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SUMMARY:19th July 11.30am\, Eucharist for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity
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DESCRIPTION:This year there are 21 Sundays after Trinity taking us up to t
 he end of October\, so covering almost half the church's year. Everything 
 really exciting - Advent\, Christmas\, Epiphany\, Lent\, Easter\, Ascensio
 n\, Pentecost - has already happened\, in the year’s first half. \n\nSo 
 is that why the second half of the church’s year is referred to as 'Ordi
 nary Time'? In fact not. Rather the phase ‘Ordinary Time’ comes from t
 he way in which the Sundays are counted - with Ordinal numbers: first\, se
 cond\, third\, etc after Trinity.\n\nThe gospel readings now focus not on 
 the big events in Jesus’s life\, but rather on his teaching\, healing an
 d miracles. We will get to hear about his interaction with the political a
 nd religious establishment of his day\, how he stood up for those who were
  abused or persecuted\, how he got people to question their values and reb
 uild their lives\, how people gradually became aware that he was someone s
 pecial\, someone filled with God. \n\nSo in a way these Sundays are very o
 rdinary. We meet the Jesus of the every day\, the Jesus of farmers and fis
 herman\, who told stories of lost sheep\, a man beat up by the roadside\, 
 a ponsy landowner\, fishers of men\, treasure buried in a field\, seed sow
 n by the wayside\, or\, as in today's gospel\, where he describes the king
 dom of heaven as being like someone who sows good seed in his field\, but 
 then an enemy came and sows weeds among the good seed – an every day wor
 ld that suddenly became a canvas for the Holy Spirit. Here was God\, not i
 n far off Jerusalem\, but walking every day through the fields\, and along
  the shores\, of Galilee.\n\nPIcture above: "Christ with His Disciples"\, 
 an oil on canvas painting created in 2016 by Russian artist Andrey Mironov
 .
LOCATION:St George's Church\, Malaga
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