Fr. David Curry has collected his ten Holy Week and Easter homilies, based on the Scripture text “All the people hung on his words”, into a single pdf document. Click here to download “All the people hung on his words”. These homilies were originally delivered and posted earlier this week on Palm Sunday through Easter Day.
Have we hung upon his words? It is our constant challenge. Only so can we find meaning and purpose for our lives. It is really all about the words of Christ, the Word and Son of the Father alive in us if ever we will truly live.
Out of the crucible of the Passion comes the Resurrection! “Christ is Risen. Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord is Risen, indeed. Alleluia! Alleluia!” It is the great word for this day and this season. Even more it is the word that alone enables us to hang upon his words, the words of Scripture in all their fullness of meaning and purpose. We have gone through the pageant of the Passion in Holy Week but the accounts of the Passion, indeed the Gospels themselves, only come to be written in the light of the Resurrection. How really could it be otherwise?
Something changed. The Resurrection is radical new life. It does not mean the eclipse of the past of sin and folly, of suffering and death, but a whole new way of thinking about our humanity and our lives with one another. There can be no going back to some imaginary paradise. We can really only think of the paradise of Creation through the realization of our separation from it. We cannot go back to paradise because that would mean no longer knowing ourselves or God. It would mean forsaking our self-consciousness, the very awareness of ourselves as selves.
No. The good news is the Fall of our humanity is the necessary event by which we awaken to ourselves. The greater good news is that God, too, falls into our humanity and world to redeem us from ourselves and return us to him but without the loss or denial of our self-awareness and our individuality. And perhaps nowhere is that better signified for us on this Easter day than in the baptism of Hazel Elizabeth Robinson, the daughter of a daughter of the Parish. Baptism is about the radical new life of the Resurrection for her individually. She is incorporated into the life and death of Jesus Christ. She is made the child of God, a member of Christ and his body the Church. How?
Monday, April 21st, Easter Monday
10:00am Holy Communion
Tuesday, April 22nd, Easter Tuesday
7:00pm Holy Communion
Thursday, April 24th, Easter Thursday
3:15pm Service at Windsor Elms
Friday, April 25th, Easter Friday
11:00am Holy Communion – Dykeland Lodge
2:00pm Funeral of John Devenney
Saturday, April 26th
7:00-9:00pm Newfoundland and Country Evening of Musical Entertainment, in honour of John Devenney
Sunday, April 27th, Octave Day of Easter
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf
4:00pm Evening Prayer – Christ Church
Upcoming Events:
Saturday, May 10th
4:30-6:00pm Annual Parish Lobster Supper. Eat in or Take out, Advance tickets only: $25
Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!
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: Santi di Tito, The Resurrection, 1565. Oil on wood, Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence.