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Easter Day
Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B
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Lent for Everyone
Mark Year B
EASTER DAY...
...‘They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.’ Well, wouldn’t you be? Terrified, more likely. Graveyards are a bad enough place at the best of times, especially in a culture where grave-robbery was common, and stories of ghosts, hauntings and other spooky events even more common. And when you belong to the small group that had gone around with the leader the authorities caught and executed two or three days earlier, you had to be extra careful. Afraid? You bet.
People today are afraid of Easter for totally different reasons. Well, perhaps not totally different. The gatekeepers of ‘modern’ Western society have decreed that religion is dangerous non- sense; that if there is a ‘god’ he’s a long way away and only interested in your private spiritual life; that Progress, Technology and ‘Science’ (by which they mean not real science, the delighted and humble exploration of the universe, but an ideology that uses the same name) are in charge, and taking us towards a golden future. And that dead people do not rise...
Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by Tom Wright
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