Easter 1: Bishop Michael Hawkins
We may be born losers, but we are born-again winners. This victory is ours in the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Quite simply, that is the Easter proclamation of this day.
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Our Lord’s Easter appearances focus our attention on His risen presence as the fulfillment of God’s work of Salvation, that the risen Christ is the source and location of all our peace and beatitude: “Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.”
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“Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.” Peace, after all, is the name of His kingdom: He is the Prince of Peace.
Read moreEaster Sunday: Bishop Michael Hawkins
This is our message to all the world… This Gospel is for you, and this good news – great news – is for you and for all of creation. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead! The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for all times and all peoples, because his death and resurrection is eternally and universally relevant.
Read morePassion Sunday (Lent 5): Father Gethin
The story of our faith is the story of salvation; that we, who were lost in the darkness of a false and idolatrous world, and condemned by our own disobedience, might have light to bring us out into a new day, and new life to overcome our approaching doom.
Read moreEaster Day: Father Gethin
In her masterful 19th century metrical rendering of the ancient Irish hymn ‘St. Patrick’s breastplate’, Cecil Alexander recounts our Lord’s Resurrection with this remarkable line: “His bursting from the spicèd tomb.” The verse captures, with a profound clarity and depth, the sense and significance of this day…
Read morePalm Sunday: Bishop Michael Hawkins
The royal procession of Palm Sunday leads to a cross… We follow Jesus today, and we are reminded that to follow him means to receive his example, which is one of inward humility and outward patience.
Read moreHoly Saturday: Father Gethin
All things here, in this silent hour, are reduced to their simplest, and their most profound, for all things are here described only by hope and faith and charity…
Read moreGood Friday: Father Gethin
Come and see, see how gracious is His love for us, and see too, how willful and wretched is our disobedience, our selfish disinterest in love; and be changed by the vision. Be loved.
Read moreMaundy Thursday: Father Gethin
“This is my body, given, this is my blood shed, for you.” In this way He fulfills the Father’s goodness, and reveals the meaning of His Passion: it is not merely a murderous scheme, perpetrated upon the innocent, patiently suffered; it is His free gift of himself, precisely in spite of the violence, because of His love for us.
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