Easter Sunday – 20th April 2025
We began our Lenten journey with Jesus in the desert. We did our best to pray for each and with each other as we travelled with him during those forty days. On Palm Sunday, we greeted him joyfully as we waved our palms and cried, ‘Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’
On Holy Thursday at the Passover Meal Jesus offered himself to us as The Bread and Cup of Life. He took the place of the slave, bent low and washed our feet and asked us to do the same to and with each other. We are to love and serve each other as he as shown us. On Good Friday, we stood with the crowd and watched as Jesus was betrayed, denied, beaten condemned and crucified. With Mary his mother, we saw him being buried. But we know that this is not the end of the story; our God is a God of surprises.
Today, this Easter morning Jesus is risen and is alive in a way that is more powerful than ever before! Having travelled with Jesus through Lent and stood by him as he endured his passion, we now stand at the empty tomb and share in the power, glory, joy and new life of his resurrection.