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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.

Sunday 23rd August, 11:30am Holy Eucharist for 12th Sunday after Trinity

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

In today's gospel, Jesus asks his disciples who do people think that he really is. And only one appears to have the right answer, Peter, who announces, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus is clearly delighted. And, almost like a reward for the correct answer, he turns to Peter tells him, "On this rock I will build my church".
The rock of course is Peter, his name means a rock in Greek. And so it was that Peter became the first Pope and all Popes ever since have had the title, "Successor of the Prince of the Apostles", and the Prince of the Apostles was Peter. It is also said that the Latin word, for the Pope, Papa, was an acronym, representing the phrase "Petri apostoli potestatem accipiens", which means "the one who receives the power of the apostle Peter".
PIcture above: Church built on a rock, in Fuente del Conde

30th August 11.30am, Eucharist for the 13th Sunday after Trinity

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

In today's gospel,Christ is talking about the necessity of his passion and death. And St Peter barges in and says “Heaven forbid. No way, Lord. This shall never happen to you!”
And of course what he betrays is his own fear of death, which reflects his fears about his own life! He knows the moments where life has been empty, he knows what it is to lose your direction, your identity - and so at the moment that Christ even breathes the words, Peter is there saying “No, this cannot happen”.
But Jesus shouts back, "Get thee behind me, Satan!" Heavy words. But for Jesus it is completely different, because the one quality which marked his short life out especially, was that he lived life to the full. He was alive to the leper, alive to the Scribes and Pharisees, alive to the crowds… and alive to the dying.
And when people met him that was what leapt out at them – a quality of aliveness born of an inner aliveness to God. When they say in St John's gospel, “in him was life”, it was no pious platitude, but a simple statement of the impression he made on people he met – “In him was life”.
Picture above: extract from the painting, ‘Get Thee Behind Me, Satan’ by James Tissot (1836–1902). This image was uploaded by the Brooklyn Museum as a content partnership, and is considered to have no known copyright restrictions by the institutions of the Brooklyn Museum.