Reflections
“The liturgies of Holy Week can contribute to our becoming more empathetic by exposing us to situations that we have yet to encounter in our lives. This is because the events of Holy Week are recorded with details that allow us to identify the time of year and the days of the week on which they are located,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
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“The women at the tomb were dismissed as telling ‘an idle tale’, yet their testimony changed the world. In the same way, our belief in resurrection hope may seem naïve in the face of all that is broken. But Easter invites us to keep believing, keep proclaiming, and keep working for justice and healing,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
“Imagine every Anglican parish and community around Australia doing at least one thing to share the hope that we have in Jesus and being fervent in prayer during next year’s Easter Day to Pentecost period. To me, that sounds phenomenally exciting!” says The Rev’d Michael Calder from The Parish of Wishart and Hope25
“As a community, after the Easter Day service we celebrated the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with a big kai kai (feast). People from all over the Torres Strait Islands and Papua New Guinea (which was then still administered by Australia) came via sailing canoes rather than by motor boats, bringing seafood, taro, sweet potato, casava, sago and other traditional foods. We then had traditional dancing with men wearing headdresses made of emu feathers and women wearing grass skirts,” says Uncle Milton Walit from NATSIAC and The Parish of Laidley
Peter Branjerdporn from our Justice Unit and The Rev’d John Martin and Corinne Nash from the Fair Trade Australia Faith Groups Programme share tips and resources ahead of Easter Day and World Fair Trade Day
“I was recently at one of our schools to talk with Year 6 students about being a leader. Of all the questions asked of me by the Year 6 students, my favourite was: ‘What’s one thing you would tell your 15-year-old self?’…In the mystery of the resurrection that we celebrate at Easter, God tells us again and again: ‘Death does not have the final word…Love endures. Hope wins out’,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
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