Dear Friends,
Welcome to you all as we gather with Christians everywhere to rejoice in this amazing day. We have had a full and good Holy Week at S. Michael’s, as we have told and walked through the great story of the saving work of Jesus Christ.
Thank you to all who have given their time and energies to making our celebration special, for all the work that is unseen and unheard, as well as for that which is very visible and audible.
Next Sunday, as our Easter praises continue we shall celebrate the harvest festival, and you are invited to bring produce of every kind to display in the church. The food that is donated will be passed on to the City Mission.
May the Risen Christ be with you all.
Peter Williams
We thank you Lord for this amazing day,
When our hearts dance like the shining sun,
When all the world leaps with life
And the great infinite wonders of the earth
Shout their ‘yes’ to you.
We who have seen death,
Who have heard the story of the cross
And sorrowed deep at the sharp agony of the world’s pain,
We have come to life again
In the life of your Son.
With Christ we have been lifted from the nothing of death
Into your new and unimagined life,
Where tasting, touching, hearing, seeing and breathing,
Are more sweet than we had known before
And where you are in beauty and in truth.
How could we ever doubt you,
When today your Spirit makes us dance and shout,
In the praise of the risen one,
The one who has defeated death and all the evil powers?
How could we doubt you,
Now that our ears are awake and our eyes are opened?
We thank you God for this amazing day,
When the evil in us lies down dead,
And the good in us is born again.
This is the birth day of life and love and goodness.
This is the amazing day
When our Saviour rose, when the earth released him,
When the heavens echoed the praise of earth, on this great day.
Alleluia! To our leaping, rising, lively, infinite, God.
Susan Derber For the Love of God
