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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“But, on the third day/the stone rolled away/and he, astonishingly rose/to meet with his friends/who did not recognise him/until he called them by name,” says Bishop Cam Venables in his Easter Day poem
“When we gaze on the empty cross and into the empty tomb, ‘suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.’ May your Easter be filled with joy and hope and love,” says Archbishop Phillip Aspinall as he reflects on a poem by African American author and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou
“The Rev’d Anna Woofenden, a pastor ministering on the outskirts of Los Angeles, tells the story of a community of people – wealthy and poor, old and young, housed and unhoused – that found itself, quite unexpectedly, forming around gardening, eating and worshipping together. One of the focal points of Garden Church, which she founded, became the compost heap,” says Bishop Jeremy Greaves
“When the women go to Jesus’ tomb early on that first Easter morning, they go to bury Jesus…except Jesus’ body wasn’t there. A young man tells them that Jesus has been raised and is going ahead of them to Galilee and will meet them there,” says Archbishop Phillip Aspinall
“In this Easter liturgy, the children take part in the key final events of Jesus’ life, from Palm Sunday to the Resurrection. They wave palms, taste the bread and wine (grape juice), run away from the soldiers, nail dowels into a cross, are buried (under sheets) and noisily celebrate the resurrection,” says The Rev’d Canon Dr Marian Free, while providing a helpful story and liturgical resource for parishes to download and tips for creating an Easter liturgy
People from across our Diocesan community came together virtually this week in the lead up to Easter to celebrate the resurrection with a hymn commonly sung on Easter Sunday, ‘Thine be the Glory’. The virtual choir was coordinated by Resource Church, St Bart’s, Toowoomba
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