He is Risen!
Alleluia!
Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed!
Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed!
Rejoice!
The stone is rolled away,
grave clothes neatly folded,
no more the smell of death,
behold the empty tomb!
Alleluia!
The stone is rolled away,
grave clothes neatly folded,
no more the smell of death,
behold the empty tomb!
Alleluia!
He is risen!
Rejoice!
Scripture has been fulfilled,
the sting of death is gone,
the victory has been won,
behold the risen Christ!
Alleluia!
He is risen!
Rejoice!
The curtain’s torn in two,
our God invites us in,
Christ’s sacrifice enough
to wash away our sin!
Alleluia!
He is risen!
A Blessed and Holy Easter Sunday to one and all.
HRISTOS A INVIAT!!
ReplyDeleteTá Críost éirithe ó mhairbh!
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to read this article by A. N. Wilson, as I thought that he was an atheist (or perhaps I confused him with someone else):
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11951181/A-N-WILSON-Christianity-bulwark-against-liberal-elite-believe-creed-day.html
Excerpts:
“To believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead — that is the Easter faith.”
“If the Church were so anxious to give away £100 million, they could have spent it improving the thousands of underfunded C of E primary schools in inner cities, and by making sure that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached to the children without fear or compromise. That means doing what Anglican bishops least like — offending liberal opinion.”
“There is something both pathetic and comic in listening to pronouncements by the bishops about any of the issues of the day — whether it is the family, the problem of asylum seekers, the dreadful situation in our schools — and to hear them echoing, not the New Testament, but Radio 4 and The Guardian.”
“Easter confronts us with a historical event set in time. We are faced with a story of an empty tomb, of a small group of men and women who were at one stage hiding for their lives and at the next were brave enough to face the full judicial persecution of the Roman Empire and proclaim their belief in a risen Christ.”
“One of the strongest arguments in favour of Christianity is that it transforms individual lives — the lives of the men and women with whom you mingle on a daily basis, the man, woman or child sitting next to you in church tomorrow morning.”
“Resurrection is not simply an historical event. It is a lived experience. He who died is made known in the Breaking of Bread.”
A blessed Resurrection Sunday to all who believe!
He was a believer, then became an atheist, now seems to be a believer again.
DeleteHappy Easter everyone.
DeleteIf I remember rightly it was Salman Rushdie's fatwah that made him an atheist.
DeleteOne of the strongest arguments in favour of Christianity is that it transforms individual lives.
DeleteOne of the biggest factors that drove me away from the western churches was that I saw so little evidence that this was happening or, worse still, was expected to happen. I wonder how many 'atheists' become so because they intuit that the God they are being presented with is an anaemic parody of the real thing, and rightly think that if that's what God is, the church can keep him. If God were as the majority of CofE bishops present him/her/them, I would be a happy atheist.
You know what you are, Lain, you're a fundamentalist. Me too.
DeleteOnly in the fundamentals.
Delete@Clive
DeleteIf I remember rightly it was Salman Rushdie's fatwah that made him an atheist.
That 1989 fatwa was an eye-opener for me, too, but in a different way. It was what aroused my interest in the Middle East. Up till then, I had regarded the Israel-Palestine issue as not much more than a subplot of the Cold War. In the seventies and eighties, whenever fighting broke out between Israel and its Arab neighbors, I tended to see that primarily in terms of Washington and Moscow moving their pawns around on the chessboard. The Rushdie affair showed me I had been wrong to reduce everything to Cold War terms. Political Islam had now asserted itself, and was a new danger that needed to be dealt with.
I think we all learnt a lot from the salmon Rushdie affair.
DeleteYes, happy Easter to all who rejoice in this day.
ReplyDeleteIn what sense did Christ win a victory over death which had not already been won at the raising of Lazarus, or Jairus' daughter, or the widow of Nain's son, or the Shunamite's son, or the man whose body touched the bones of Elisha?
When Lazarus was raised, the gates of paradise were still closed, and the righteous souls still waited in Hades. Lazarus' resurrection was temporal and physical, Christ's eternal and spiritual. Without Christ's resurrection, the revived Lazarus, still being under the rule of death, would die again; whereas 'Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.'
DeleteIt is into Christ's resurrection, not Lazarus' (great miracle though that is) that we are baptised. This is why St. Paul calls Christ the 'firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep' instead of the many in the Bible who were raised from the dead long before Jesus was.
Yes. The difference, of course, is that our sins are now atoned for.
DeleteBecause of the Incarnation, flesh has been sanctified and restored. We have been freed from the kingdom of darkness and led into the heavenly kingdom, death has been cast down and the image of God in man made new. The putting away of sin is a part of that.
Delete実に復活!
ReplyDeleteA very blessed Easter to everyone celebrating it today.
雲水,
DeleteIndeed - we slso celebrate it next week, but the sentime t us the same.
"....the sentiment is the same."
DeleteAre you celebrating Palm Sunday this week too?
DeleteThe different dates does make the invitation to the family Easter dinner a bit difficult, but on the plus side, the supermarkets will start reducing the chocolate eggs now, so I can stock up for Pascha next week!
The retired Archbishop of York will be celebrating Easter next week, but the Sentamu is the same.
DeleteYep, we are on the Eastern calendar.
DeleteI think we have the continuation Sentamu in the role!