Moving through Easter in 3 quick parts
Finding a worshipful posture
Let’s move first through our own indifference and hardness of heart, with Gerrit Scott Dawson’s article on Christina Rosetti’s Easter poem -
“Rossetti convicts me, because I know how a stony callousness grows over my heart. But she also relieves me, because I see I am not alone. Her admission invites me to bring the shame of my apathy into the light.”
-Break the Hardness in Me, Desiring God
Then, into wonder, with Malcolm Guite’s Maundy Thursday poem:
Here is the source of every sacrament,
The all-transforming presence of the Lord,
Replenishing our every element
Remaking us in his creative Word.
For here the earth herself gives bread and wine..
Thirdly, let us gaze for a while in silent prayer at this beautiful art, powerful in its simplicity, from The Letterer -
Matthew 27
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.