We meet every Sunday at 11.30am, plus certain high and holy days. You are very welcome to join us. We come to worship God, to pray for the world and each other, and to raise money to help people less fortunate than ourselves. After the service, we serve coffee or a glass of wine, and have a time to get to know one another. We list below our regular events, our next Sunday service plus any online services which are taking place across the Malaga Chaplaincy.
There is a Holy Eucharist with hymns every Sunday at 11.30am. After the service there is a time of fellowship when refreshments are served outside the church.
At the first Pentecost, Jesus’ disciples met up in Jerusalem. They were feeling lost and confused, as their Lord had left them to ascend to heaven. But suddenly they were shaken by a sound like a strong wind, and filled with a huge sense of drive and purpose. The Bible says it was like tongues of fire resting on each one of them.
And they rush out of doors, and they stand up in the square, and preach to crowds of people from every nation. And as they preach, people are astonished: they each hear exactly what the disciples are saying, but in their own language, through God’s Holy Spirit.
Was this like a summer’s afternoon on a Malaga beach – a snippet of Italian here or some German or French or Swedish, over there? Or was it that whatever language people heard, that they each heard something which was meaningful to them…..that it was not so much about the removal of language barriers, but the removal of emotional barriers. People heard the gospel in their own way, in their own concepts, their own words and life experiences.
So Pentecost opens up a new universal way of communicating. We are no longer confined – by language or race, education or history. Instead we find that those things in our depths, what it means to be a person, the core of our being, are shared by all humanity.
Listen to the Pentecost hymn, ‘Holy Spirit, living breathe of God’ here: https://youtu.be/kDYjn-YdnD4?si=Bqbgxm5zH3j-n0aU
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
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86523047387?pwd=cZ8g29z3nUYTbXh1VlxdGedrf7Pvid.1
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’)
Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is a piece of theology that doesn´t appear anywhere in the Bible and was fought over bitterly in the early Christian centuries. And even now is not easy for worshippers to hold it all in our minds. Instead we tend to slip into following that constituent part of God that most closely suits our own particular breed of Christianity.
So, there are the ‘Fatherists’, who’s God is almighty, if distant and at times aloof. They love their religion formal, they like the rules and the structures, they like to know where they are and to know where God is – in his heaven…away from everyday life. They like to look up to him and to look forward to a very “other-world” where he is ruler and Lord.
And then there are the ‘Sonists’…and their religion is very different. Their God is more a sort of hero figure…..not the distant Father, but the great miracle worker, the populist leader, the storyteller. Their theological champions always remind us of the importance of getting back to the “real” Jesus.
And then there are the ‘Holy Spiritists’, who look neither to the great God figure in the sky…nor to the historical Jesus…but to their own feelings and experiences of every moment of their lives. For their God is entirely imminent - here and now – and any theology, structure, or for that matter, historical narrative, is only ever a guide to experiencing God in the present moment all the more fully.
But the theology of the Trinity brings it all together – that God is one substance, though three persons. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit…one God, with three distinct ways in which we can know him, three ways of being God for us. Whoever partakes of one, partakes of all three.
The picture shows a mosiac of the Trinity, from The Trinity Dome at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC.