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’)

In this morning’s gospel we hear the marvellous story where Jesus enters the Temple in Jerusalem and overturns the tables of the money changers. People often think this story shows that Jesus was against those churches that have a small bookstall in the back, because he didn't agree with conducting commercial business in a place of worship. But this is not what the story is about.

Jesus' anger at the money changers and the people selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifice was not because they were trading in a religious building, but because the Jewish law required that people approach God by sacrificing an animal and, so as to keep the whole process pure, they were required to change their normal money into special Temple money which was then used to actually buy their animal for sacrifice.

Jesus was angry at a whole process which set up barriers between people and God, and indeed made it difficult for people without sufficient financial means to purchase an animal at all. Rather he wanted to show that anybody and everybody could approach God directly, and none of this pseudo-religious paraphernalia was required.

PIcture above: Extract from Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple. Artist A.N. Mironov. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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.

But we will also remember those parts of the world which are being devastated by war even now, particularly Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and Sudan. Here life is being torn apart and people on all sides are losing those that they love.

The service will take place at Parque La Viña, Mollina (directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/x9A96fbgxNgfrnV97?g_st=am) and we will be joined by representatives of Royal British Legion Mollina Branch, Veterans and Blue Lighters. Together our task will be to remember all who have served and sacrificed, particularly British and Commonwealth soldiers, sailors, airmen and women.

We will commemorate the signing of the Armistice which brought an end to the First World War, a moment which is marked in the UK by a 2-minute silence, at 11am Greenwich Mean Time. We will join in this silence at the same time, namely 12 noon Central European Time.

After the service there will be a lunch. Please contact Mother Doreen or David Gray if you would like to attend.

There will also be a Remembrance Sunday service at St George's Church, Malaga, starting at 10:45am (details:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8530/service-and-events/events/1105878/).

“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)