Christos Aneste! Christ is risen! The response is Alithos Aneste! He is risen indeed! Whether your interpretation of the resurrection is literal or metaphorical, Easter morning is always welcome. The conflation with Spring and new life is no coincidence… we are grateful for the cycle of renewal in all its forms.
Now the green blade rises from the buried grain;
Wheat that in dark earth for may days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again like wheat that rises green.
Beatitude Nine: “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
read moreBeginning with the traditional opening from Charles Wesley, this moves into a progressive Christian expression of resurrection.
Christ the Lord is risen today – Alleluia!
Mortal tongues and angels say: – Alleluia!
I’m a scientific kind of guy and to tell you the truth
I find the stories of the empty tomb hard to take in
