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Easter Message
Mummy, why is it called Good Friday? Why was that man killed on a cross? Why do we get a holiday from school at Easter? Good questions, all of them.
place. A coal tip avalanches, burying scores of children; a tsunami strikes killing hundreds more; an earthquake devastates whole towns. And that’s just the so-called ‘natural’ disasters. From many lips the anguished cry is voiced, “Where was God?”
Apparently, Easter is declining as a festival of significance in the life of the nation relative to The story of a man on a cross, the story of Christmas, which is growing in significance. a man who was worshipped as God dying innocently having only loved, has the answer: Christmas has such wonderful and at Aberfan at the bottom of the heap; in memorable stories and ceremonies and the tsunami deep beneath the waves. God what with carols and candles it’s easy to identifies totally with all who suffer: God understand its attraction. Easter though, and hurts when we do, or when those we love do. what precedes it, is different. No wonder And the meaning of the story of Easter? It children are puzzled. answers a similar question. What happens Let me try to throw at least a little light on it. when we die? Easter’s answer: Death is not the end. Nothing can separate us from the As with Christmas it’s the stories that matter, love of God, or from the love of those we and as with all the best stories it’s the love and who love us. meaning that matters. Lets consider the story of the events that took place on Good Friday Do join the Christian community in first. One of the great truths of that story is Wendover at one of the Churches at worship the way in which it counters one of the most this Easter. We will welcome you as the God difficult and most often voiced problems in who is love does. Revd Canon Peter Louis, St Mary’s peoples’ minds when great tragedies take
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