11th October 11.30am, Eucharist for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
- Occurring
- for 1 hour
- Venue
- St George's Church, Malaga
- Address St George's Church, Malaga, Avenida de Pries 1 Malaga, 29016, Spain
This year there are 21 Sundays after Trinity taking us up to the end of October, so covering almost half the church's year. Everything really exciting - Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost - has already happened, in the year’s first half. Now in this second half of the year we have Jesus' teaching and his very best stories!
Such as in this morning's gospel, where Jesus tells the story of a king who plans a big banquet for his son's wedding. But when he sends his servants out to all his posh friends with wedding invitations, they offer a string of feeble excuses, and .he's left with no one.
He is outraged but everything is ready, he just has no guests. So he sends his servants out into the highways & byways and invites all whom they meet - the good, the bad and the ugly! And the wedding hall is filled with guests.
What a story, but more importantly, what was the point that Jesus was trying to make? Come to church, and find out!