Bill at Out of the Bloo: “Everyone, this is really what it’s all about! Easter is the turning point of history, the culmination of a rescue mission that was planned before the foundation of the world.”

MM-V wishes all a Happy Good Friday: . . . for a few moments, we were, that Good Friday night, aware of terrible sorrow, the ineffable sadness that precedes a renewal or realization of a hopeful promise.

La Corona by John Donne from Waterfall at A Sort of Notebook.

Sparrow is praying for a prodigal this Resurrection Day: “Surely He is searching for her in the dark…watching the road and waiting for her return…unfazed by sorrow’s heavy scars. (O Lord, find her and bring her home!) If only she knew that He was wounded for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His stripes we are healed.”

Mission Safari: So What Is Easter All About Anyway? “Yesterday, as I was getting ready to leave the hospital a group of about 4 Muslims and 3 Christians were standing around the Nurse’s Station. One of the Muslim docs looks at me and says, “So, what is Easter all about anyway?” I about fell over. Did he just really ask me that?”

Sarah Louise rambles, but says things worth reading: “For me, Easter is not just the eggs and the chicks, pink bunnies and chocolate. It is a time of real mourning, of real reverence. Lent is a time of contemplation. This year, I had a notebook that I started when Lent began. In the front, I copied out a quote from Soren Kierkegaard, ‘So now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.'”

And an Easter Sermon from St. John Chrysostom, courtesy of At A Hen’s Pace.
“Let us all enter into the joy of the Lord!

Feast royally, for the calf is fatted.
Let no one go away hungry.
Partake, all, of the banquet of faith.
Enjoy the bounty of the Lord’s goodness!”

Happy Resurrection Day, everyone, and may we continue to walk in the Joy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ throughout the coming year.