Yesterday afternoon I was invited to celebrate a house Eucharist for a church member who was moving back in to her sea front home in La Cala, after an absence of several months during which the place was re-decorated and improved. She had been attacked beaten and robbed in her own home by someone who had followed her.
It's not an everyday occurrence in this part of the world, where the crime rate is low compared with other regions of Spain, so the shock of the event impacted on the wider community. There were ten of us present, plus two dogs. We concluded with tea and cake on the terrace, and a positive sense that this was a new beginning, drawing a line under a deeply disturbing incident.
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