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.

Today the 6th Sunday of Easter is Rogation Sunday, an ancient church festival, at which God was asked to bless a community and its crops. The word ‘rogation’ derives from the Latin verb 'rogare', meaning “to ask”. Rogationtide covers the days leading up to the feast of the Ascension.

Rogation is a christianisation of the pagan Roman festival known as Robigalia, at which a dog was sacrificed to propitiate Robigus, the god of agricultural disease, thereby preventing rotting of the crops in the fields.

In the UK it is typically observed with fasting and abstinence, the blessing of crops and ‘beating of the bounds’, in which a procession of parishioners, led by the priest, churchwardens and choir proceed around the boundary of their parish – passing through fields and shops - and pray for its protection in the forthcoming year.

Here in the Malaga Chaplaincy, where our parish boundary follows the provincial borders, it is unlikely that we would complete a beating of the bounds within the days allocated to Rogation!

The picture shows one of the main crops of this province - the olive tree!

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’)