Happy Easter everyone! Today is an Easter Sunday, you know. In the liturgical year, there are seven Sundays of Easter – not “after” but “of”. The church in its wisdom, and guided by Luke’s chronology of events in the Book of Acts, designates an Easter season of fifty days. Fifty days during which “Alleluias” abound and, as one commentator put it so eloquently, we “live into the reality of what it means to be a community shaped by the dying and rising of Christ, by the expectation-shattering reality of life victorious over death”.
It’s a good thing we have fifty days! Because that sounds like the work of a lifetime to me - and not just of an individual. The lifetime of a parish. The lifetime of the Church, continuing through centuries, through millennia of Sundays. In this morning’s Gospel, though, John directs us back to the very first Easter Sunday...(read more)
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