Iglesia Anglicana de la Santísima Trinidad-Almería

TRINITY SUNDAY (Year C, Church of England Lectionary) “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 5:1, NIV) The Trinity is one of the most important teachings in the Christian faith and one of the hardest to understand. This year, we are remembering 1700 years since the Council of Nicaea. At Nicaea, the Church affirmed that Christ shares the same nature as the Father and is eternal with Him. I won’t go into deep debates about Nicaea or try to explain the mystery of the Trinity today. We simply believe that God is one being in three distinct persons —Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So instead of explaining the details, I want to ask and answer a simple question: What does the Trinity mean for your personal life? Our Triune God is good, loving, and worthy of all praise. Today we will reflect on how this God saves you: First, how the Father created you , and how sin corrupted that creation. Se...

  FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER The Heavenly Jerusalem Awaits You I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Revelation 21:2). It’s common to think that when a person dies physically on earth, their soul goes to heaven forever, where they will sit on a cloud playing the harp for eternity, without a body. The Scriptures do not teach such a destiny. Therefore, no one will go to heaven, or at least to this kind of heaven. Today’s passages show us a different and very hopeful reality. It is often said that the book of Revelation is difficult to understand, complex, strange, and even dark. I don’t agree very much with these claims. Revelation, following the pattern of Jewish apocalyptic literature we see in the prophets Isaiah or Ezekiel, is written primarily to offer hope to a community suffering persecution or exile. The purpose of the book is to remind us that God never forgets His people or His cr...

  El triunfo de Jesús proclamado sin miedo. Epístola Hechos 4: 13-22 13 Mas Pedro y Juan respondieron diciéndoles: Juzgad si es justo delante de Dios obedecer a vosotros antes que a Dios; porque no podemos dejar de decir lo que hemos visto y oído. Guarda tu fe para ti mismo; las creencias son privadas, no es bueno manifestarlas en público; hay que separar a Dios del Estado o de la esfera pública. ¡Cuántas veces habrás oído frases semejantes! Consejos, quizás movidos por un interés que se tiene por loable pero que destila iniquidad, lanzados para que dejaras de hablar de las maravillas que Dios, por medio de Cristo, ha hecho en tu vida. Los políticos del sistema te quieren callado, sin participar en la vida pública, viviendo tu fe en cuatro paredes. Quieren un Estado no basado en la moral natural revelada por Dios en las Escrituras, sino un Estado desarraigado, voluble a los nuevos vientos populares, que, juzgándose liberal, te arrebate tu verdadera libertad. Los sacerdotes ...

  ¿Qué significa amar? De cierto, de cierto te digo: Cuando eras más joven, te ceñías, e ibas a donde querías; mas cuando ya seas viejo, extenderás tus manos, y te ceñirá otro, y te llevará a donde no quieras ( Juan 21:18-19 ) El impetuoso Pedro, ciñéndose sus ropas, saltó enérgicamente de la barca, alcanzando el primero la playa donde estaba su Señor resucitado. Necesitaba hablar con Él. Necesitaba abrirle su corazón y pedirle perdón por la traición que había cometido días atrás, negándolo 3 veces. Llegado a la playa, encuentra a Jesús, tranquilo preparando un pescado sobre las brasas para sus amigos, como le había visto hacer tantas otras veces durante sus años de ministerio. Ya habían visto a Jesús resucitado en dos ocasiones, pero no había tenido la oportunidad de hablar a solas con Él sobre el asunto que tanto le atormentaba y del que tanto se arrepentía. “ Pedro le dijo: Aunque todos te abandonen, yo no te abandonaré ” (Marcos 14:29) “ Y le dijo Pedro: Señor, dispuesto...

PALM SUNDAY (YEAR C) Christ is your King. When they were getting near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the wonderful things they had seen, saying: "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" Finally, the day came. After years of ministry in Judea, Galilee, Perea, and the coast—healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons, proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom—the King of kings entered the holy city. Descending from Bethphage and Bethany, to the east of Jerusalem, He traveled the Mount of Olives on a colt, under the shouts of His followers. "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" But, who is this King whom everyone is cheering for? Who is this Jesus that even the winds obey Him? With what power does He forgive sins? It is said that even demons fear Him. For years, Jesus did not want His disciples ...