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We meet at 11.30am on the second and fourth Saturday of every month 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 usually go to a local bar for a coffee or something stronger. We list below our next service plus any online services which are taking place across the Malaga Chaplaincy.

Breathing Space - Every Tuesday morning at 10am

Every Tuesday at for 15 mins
An online service using Zoom
An online service using Zoom

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

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’)

Holy Eucharist for Epiphany, Saturday 10th January

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

The word Epiphany comes from two Greek words: ‘epi’ meaning ‘upon’ and ‘phanos’ which is a light. So this is the time when we are invited to shine a light on Jesus, or in other words, to answer the critical question: “Who is he? Who is this child? Who is this man Jesus?”

The gospel reading for the Feast of Epiphany tells the story of the three Kings or Wise Men. In fact they were nearer to what we consider to be magicians, but they were wise enough to recognise the limitations of their craft. When they come to pay their respects to the baby Jesus in the manger, what they are doing is giving up, laying at his feet, the tools of their trade: gold, the symbol of secular power, myrrh, spices used to preserve a corpse, a symbol of the power to make something into what it no longer is, and frankincense a symbol of empty ritual and incantation.

So at Epiphany, the magicians, the secular finite powers, bow to the Son of God, giving up the tools of their trade. And why? Because there is nothing that magic has to fear more than true religion. True faith in God is not conned by myrrh, it is not impressed by the religiosity of frankincense and nor is it bought off with gold. True religion belongs somewhere else, it belongs to that which is meaningful, that which is eternal, and that which is infinite.

And how does this story shine a light on Jesus? It tells us that, though Jesus entered our world - his creation - at Christmas, he does not yield to its power. Of course there is much in this world that points us to God, yet the real God, the full & almighty God has been born in the baby Jesus. And we, with the magicians of the finite, can only bow down before him, and give up ourselves, to the one who will point to all that is beyond.

Picture above: Three Kings arrive in Barcelona, January 2015