Sing out the alleluias! Our long Lenten journey has come to an end! Today we proclaim and celebrate the good news that death could not defeat the Son of God. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Sometimes, however, as Bishop Eaton suggests, we who are on this side of the resurrection may get so comfortable with the idea that we miss the original reactions on that first resurrection morning. In the Luke account listed above, the women are at first perplexed. There is mystery about what has taken place. Then we read that they were terrified when in the presence of the two angelic beings. If we read on, there is remembrance by the women, as they are told to remember what Jesus had said about his death and resurrection. We see unbelief, as the disciples did not believe what the women told them, considering it an "idle tale." But Peter does go and sees for himself the empty tomb, and then there is amazement. As you celebrate Easter today, take time to recall that first resurrection morning, when all that we are familiar with was brand new. As Bishop Eaton writes, "Before Easter, we stood in a place of sin and death. After Easter, we stand in a place of forgiveness and life. Everything has changed. We are not the same; the world is not the same....This new reality of forgiveness, life and salvation is and should be unsettling; terror and amazement indeed."
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Easter Sunday- Luke 24:1-12
"But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 5 The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:1-5
Sing out the alleluias! Our long Lenten journey has come to an end! Today we proclaim and celebrate the good news that death could not defeat the Son of God. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Sometimes, however, as Bishop Eaton suggests, we who are on this side of the resurrection may get so comfortable with the idea that we miss the original reactions on that first resurrection morning. In the Luke account listed above, the women are at first perplexed. There is mystery about what has taken place. Then we read that they were terrified when in the presence of the two angelic beings. If we read on, there is remembrance by the women, as they are told to remember what Jesus had said about his death and resurrection. We see unbelief, as the disciples did not believe what the women told them, considering it an "idle tale." But Peter does go and sees for himself the empty tomb, and then there is amazement. As you celebrate Easter today, take time to recall that first resurrection morning, when all that we are familiar with was brand new. As Bishop Eaton writes, "Before Easter, we stood in a place of sin and death. After Easter, we stand in a place of forgiveness and life. Everything has changed. We are not the same; the world is not the same....This new reality of forgiveness, life and salvation is and should be unsettling; terror and amazement indeed."
Sing out the alleluias! Our long Lenten journey has come to an end! Today we proclaim and celebrate the good news that death could not defeat the Son of God. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Sometimes, however, as Bishop Eaton suggests, we who are on this side of the resurrection may get so comfortable with the idea that we miss the original reactions on that first resurrection morning. In the Luke account listed above, the women are at first perplexed. There is mystery about what has taken place. Then we read that they were terrified when in the presence of the two angelic beings. If we read on, there is remembrance by the women, as they are told to remember what Jesus had said about his death and resurrection. We see unbelief, as the disciples did not believe what the women told them, considering it an "idle tale." But Peter does go and sees for himself the empty tomb, and then there is amazement. As you celebrate Easter today, take time to recall that first resurrection morning, when all that we are familiar with was brand new. As Bishop Eaton writes, "Before Easter, we stood in a place of sin and death. After Easter, we stand in a place of forgiveness and life. Everything has changed. We are not the same; the world is not the same....This new reality of forgiveness, life and salvation is and should be unsettling; terror and amazement indeed."
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