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“St Bart’s, Toowoomba piloted a new initiative this year to help our community celebrate Easter. We launched our first art exhibition with over 80 artworks created by our congregation members. People from all three Sunday services participated, including the children. The theme for the artworks was ‘resurrection’,” says Diana Wong from Resource Church St Bart’s, Toowoomba
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Check out Bishop John Roundhill’s Holy Week photo essay, which shows many of the people he walked, prayed and ate with during his week-long pilgrimage
“But what actually happened to Jesus between Good Friday and Easter Sunday? The fact that Jesus’ body was in the tomb is undisputed, but there are various conjectures about what happened to Jesus’ spirit, or soul,” says The Rev’d Charlie Lacey from St Andrew’s, Springfield
“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
“One Good Friday in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya during the late 90s, I remember some people in the surrounding community started to attack women refugees who went to collect firewood for Good Friday commemorations…I am so grateful that everyone in Australia can commemorate Good Friday without the fear of being physically attacked,” says Bishop Daniel Abot
“In the great liturgy of the Triduum, Holy Saturday comes as an awkward silence between the cross and the resurrection and the temptation is to fill it with noise and busyness. Many parishes will hold working bees or clean-up days on Holy Saturday in readiness for Easter Day…but if as Claude Debussy says, ‘Music is the silence between the notes’, we should respond to the invitation of Holy Saturday and stop, in silence and listen,” says Bishop Jeremy Greaves
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