Deep and Meaningful Easter

​How was Easter for you this year?  Personally I had a deep and very meaningful Holy Week again this year.  Some of you were able to attend the Seder meal on Maundy Thursday led by Jewish professor Rachel Bendor.  That helped me feel the setting of that last supper Jesus had with his disciples before we went into our Maundy Thursday worship.  Along with many others, I was very moved by our Good Friday evening worship, with the music, the singing, the story, and holding a nail, and then being able to drop it in a metal bucket right at the front of the church. Easter sunrise worship was awe inspiring, seeing the sun rising, and also being able to see the moon in the other direction, and to get our Easter lantern lit from the fire there in Serenity Park, and then a few hours later seeing a lot of children hunting for eggs in that same park. It was wonderful to see our sanctuary so beautiful with flowers and candles and banners and people, and to sing those Easter hymns and songs, and hear again the Easter Gospel.  Thanks to all who made this year’s Holy Week at Ascension so memorable. 

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