Occurring
for 1 hour
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Address
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain
Thursday 15th August is the day on which the Roman Catholic church celebrates the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And here in Spain it is a big deal. But the doctrine disappeared from Anglican worship in 1549, and then partially crept back in again during the 20th century. So some of us do believe it and some of us do not! Because we are a broad church: we are not defined by theology or dogma. We can believe different things from one another, and yet, we can still share the same communion.
Instead, in a very Anglican, way we will simply celebrate Mary, and rejoice in the role she played in getting the Son of God onto the stage & living out God´s will. And we will remember the things about her that we each choose to remember.
The gospel for the day is the song that Mary sings in her joy that her cousin, Elizabeth, is about to give birth to John the Baptist. “My soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he’s been mindful of the lowly state of his servant.” She is celebrating the fact that God works through the most humble, the most lowly.
God comes to, and through, the ordinary, the everyday. And more than that, that is how he gives of his goodness. He doesn't come to reward good works or reward some particular characteristic: he comes and he gives something of himself - without condition, to the most unspecial. And he takes the most extraordinary of risks.
Fancy placing your greatest ever act, your entry into our world which seals our entry into heaven, into the hands of such an ordinary and simple girl as Mary. But that is an expression of God’s humility & God's commitment to work with and through, his creation.
He could have done it in all sorts of ways, through any number of glamourous miracles,... but he chose to do it through ordinary people, through people like Mary... and people like us.
Picture above: Part of The Assumption of Mary - Rubens, 1626
By Rolf Kranz - CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87080912
Instead, in a very Anglican, way we will simply celebrate Mary, and rejoice in the role she played in getting the Son of God onto the stage & living out God´s will. And we will remember the things about her that we each choose to remember.
The gospel for the day is the song that Mary sings in her joy that her cousin, Elizabeth, is about to give birth to John the Baptist. “My soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he’s been mindful of the lowly state of his servant.” She is celebrating the fact that God works through the most humble, the most lowly.
God comes to, and through, the ordinary, the everyday. And more than that, that is how he gives of his goodness. He doesn't come to reward good works or reward some particular characteristic: he comes and he gives something of himself - without condition, to the most unspecial. And he takes the most extraordinary of risks.
Fancy placing your greatest ever act, your entry into our world which seals our entry into heaven, into the hands of such an ordinary and simple girl as Mary. But that is an expression of God’s humility & God's commitment to work with and through, his creation.
He could have done it in all sorts of ways, through any number of glamourous miracles,... but he chose to do it through ordinary people, through people like Mary... and people like us.
Picture above: Part of The Assumption of Mary - Rubens, 1626
By Rolf Kranz - CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87080912
Saturday 10th August, 11:30am Holy Eucharist for the Blessed Virgin Mary
10 Aug 2024, 11:30 a.m. for 1 hour
Saturday 10th August, 11:30am Holy Eucharist for the Blessed Virgin Mary
10 Aug 2024, 11:30 a.m. for 1 hour