Saturday 17th February 2024
Click here to see the photo album, and video of the service.
The Anglican Church of All Saints
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife North
Click here to see the photo album, and video of the service.
Click here to read this week’s Midweek Letter – EASTER
Sunday 24th September was the first Sunday we welcomed our new Chaplain Mtr Fiona Jack as Celebrant and Preacher at our Sung Eucharist. Below are some photos of the occasion.
Welcome Mtr Fiona, and we hope you are very happy here at All Saints.
On Easter Sunday Morning I was reflecting with the children about how when our name is spoken by someone we know well we instinctively know their voice. One of them said; “Yes, and I can tell by the way my Mum says it whether she is happy or cross with me!” This led us into the telling of the story of that first Easter Morning. Mary Magdalen went to the tomb to care for the body of Jesus. Her distress at his loss was even more heightened by the fact that the tomb stone had been rolled away and the body of Jesus was nowhere to be found. Her distress at his death became heartbreak in her grief and loss. Alone in the garden, in her pain and tears, she met a man who she didn´t recognise but thought was the gardener. He asked her why she was weeping. “They’ve taken the body of Jesus and I don´t know where they have put him.” He didn’t respond to her statement or maybe it was a question in any other way than by saying her name…”Mary” Her response was immediate recognition of the person of Jesus and her grief was transformed.
At Easter as Christians we celebrate and remember how each of us in our different ways have heard Jesus calling us by name, calling us to follow Him, not necessarily by a voice but by a stirring inside. Like Mary hearing the voice of Jesus it can be transformational for us too. This Easter Jesus continues to call us, those who’ve heard and those who’ve not yet, to listen to Him, to follow Him, to know His love and forgiveness. He offers new life. Jesus ‘resurrected body speaks to us of lament in the midst of joy. Resurrection is a way forward from the grave that honours the scars we carry, helping us to bear them with resilience and hope.
Easter is not just one day…it´s a season…we are an Easter People. At All Saints you are very welcome to come and join us in this Easter Season. We meet at 11:00 each Sunday as well as at Messy Church at 3:30 on 20th April. During our car boot sale on 6th April the church will be open for you to find a quiet place to be still, to chat if you´d like or to engage in creating art work along the theme of changing sadness and grief to joy and happiness. All are welcome.
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Or as one of the children said: It´s like a big WOW! Jesus is alive again! Wow!
Judith Rigby
Congregational Worship Leader
11:00am Palm Procession & Sung Eucharist – Celebrant & Preacher: the Revd Richard Frost
10:00am Holy Communion – Celebrant & Preacher The Revd Richard Frost
11:00am Bible Study
7:00pm – The Eucharist of the Last Supper – Celebrant & Preacher: the Revd Richard Frost
2:00pm – Stations of the Cross – a Service of Reflection – led by the Revd Richard Frost
11am – Blessing of the Paschal Candle & Sung Eucharist – Celebrant & Preacher, the Revd Richard Frost
followed by Parish Easter Lunch