Easter Sunday

First of all, an apology that this is a day late. I was so busy doing Easter that I ran out of time to write about it, but having finished our Lenten journey with silence, it felt right that we should return for the celebration. But of course if it is a celebration it is

Lent Day 40 – Silence

We know what comes next, and so it is easy for us to jump from Good Friday to Easter Sunday, but on Holy Saturday we are confronted by the silence of the tomb. Take a moment to sit with the desolation of today, so that you may feel the full power of tomorrow. — 40thoughts: hold

Lent Day 39 – The Cross

As we come to the cross I want to leave you with a poem called Ecce Homo by David Gascoyne, and a painting called The White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall. I don’t know what Gascoyne believed, and Chagall was a Jewish artist so he had a quite different understanding of the cross, but these images of Jesus suffering