O Sons and Daughters is one of my favorite Easter hymns, though our hymnals around here call it "Ye Sons and Daughters." Alleluia, happy resurrection! 🐰🐑 💐 🌼 🌻
On another note, at mass this morning the church was packed. I know a lot were C & E people but that’s okay. I loved the atmosphere and the reverence that was present during the mass. I could feel the presence of Jesus.
I remember that earthquake. My daughter was an army nurse and stationed at Bethesda Hospital. She was on maternity leave and had gone to George Washington University because she was working on her nurse practitioner program.
The Resurrection narratives are the most bold and powerful stories ever written. They are not of human origins but an act of Divine triumph over human willfulness. Even though one may question their historical veracity and they do, in fact, Matthew’s narrative records the first century claim that the body was stolen and not raised. So, Matthew 27:62-64 records:
Now on the next day, the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate, and said, "Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I am to rise again.' Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
These stories arise out of a profound encounter with the living God through Jesus, the Christ. The experience itself is timeless and touches the hearts of everyone. The experience prompted the writing of these narratives for the early Jewish Christians who had no stories to match their Tanakh. Once they did, the Word spread rapidly because the experience of the Risen One lives within each of us. We need only to believe as the Apostles (even Thomas) and first disciples did.
O Sons and Daughters is one of my favorite Easter hymns, though our hymnals around here call it "Ye Sons and Daughters." Alleluia, happy resurrection! 🐰🐑 💐 🌼 🌻
Christ is Risen!
Glorify Him!
On another note, at mass this morning the church was packed. I know a lot were C & E people but that’s okay. I loved the atmosphere and the reverence that was present during the mass. I could feel the presence of Jesus.
I remember that earthquake. My daughter was an army nurse and stationed at Bethesda Hospital. She was on maternity leave and had gone to George Washington University because she was working on her nurse practitioner program.
The Resurrection narratives are the most bold and powerful stories ever written. They are not of human origins but an act of Divine triumph over human willfulness. Even though one may question their historical veracity and they do, in fact, Matthew’s narrative records the first century claim that the body was stolen and not raised. So, Matthew 27:62-64 records:
Now on the next day, the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate, and said, "Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I am to rise again.' Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
These stories arise out of a profound encounter with the living God through Jesus, the Christ. The experience itself is timeless and touches the hearts of everyone. The experience prompted the writing of these narratives for the early Jewish Christians who had no stories to match their Tanakh. Once they did, the Word spread rapidly because the experience of the Risen One lives within each of us. We need only to believe as the Apostles (even Thomas) and first disciples did.
For those of us in the UK, how to join the conversation?
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Christopher- thank you for all your work. Happy Easter! Thanks for the playlist.
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Thank you so much, Christopher, for all your posts> Happy Easter! Christ is risen, He is risen indeed! God bless you, Marilena