(above: light art from wooster site)
every year i get both a little baffled & inspired by easter -
i like this article in the Times by a bishop
& this writing below, from another bishop's blog...
On Easter Day it is traditional for the service to begin with the vicar proclaiming: ‘Alleluia, Christ is risen!’ The congregation responds: ‘He is risen indeed. Alleluia!’ I think this might be a bit wrong. If we are faithful to the Gospels, the congregation should really respond to the proclamation of resurrection: ‘ What?! Don’t be so ridiculous!’ Why? Because the disciples of Jesus did not respond to his resurrection with unbridled joy, but rather with bewilderment and suspicion and doubt.
Maybe we ought to re-live that before we draw our conclusions and begin to walk the road to Emmaus - talking through our confusions and laying the ground for having the ’story’ re-configured/re-told by the Jesus who comes up to us from behind, walks alongside us and ask us questions (rather than starting with the answers).
to further any bafflement - see Belfast group Ikon's Judas event..
& don't forget our daily shiny psalms out there..
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