St George's Church, Málaga

WELCOME TO ST GEORGE'S CHURCH THIS EASTERTIDE 🌾

At Easter, and for the five weeks afterwards, we celebrate the the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When Jesus died on Good Friday, his disciples scattered - confused, fearful, without direction, without a future. But the absence of a body on Easter Sunday was altogether different. Now they saw Jesus everywhere – in the garden, on the road to Emmaus, as they fished, as they gathered together. And not as some spooky ghost of the past, but as the recognisable presence of the Son of God, risen from the dead. This is what we are celebrating this Eastertide – our God, real, alive, recognisable and present.

Martin Luther wrote: “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime”. He has also written that promise on every human heart.

Listen to Surrexit Christus, an Easter song from the Taizé Community in France.

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St George's Anglican Church
Avenida de Pries 1
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Rogation Sunday, 25th May, Holy Eucharist 11.30am

Occurring
for 1 hour
Venue
St George's Church, Málaga
Address
Avenida de Pries 1 Málaga, 29016, Spain

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!

The Chaplaincy´s Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday 25th May following the Eucharist at St George’s

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