POETRY: Newness Of Life, by Tania Runyan
South African man wakes after 21 hours in morgue fridge. What cold salvation, dragging fingernails through the frost of a half-dream then waking to a plastic cocoon. The louder you scream from your...
View ArticleBLESSING: Blessing Of The Resurrection, by Peter John Cameron
From: Blessing Prayers Word of God Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the...
View ArticlePOETRY: We Take The Sky, by Susanna Childress
We take the sky, as if red is something we could own, something we might find in the stillest moments, as if the earth is humane and wouldn’t break our bones. (None of His were broken. Not one.) Red is...
View ArticleSERMON: Created For Glory, by L. R. Tarsitano
The First Sunday after Easter “I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the Earth; Even every one that is called by...
View ArticleEASTER SERMON: The Wounds Of Jesus, by C. C. Lovelace
From The Sanctified Church, by Zora Neale Hurston Our theme this morning is the wounds of Jesus. When the Father shall ask, What are these wounds in thine hand? He shall answer, Those are they with...
View ArticlePRAYER: Easter by Adam of St. Victor
I see flames of orange, yellow, and red shooting upwards to the sky, piercing the whole clouds. I see the clouds themselves chasing the flames upwards, and I feel the air itself reaching for the...
View ArticlePRAYER: The Miracle Of Easter from The Gelasian Sacramentary
The moment we have longed for has come; the night of our desires is here. What greater occupation could there be than for us to proclaim the power of your resurrection! This was the night when you...
View ArticlePRAYER: If You Were Not Risen by Brother Roger of Taize
If you were not risen, Lord Christ, to whom would we go to discover a radiance of the face of God? If you were not risen, we would not be together seeking your communion. We would not find in your...
View ArticlePRAYER: Born Anew To A Living Hope by K. B. Ritter
Almighty and everlasting God, through the death and resurrection of your Son you have proclaimed to us the gospel of peace. Grant that by the power of his resurrection we may be born anew to a living...
View ArticlePOETRY: Easter Hymn by A. E. Housman
If in that Syrian garden, ages slain, You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain, Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright Ascends in smoke and fire by day and night The hate you died to quench...
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