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Morning Prayer: The Second Sunday of Easter - 2020 Alleluia! Christ is risen.The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things thatare above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.Colossians 3:1 Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, acopy of the… Continue reading Morning Prayer: The Second Sunday of Easter – 2020

Recently I was going through all of the things "left over" from closing one of our family homes in the aftermath of the death of my grandmother and step-father. It was a long, long day of pulling open cardboard boxes in a warehouse in Mississippi, and finding them filled with things from China to Mexico… Continue reading A Bird on the Hillside

I AM writing to you at the moment in the Christian year when, as it were, we pause and look back on the richest cluster of such spiritual facts ever revealed to man.  Paschal Time, to give its old name to the interval between Easter and Ascension, marks the end of the historical manifestation of… Continue reading Easter Even: The Resurrection Faith – Evelyn Underhill

The Empty Tomb (1889), Mikhail Nesterov Easter Day {Sermon and Hymns included in the text} The Lighting of the Paschal Candle In the darkness, fire is kindled; after which the Celebrant may address thepeople in these or similar words Dear friends in Christ: On this most holy night, in which ourLord Jesus passed over from death… Continue reading Easter Liturgy