here in our everyday lives. It is to show how those such special moments can find real meaning, not in some fluffy other-world, but here, incarnate, in this one.

The picture shows a mosaic in the Church of the Transfiguration, Mount Tabor in Galilee

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