Holy Week and Easter sermons
Fr. David Curry has compiled all of this year’s homilies for Holy Week and Easter into a 45-page booklet, complete with appropriate sacred art. Click here to download as a pdf document.
Day: April 8, 2012
Sermon for Easter Day
“Be it unto me according to thy word”
Mary’s word to God at the Annunciation has provided us with a way of contemplating the Passion of Christ through Passiontide and Holy Week. Her word signals the most profound idea and reality. God engages our humanity in the most intimate manner imaginable in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. In the Christian understanding of things, the Incarnation has its beginning in time with the Annunciation which marks the conception of Christ in the womb of Mary. The larger significance of that is the greater celebration of this day, Easter.
Christ is risen, Alleluia. Alleluia!
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia. Alleluia!
For Mary’s word signals her affirmation of God’s new creative act, the act of redemption. The Resurrection is the new and radical creation of our humanity. Such is the joy of the Annunciation in the blessedness of God being with us through Mary but such is the greater joy of the Resurrection in the renewing of our creation, hence all our alleluias on this day!
New life and new birth, the triumph and overcoming of all sin and folly, marks the celebration and meaning of Easter. And, in a way, all because of Mary’s word to God. It signals our task as well. What is that? To let the word of the Risen Christ define us; to let his word be unto us; to let Christ teach us the great good news of his Resurrection. Why? Because it defines our Christian identity and witness. Because it is about the radical truth of God’s being with us. Because the Resurrection celebrates the divine purpose for our humanity.
Christ Church Chronicles, Eastertide 2012
The Eastertide 2012 issue of the parish newsletter, Christ Church Chronicles, can be downloaded via this link as a pdf document. Previous issues can be downloaded via this page.
Week at a Glance, 9 – 15 April
Monday, April 9th, Easter Monday
10:00am Holy Communion
7:30pm Christ Church Concert: Acadia Univ. String Ensemble. Admission: $10 / $5 for students.
Tuesday, April 10th, Easter Tuesday
10:00am Holy Communion
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, April 12th, Easter Thursday
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In
3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
Sunday, April 15th, Octave Day of Easter
8:00am Holy Communion
9:30am Holy Communion – KES
10:30am Holy Communion
4:00pm Evening Prayer – Christ Church
Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, April 17th
7:30pm Christ Church Book Club: Reading for Pleasure in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs and This Is Not the End of the Book by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere.
Saturday, April 28th
7:00-9:00pm Newfoundland & Country Evening of Musical Entertainment
Saturday, May 12th
4:30-6:30pm 7th Annual Lobster Supper: $25 per ticket, Eat-in or Take-out.
Easter Day
The collect for today, Easter-Day, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962) :
ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle: Colossians 3:1-11
The Gospel: St John 20:1-10
Artwork: Tintoretto, The Resurrection of Christ, 1578-81. Oil on canvas, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice.