Easter Morning

ARTIST: Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

Easter Love

On Easter we celebrate love,
love coming down from heaven,
love blanketing the earth
in a transforming embrace;
unique and infinite love,
giving more than we can imagine
for us, to cleanse our sin,
a perfect sacrifice, Lamb of God,
the walking, talking Word.
He is teacher, role model, friend,
this God in human form,
dying, then rising from the dead,
proving all who believe
will also rise
to have eternal life, with Him,
Lord of all.
Oh, Happy, Happy Easter!
—by Joanna Fuchs

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Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is the most important Christian festival, and the one celebrated with the greatest joy. Without Easter there would be no Christianity. Without Jesus' suffering, his execution and subsequent resurrection there would be no Christianity, for however terrible the suffering was, it was part of God's plan for the salvation of humankind.

In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days (not counting Sundays).

The week before Easter, known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion.

"Christ the Lord is risen to-day,"

Sons of men and angels say.

Raise your joys and triumphs high;

Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

Prayer for Easter

Would we be counted

among the doubters

hiding in the shadow

cast by that cruel cross?

Or, when challenged,

like Peter

openly deny you?

There are times, Lord

when doubts assail

and the distance between us

seems to increase.

There are times, Lord

when sin has its hold,

like a barrier between us

that will not move.

Who is there we can turn to

when we feel so overwhelmed?

Who can roll away the stone

and reveal the empty tomb?

No-one but you, Jesus,

no-one but you!

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