If the Easter holiday means anything this year, beyond more time with the kids (of which we have already had a plateful), it’s chocolate. Especially if you gave up chocolate for Lent. After all that strenuous self-improvement, we can let our guard down for some really naughty enjoyment, as a family, with Easter eggs. What better way to savour the lushness of the fruit of the land, perfectly attuned to our tastebuds.
There are many, of course, for whom family time has been sadly disrupted. We pulled together pretty much as a nation in face of something we couldn’t see but which still inflicted great hardship. What was and is invisible nearly broke us. For many the thought of eternity breaking in came too close, stealing joy from around the world.
The Easter story gathers up the worst of our fears and the deepest of our longings. Death, says the apostle Paul, is swallowed up in victory. When you think of all the little deaths we experience in a lifetime, we surround them with little hopes that events and people will turn around, pull through. What if the really big one contains seeds of hope that it too will be turned around?
May I invite you to explore with us this sacred possibility. Because we look for handles of hope just as you do, handles on the ultimate, beyond what can be seen. You are welcome to the School chapel no matter where you stand on such things:
Palm Sunday, 10.30am, Procession and Eucharist
Maundy Thursday, 7pm, Commemoration of the Last Supper
Good Friday, 2pm, Stations of the Cross
Easter Day, 10.30am, the new fire, candles, Easter Eucharist - and of course chocolate eggs
A blessed and peace-full Easter,