St George's Church is delighted to present a concert of jazz music, played by the Jitterburg Jazz Trio - Mario Sánchez (Piano), Miguel Ángel Gil (Double Bass) and Francisco Palomo (Clarinet/Harmonica). The Jitterburg Jazz Trio have been together for some 10 years. They have considerable experience entertaining audiences in a wide variety of fields, including collaboration with other jazz formations and musicians.More details of the Trio here. The concert starts at 8pm. The bar will be open from 7.15pm.Tickets €15. Book your ticket here. See more of our concert programme here.
St George's website has had a big clean up and is now up and live. You can find the new website at: https://www.stgeorgesmalaga.comWhy not take it out for a spin?Over the coming months there will be further content and updates. So watch this space !Do you have comments on the new site, or suggestions for further improvement? We would be very pleased to hear them. Please email Fr Hilary here
The UK government has called a General Election for 4th July, which will decide how the country will be run for the next 5 years. Some of us here in Spain will have the right to vote. For us Christians, voting begs a couple of important questions. Firstly, should a Christian vote at all, or should we be concerned with more spiritual things? There has always been a stream of Christian thought which said that this earthly world was really not our concern, that what the Bible did was to point us forward to another world that we should focus on, as this one was so obviously beyond redemption. The alternative view points to the fact that God sent his Son into this world, so making it clear that whatever was good or bad about it, this was very much his concern. And the Bible, with its focus on respect for creation, on the righting of wrongs, rather than ignoring them, on God's care for the poor, the sick and those in need, more strongly supports that view. For Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who spent so much of his life fighting against apartheid in South Africa, this was clear: "When people say that the Bible and politics don’t mix, I ask them which Bible they are reading!" Whatever we think of politicians, Christians cannot help but take the world of politics seriously if we are to seek out and to learn to do God's will. And so the second question follows: is there any specific way in which we Christians should vote? A few days before the UK's 1992 election, Revd Allan Scott, renowned Vicar of Stoke Newington in London, announced that he would not be advising people how they should vote, but instead that the hymns for the following Sunday would be selected on the basis of the election’s outcome. If Labour were to win, he said, we would sing “Now thank we all our God”, if the Tories got back in, it would be “Fight the good fight”, and if the Liberal Democrats won, we would sing “O what a miracle, my Lord”! More seriously, no, our faith does not dictate the party we should vote for, but it does say something about the way in which we vote.....and that is this, that we should avoid tribalism, avoid the temptation to see other people, and other political parties, as a ‘type’, as a class, with its own rigid set of beliefs. For what makes us Christians is not that we come to church or read the Bible or say our prayers. What makes us Christians is the ability to find God in others, whoever and however they are, to resonate with them, to discover how we can work together, and to find all that we have in common…..in our Heavenly Father. On the morning of the Brexit referendum result, back in 2016, the Church of England published this prayer: Eternal God, Light of the nations, in Christ you make all things new: guide our nation in the coming days through the inspiration of your Spirit, that understanding may put an end to discord and all bitterness. Give us grace to rebuild bonds of trust, that together (together) we may work for the dignity and flourishing of all; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.The image above was taken from an article in the Financial Times, April 2017, available here. Click here to imagine the politics of a better world.
23 March 8.00 PM. Pergolesi´s Stabat Mater Doloroso. Lourdes San Miguel, Soprano, Clarice Williams, Contralto. Sabastian Robles, piano. 13 April 8.00 PM. Astrea Quintet. Piano quintet. English Music by Vaughan Williams and other British Composers. 4 May 8.00 PM. La Zarzuela a Través del Tiempo. Un Viaje Musical por las Épocas del Género. Elena Ramos, Soprano. Tania Moya, Piano. 15 June 8.00 PM. Jitterbug Jazz Trio. Details 5 October 8.00 PM. Opera Saints and Sinners. Arias and duets. Lourdes San Miguel, Soprano. Clarice Williams, Contralto. Details to follow
