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.
This year there are 21 Sundays after Trinity taking us up to the end of October, so covering almost half the church's year. Everything really exciting - Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost - has already happened, in the year’s first half. Now in this second half of the year we have Jesus' teaching and his very best stories!
Such as in this morning's gospel, where Jesus tells the story of a king who plans a big banquet for his son's wedding. But when he sends his servants out to all his posh friends with wedding invitations, they offer a string of feeble excuses, and .he's left with no one.
He is outraged but everything is ready, he just has no guests. So he sends his servants out into the highways & byways and invites all whom they meet - the good, the bad and the ugly! And the wedding hall is filled with guests.
What a story, but more importantly, what was the point that Jesus was trying to make? Come to church, and find out!
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’)
St Luke is one of the Four Evangelists, the traditionally ascribed authors of the four gospels. It is also generally believed that he wrote the Acts of the Apostles. He is mentioned a few times in the New Testament and the Epistle to the Colossians refers to him as a physician. He is also thought to have been a disciple of St Paul.
Many scholars believe that Luke was born of a Greek family and lived in the Hellenistic city of Antioch in Ancient Syria, and it is widely accepted that the theology of Luke–Acts points to a gentile Christian writing for a gentile audience or else to a community made up of both Jewish and gentile Christians.
Luke died at age 84 in Boeotia, near Thebes in central Greece. According to one tradition, he died a martyr, reportedly having been hanged from an olive tree. Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Greek historian of the 14th century recorded that Luke's tomb was located in Thebes and later transferred to Constantinople in the year 357.
As with many saints, there are various claims as to where his remains are today. In Luke’s case these claims account for some eight bodies and nine heads, located in a wide range of places! However following scientific investigation and carbon dating, it Is generally now believed that Luke’s body lies in the Abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua, his head in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and a rib at his tomb at the Holy Church of Luke the Evangelist in Thebes.
In traditional depictions, St Luke is often portrayed with an ox or bull, generally regarded as sacrificial animals, because his Gospel stresses the sacrificial nature of Christ's ministry. Today he is venerated a patron saint of artists, physicians, bachelors, notaries, butchers and brewers.
NB We will be joned at this service by an Interfaith choir from two neighbouring congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Picture above is the Bull of St. Luke from St John the Baptist Catholic Church in Dry Ridge, Ohio. Photo by Nheyob - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37172709
On Remembrance Sunday we remember the sacrifice of those who defended our freedoms and protected our way of life, through two world wars and beyond. In particular, we remember the armed forces and their families, as well as the emergency services and those who have lost their lives as a result of conflict or terrorism.
We also remember those parts of the world which are being devastated by war even now, particularly Ukraine, Sudan and Israel/Palestine. Here life is being torn apart and people on all sides are losing those that they love.
The service will begin at 10:45am to enable us to be at the War Commission graves for as close as possible to 11:00 GMT.
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them”.
(from ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon)
Please note, there will also be a Remembrance Service at Mollina in the north of Malaga province, starting 11.45am on 8th November. Details here: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8488/service-and-events/events/977920/