Worship is being offered online while the church is closed (part of the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19). Morning Prayer using the Book of Common Prayer is being read in the church at 11:00 CEST. The following video contains the worship, including readings and a homily, for 1 July. Congregational parts are in […]
Archive | June, 2020
Worship for Sunday 28 June
At 11:00 (Central European Summer Time) on Sunday, 28 June, the Eucharist will be celebrated behind closed doors at Santa Margarita. Online worship will continue indefinitely, even when the church opens for worship in person (for which there is no date at present). You are invited to share in this worship by following the words […]
Worship for Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Worship is being offered online while the church is closed (part of the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19). Morning Prayer using the Book of Common Prayer is being read in the church at 11:00 CEST. The following video contains the worship, including readings and a homily, for 24 June (the birth of John […]
Theme for Sunday, 21 June 2020
Scripture for this Sunday: Genesis 21.8-21; Psalm 86.1-10; Romans 6.1b-11; Matthew 10.24-39 There is a chapel on the road from Mahón to Fornells in Menorca, the Ermita de Fatima. I was told when I first came to Menorca that it was customarily the church where couples would go for a wedding if there had been […]
Worship for Sunday 21 June
At 11:00 (Central European Summer Time) on Sunday, 21 June, the Eucharist will be celebrated at Santa Margarita. While the church remains closed as the result of precautionary measures relating to the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), only two people will be present, the priest (Paul) and the assistant (Kate). You are invited to share in […]
Worship for Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Worship is being offered online while the church is closed (part of the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19). Morning Prayer using the Book of Common Prayer is being read in the church at 11:00 CEST. The following video contains the worship, including readings and a homily, for 17 June (commemoration of Bernard Mizeki). […]
Theme for Sunday, 14 June 2020
Scripture: Genesis 18.1-15 (Abraham & Sarah entertain three visitors); Matthew 9.35-10.8 (Jesus commissions and sends his apostles) Abraham and Sarah were nomadic people, wanderers – pilgrims in a way. What was the goal of their pilgrimage? Perhaps a clue is in one of the collects of the Church of England for ‘Ordinary Time,’ that states […]
Worship for Sunday 14 June
At 11:00 (Central European Summer Time) on Sunday, 14 June, the Eucharist will be celebrated at Santa Margarita. While the church remains closed as the result of precautionary measures relating to the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), only two people will be present, the priest (Paul) and the assistant (Kate). You are invited to share in […]
Rights, Restrictions and Reorientation
The following article appeared in the online edition of Roqueta, Menorca’s English language magazine, for June 2020. It was the Century Plant that brought me back to earth. A day or so after we entered Phase 1 of the Spanish State of Alarm, and were permitted to go out for exercise, I was walking down […]
Worship for Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Worship is being offered online while the church is closed (part of the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19). Morning Prayer using the Book of Common Prayer is being read in the church at 11:00 CEST. The following video contains the worship, including readings and a homily, for 10 June. Congregational parts are in […]