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Tag Archives: Eastertide
Guest Post — Evangelism by Holly S. Morrison (On Getting a Covid Shot on Easter Monday)
Evangelism (On Getting A Covid Shot on Easter Monday) There’s an angel in the middle of it.Was it the nervous, thin woman,checking paperwork at the door,Or the man with the Congolese accent,asking me questions about my health,in a beautiful reversal … Continue reading
Prayer for Indonesia / Doa untuk Indonesia
Risen Christ you walk from the gardenof resurrectiondirectly into the wind and mud,where Cyclone Seroja has blownand flood and landslidehave brought so much sorrow. We pray for Adonara and Timor-Leste,Tuhan kasihanilah.For Lembata, facing the rocksof Lewotolok volcano,Kristus kasihanilah.For Australia in … Continue reading
Holy Communion Liturgy for April 4, 2021
Some churches will be sharing Holy Communion through a virtual platform on Easter Sunday. Some host a hybrid sanctuary with some people in person and others online and hope that that those members of the congregation will not feel secondary. … Continue reading
A Blessing from Acts 2: 42-47
Blessed are the ones who hold things so much in common that they will not eat meat with glad and generous hearts if meat packers are forced into work where they will become sick. Blessed are the ones who hold … Continue reading
Blessing for an Eastertide living with Coronavirus
Twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays, I plan to share some blessing for these days. Easter God, who walks through walls to breathe peace, bless those who do not have the luxury of physical distancing — those who live … Continue reading
Liquid, fragile, perishable or potentially hazardous *
I wanted to send you Jesus in the mail, because, though he is sweat and tears and blood and blood to give away, he isn’t all liquid and there was that absolutely buoyant incident on the sea. And fragile? Well … Continue reading
The Work of Easter, after Howard Thurman
When the lilies lose their petals, when trumpets are quiet, new shoes scuffed, chocolate eggs melted by small fingers, bunnies returned to the shelter, and sermons start to doubt themselves, the work of Easter begins — to offer spring cleaning … Continue reading
Siri, open the tomb
And we have been so often dependent on angels, but no one can help us distinguish between the teacher and the gardener, and from that we learn to see Christ in everyone.
Eastertide in the Autumn — guest post from Aotearoa / New Zealand
I continue to follow the ongoing call of Eastertide by sharing this poem from Berverley Osborne of Stewart island. EASTER PRAYER It has been a grey weekend – rain and fog, low temperatures, nil-visibility and cancelled flights, dank and dripping … Continue reading
Service of Lighten-ing for Eastertide a Reverse Tenebrae
On Maundy Thursday evening each year many churches have a service of Tenebrae – which is the Latin word for “shadows.” There is a series of six to eight readings and, after each one, a candle is extinguished, leaving us … Continue reading
Gifts in Open Hands 