Notes from St. Mary’s
Exploring Easter
Easter is the high point of the church’s year. It is the church’s most important festival. Many of you may be familiar with Jesus’ institution of the communion, washing the disciples’ feet, his agony in the garden, his arrest and torture, his death on the cross, and his resurrection all of which are remembered at Easter. But I wonder what you make of this annual remembrance. Perhaps like many this easter will hold the hope of a barbeque or that long waited DIY job. Can I encourage you to come and explore the remembrance of Easter.
Many of us haven’t really looked at the events of that first Easter since we were at Primary School and even those of us who have been in church haven’t perhaps read one of the bibles four accounts of Jesus life death and resurrection from start to finish for a while. This year at St Mary’s across Good Friday and Easter Sunday we will have a series of installations. These installations will have art, a bible reading and a prayer that follow what is sometimes called ‘The Way of the Cross’. Our church will be open for individuals to come and take time walking through the way of the cross reflecting on the journey Jesus made as he approached his death. We hope it will be a moving thing to experience, and I hope you will come and make use of the space for your own personal journey to the cross. As you leave there will be a book available that you can take, and we hope it will help you begin to think through the claims of the Christian faith.
Perhaps instead of the DIY or the gardening you might come and consider the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Across our Benefice our Easter events will be considering Jesus’ life again and how that the first Easter really did change the world forever. Do join us for our events over Easter.