Chaplaincy Choral Advent Celebration, Saturday 30th November 11.30am

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

You are invited to join us for a Choral Service for Advent, at Salinas Church on Saturday 30th November, led by the choir, La Vid y La Vida.

Advent is the name the church gives to the 4 weeks before Christmas. Often overlooked in the pre-Christmas rush, Advent is a time of preparation and a time of waiting.

So this is not yet Christmas and this service is not to be confused with our Festival of Carols, which will happen 2 weeks later on Friday 13th December - with Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the Angels and the Shepherds and many of much-loved carols of Christmas. Advent in our preparation for all of that.

The complexity of Advent is reflected in the liturgy and music. It is partly about anticipating Christmas but much more about Israel’s longing for the promised Messiah.

At the beginning of the service the Palestrina Responsory strikes notes of mystery and doubt: ‘art thou he that should come?’ In the Advent Prose, Isaiah begins with the devastation of Jerusalem and ends with the promise of salvation and peace, which is taken up in How beautiful upon the mountains and the Micah reading.

Structurally, the service is built around the O Antiphons, each of which speaks an aspect of God’s nature. In some cases, this is developed in another piece of music, as in O Root of Jesse and The Rose in Winter.

Zekariah’s ‘Benedictus’ introduces On Jordan’s Bank and John as the Forerunner of Jesus, and we enter the New Testament with the Annunciation and the Magnificat. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel sums up the themes of the O Antiphons and Jesus the Daystar brings in the theme of Messiah’s meaning for the Gentiles.

Come and join us. Refreshments after the service.

Click More Info below to hear Rowan Williams´poem, Advent Calendar, which will be read at the service.

More info

Salinas Anglican Congregation

WELCOME TO THE SALINAS ANGLICAN CONGREGATION THIS EASTERTIDE🌾

At Easter, and for the five weeks afterwards, we celebrate the the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When Jesus died on Good Friday, his disciples scattered - confused, fearful, without direction, without a future. But the absence of a body on Easter Sunday was altogether different. Now they saw Jesus everywhere – in the garden, on the road to Emmaus, as they fished, as they gathered together. And not as some spooky ghost of the past, but as the recognisable presence of the Son of God, risen from the dead. This is what we are celebrating this Eastertide – our God, real, alive, recognisable and present. 

Martin Luther wrote: “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime”. He has also written that promise on every human heart.

You will find details of our services through Easter to Pentecost here.


Listen to Surrexit Christus, an Easter song from the Taizé Community in France.

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

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Chaplaincy Choral Advent Celebration, Saturday 30th November 11.30am

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

You are invited to join us for a Choral Service for Advent, at Salinas Church on Saturday 30th November, led by the choir, La Vid y La Vida.

Advent is the name the church gives to the 4 weeks before Christmas. Often overlooked in the pre-Christmas rush, Advent is a time of preparation and a time of waiting.

So this is not yet Christmas and this service is not to be confused with our Festival of Carols, which will happen 2 weeks later on Friday 13th December - with Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the Angels and the Shepherds and many of much-loved carols of Christmas. Advent in our preparation for all of that.

The complexity of Advent is reflected in the liturgy and music. It is partly about anticipating Christmas but much more about Israel’s longing for the promised Messiah.

At the beginning of the service the Palestrina Responsory strikes notes of mystery and doubt: ‘art thou he that should come?’ In the Advent Prose, Isaiah begins with the devastation of Jerusalem and ends with the promise of salvation and peace, which is taken up in How beautiful upon the mountains and the Micah reading.

Structurally, the service is built around the O Antiphons, each of which speaks an aspect of God’s nature. In some cases, this is developed in another piece of music, as in O Root of Jesse and The Rose in Winter.

Zekariah’s ‘Benedictus’ introduces On Jordan’s Bank and John as the Forerunner of Jesus, and we enter the New Testament with the Annunciation and the Magnificat. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel sums up the themes of the O Antiphons and Jesus the Daystar brings in the theme of Messiah’s meaning for the Gentiles.

Come and join us. Refreshments after the service.

Click More Info below to hear Rowan Williams´poem, Advent Calendar, which will be read at the service.

More info

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