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SUMMARY:2nd August 11.30am\, Eucharist for the Nineth 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\, seed sown by the wayside\, or\, as in
  today's gospel\, where he miraculously fed over 5\,000 people using only 
 five loaves of bread and two fish – an every day world that suddenly bec
 ame a canvas for the Holy Spirit. Here was God\, not in far off Jerusalem\
 , but walking every day through the fields\, and along the shores\, of Gal
 ilee.\n\nPicture above: Mosaic of bread and fish in the Church of the Mult
 iplication in Tabgha\, Israel
LOCATION:St George's Church\, Malaga
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